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I’m on a privacy tear today so I thought I’d mention this start-up. Officially launching on Wednesday, Spotflux is a browser encryption plug-in for Windows and OS X. Simply put, it protects your Internet connection by encrypting all connections through a VPN. Arguably there are approximately a billion VPN services, but this one looks to be one of the simplest I’ve seen in a while. To run it you simply download the app and flip a switch. The servers do the rest.
Spotflux Encrypts All The Web Things Anywhere | TechCrunch
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Open Source mobile OS - Commotion
The Commotion wireless project. As recent events in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have illustrated (and Myanmar demonstrated several years prior), democratic activists around the globe need a secure and reliable platform to ensure their communications cannot be controlled or cut off by authoritarian regimes. To date, technologies meant to circumvent blocked communications have focused predominantly on developing services that run over preexisting communication infrastructures. Although these applications are important, they still require the use of a wireline or wireless network that is prone to monitoring or can be completely shut down by central authorities. Moreover, many of these technologies do not interface well with each other, limiting the ability of activists and the general public to adopt sophisticated circumvention technologies.M-Lab | Welcome to Measurement Lab
Measurement Lab is an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. By enhancing Internet transparency, M-Lab helps sustain a healthy, innovative Internet. Find out more Privacy Policy & Acceptable Use Policy . All original material on Measurement Lab by New America Foundation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License .
1. Take stock of the sites you have joined or may want to join. CheckUserNames will show you 160 social networking sites and search them to determine if your name or brand is available for an account or if it’s already been taken. (Sorry, John Smiths.) 2. Streamline.
Tips for Managing Social Networking Burnout - NYTimes.com
Transparency is a core value at Google. As a company we feel it is our responsibility to ensure that we maximize transparency around the flow of information related to our tools and services. We believe that more information means more choice, more freedom and ultimately more power for the individual. We've created Government Requests to show the number of government inquiries for information about users and requests to remove content from our services. We hope this step toward greater transparency will help in ongoing discussions about the appropriate scope and authority of government requests.
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Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google's products. Our team's goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.
the Data Liberation Front
Google’s new social network “Plus,” is so exclusive that people can’t get in, but the search giant is already making it easy to get out — clearly taking a shot at Facebook’s policy of not letting users download their data to use on other sites. Google’s Data Liberation Front , an internal engineering faction dedicated to letting users export data from Google services, released a tool Tuesday called Google Takeout . The service lets users export their contacts, their Buzz feed, Picasa web photo albums, their Google profile and their “Stream” (the equivalent of Facebook’s newsfeed) in a format readable by other social networks. Facebook, by contrast, gave users the ability to export their photos and stream in October, but only as html files that users can save to their computer and browse.
Taking on Facebook, Google’s Social Network Allows Data Exporting | Epicenter | Wired.com
90% email traffic = spam
Since its launch in October, 2004 Project Honey Pot has made some interesting progress in their war against spam email. The project is a distributed system used to identify spammers and spambots operating across the Internet. To put it simply, Project Honey Pot lays millions of traps around the Internet (66,393,293 as of this writing) baited with specific email addresses that are configured to forward received emails to the Project Honey Pot system. Since these are not email addresses used by real individuals virtually every email received is positively identified as spam. Looking at their statistics it is hard not to be impressed with the effectiveness of this system: 85,989,816 spam servers identified; 1,546,419,133 unique spam messages processed through their system.
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Collection of IP addresses under a judge’s supervision, ineffective means of filtering, “friends” of copyright, the new updates on the ACTA – these are just a few issues which are not being highlighted at the holy e-mass currently taking place in Paris. Due to the lack of comprehensiveness, OWNI is ‘augmenting’ the networks that were compiled by Nicolas Sarkozy, Publicis, and web moguls present at the e-G8. Unlike the former group, our map of the Internet in Europe puts the user at the center of attention. The Internet report for 27 EU countries (including Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland) was put under a microscope and scrutinized. Six major points of interest were chosen: Protection of intellectual property : a review on preventative measures such as the three strikes sanctions, the type of targeting (sites or visiting offenders?)