Crime-sourcing: the dark side of the crowd. October 20th, 2011 by Ville Miettinen What do you do if your bank account gets hacked? Option 1: cancel your credit cards, have a couple of drinks and promise to stop opening emails from long lost cousins based in Nigeria. Option 2: take it personally, put on some dark sunglasses and go after the hackers. Misha Glenny chose option 2, and then spent over two years infiltrating the murky world of cyber-crime. Guilty pleasures So, how do you convince the crowd to commit crime?
The sheer range of crime-sourcing plots is jaw-dropping: from Twitter organized flash robs to shady Mafia-type gangs who recruit virtual mules to launder money and receive stolen goods. Trust me, I’m a crowdsourcer Does crime-sourcing matter much to us – the hard-working, honest crowdsourcing majority? Of course, this is all speculation – a worst case scenario. Ray Bradbury, l'auteur de "Fahrenheit 451", est mort. L'écrivain américain de science-fiction est mort à l'âge de 91 ans à Los Angeles. L'écrivain américain de science-fiction Ray Bradbury est mort à l'âge de 91 ans à Los Angeles, a-t-on appris, mercredi 6 juin, de sa famille et de son biographe. Il est connu pour son roman Farenheit 451 (1953), classique des récits d'anticipation qui décrit une ère où la pensée serait interdite et les livres brûlés, ainsi que pour ses Chroniques martiennes (1950) et L'Homme illustré (1951).
"Le monde a perdu l'un des plus grands écrivains que j'aie connus, et un des hommes les plus chers à mon cœur. Repose en paix, Ray Bradbury", a déclaré sur son compte Twitter son petit-fils, Danny Karapetian. Adapté au cinéma en 1966 par François Truffaut, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), inspiré par les autodafés nazis de livres écrits par des juifs, évoquait les dangers de la censure et du contrôle des idées dans un monde totalitaire.
The Open Journalism Toolkit: A Discussion with n0tice Creator Matt McAlister. n0tice is a community noticeboard that aims to answer the ever relevant question, "What's happening near me? " The platform, launched by the Guardian Media Group, gives users the ability to share ads, news, and events taking place within a community. Recently, the team behind n0tice opened the platform's API and released an iPhone app, offering more functionality to individuals, developers, and brands. n0tice's "open journalism toolkit" includes crowdmapping, liveblogging, and mobile publishing, among other features. We caught up with Matt McAlister, n0tice creator and director of digital strategy at the Guardian Media Group, to discuss the recent developments and potential uses for the platform.
Crowdsourcing.org: What inspired the creation of the n0tice platform? Matt McAlister, n0tice creator: n0tice began as a Hack Day project at the Guardian in 2009. How does n0tice differentiate itself from other crowdmapping services like Ushahidi? From cybersecurity to cyberstrategy. See annex - Introduction - Cybersecurity Cyber security would probably be attained in a situation where any netizen could trust at the same time machines, memories and people. "Trusting" implies here that they would be dully convinced that : - Information systems will work (including the so called critical infrastructures which are digitally monitored) - Data will be safely stored and remain confidential - The people they are interacting with are be what they pretend to be and will act accordingly Security in the cyberworld can be threatened not only by technical or human mistakes but also by deliberate attacks motivated by the lust for : - goods (or valuable Informations like industrial secrets which can provide an economical advantage) - power i.e. the capacity to exert a constraint on someone's political will - symbolic rewards. - Attacks and achievments - The difficulties of conceiving a strategy How can we know what he does not know?
How do we make the other predictable and elusive? - Space. Effects of Mindfulness Meditation Training on Multitasking in a High-Stress Information Environment | Infotention. How To Access THE HIDDEN WIKI (Deep web, secret Internet) (Some of this was copied from BB.com, I'm just bringing it to TBN) For those who don't know, the deep web represents a gargantuan part of the internet which is not accessible through regular searches via google or other search engines. Searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean. While a great deal may be caught in the net, there is still a wealth of information that is deep, and therefore, missed.
The reason is simple: Most of the Web's information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines never find it. Here are some facts on The Deep Web: · Public information on the deep Web is currently 400 to 550 times larger than the commonly defined World Wide Web. · The deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of information compared to 19 terabytes of information in the surface Web. · The deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the 1 billion of the surface Web. Hope this helped. Rock The Post. News media corruption: The arrogance and failure of news media.
What Wizard Battles Can Teach Us About Crowdsourcing. June 13th, 2012 by Seth W I’d like to start with a confession: when I’m not thinking about crowdsourcing, I’m busy being a huge geek. Not trendy geek chic, unfortunately, but the old fashioned type (a trendsetter maybe?). Read on bearing this in mind. My main vice is Magic: the Gathering, a role-play card game where players are magically-dueling wizards. What does this have to do with crowdsourcing?
Incentives: all you need is love Before the campaign, Magic’s design and R&D had always been very secretive and insular, a process conducted in such a manner that fans could neither observe nor contribute to it. In this situation, incentivizing crowd involvement was simply a matter of allowing it. Removing barriers to entry The easiest way to build a useful crowd is to find one that already exists. Dealing with compartmentalization A common problem with crowdsourced projects is that everyone works independently, only sharing work when it is finished. Seth has a blog, TinyWork. Transmedia Storytelling. Personal Brand Plan Model. Infographic presentation. Participatory Librarianship: Transliterate Conversations for Crea... Participatory Librarianship: Creating Possibilities Through Transl... Library Technology: Supporting Transliteracy. Listening, learning, leading: participatory librarianship buffy ha...
Transmedia 101 toronto june 12 2012. The Geosocial Universe Version 2. Story Architecture: Crafting Transmedia Design. Visualizing the Agency of the Future. A Brief History of New Media Art. Beyond Balance: Participatory Librarianship for Creating, Con... Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding - The Industry Website. Disruptive Innovations in Distribution: Who Owns the Screen? Suspected British LulzSec hacker could be extradited to US.
Dossier Rio+20 : Quel cosmopolitisme ? À l’heure où certains s’interrogent sur l’utilité des conférences mondiales, la revue Vraiment Durable tente de déchiffrer le sens, les attentes et enjeux de Rio+20 sous le prisme du cosmopolitisme. Quarante ans après la Conférence de Stockholm (1972) et vingt ans après celle de Rio (1992), la Conférence des Nations unies sur le développement durable, qui se tient du 20 au 22 juin 2012 au Brésil, sera-t-elle l’expression d’un cosmopolitisme ?
À l’instar de Rio 1992, Rio+20 aura-t-elle un sens universel ? Pour répondre à ces questions et en évoquant Serge Antoine, grand artisan des premières conférences sur l’environnement mondial, des acteurs de ces conférences interprètent dans ce second numéro de Vraiment Durable le cosmopolitisme – ou la cosmopolitisation. Des réflexions denses appuyées par les échanges avec S.E.
M. Edito Rio+20 : multiple, utopique, durable par Bettina Laville [1] Directrice de la rédaction Bettina Laville - Directrice de la rédaction © Rémy Deluze Avant-Propos. A Global Call: Eco Warriors, Arise! In June 2012, movements and leaders will meet in Rio for Rio+20, two decades after the Earth Summit was organised in 1992 to address urgent ecological challenges such as species extinction, biodiversity erosion and climate change. The Earth Summit gave us two very significant international environmental laws: the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations framework Convention on Climate Change. It also gave us the Rio principles, including the Precautionary Principle and the Polluter Pays Principle. The world has changed radically since 1992, and sadly, not for the better. Ecological sustainability has been systematically sacrificed for a particular model of the economy, which is itself in crisis. 1995 created a tectonic shift in what values guide our decisions, and who makes the decisions.
Conservation of the Earth's resources, and equitable sharing was replaced by greed and the grabbing and privatisation of resources. Profiting from pollution Dr. Watch "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" Video at The Message Is. RED CONTRA LA REPRESIÓN. Tom Atlee: From Stuck in the Game, to Liberating Public Wisdom. Tom Atlee From Stuck in the Game, to Liberating Public Wisdom Dear friends, What’s going on with our politics? On the one hand, we in the US are watching grotesque income inequality and extreme wealth being used to buy power and more wealth to further control our political and economic systems.
The 2008 election cycle cost more than 5 billion dollars. Just as a mind-bending factoid, this is pretty amazing. Think about all the powerful, manipulative, often negative and misleading advertisements those billions of dollars can and do buy – perhaps even some hacked voting machines to tip the scales. It is high time to think more clearly about this. Our political system is not a pretty picture right now – not even a very productive one. What would it take for us to say, “There is something about our system of political economics that makes it so that no matter who we elect, the issues that really matter do not get dealt with wisely”? As Haight says in a fascinating interview with Bill Moyers: Worth a Look: Metanoia Films. Film Home Page “A gripping, deeply informative account of the plunder, hypocrisy, and mass violence of plutocracy and empire; insightful, historically grounded and highly relevant to the events of today.” – Michael Parenti, Historian, Author The Face of Imperialism Phi Beta Iota: metanoia-films.org has some of the most important free video online … the Psywar video post was a huge hit at phibetaiota … it had some of the most hits of any post in a short period of time.
This is the latest video series which is loaded with unsettling truths of US history. See Also: HUMAN RESOURCES: Social Engineering in t he 20th Century Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the Failure of Capitalism “Democracy” Police State Canada: Provocation and Police Terror at the G20 Summit in Toronto PSYWAR: The Real Battlefield is the Mind Rise Like Lions: OWS and the Seeds of Revolution Metanoia Films Home Jun 9. 13 Ways Companies Kill Creativity. By Alissa Alvarez Guest writer for Wake Up World Creativity is the driving force behind many new products, services, and companies around the world, creating solutions to age-old problems and offering new ways to live our daily lives. Yet despite the indispensable nature of innovation, many businesses don’t exactly foster creativity in the workplace, sometimes even actively working against it. Whether they realize it or not, there are many ways that businesses kill creativity on a daily basis, which isn’t just bad for those creative minds but also the organization as a whole.
So what can be done? The first step is learning what big innovation-crushing mistakes are being made so that changes can be made. 1. Rejecting ideas out of hand because they are different than the way you’ve done things before might seem logical but when you think about it, it becomes immediately clear that this is pretty much antithetical to any goal of creative or innovative thinking. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Owl: A New Civilization Emergent? Twilight of the Psycopathic OverWorld. Who? Who? “A Civilization of, by and for the Normal Human Being” While many articles on psychopaths have appeared in the last few years, few have anything interesting to say about psychopaths in politics and the military, except clichés and overly broad generalizations.
This article, published in an obscure source in Idaho of all places, is one of the best I have ever seen on psychopaths, and it focuses on psychopaths in power and the military. The most profound segment in the article has compelled me to change my views on what constitutes the most fundamental human conflict, which before I thought was between rich and poor, and represented in great power struggles and conspiracies of the former against the latter, with the latter usually losing.
This segment from the article makes me think the dichotomy is more fundamental: The author mentions a useful concept, what he calls the “criminal overworld” expressed in political/military psychopaths and their cliques: For much more. Random Deepak Chopra Quote Generator.