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FBI issues warning about Syrian Electronic Army
As the United States escalates its likelihood of attacking Syria, the FBI has a message for the network managers of the world.
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How Can I Write a Successful Blog and Get More People to Read It?
Dear Lifehacker, As a side project/experiment, I’ve started my own blog. The problem is, now that I have one, how can get people to actually visit it? My traffic is dismal so far, but I’m hoping to some day make money off the blog or at least become a more prominent blogger.
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Anonymous isn't ready to publish the identities of the Syrian Electronic Army—yet
Anonymous is having a Hamlet-like crisis of conscience over OpSyria, the group’s operation to hack and expose the Syrian government and its semi-official hacking team, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). Some Anonymous members fear there’s significant chance the operation will end up costing actual human lives.
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Facebook Makes Money Out Of Your Data – Why Shouldn’t You?
There are so many free services online because companies can profit from the data you provide. Companies like Facebook sell (or buy) your data to third parties, while ones like Google use your data to target ads directly at you. As the saying goes, if you’re not paying for something, you’re the product, not the customer. But if these companies can make money from your data, why can’t you make money from your own data?
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The absurd social media accounts of Syrian Electronic Army
The Syrian Electronic Army is the most intriguing anonymous hacking organization since, well, Anonymous. It's loosely tied with the ideology of President Bashar al-Assad's government, which stands accused by the U.S. of using chemical weapons against civilian rebels.
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North Korea launches 'limited and highly targeted' cyberattack on South
A series of hacks targeting South Korean think tanks, as well as the website for the country’s Ministry of Unification, has been traced to North Korea.
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Vietnam's Internet Censorship Bill Goes Into Effect
Internet freedom has gone from bad to worse in Vietnam as an online censorship law known as Decree 72 went into effect this month. It bans bloggers and users of social media from quoting, gathering, or summarizing information from press organizations or government websites. While the main justification for the law is to uphold "national security," Vietnamese authorities also claim that this law is aimed at combating online copyright infringement.
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Kim Dotcom sues New Zealand over electronic snooping
The Megaupload founder is suing the New Zealand government for $4.8 million, claiming it illegally spied on him in advance of a raid on his house, says Wired.
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Meet Hacking Team, the company that helps the police hack you
Hacking Team may not have any clients in the US yet, but it's not for lack of trying
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Want an NSA.org Email Address? That'll Be $100
The owner of the NSA.org domain is selling email addresses and subdomains for $100.
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Want to See China’s Latest Top Secret Military Site? Just Google It
It’s spy vs. spy vs. blogger in the brave new world of online intelligence gathering
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What Would a Real Cyberwar Look Like?
Talk of combat in the fifth domain has become a fixture in Washington. But let's not use that as an excuse to quash a free Internet, says a war studies academic.
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The Internet is for snacking
Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s popular social sites are spin outs of behaviors that emerged from blogs and forums, the primordial soup of the early social web. Before there was Twitter, people were doing something similar to tweeting on so-called link blogs or micro blogs. Tumblr was a direct descendent of a particular strain of blogs known as tumble blogs.
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The Internet isn’t making us dumb. It’s making us angry.
There's a strain of thought that because of the way Internet culture has changed the way we work and play, we're now a different people, neurologically. We don't just behave differently because of the Internet; we think differently, too.
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Does Google+ really matter anymore?
People keep adding me to their circles on Google+. It’s mostly people I’ve never heard of, but recently someone I’d really like to have as a job contact. I used to be active there, but it’s been years since I posted, and I feel like it would be really suspicious if I started back up again just because I am trying to impress/keep in touch with this person. But on the other hand... I am trying to impress/keep in touch with this person. Should I add them back? Should I reactivate my account?
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Brazilian hackers confuse Nasa with NSA in revenge attack
Hackers have hit back in retaliation for US cyber-spying on Brazil but reportedly mistook the US space agency Nasa for the National Security Agency (NSA).
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Why I stopped following celebrities on Twitter
I have a friend who contends that the only celebrity worth following on Twitter is Michael Caine. She could very well be right. This is for the simple fact that Michael Caine on Twitter—imitated by many, replicated by none—is nothing but Michael Caine on Twitter.
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Facebook Apologizes For Ads Featuring Photos of Suicide Victim
Two online dating ads featured on Facebook this week included photos of a teenager who committed suicide. The social network has since apologized for the ads, which promoted a Canadian online-dating site by including images of Rehtaeh Parsons. Parsons, 17, hanged herself in April after pictures showing her alleged rape circulated online.
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Dave Eggers, Arcade Fire and Other Hipsters Shun the Internet
There's a bearded, flannel-shirted movement afoot to ditch the Internet and reclaim the pre-digital life. James Poulos on how the latest hipster trend could burst the tech bubble.
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YouTube enlists Google+ to fix the world's worst comments
Can social networking and machine learning make comments worth reading?
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