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Maj Krek

The Enduring Myth of the 'Free' Internet - Peter Osnos - The Atlantic - 3 views

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  • The Enduring Myth of the 'Free' Internet
  • The mantra of a "free" Internet has shaped the prevailing view of how we access information and entertainment in the digital age.
  • the role of the broadband Internet is reaching a stage where anything less than total availability at minimal prices is a matter that deserves far more attention than it is currently getting.
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  • But access to this "free" information on the Internet, as everyone acknowledges as soon as it is pointed out, is not gratis.
  • The leading beneficiaries of all these charges are the big multi-platform companies, the pipes for content and digital services
  • the devices that connect us to search engines, countless websites, social media, and e-mail bring us vast amounts of content for which we do not pay separately.
  • 100 million Americans do not have high speed Internet at home, largely because of high costs and the lack of available infrastructure.
  • the Internet is the key to economic growth in the 21st century
  • One promising initiative, at least as it applies to speed and access, comes from Google Fiber. This is a project the company is developing in Kansas City as a trial of what would be a far faster broadband network using fiber-optic communication.
  • No other company can match Google's projected speed, but the price it is planning to charge for that service so far is higher than slower providers
  • For all the progress in delivering information and entertainment in the Internet era, Americans deserve and should demand something closer to the ideal of what is possible with our technology.
Jan Majdič

Free speech on the internet | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • Freedom of expression has long been regarded as one of the fundamental principles of modern democracies, in which civil liberties are honoured and regarded as a prerequisite for individual development and fulfilment.
  • It is this classic liberal argument that is still used by civil liberties' campaigners on the internet, like Hatewatch, which argues that those "hate speak" groups, such as neo-Nazis, must still speak freely, if only to expose and discredit themselves
  • It is not simply a case of "same old issue, new technology" with free speech and the internet. With its low start-up costs and global reach, the internet enables almost anyone in the West, in theory, to speak and be heard around the world, as well as hear others' speech.
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  • particularly when they originate from, and are hosted in, foreign countries.
  • China have successfully prevented their citizens from receiving a huge quantity of (pro-democratic) material on the internet.
  • Governments in the USA, Germany and France, have all taken significant steps to curtail free speech on the internet
  • The anti-censorship pressure group, Campaign Against Censorship of the Internet in Britain, was created in response Scotland Yard's request to ISPs to censor their news feeds
  • seeking to regulate and control its immense, potential, power.
  • US is several years ahead of Britain
  • industry self-regulation
  • Technology is used to censor and evade censorship, although it seems likely that censorship tools will grow in sophistication and use as legislators struggle to censor the internet.
  • In December 1997, a 200-strong internet industry group agreed to accept a common standard of labelling called PICS - the Platform for Internet Content Selection
  • Millions of internet users in big offices, cybercafés, education institutions and libraries will use machines or ISPs which have filters installed in them.
  • In 1999, the EU launched an action plan, "Promoting Safer Use of the Internet", which provides for a hotline, where people can report sites which have caused offence
Katja Jerman

Five-year-old runs up £1,700 iPad bill in ten minutes - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • Five-year-old runs up £1,700 iPad bill in ten minutes
  • "Danny was pestering us to let him have a go on the iPad. He kept saying it was a free game so my husband put in the passcode and handed it to him.
  • "He was crying, as the rest of the children were telling him we could have bought a house with the amount he had spent.
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  • I'm not sure how I did it, I thought it was free.
  • I am still going to play games when I can, but I will be careful now."
  • turn off functionality such as purchasing from iTunes and the ability to turn off in-app purchases.
  • Apple have now told the family they will refund the money.
  • such incidents had to be reported as quickly as possible.
  • "All iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod touch) have built in parental controls that give parents and guardians the ability to restrict access to content, eg internet access and age rated content such as music, games, apps, TV shows, movies etc.
  • "It was far too easy a thing for him to do and more should be done to limit stuff like this from happening. That game is very annoying - and who would spend more than £1,700 on a game?
  • Five-year-old runs up £1,700 iPad bill in ten minutes
  • Five-year-old runs up £1,700 iPad bill in ten minutes
  • But after downloading the free app Danny found his way into the game's online store and innocently ordered dozens of costly add-ons - totalling £1,710.43.
Anja Vasle

Mailbox: the free iPhone app that will change how you use email - Features - Gadgets & ... - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...how-you-use-email-8518955.html

mailbox iphone app email change

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  • Mailbox is a free iPhone app that aims to change the way you use email.
  • an overflowing inbox is deeply inefficient and it's important to scuttle the unimportant stuff away to stop it from distracting you from the crucial bits.
  • A quick swipe right and emails that you don't need but shouldn't be deleted are swept into an archive, symbolised by a green tick.
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  • A slow swipe right, however, and the tick turns into a red X, telling you that email has been deleted.
  • You can do all these swipes without even opening an email, reading the first two lines of the message in the inbox list.
  • This is a fantastic app, though there are some downsides – mostly to do with the fact that it won't work for everyone. For a start, it's iPhone-only – there's no Android, Windows Phone or BlackBerry version for now.
  • This is a remarkable app that can really make a difference to the way you use email.
Meta Arcon

Figuring out the future of online privacy - CNN.com - 1 views

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future online privacy cnn

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  • They may not be paying for the services directly, but customers still have a lot of power -- and companies know that they need to listen.
  • "We can't just sit back and allow the industry to just continue to ignore a core component of the user experience online," said Alex Fowler, Mozilla's global privacy and public policy leader.
  • The more devices that connect to the Internet, from smart cars to home thermostats, the more data there are about a person to collect.
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  • Free versions come with ads, but for a price, people can upgrade to the ad-free experience.
  • It's also possible that over the next five to 10 years, people's attitudes toward privacy and their data will change, and they'll be willing to share more personal information
  • Not everyone will want the same level of privacy,
  • "Do not track" seems like a clear, smart option to give consumers
  • Companies that provide free services, such as search engines or social networks, have to strike the right balance between respecting their customers' privacy concerns and serving advertisers.
  • It's also possible that over the next five to 10 years, people's attitudes toward privacy and their data will change, and they'll be willing to share more personal information, attached to their real-world identity, in exchange for more heavily customized computing experiences.
Nuša Gregoršanec

Free of the Deadly Internet! » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names - 0 views

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distraction freedom productivity stupidification

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  • Free of the Deadly Internet!
  • The computer and its connection to the mass mind is but a tool, an appropriate technology if properly used.  But it is not properly used.  It dominates, so that the user is the used, and the user, like the addict,  weakens at every return.
  • I go to a cabin in Utah where there is no Internet, no telephone line, no cellphone signal. What happens with only the wretched self and the empty page? 
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  • Thousands of words – good words, worth keeping – are written in a few days of deep concentration where it would have taken weeks to produce the same amount exposed to the fool’s continuum of constant access to the hive mind and the blinking screen.
  • As we engage more and more with the flitting of the Internet’s slipstream, it rewires our minds to be less than we are capable of, less than we imagined, less we hoped for – it is stupefying and stupidifying.  We leap from one small object to another, like children chasing bubbles.  We click on the links. We click and clack and turn and toss in an “ecosystem of interruption technologies.”   We become less able to think deeply, to encompass ambiguities, nuances, to hold with a single thought and parse it out.
Jernej Prodnik

Spotify pushing labels to lower costs, open up free service to phones | The Verge - 0 views

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spotify labels service political political economy of the internet internet www

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  • Spotify, the popular music subscription service, is due to meet in the coming weeks with its major counterparts in the record industry to renew their licensing agreements. The Verge has learned that managers at Spotify are expected to ask for substantial price breaks from the music labels as well as the rights to extend its free pricing tier to mobile devices.
  • The Stockholm-based Spotify has already started negotiations with Warner Music and will begin talks with Sony and Universal in the coming weeks, according to several music industry sources. (A Spotify spokesperson declined to comment on this story.) These negotiations with music’s "big three" labels will likely go a long way to determining whether Spotify reaches profitability, a crucial threshold as it increasingly competes with Apple and other cash-rich players in the digital music market.
Rebeka Aščerič

The internet comes of age | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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internet ipraktikum social media age

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  • Comment is free The internet comes of age Older people are using the web as never before.
  • Silver surfers, defined as internet users over the age of 65, spend more time on the web (42 hours a month) than any other group,
  • A lot of older people still do not realise that once you have fixed up a broadband connection (which admittedly can be dodgy with some service providers) it is very easy to buy or sell things on the auction space eBay (the most popular one in the UK); to buy a book from Amazon or the wonderful abebooks; or to Google or email.
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  • They do want to keep up with old friends, but they also want to make contact with other people of whatever age with whom they share a common interest.
inesmag

Technology News: Internet: Facebook's Relationship With Developers: It's Even More Comp... - 2 views

www.technewsworld.com/...77205.html

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  • When it comes to developers working with Facebook, "share and share alike" is the new policy.
  • No one rides the Facebook express for free.
  • "If you use any Facebook APIs to build personalized or social experiences, you must also enable people to easily share their experiences back with people on Facebook," Facebook said in a blog post announcing the change.
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  • On one hand it can be argued that Facebook is merely following industry trends; other social networks like Twitter have also banned apps that mimic their core functionality.
  • In short, Facebook is moving aggressively to block Twitter and other social media sites from establishing free-rider status on its site
Jernej Prodnik

The New Westphalian Web - By Katherine Maher | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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      And yet it was set-up by the governmental agencies.
  • In the popular consciousness, the Internet was simultaneously a place of possibility and danger. In 1993, Time magazine warned, "People who use … the Net may be in for a shock.… Anybody can start a discussion on any topic and say anything." It was precisely this structural independence that transformed the Internet from a mere tool for information-sharing to the world's open forum.
  • The rise of self-publishing tools like Blogger transformed the "third space" of cyberspace into a modern speaker's corner, offering any motivated writer a platform for his or her political views. Initially, this online free expression was often marginalized or dismissed -- the term "blogosphere" was originally a joke. But bloggers kept plugging away. In liberal democracies their free expression was guaranteed, and in closed societies connectivity was often too limited to draw any real attention.
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  • . And the Internet -- this global resource, this wild space independent of states -- has made its mark on our neatly ordered world of nations.
Janja Petek

Forty years of the internet: how the world changed for ever | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views

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  • In October 1969, a student typed 'LO' on a computer - and the internet was born
  • Towards the end of the summer of 1969
  • a large grey metal box was delivered to the office of Leonard Kleinrock, a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles.
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  • At 10.30pm, as Kleinrock's fellow professors and students crowded around, a computer was connected to the IMP, which made contact with a second IMP, attached to a second computer, several hundred miles away at the Stanford Research Institute, and an undergraduate named Charley Kline tapped out a message.
  • It's impossible to say for certain when the internet began, mainly because nobody can agree on what, precisely, the internet is.
  • It's interesting to compare how much has changed in computing and the internet since 1969 with, say, how much has changed in world politics.
  • On the other hand, the breakthrough accomplished that night in 1969 was a decidedly down-to-earth one
  • Twelve years after Charley Kline's first message on the Arpanet, as it was then known, there were still only 213 computers on the network; but 14 years after that, 16 million people were online, and email was beginning to change the world; the first really usable web browser wasn't launched until 1993, but by 1995 we had Amazon, by 1998 Google, and by 2001, Wikipedia, at which point there were 513 million people online. Today the figure is more like 1.7 billion.
  • on New Year's Day 1994 – only yesterday, in other words – there were an estimated 623 websites.
  • On the one hand, they were there because of the Russian Sputnik satellite launch, in 1957, which panicked the American defence establishment, prompting Eisenhower to channel millions of dollars into scientific research, and establishing Arpa, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, to try to win the arms technology race. The idea was "that we would not get surprised again,"
  • "In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face," they declared.
  • The few outsiders who knew of the box's existence couldn't even get its name right: it was an IMP, or "interface message processor"
  • It was already possible to link computers by telephone lines, but it was glacially slow, and every computer in the network had to be connected, by a dedicated line, to every other computer, which meant you couldn't connect more than a handful of machines without everything becoming monstrously complex and costly.
  • The solution, called "packet switching" – which owed its existence to the work of a British physicist, Donald Davies – involved breaking data down into blocks that could be routed around any part of the network that happened to be free, before getting reassembled at the other end.
  • Still, Kleinrock recalls a tangible sense of excitement that night as Kline sat down at the SDS Sigma 7 computer, connected to the IMP, and at the same time made telephone contact with his opposite number at Stanford. As his colleagues watched, he typed the letter L, to begin the word LOGIN.
  • One of the most intriguing things about the growth of the internet is this: to a select group of technological thinkers, the surprise wasn't how quickly it spread across the world, remaking business, culture and politics – but that it took so long to get off the ground.
  • In 1945, the American presidential science adviser, Vannevar Bush, was already imagining the "memex", a device in which "an individual stores all his books, records, and communications", which would be linked to each other by "a mesh of associative trails", like weblinks.
  • And in 1946, an astonishingly complete vision of the future appeared in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. In a story entitled A Logic Named Joe, the author Murray Leinster envisioned a world in which every home was equipped with a tabletop box that he called a "logic":
  • Instead of smothering their research in the utmost secrecy – as you might expect of a cold war project aimed at winning a technological battle against Moscow – they made public every step of their thinking, in documents known as Requests For Comments.
  • Deliberately or not, they helped encourage a vibrant culture of hobbyists on the fringes of academia – students and rank amateurs who built their own electronic bulletin-board systems and eventually FidoNet, a network to connect them to each other.
  • n argument can be made that these unofficial tinkerings did as much to create the public internet as did the Arpanet. Well into the 90s, by the time the Arpanet had been replaced by NSFNet, a larger government-funded network,
  • It was the hobbyists, making unofficial connections into the main system, who first opened the internet up to allcomers.
  • This was the software known as TCP/IP, which made it possible for networks to connect to other networks, creating a "network of networks", capable of expanding virtually infinitely
  • Nevertheless, by July 1992, an Essex-born businessman named Cliff Stanford had opened Demon Internet, Britain's first commercial internet service provider.
  • After a year or so, Demon had between 2,000 and 3,000 users,
  • the @ symbol was introduced in 1971, and the first message, according to the programmer who sent it, Ray Tomlinson, was "something like QWERTYUIOP".
  • A couple of years later I got my first mobile phone, which came with two batteries: a very large one, for normal use, and an extremely large one, for those occasions on which you might actually want a few hours of power
  • For most of us, though, the web is in effect synonymous with the internet, even if we grasp that in technical terms that's inaccurate: the web is simply a system that sits on top of the internet, making it greatly easier to navigate the information there, and to use it as a medium of sharing and communication.
  • The first ever website was his own, at CERN: info.cern.ch.
  • The idea that a network of computers might enable a specific new way of thinking about information, instead of just allowing people to access the data on each other's terminals, had been around for as long as the idea of the network itself: it's there in Vannevar Bush's memex, and Murray Leinster's logics.
  • Web browsers crossed the border into mainstream use far more rapidly than had been the case with the internet itself: Mosaic launched in 1993 and Netscape followed soon after, though it was an embarrassingly long time before Microsoft realised the commercial necessity of getting involved at all. Amazon and eBay were online by 1995. And in 1998 came Google, offering a powerful new way to search the proliferating mass of information on the web.
  • Google, and others, saw that the key to the web's future would be helping users exclude almost everything on any given topic, restricting search results to the most relevant pages.
  • It is absurd – though also unavoidable here – to compact the whole of what happened from then onwards into a few sentences: the dotcom boom, the historically unprecedented dotcom bust, the growing "digital divide", and then the hugely significant flourishing, over the last seven years, of what became known as Web 2.0.
  • The most confounding thing of all is that in a few years' time, all this stupendous change will probably seem like not very much change at all.
  • Will you remember when the web was something you accessed primarily via a computer? Will you remember when there were places you couldn't get a wireless connection? Will you remember when "being on the web" was still a distinct concept, something that described only a part of your life, instead of permeating all of it? Will you remember Google?
TjasaP

Kukiji, piškotki ali tudi kolački | Dnevnik.si - 0 views

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piškotki varnost uporabniki

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  • Kukiji, piškotki ali tudi kolački (angl. "cookies") so majhne datoteke, ki jih pošlje strežnik obiskane spletne predstavitve v računalnik obiskovalca. Na tej osnovi ob naslednjem obisku prepozna obiskovalca (natančneje, njegov računalnik). Ko se obiskovalec vrne na spletno predstavitev, od katere je že prejel piškotek, strežnik prikliče informacije o tem uporabniku: kdaj je stran že obiskal, po katerih straneh oziroma vsebinah je brskal, na katere oglase je kliknil; skratka, prikliče podatke o njegovem gibanju po spletni predstavitvi. Če pa kukije uporablja oglaševalski posrednik, ki servisira oglase na več spletnih mestih v svoji mreži (na primer Httpool ali Central Iprom) v svetovnem spletu, pa se zbira bistveno več podatkov, in sicer gibanje uporabnika po vseh spletnih predstavitvah, ki so v mreži.
  • Piškotki torej omogočajo prepoznavanje novih in vračajočih se obiskovalcev, štetje ponovnih obiskov ter kaj si obiskovalci ogledujejo na tej in drugih spletnih straneh. S takim identificiranjem obiskovalcev je možna učinkovitejša komunikacija med tržniki in (vsaj potencialnimi) kupci.
  • Piškotki omogočajo prikrojevanje sporočil v skladu z interesi in potrebami potrošnikov ter personalizacijo in s tem večjo funkcionalnost spletnih strani, poleg tega pa se lahko podatki o obnašanju potrošnikov povežejo z bazami podatkov, s čimer se učinkovitost kukijev še dodatno izboljša.
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  • Piškotki po drugi strani povzročajo drugačne težave. Kot prvo, nad takim ciljanjem večina uporabnikov ni posebno navdušena. Ravno nasprotno, nadzor nad obnašanjem v spletu dojemajo kot ogrožanje svoje zasebnosti.
  • nekatere oglaševalske mreže, ki že ponujajo storitve brez kolačkov ("cooky-free")
  • Z njihovo uporabo se namreč ciljanje oglaševalskih segmentov bistveno izboljša. Kukiji služijo tudi za oceno različnih obiskovalcev, čeprav pri tem nastaja nekoliko več težav.
  • Druga nevarnost, ki kukijem grozi s strani uporabnikov, je dejstvo, da jih podjetja, organizacije in uporabniki občasno brišejo. V takem primeru uporabnikov računalnik ob naslednjem obisku nastopa kot nov uporabnik, prejme nov piškotek in s tem temeljito zmede statistike
  • V primeru porasta zaskrbljenosti za varnost bodo piškotki razmeroma hitro izginili tudi iz domačih računalnikov.
  • Piškotki so torej idealno orodje za spletno oglaševanje in za siceršnje marketinško komuniciranje v internetu. Za zdaj se sicer zdi, da njihova uporaba še ni ogrožena in da daje znatne rezultate, vendar v prihodnosti utegnejo nastati večje spremembe.
sergeja perklič

Who owns the content you upload online? | Money | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • The outrage over Instagram's announcement that it is changing its terms and conditions has turned the spotlight on the relationship between websites and users who upload content, whether it is photos, video, blogs or even games.
  • A survey of UK consumers suggested just 7% read online terms and conditions before they signed up for products and services, and other research has put it even lower.
  • Twitter: You retain your rights to any content you post on Twitter, but you grant the website a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence (with the right to sublicense) "to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute" your content.
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  • However, when you use Facebook you give it the right to use information "in connection with the services and features we provide to you and other users like your friends, our partners, the advertisers that purchase ads on the site, and the developers that build the games, applications, and websites you use".
sergeja perklič

Instagram makes you the product | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook bought Instagram for $1bn.
  • In an FAQ section on Instagram's website, the company explains the cost of its app in just 12 words: "$0.00 – available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play store."
  • In fact, the cost of using the app is that you, the user, are the product.
Gabrijela Vrbnjak

BBC News - Web code weakness allows data dump on PCs - 0 views

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clevercode html5 browser bug

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  • The loophole exploits a feature of HTML 5 which defines how websites are made and what they can do.
  • Developer Feross Aboukhadijeh found the bug and set up a demo page that fills visitors' hard drives with pictures of cartoon cats. In one demo, Mr Aboukhadijeh managed to dump one gigabyte of data every 16 seconds onto a vulnerable Macbook. Clever code Most major browsers, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari, were found to be vulnerable to the bug, said Mr Aboukhadijeh. While most websites are currently built using version 4 of the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), that code is gradually being superseded by the newer version 5. One big change brought in with HTML 5 lets websites store more data locally on visitors' PCs. Safeguards built into the "local storage" specification should limit how much data can be stored. Different browsers allow different limits but all allow at least 2.5 megabytes to be stored. However, Mr Aboukhadijeh found a way round this cap by creating lots of temporary websites linked to the one a person actually visited. He found that each one of these associated sites was allowed to store up to the limit of data because browser makers had not written code to stop this happening. By endlessly creating new, linked websites the bug can be used to siphon huge amounts of data onto target PCs. Only Mozilla's Firefox capped storage at 5MB and was not vulnerable, he found. "Cleverly coded websites have effectively unlimited storage space on visitor's computers," wrote Mr Aboukhadijeh in a blogpost about the bug. Code to exploit the bug has been released by Mr Aboukhadijeh and he set up a website, called Filldisk that, on vulnerable PCs, dumps lots of images of cats on to the hard drive. So far, no malicious use of the exploits has been observed. In a bid to solve the problem, bug reports about the exploit have been filed with major browser makers. More on This Story .related-links-list li { position: relative; } .related-links-list .gvl3-icon { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; } Related Stories Firefox smartphone partners revealed 24 FEBRUARY 2013, TECHNOLOGY Flash Player exits Android store 15 AUGUST 2012, TECHNOLOGY HTML 5 target for cybercriminals 02 DECEMBER 2011, TECHNOLOGY $render("page-see-also","ID"); $render("page-newstracker","ID"); Related Internet links Feross Aboukhadijeh The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites $render("page-related-items","ID"); Share this pageShare this page1.4KShareFacebookTwitter Email Print In association with $render("advert","advert-sponsor-module","page-bookmark-links"); $render("advert-post-script-load"); $render("advert-post-script-load"); More Technology stories RSS Computer glitch hits Mars rover Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover is put into "safe mode" after a computer glitch caused by corrupted files. US plans small-ship drone launches Hackers breach Evernote security $render("advert","advert-mpu-high"); $render("advert-post-script-load"); Top Stories http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/6618
  • found the bug and set up a demo page that fills visitors' hard drives with pictures of cartoon cats.
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  • because browser makers had not written code to stop this happening. By endlessly creating new, linked websites the bug can be used to siphon huge amounts of data onto target PCs.
  • found a way round this cap by creating lots of temporary websites linked to the one a person actually visited
  • Most major browsers, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari, were found to be vulnerable to the bug
  • was not vulnerable
  • Mozilla's Firefox
  • bug reports about the exploit have been filed with major browser makers.
Blaž Ulaga

Leader: Google is watching you | Comment is free | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • technology puts adverts on the web, is against the public interest.
  • It is sad that huge and well-resourced companies are buying up the market share of others instead of building up their own capacity
  • Google holds information about the private activities of its users that the intelligence agencies would die for
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  • Consumers must be allowed to find out what information about them the company can access
Jan Majdič

The trouble with Facebook | Dan Kennedy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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trouble facebook

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  • When I joined, five years ago, it was because I wanted an easy way to check on whether my journalism students were correctly spelling the names of classmates they were quoting in their news stories. To this day, that's pretty much my peak Facebook experience.
  • Founded by Zuckerberg and several other Harvard students in 2003, the site laboured for several years behind MySpace, the social-networking phenomenon of mid-decade
  • Indeed, Zuckerberg himself gave away the game back in January, telling a live audience that if he had it to do over again, he never would have allowed users to keep their information private.
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  • Anything is possible, and no one would bet against Facebook's one day giving way to something else. But the problem for those seeking an alternative is that, at the moment, there isn't a something else. Several years ago, all those MySpace users could switch to Facebook. But where would Facebook users go in 2010?
Miha Naprudnik

Controlling the web - Fault Lines - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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controlling web

shared by Miha Naprudnik on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, were meant to crack down on the illegal sharing of digital media. The bills were drafted on request of the content industry, Hollywood studios and major record labels. 
  • The US government says it must be able to fight against piracy and cyber attacks. And that means imposing more restrictions online. But proposed legislation could seriously curb freedom of speech and privacy, threatening the internet as we know it.
  • Can and should the internet be controlled? Who gets that power? How far will the US government go to gain power over the web? And will this mean the end of a free and global internet?
Jan Majdič

Leader: Social Networks | Comment is free | The Guardian - 0 views

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social networks networks

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  • The internet has always revolved around social networking, but the explosion of a fresh generation of communal sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook is taking the phenomenon into new and unchartered territory.
  • One of those applications called iLike - pigging-backing on Facebook's global network - has already attracted more than 6 million members, and is growing by 1 million every few days, making it one of the fastest growing companies of any kind ever
  • A new generation accustomed to instant networking, and unashamed about living more of their lives online, is bound to change the organisations they work for and maybe the way they are governed, or at least the way their governments communicate with them
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