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Liz Luby

EFF: Frequently Awkward Questions for the Entertainment Industry - 0 views

  • The RIAA has sued more than 20,000 music fans for file sharing
  • To that end, EFF has prepared a sample list of tough questions for times when you hear entertainment industry representatives speaking and want to challenge their positions. Asking hard questions is a way of "keeping honest people honest" and revealing when they're actually being deceptive.
  • DRM has clearly failed to stop songs from getting on file sharing networks
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  • Recording off the radio is clearly permitted by copyright law and something Americans have done for over 25 years
  • Is it ever legal for me to use software like DVD Shrink or Handbrake to rip a digital copy of a DVD I own onto a video iPod or my laptop
  • Major entertainment companies have repeatedly brought lawsuits to block new technologies, including the VCR, Digital Audio Tape recorders, the first MP3 player, the ReplayTV PVR, and now P2P software.
Ahmed Kiyoshi El Maghraby

Super safe hard - 0 views

  • * of networked storage to business users searching for the easiest and most technologically advanced way to share, secure and protect their most important data, including productivity application data, media files, backup data, and other digital files.
Ahmed Kiyoshi El Maghraby

eWay security - 1 views

  • With business suddenly booming, the company tapped the services of Macquarie Hosting to ensure customer data was encrypted and firewalls were secure.
  • Compliance with the data security standard has opened the door to billions of dollars worth of business, according to Macquarie Telecom hosting managing director Aidan Tudehope.
Ahmed Kiyoshi El Maghraby

credit cards cloned - 0 views

  • Using tiny technology disguised as part of the machine, the thieves then press new cards with customers' numbers and run amok
Ahmed Kiyoshi El Maghraby

stolen credit cards - 0 views

  • stolen card information is being sold on the black market
  • stolen bank account details, email accounts, and even full identities
  • Where once stolen cards used to be used fairly quickly making it easy to detect and cancel the card overseas fraudsters now bought the card details in bulk and stockpiled them for later use, making it difficult to detect where or when the information was stolen.
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  • "It's costing banks tens of millions of dollars in Australia and New Zealand alone."
Ahmed Kiyoshi El Maghraby

Case of stolen online identity - Technology - smh.com.au - 1 views

  • is daughter was among those who received the fake appeal and alerted him. The Balmain resident tried to log in to his Facebook account to see what was happening but couldn't.
  • "It said my email wasn't registered," he says.
  • Identity theft and scams on social networking sites, though, are not uncommon occurrences.
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  • "ID theft has existed in both the online and physical world for some time."
  • Some users have their identity compromised via phishing sites that fool them
  • he threats to users on social networking sites
  • Other users click an email or website link that leads them to a web page that installs malicious software
  • criminals become "friends" and check a user's profile in the hope of guessing a password.
Steve Madsen

How to keep control of the conversation - Perspectives - Opinion - Technology - 0 views

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    BEING so well connected has its drawbacks. Things can unfold very quickly these days and suddenly avalanche into catastrophe.
Steve Madsen

Are kids becoming phone addicts? - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Three-quarters of Australian children aged 12 to 14 own a mobile phone but by the time they are 15 that number surges to 90 per cent, according to figures from the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
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    phone addicts... may lead to health & wellness issues? Australian focus.
anonymous

EU media chief rules out Internet freedom law| Reuters - 0 views

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    The US Government has recently drafted a Global Online Freedom Act for other countries, including European nations to follow. Some nations are in difficult decisions in agreeing to this act because they believe it violates human rights. In the act, there will be a cyber police, and they will start increasing censoring the web and they will block sites and intimidating internet users. The law will also allow freedom of expression.
anonymous

Make Internet Fax Services Work For You - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    Fax machines have become a pain to work with for many workers in their office. Whether it's the special type of paper, the ink cartridges and all. It has become less efficient and many are trying to make the internet fax services work for them.
Liz Luby

Fake Social Network Profiles: a New Form of Identity Theft in 2009 - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

  • identity hijacking
  • We've already seen some high-profile examples of people creating fake online personas over the past year, the most notable case being that involving Lori Drew and MySpace. In this instance, a mother created a fake online identity to bully her daughter's rival
  • To test their prediction, his team was able to set up fake online identities which ended up connecting to the real network of friends and acquaintances easily.
Emiy Kate Ratliff

Peek Inside Google's Workplace - wcco.com - 0 views

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    Google workplace on Oprah
Steve Madsen

The Wireless Foundation - 0 views

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    tips on how to use a mobile device acceptably.
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    GET WISE ABOUT WIRELESS: Be Safe, Be Courteous. The program has been developed especially for middle school students, who are growing up as part of the wireless generation.
Steve Madsen

Beyond Emily: Post-ing Etiquette | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Educators offer guidelines for promoting good online behavior.
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    Article has some good ideas that may relate to the Digiteen project.
Steve Madsen

TRAILS: Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills - 0 views

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    How will you fare taking this real time assessment on literacy skills?
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    TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards.
Steve Madsen

The Technology Generation Gap at Work is Oh So Wide - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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    Article could provide some ideas for the Digiteen project.
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    The generation gap at work is really wide with vast discrepancies when it comes to what the appropriate use of technology is - a problem that leads to increasing tensions in the workplace.
Steve Madsen

Citrus High School Student Technology Survey - 0 views

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    Citrus High School Student Technology Survey
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    A student survey about technology. Might provide ideas for our Digiteen project?
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