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Paul Merrell

On the NSA, PRISM, and what it means for your 1Password data | Agile Blog - 1 views

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    Might be right. Might be wrong. Oh, the joy of having people around who feel entitled to read other people's data, whether it's shared or not. 
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Guide to Creative Commons » OAPEN-UK - 1 views

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    "An output of the OAPEN-UK project, this guide explores concerns expressed in public evidence given by researchers, learned societies and publishers to inquiries in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and also concerns expressed by researchers working with the OAPEN-UK project. We have also identified a number of common questions and have drafted answers, which have been checked by experts including Creative Commons. The guide has been edited by active researchers, to make sure that it is relevant and useful to academics faced with making decisions about publishing."
Paul Merrell

The BRICS "Independent Internet" Cable. In Defiance of the "US-Centric Internet" | Glob... - 0 views

  • The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the “US-centric internet”). Not many understand that, while the immediate trigger for the decision (coupled with the cancellation of a summit with the US president) was the revelations on NSA spying, the reason why Rousseff can take such a historic step is that the alternative infrastructure: The BRICS cable from Vladivostock, Russia  to Shantou, China to Chennai, India  to Cape Town, South Africa  to Fortaleza, Brazil,  is being built and it’s, actually, in its final phase of implementation. No amount of provocation and attempted “Springs” destabilizations and Color Revolution in the Middle East, Russia or Brazil can stop this process.  The huge submerged part of the BRICS plan is not yet known by the broader public.
  • Nonetheless it is very real and extremely effective. So real that international investors are now jumping with both feet on this unprecedented real economy opportunity. The change… has already happened. Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward politically fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments. President Dilma Rousseff has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted her communications, hacked into the state-owned Petrobras oil company’s network and spied on Brazilians who entrusted their personal data to U.S. tech companies such as Facebook and Google.
  • BRICS Cable… a 34 000 km, 2 fibre pair, 12.8 Tbit/s capacity, fibre optic cable system For any global investor, there is no crisis – there is plenty of growth. It’s just not in the old world BRICS is ~45% of the world’s population and ~25% of the world’s GDP BRICS together create an economy the size of Italy every year… that’s the 8th largest economy in the world The BRICS presents profound opportunities in global geopolitics and commerce Links Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil – the BRICS economies – and the United States. Interconnect with regional and other continental cable systems in Asia, Africa and South America for improved global coverage Immediate access to 21 African countries and give those African countries access to the BRICS economies. Projected ready for service date is mid to second half of 2015.
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    Undoubtedly, construction was under way well before the Edward Snowden leaked documents began to be published. But that did give the new BRICS Cable an excellent hook for the announcement. With 12.8 Tbps throughput, it looks like this may divert considerable traffic now routed through the UK. But it still connects with the U.S., in Miami. 
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Así será la Ley de Telecomunicaciones - 0 views

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    "El Consejo de Ministros ha dado luz verde al proyecto de Ley General de Telecomunicaciones, que repercutirá en un incremento de la velocidad de Internet y una reducción de los precios, al tiempo que simplifica el despliegue de redes y adapta la legislación a los avances que ha vivido el sector."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

EFF Victory Results in Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconst... - 1 views

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    "Update: In response to EFF's FOIA lawsuit, the government has released the 2011 FISA court opinion ruling some NSA surveillance unconstitutional. For over a year, EFF has been fighting the government in federal court to force the public release of an 86-page opinion of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Issued in October 2011, the secret court's opinion found that surveillance conducted by the NSA under the FISA Amendments Act was unconstitutional and violated "the spirit of" federal law."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Infografía: Consejos de cómo lanzar tu música en YouTube | Industria Musical - 0 views

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    "La siguiente infografía nos resume una serie de consejos interesante y útiles de cómo utilizar YouTube para lanzar una canción o un álbum. Como bien sabemos YouTube es hoy en día una herramienta y un canal de marketing indispensable para la industria musical, tanto es así que Universal está listo para lanzar "All Def Music", un sello enfocado en el lanzamiento de artistas a tráves de esta plataforma. YouTube con más de 1.000 millones de usuarios (Este dato no está actualizado en la infografía)"
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

E-Books And Guides Of Top 5 Upcoming Programming Languages - 2 views

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    "To stay up and high in the field of programming, it is essential for any programmer to stay updated with the latest programming languages. You can learn atleast 5 from these references and ebooks. "
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Latest Leak Shows NSA Engaging In Economic Espionage -- Not Fighting Terrorism | Techdirt - 0 views

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    "As more and more information about the NSA's global surveillance capabilities emerges through leaks of material obtained by Edward Snowden, the US authorities have been playing the terrorist card heavily. That is, they concede that they have been spying on pretty much everyone, but claim that it was only to fight terrorism, and thus to save lives. In particular, the NSA insists it is not spying on anyone for the purposes of industrial espionage -- here's what it wrote in an email to the Washington Post on the subject just a couple of weeks ago: "
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Noticias de Tecnología - Cinco motivos por los que la ley Sinde-Wert no ha se... - 0 views

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    "Los internautas siguen descargando. Si la intención del Gobierno y la industria era acabar con las descargas, el fracaso ha sido sonoro. Si no lo crees, piensa en una serie al azar o en una canción cualquiera de un grupo cualquiera y búscala en Google"
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

How do we know that Linux doesn't have a government backdoor? : linux - 2 views

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    "I'm a big advocate of Linux and one of the reasons for that is because I believe it is more secure than other proprietary operating systems and hopefully less likely to include some sort of government backdoor. With the recent US government surveillance scandals going on it has me thinking, is Linux really more secure?"
Yong Zhang

User Centered Design - Cross Cultural Design - 1 views

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      Young and inexperienced interviewer get more negative feedback about design
Yong Zhang

科技开讲:谷歌每秒赚1000美元背后的技术(2)_互联网_科技时代_新浪网 - 0 views

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      东方文化对全局关系、背景的关注 East = Relationships; West = Individualistic  If you show people from the West a picture, they focus on a main or dominant foreground object, while people from East Asia pay more attention to context and background. East Asian people who grow up in the West show the Western pattern. "When shown complex, busy scenes, Asian-Americans and non-Asian-Americans recruited different brain regions. The Asians showed more activity in areas that process figure-ground relations-holistic context-while the Americans showed more activity in regions that recognize objects." How we see it: Culturally different eye movement patterns over visual scenes, Julie E. Boland, Hannah Faye Chua, & Richard E. Nisbett  Sharon Begley: West Brain, East Brain
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

The JavaScript Trap - 1 views

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    "by Richard Stallman You may be running nonfree programs on your computer every day without realizing it-through your web browse"
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

The Halloween Documents - 0 views

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    "Where will Microsoft try to drag you today? Do you really want to go there? In the last week of October 1998, a confidential Microsoft memorandum on Redmond's strategy against Linux and Open Source software was leaked to me by a source who shall remain nameless. I annotated this memorandum with explanation and commentary over Halloween Weekend and released it to the national press. Microsoft was forced to acknowledge its authenticity. The press rightly treated it as a major story and covered it (with varying degrees of cluefulness). "
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

¿Quién está detrás de los medios de comunicación en España? - 0 views

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    [... "En esta nueva edición de la infografía se incluyen medios como Diario Digital de Alfonso Rojo, Eldiario.es de Ignacio Escolar, Más Público y los extrabajadores de Público desde el grupo empresarial de Roures o El Plural y Enric Sopena. También aparecen nuevos inversores tales como George Soros, Carlos Slim y Rodrigo Rato". ...]
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

The Failure Of Social Media | Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications B... - 0 views

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    "Social Media doesn't work for the vast majority of small businesses. That was the main message in the USA Today article titled, Study: Social media a bust for small businesses, published on April 17th, 2013. From the news item: "About 61% of small businesses don't see any return on investment on their social-media activities, according to a survey released Tuesday from Manta, a social network for small businesses. Yet, almost 50% say they've increased their time spent on social media, and only 7% have decreased their time. What businesses are trying to get out of social media: 36% said their goal was to acquire and engage new customers, 19% said to gain leads and referrals, and 17% said to boost awareness. Facebook was most cited as the hardest to maintain social-media platform, according to the survey." There is a big lesson in this data..."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

SOPA Censorship is back - 0 views

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    "SOPA censorship is back. Last year the Internet defeated SOPA, but now the U.S. government wants to bring back one of its worst parts: jail time for streaming copyrighted content. Soon, uploading a YouTube video of you singing karaoke could become a felony. Tell Obama: "No SOPA-style censor"
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    SOPA Censorship is back Last year the Internet defeated SOPA, but now the U.S. government wants to bring back one of its worst parts: jail time for streaming copyrighted content. Soon, uploading a YouTube video of you singing karaoke could become a felony.
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    "SOPA censorship is back. Last year the Internet defeated SOPA, but now the U.S. government wants to bring back one of its worst parts: jail time for streaming copyrighted content. Soon, uploading a YouTube video of you singing karaoke could become a felony. Tell Obama: "No SOPA-style censor"
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

La Ciberseguridad. Primera parte (I). Antecedentes. - 0 views

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    " lunes, 12 de agosto de 2013 La Ciberseguridad. Primera parte (I). Antecedentes. Los tres problemas básicos de seguridad Hasta hace poco, en el mundo del Internet, la mayoría de las personas solo se tenía que preocupar por los virus, cuestión que con un antivirus cualquiera, se convertía en una preocupación menor. El segundo problema más frecuente, es que accedan a tú cuenta del correo electrónico o alguna de tus redes sociales, y te cambien la contraseña, la reacción habitual del usuario es: "me hackearon la cuenta". Cuando en realidad, es poco probable que hayas sido víctima de un "hacker" propiamente dicho, simplemente han logrado conseguir tu password."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services. - 3 views

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    "A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services."
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