The State of the Network

[AdrianX]

The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data, this is a cosmetic shift.

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721656-data-economy-demands-new-approach-antitrust-rules-worlds-most-valuable-resource

 

[freetrader]

https://np.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/6aizk9/keylogger_found_in_hewlettpackard_audio_driver/

https://www.modzero.ch/advisories/MZ-17-01-Conexant-Keylogger.txt

 

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https://electrospaces.blogspot.de/2017/06/dutch-russian-cyber-crime-case-reveals.html

 

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https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/advanced-cia-firmware-turns-home-routers-into-covert-listening-posts/

 

[AdrianX]

NSA Opens Github Account — Lists 32 Projects Developed by the Agency

>The NSA employs genius-level coders and brightest mathematicians, who continually work to break codes, gather intelligence on everyone, and develop hacking tools like EternalBlue that was leaked by the Shadow Brokers in April and abused by the WannaCry ransomware last month to wreak havoc worldwide.

LOL, WannaCry - the bitcoin ransomware was developers by the NSA and now they making other projects OSS

 

[freetrader]

https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6h82ji/pornhub_ok_cupid_imgur_duckduckgo_namecheap/

PornHub, OK Cupid, Imgur, DuckDuckGo, Namecheap, Bittorrent, and a bunch of other big sites have joined the Internet-Wide Day of Action for Net Neutrality on July 12 (Amazon, Kickstarter, Etsy, Mozilla, and Reddit were already on board.)


https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6ivklm/net_neutrality_day_of_action_update_twitter/

Net neutrality day of action update: Twitter, Soundcloud, and Medium, have joined. Reddit, This could be as big as SOPA.

 

[freetrader]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-attack-maersk-idUSKBN19I1NO

Petya taking down Maersk systems.

Also:

Russia's top oil producer Rosneft (ROSN.MM) said on Tuesday its servers had been hit by a large-scale cyber attack, but its oil production was unaffected.

Ukraine's central bank also said a number of Ukrainian commercial banks and state and private companies had been hit by cyber attacks via an "unknown virus".

 

[Bagatell]

Interesting post re the astroturfing on reddit -

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6pug1v/reddit_forensics_since_16_may_2017_reddit/

 

[freetrader]

EFF resigns from W3C over Digital Rights Mismanagement:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership

 

[Bagatell]

"In essence, a core of EME proponents was able to impose its will on the Consortium, over the wishes of a sizeable group of objectors — and every person who uses the web."

Again. Sad news.

 

[freetrader]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/10/31/a-mysterious-message-is-locking-google-docs-users-out-of-their-files/

 

[freetrader]

In a BladeRunner's future vision, this will also see you locked out of your house and probably soon get picked up by the police for further examination.

Not sure if the answer is to stop shaving, but it seems to work for some people

 

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[freetrader]

Time to register that Voat.co account?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-internet

 

[freetrader]

The next time you type something into Slack - be it in a private channel or DM - you might remember reading this article:

https://www.fastcompany.com/40547684/slack-picked-a-weird-time-to-make-it-easier-for-bosses-to-download-your-private-chats

 

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https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-con-1825729300