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Videos. NW Tech Show. KMUZ. Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin. The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned there were "very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around the world". "I am more worried than I have been in the past," he said. "It's scary. " The threat to the freedom of the internet comes, he claims, from a combination of governments increasingly trying to control access and communication by their citizens, the entertainment industry's attempts to crack down on piracy, and the rise of "restrictive" walled gardens such as Facebook and Apple, which tightly control what software can be released on their platforms. Revealed: US and China's cyber war gamesWashington's plan to beat web censorsChina struggle to regain control of the internetHow open is your internet?
"There's a lot to be lost," he said. Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming. The file-sharing landscape is slowly adjusting in response to the continued push for more anti-piracy tools, the final Pirate Bay verdict, and the raids and arrests in the Megaupload case.
Faced with uncertainty and drastic changes at file-sharing sites, many users are searching for secure, private and uncensored file-sharing clients. Despite the image its name suggests, RetroShare is one such future-proof client. The avalanche of negative file-sharing news over the past weeks hasn’t gone unnoticed to users and site operators. From SOPA to Megaupload, there is a growing uncertainly about the future of sharing. While many BitTorrent sites and cyberlockers continue to operate as usual, there is a growing group of users who are expanding their horizons to see what other means of sharing are available if the worst case scenario becomes reality. Anonymous, decentralized and uncensored are the key and most sought-after features.
RetroShare’s downloads at Sourceforge Downloading with RetroShare. 2012 COMPUTER SECURITY DAY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. We would like to invite you to participate in the 2nd Annual Computer Security Day at the University of Oregon. Last year's event was a great success, with five distinguished speakers from around the country representing academia, industry, and government and 70 attendees from throughout the university, the community, and the state.
This year promises to be another informative, exciting, and entertaining event. We have a great list of distinguished speakers lined up again this year, including: * Radia Perlman, Intel Labs, Seattle * Paul Van Oorschot, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada * Drew Dean, DARPA, Washington DC * Stephen Pawlowski, Intel, Hillsboro * Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis The range of topics will be broad and diverse, ranging from examining future trends in computer security, to understanding cybersecurity within the federal government, to exciting new research in authentication mechanisms and securing systems and data.
Gadgets of interest. Doctor Love. Riddles. "Cookie Monster" Offers Best Explanation Yet for Occupy Wall Street. A guy calling himself Cookie Monster has written what looks to us like the most clear and persuasive explanation for the Occupy movement we've seen anywhere, a copy-and-pastable screed that everyone should send to their crazy aunts and skeptical grandfolks.
Admittedly, we don't know for sure that the following bit of Cookie Monster/#OWS brilliance was penned by a guy. But it turned up in an Onion AV Club comment thread on an article about how some "Muppet insiders" are feeling squeamish about that upcoming new Muppet movie, and to argue the fundamentals of the American economy in such a forum seems awfully boyish, so the evidence is good enough for us. (The Av Club, remember, is the not made-up Onion site that lavishes serious attention on everything that matters in pop culture, especially Community. And Cookie Monster, remember, is these days a reformed glutton, so who better to school the world on the ways of the 1 percent?)
(Note: We cleaned up one typo.) See the original comment here. Limited Edition Prints and Photographs.
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