NeuroFocus Uses Neuromarketing to Hack Your Brain Think Anonymously The darkness at the heart of Anonymous | Technology Louise Mensch, the Conservative MP, didn't react as perhaps the sender of the threatening email she received on Monday had hoped. She came out swinging - as anyone who knows her even a little might have been able to predict. "Had some morons from Anonymous/LulzSec threaten my children via email. As I'm in the States, be good … to have somebody from the UK police advise me where I should forward the email," she tweeted. Sticking two fingers up at Anonymous might have drawn some gasps a while back. Departing now As one departing member posted on Pastebin (the favoured site for declarations relating to the group): "Anonymous fights for freedom, you don't like people controlling you, that is admirable. And here's another (I've tweaked his Capitals For Every Word style): So when I started with Anon I thought I was helping people but over the past few months things inside anon have changed. Or another, from "cornfog": They jump on any possible chance they get to make headlines.
Google's Negative Ranking Factors - Whiteboard Friday By now you've heard about SEOmoz's study of Google ranking factors, but what about negative ranking factors? Sure, positive factors such as the correlations between social media shares and higher rankings earn a lot of attention - and they should. Smart SEOs look at all the factors, including those at the bottom of the list! Today we look at negative ranking factors - those SEO characteristics correlated with lower rankings - and how to avoid them. Howdy, SEOmoz! Now, we talk about ranking factors a lot here at SEOmoz. Some of the more positive famous ranking factors that we talk about are such things as page authority, which has a 0.28 correlation to higher rankings. What we don't talk a lot about is the opposite effect, the negative correlation. Domain Name Length Starting with some simple ones, an obvious negative correlation is the domain name length, 0.07. Response Time Kind of a controversial one here - response time. AdSense Now here is a surprising one.
En direct depuis le Chaos Communication Camp L'OWNI Team est au CCC 2011 toute la semaine. Retrouvez ici interviews, photos et vidéos, en direct de la base militaire de l'ex-RDA. [MAJ le jeudi 18 à 18 h 30]. OWNI a planté sa tente au Chaos Communication Camp pour 5 jours. Dans les épisodes précédents: - Jour 1 : Le Storify de l’arrivée de l’équipe d’OWNI sur place- Jour 2 : Interviews vidéo de James Carlson et de Quentin Noirfalisse- Jour 3 : Où l’on apprend qu’il y a des enfants dans un campement de hackers et ce qu’est le “Guerrila Knitting”- Jour 4 : Interviews de John Gilmore (EFF) et de Okhin (Telecomix)- Jour 5 : Interviews vidéo de Birgitta Jònsdòttir, Macro du C-Base, Mitch Altman, Benjamin de la Quadrature du Net et Eric Corley Le visage serein de Mitch Altman, le créateur de TV-be-gone, figure historique des hackers. Photo Ophelia Noor CC by sa nc #cccamp11 Day 5 Eric Corley – 2006 hacker quarterly : « c’est normal de présupposer qu’on ne nous dit pas la vérité. » À lire aussi sur OWNI, une interview de Mitch Altman. Utopie ?
Inside Anonymous, Members Find Shelter In A Collective Voice Within the ranks of Anonymous, one member had crossed a line: He granted an interview to a reporter, discussing his role in the shadowy hacker group. "Attempting to use all the work that so many have done for your personal promotion is something I will not tolerate," another member told him in the group's Internet chat room after reading the article. The hacker who gave the interview was then banished from the online forum, a lesson to others who shine too brightly in a movement that takes pains to speak with one collective voice. This incident sheds light on the inner workings of Anonymous, the loose-knit collection of hackers that has claimed responsibility for a wide assortment of computer security breaches in recent months, successfully penetrating the defenses of Sony, the CIA and other government sites. "How do you break the back of an organization that doesn’t have an organization?" While there may be no queen bee, members of Anonymous have distinct roles.
Value Of Tech M&A Deals Nearly Doubled In Q2 2011 To $52.1 Billion While tech company IPOs have captured buzz of late, it looks like M&A activity in the sector has been booming. According to an Ernst & Young report, big deals drove the aggregate value of global technology M&A to $52.1 billion in the second quarter of 2011, nearly doubling the deal value from the first quarter (up 92 percent to be exact). Ernst & Young said that the surge was attributed mainly to industry consolidation and by ongoing innovations in areas such as cloud computing, smart mobility, internet and mobile video, the smart grid and solar energy. Overall, deal volume for the quarter increased 24% year-over-year (YOY) to 777 deals, but declined 2% sequentially from 794 deals in 1Q 2011. This past quarter’s M&A value was 69% higher than the same quarter in 2010, when M&A deals were valued at $30.8 billion. Microsoft-Skype was the largest deal in the quarter, followed by Texas Instrument’s $6.5 billion acquisition of National Semiconductor.
Journal du Pirate Anonymous unmasked: Meet the hacktivist group’s non-hackers They’re known as Anonymous, but they’re certainly not unanimous. The decentralized Web network — considered either transparency watchdogs or tech terrorists, depending on your perspective — has made headlines recently over members’ alleged hacks of major corporations. Last week, an FBI raid resulted in the arrests of 14 people connected to the “hacktivist” movement, including residents of Brooklyn and Long Island. Anonymous and its loosely affiliated groups have taken credit for infiltrating corporate websites like Monsanto and Sony, and the Arizona Department of Public Safety. But not all Anonymous members believe in hacking, members of NYCAnon, a New York City chapter, told Metro. “Hacking doesn’t accomplish anything,” said Mike Vitale, 26, a network administrator from Flushing. Rather than targeting NATO or MasterCard like some Anonymous members, NYCAnon attempts to call attention to organizations that they say are abusive.
Exclusive: SEC Will Likely Toughen Rules for Secondary Markets U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials in March met with secondary market executives to warn them of impending regulatory changes, peHUB has learned. The regulators told the executives that they want more stringent checks of individuals’ accreditation and improved diligence regarding the financials of companies being auctioned to investors, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. One participant in the discussions, who asked not to be named, said he expects the agency to formally propose new regulations for the secondary market by the end of this year. “You will likely see more requirements coming out,” from the SEC, the source said. Another source acknowledged that the SEC may push to have all financial statements distributed by private stock auctioneers subjected to an audit that is presented to secondary market investors — adding a substantial layer of compliance for auction sites. Murphy declined to provide specifics on talks held with the SEC.
Anonymous Twitter Alternative Created For Protesters & Revolutionaries There was a mass of news back in August about the London riots and how social media (especially Twitter) and the BlackBerry Messenger service (BBM) enabled the rioters to organize themselves via broadcast messages and tweets. After discovering a lot of rioters got busted from their Tweets and BBM messages (which are of course traceable) – some smart fella game up with a new form of instant messaging anonymously. It works in a geographic location and allows you to broadcast messages within a certain locality that expire after a certain time. This comes not long after the Anonymous social network Anon+/AnonPlus was announced back in July 2011. After discovering that BBM and their Twittery playthings fed straight into the hands of the cops, smartphone-toting revolutionaries have taken up a new type of instant messaging – Vibe.Like Twitter in that it is open and lets you mass-message, Vibe is unlike Twitter in that all messages or “vibes” are anonymous. Vibe By Zami.com Source: The Register
Anonymous Anonymous is a banner that many channers , as well as hacktivists and IRC users, post under. Summary Often abbreviated as " Anon ", Anonymous refers to an indefinite collective centered around the chans . In the old days of /b/ , not many people took Anonymous seriously, and they treated it like the joke that it was. Because Anonymous is in essence a collective, ongoing flash mob , there's no true hierarchy or organizational structure. It should be noted that 4chan is one of the few chans that still openly embraces Anonymous. Origins Anon Anonymous actually started out in 1993 with the launching of anon.penet.fi by Johan "Julf" Helsingius of Finland . However, today's Anonymous grew out of the "tripfag debates" on 4chan. Eventually a FOX 11 report aired which described Anonymous and 4chan as an "internet hate machine" and as "domestic terrorists". Current status Images Videos Stephen Colbert mentions Anonymous. Related Pages External Links
Google throws a tantrum -- accuses Microsoft, others, of "hostile, organized campaign" A few weeks ago, Google was involved in bidding for 6,000 patents being offered by Nortel, which many thought if Google should win, would beef up their defense against patent litigation. Instead, they lost to a consortium of Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Sony, EMC and Ericsson for $4.5 billion. Basically everyone won except Google. At the time this story was spun two ways: Nortel's patent were old, outdated and not worth the money for GoogleGoogle wasn't taking it seriously, with Reuters calling their behavior "mystifying" because their bids reflected famous mathematical constants (Brun's, Meissel-Mertens and Pi). Yes, Google actually bid Pi ($3.14159 billion). After all the gnashing of teeth by tech analysts, who kept pounding Google on their lack of patent strategy, Google has come out with some name calling and accusations of their own: That's David Drummond, Senior VP and CLO of Google, who can't even get that's its called Windows Phone, not Mobile. Source: The Official Google Blog