Julian Assange tells students that the web is the greatest spying machine ever | Media. The internet is the "greatest spying machine the world has ever seen" and is not a technology that necessarily favours the freedom of speech, the WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, has claimed in a rare public appearance. Assange acknowledged that the web could allow greater government transparency and better co-operation between activists, but said it gave authorities their best ever opportunity to monitor and catch dissidents. "While the internet has in some ways an ability to let us know to an unprecedented level what government is doing, and to let us co-operate with each other to hold repressive governments and repressive corporations to account, it is also the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen," he told students at Cambridge University.
Hundreds queued for hours to attend. He continued: "It [the web] is not a technology that favours freedom of speech. It is not a technology that favours human rights. "There is a reason for that. He expressed sympathy for Manning. Welcome to the Possibilium. Facebook Seeking Friends In Beltway. President Barack Obama will travel to Facebook Inc.'s Silicon Valley headquarters Wednesday to hold a "town hall" meeting on the economy with users of the social-networking site. But Facebook is still trying to find a path to Washington, where the company has only a fledgling lobbying operation, even though it finds its privacy policies under increasing scrutiny and is trying to navigate a politically sensitive expansion into China.
In seven years, Facebook has risen from a tiny start-up to an Internet power with a potential market value estimated at more than $50 billion. Now an online forum with more than 600 million users, Facebook faces growing pressure from lawmakers and regulators concerned about the way it uses personal information shared by its users. At the same time, the company is confronting questions about how it will handle its role as a global public square for dissidents if it enters China and other countries with little tolerance for dissent. WikiLeaks | Facebook | Google | Julian Assange. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are being used by the U.S. intelligence community to spy on users.
In an interview, Assange was especially critical of Facebook , the world's top social network. The information Facebook houses is a potential boon for the U.S. government if it tries to build up a dossier on users, he told the Russian news site RT. Assange also told RT that Google and Yahoo "have built-in interfaces for U.S. intelligence. " "Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented," Assange said. "Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to U.S. intelligence. " "It's not a matter of serving a subpoena," he said.
Facebook Says It May Be Allowing 'Too Much' Free Speech In Some Nations. Sécurité du web : le règne des passoires. Pendant que les médias se focalisent sur quelques petits détournements de données, les VRAIS « piratages » restent impunis. La faute à un réseau construit de manière à être impossible à protéger... et qu'aucun dirigeant ne semble vouloir colmater !
En 1994, apparaissait le Web. L’un des premiers sites était Playboy.com. Depuis cette époque, toutes les entreprises ont ouvert une vitrine sur cette sous-partie d’Internet. Que vous soyez puissant ou misérable… D’autant que généralement, le seul perdant, c’est le client. Pas de souci, tout cela est si vite oublié… Ceux qui ne l’oublieront pas sont généralement des anonymes, qui n’ont pas les moyens de faire payer ceux qui sont à l’origine de leurs ennuis. Bien entendu, ces entreprises, ces ministères, blâmeront les « pirates » qui ont accédé à ces données. Pourtant, on semble oublier un peu vite que le défaut de protection des infrastructures est le fait desdites entreprises, desdits ministères. Et l’article 226-17 du Code Pénal dispose que :