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augmentation: "Night Dragon" stalks big oil
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Tracking the politics of infotech, promoting its use in political scholarship and civic engagement. Night Dragon" stalks big oil. According to a new report by McAfee. Attackers using several locations in China have [waged] attacks against global oil, gas, and petrochemical companies, as well as individuals and executives in Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Greece, and the US to acquire proprietary and highly confidential information.". These attacks (nicknamed " Night Dragon. To genuine threat (e.g., Stuxnet. And Sea...
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augmentation: Dirty Tricks, Cyber-style
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Tracking the politics of infotech, promoting its use in political scholarship and civic engagement. Dirty Tricks, Cyber-style. Is reporting that the law firm of the US Chamber of Commerce (an NGO) hired several cyber-security firms to help them sabotage their political opponents:. According to e-mails . the Chamber hired the lobbying firm Hunton and Williams [whose] attorney Richard Wyatt . was hired. By the Chamber in October of last year. To assist the Chamber, Wyatt and his associates. Im not quite su...
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augmentation: US strategy to prevent leaks, leaked
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Tracking the politics of infotech, promoting its use in political scholarship and civic engagement. US strategy to prevent leaks, leaked. Is reporting that MSNBC has received a memo detailing the US' government strategy to prevent leaks. In a "post-Wikileaks environment.". Each initial assessment should be completed by January 28, 2011, and should include the following . Assess what your agency has done or plans to do to address any perceived vulnerabilities, weaknesses, or gaps on automated systems .
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augmentation: Egypt: 404
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Tracking the politics of infotech, promoting its use in political scholarship and civic engagement. Are reporting that all Internet traffic in Egypt has gone offline. I hadn't realized we would be importing the Internet kill switch. It appears that the darkness is not (yet) total. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The different trends in American crime. Image: Crime trends in the US] Crime is up? With an example of a single study, I describe the strategic application of etic a...
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augmentation: How Egypt pulled the plug
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Tracking the politics of infotech, promoting its use in political scholarship and civic engagement. How Egypt pulled the plug. GigaOM has an interesting piece on how Egypt Switched Off the Internet. Plenty of nations place limitations on communications, sometimes very severe ones. But there are only a few examples of regimes shutting down communications entirely — Burma’s military leaders notably cut connectivity during the protests of 2007. And Nepal did a similar thing. But events in Egypt (and Iran.
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augmentation: Peer review 2.0
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Tracking the politics of infotech, promoting its use in political scholarship and civic engagement. Peer review 2.0. In April, SUNY-Albany librarian Laura Cohen described what she saw as ". Social Scholarship on the Rise. A trend for scholars to discuss and engage their work via blogs, social networking services, and " soft peer review. Earlier this week, we saw an astonishing. Example of this process in practice. On Monday night danah boyd. She posted again yesterday. Is danah a super-hub? Clearly, on b...
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augmentation: The Tweet of Damocles
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Tracking the politics of infotech, promoting its use in political scholarship and civic engagement. The Tweet of Damocles. Clearly, social media are expanding dialogue throughout the world, and have the potential to radically reduce the costs of grassroots organizing. But they can also make it easy to track the words (if not deeds) of users, especially those naive enough to believe new media can somehow transcend traditional power politics. Writing for the New York Times. While they may not have anticipa...
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augmentation: Science enters the network age
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Tracking the politics of infotech, promoting its use in political scholarship and civic engagement. Science enters the network age. Magazine, John Wilbanks has drawn attention to the transformation currently taking place in academic publishing, namely the slow shift from paper to digital that is also gradually opening models of knowledge sharing in bold new ways. Imagine a world where scientific knowledge were not trapped behind proprietary walls. Where anyone could access cutting-edge research. And Seat...
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augmentation: Palantir relational profiling
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Tracking the politics of infotech, promoting its use in political scholarship and civic engagement. Where are my socks? You'll be looking for yours too, once you watch this video demonstrating Palantir Technologies. New software for detailing and analyzing links between individuals and organizations. Most features have been done before, but I've never seen them so well integrated, and some I've never seen (e.g., drag-linking text to assign relations between entities). H/T Collision of Influences. With an...
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augmentation: Internet 'kill switches'
http://augmentation.blogspot.com/2011/02/internet-kill-switches.html
Tracking the politics of infotech, promoting its use in political scholarship and civic engagement. Shutting off the Egyptian Internet has (finally) drawn attention to a US Senate bill that seeks to permit the same sort of thing here. CNET. Has a nice summary:. In December, a Senate committee approved a bill introduced last summer. Say it ain't so, Joe. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). And Seattle Innovators, as well as Seattle-area SCALLOPS affiliates, Transition Network groups, and others. My pr...
