July 2012
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Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It... →
Even if you’ve managed to find an Internet connection for yourself, it won’t be that helpful in reaching out to your fellow locals if they can’t get online to find you. If you’re trying to coordinate a group of people in your area and can’t rely on an Internet connection, cell phones, or SMS, your best bet could be a wireless mesh network of sorts–essentially, a distributed network of wireless...
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Your Phone May Not Be Safe At Protests →
IMSI stands for “International Mobile Subscriber Identity”. The technology is essentially a mobile phone tower with “a malicious operator”. It mimics the behavior of a cell tower and tricks mobile phones into sending data to it, instead of to the tower.
As such it is considered a Man In the Middle (MITM) attack. It is used as an eavesdropping device used for interception...
April 2012
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'Hard, scary, sad': life at a highway rest stop →
criminalwisdom:
“Unaffordable rents, says a new national report, keep many Americans homeless. Some who are living in their cars at a rest stop off a major highway attest to the challenges.” (e1ectr0n)
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“With a flick of his pen, Florida’s tea party Republican governor, Rick Scott,...”
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott Slashes Rape Counseling During Sexual Assault Awareness Month | Mother Jones (via tinfoilandtea)
The Tea Party really cares!
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On this date in 1930, BBC Radio reported, "There...
mentalflossr:
When the news was news, and not just meaningless prattle for hypnotized cattle to passively consume. - jt
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“[It] is threatening the rights of people in America, and effectively rights...”
– In an interview with The Guardian, Web godfather Tim Berners-Lee warns about a proposed US bill called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act that would increase the government’s ability to enforce patents and copyright.
CISPA is the love child of the recently defeated SOPA and PIPA...
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Watchmattypi-mcfrostingeater:
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gryffindorteamseeker:
bathtime:
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Ridiculously Photogenic Guy on Good Morning America (now that’s what I call news)
Tumblr is now the best agent you could possibly have.
Interview with the “Ridiculously Photogenic Guy” aka Zeddie Watkins Little (Whut? lol).
Get your Internet fame, bro. And he’s using it for...
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"Why Airport Security Is Broken— And How To Fix... →
Kip Hawley, former head of the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) tells us how the TSA is broken and proposes some pretty radical solutions (that might just be crazy enough to work). His particular insight raises a lot of questions we should be addressing about bureaucracy, risk aversion, and our safety, and is definitely worth a read.
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Notable in Music 4/2/12 - 4/8/12
Monday
Today marked the release of Kendrick Lamar’s first official single! Fellow Compton native and veteran rap-star Dr. Dre lends his name and fame to the younger artist for the single. While Dre gives the debut visibility, crisp production and cool sounds courtesy of Scoop DeVille make for massive cruising music and a fine introduction to Lamar’s immense talent.
Read more and...
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“One of the things that we learned through these discussions is that girls also...”
– a 17-year-old Angolan boy who participated in a peer-led training session on gender-discrimination awareness (via annegoddard)
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“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely...”
– 1984, George Orwell (via philphys)
JetBlue Captain Restrained During Bizarre Midair... →
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded,...”
– James Madison (via politicalprof)
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“Many people will agree that these consequences of the law against obscene...”
– Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (via philphys)
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“Sometime last year computers at the U.S. Social... →
kateoplis:
“Sometime last year computers at the U.S. Social Security Administration were hacked and the identities of millions of Americans were compromised. What, you didn’t hear about that? Nobody did.
The extent of damage is only just now coming to light in the form of millions of false 2011 income tax…
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Thought-provoking article about how we imagine... →
“In retrospect, it’s easy to see why Hunger Games Tweets took off: the project is a potent mix of pop-culture criticism, social-media sharing, provocative statements, and public shaming. But more important, and no doubt more disturbing, is what Adam’s time line of ignorant tweets—what he calls “the repository of death”—says about a certain generation’s failure of imagination.” Read...
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A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some...
Via Good.is
In her essay, which was written for a contest, Williams reflected on what Douglass heard his slave master, Mr. Auld, telling his wife after catching her teaching Douglass how to read. “If you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there will be no keeping him,” Auld says. “It will forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable,...
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Media plurality matters: Chris Goodall
tedx:
When only a few people own the news, they wield disproportionate power to manipulate public opinion. At TEDxOxford, Chris Goodall warns how a loss of diverse opinions threatens the integrity of “old media.”
Each week, we choose four of our favorite talks, highlighting just a few of the enlightening speakers from the TEDx community, and its diverse constellation of ideas worth spreading....
