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How Do I Keep My Data Safe Using a Cyberlocker Like Mega?
Kim Dotcom’s Mega recently launched as the spiritual successor to the now extinct Megaupload. It contains a lot of interesting security features, including what looks like some impressive encryption; however, in spite of its much-trumpeted security, it seems to be riddled with flaws and this may well give pause to anyone who wants to use ...
Camover Upgrades Alternate Reality Gaming to the Gamification of Protest-Vandalism
Activists in Berlin, Germany have come up with a way to keep their members engaged and hook in the public to become part of what is essentially a vandalism spree against government surveillance as a form of protest. The game, named Camover, involves members moving through public spaces in disguise and smashing CCTV cameras, recording ...
Anonymous Hacks USDOJ Sentencing Website in Honor of Aaron Swartz
Early Saturday morning, the US Department of Justice Sentencing Commission website, www.ussc.gov, was shut down and has remained offline for some time. Numerous Anonymous press shortly began to clamor that the hacktivist collective was responsible for the shutdown, and to add insult to injury, has also collected a bundle of leaked documents intended to embarrass ...
SavvisDirect Opens Up Frictionless Services for Small and Medium Businesses
The enterprise sector has seen strong attention towards using cloud services to deliver platforms and software but how will the small and medium business sector take advantage of what could give them a huge advantage. SavvisDirect seeks to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service, cloud storage, as well as SAAS-marketplace, e-mail, collaboration, and security for SMB. Later this month, ...
BitPay Announces 10,000 Bitcoin Transactions with Zero Cases of Payment Fraud
BitPay announces that the bitcoin transaction processor has exceeded 10,000 successful transactions with zero cases of payment fraud. For a regular financial institution this might be news, but as you’ll see, with Bitcoin fraud is somewhat difficult. Financial transactions on the Internet have always come with a risk—and a sensation that that risk is higher ...
The Modern Prometheus Returns: Mega Gives the Finger to Content Cartels and the US Government
If you read the news about him, Kim Dotcom sounds larger than life. He has a reputation of a sleazebag with too much money to his name who became the center of a year-long-firestorm involving his website Megaupload. It’s now been over a year since the US violently dismantled his cloud cyberlocker file sharing business ...
New Relic Unleashes “NERD LIFE” MC Frontalot Video
According to New Relic, “2013 is the year of the nerd” and that everything is hackable. For many developers, inventors, hackers, and others the world is a place of constant innovation and moving parts. Nerds, geeks, and others see the world not so much differently than anyone else but possess a cultural vision that includes ...
GitHub Memorial for Aaron Swartz Open to All
As a pioneer in freedom of speech, Internet openness, government transparency, and the availability of human thought, it seems fitting that a memorial built atop the fundamental nature of GitHub. Anyone with an installation capable of running “git” or “rake” can add their own memory. The repository is available via GitHub, Aaron was a tireless ...
BitcoinStore Plans to Take On the World of Online Electronics Retail with BTC
You can visit BitcoinStore’s web page right now but they’re still running deep during their beta stage and haven’t kicked in the hype or the advertising—right now over 500,000 electronics products are available for surprisingly low prices all sold for bitcoins. The site has a planned launch date for the ides of January so expect ...
Hal Abelson Appointed by MIT President to Investigate University’s Role in Prosecution of Aaron Swartz
Over the weekend the Internet lost one of its most amazing guiding lights: Aaron Swartz—an early developer of the ever-popular Reddit, did significant work with XML, and even co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification that blogs use to syndicate their work. He has been nothing short of a powerhouse for free information and freedom of speech. ...