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Cloud computing is a computing model that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. It enables convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of computing resources, which may include networks, servers, storage or software applications.

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Predictions about the appeal of cloud computing were on the money. We increasingly share, communicate, socialize and entertain ourselves with software and media on remote servers rather than on our own computers. But a big catch prevents more of us from investing much time or money in ephemeral digital media or constantly-changing online services: It can be difficult, if not impossible, to grab your stuff and split.

Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old wunderkind who co-authored the RSS specification at age 14 and sold his stake in Reddit to Condé Nast (which also owns Ars Technica) before his 20th birthday, was arrested Tuesday on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, "unlawfully obtaining information from," and "recklessly damaging" a "protected computer." He is accused of downloading 4.8 million documents from the academic archive JSTOR, in violation of its terms of use, and of evading MIT's efforts to stop him from doing so.

USA federal cloud computing infrastructure FAQ

Nasa is open sourcing parts of their software on an official platform. Way to go for Austrian Federal Computing Center www.brz.gv.at ?

Microsoft plans to launch a cloud-computing product specifically for the federal government, to be housed in a dedciated facility for the highest level of security.

Cloud computing und konkrete Maßnahmen zur Malmö-Deklaration werden gefordert. Eine Frechheit ist aber (auf der Zunge zergehen lassen!) "Safeguard the openness of the internet through implementing and monitoring of the new EU electronic communications rules on network provision." Fazit: Abgeschmackter Einheitsbrei ohne innovatives Potential; die bestehenden FP7 ICT PSP Programme werden in folgsamer Weise thematisch am Leben erhalten

Zum 3. Netzdialog des Bundesinnenministers am 11.05.2010 mit dem Thema "staatliche Angebote im Internet" wurden 15 TeilnehmerInnen eingeladen, darunter 3, die die Community vertreten: Constanze Kurz (Chaos Computer Club), Markus Beckedahl (Open Data Network) und Anke Domscheit (Government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland). Die übrigen Teilnehmer kommen aus der Verwaltung, Wissenschaft oder vertreten die Industrie (ITK Verband bitkom, Verband der Versicherungswirtschaft).

On July 29th, returning from a trip to Europe, Jacob Appelbaum, a lanky, unassuming 27-year-old wearing a black T-shirt with the slogan "Be the trouble you want to see in the world," was detained at customs by a posse of federal agents. In an interrogation room at Newark Liberty airport, he was grilled about his role in Wikileaks, the whistle-blower group that has exposed the government's most closely guarded intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan. The agents photocopied his receipts, seized three of his cellphones - he owns more than a dozen - and confiscated his computer. They informed him that he was under government surveillance. They questioned him about the trove of 91,000 classified military documents that Wikileaks had released the week before, a leak that Vietnam-era activist Daniel Ellsberg called "the largest unauthorized disclosure since the Pentagon Papers." They demanded to know where Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, was hiding. They pressed him on his opinions about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Appelbaum refused to answer. Finally, after three hours, he was released. Sex, Drugs, and the Biggest Cybercrime of All Time Appelbaum is the only known American member of Wikileaks and the leading evangelist for the software program that helped make the leak possible. In a sense, he's a bizarro version of Mark Zuckerberg: If Facebook's ambition is to "make the world more open and connected," Appelbaum has dedicated his life to fighting for anonymity and privacy. An anarchist street kid raised by a heroin- addict father, he dropped out of high school, taught himself the intricacies of code and developed a healthy paranoia along the way. "I don't want to live in a world where everyone is watched all the time," he says. "I want to be left alone as much as possible. I don't want a data trail to tell a story that isn't true." We have transferred our most intimate and personal information - our bank accounts, e-mails, photographs, ph

"Or consider what American computer specialists are doing on the Internet, perhaps terrorist leaders' greatest safe haven, where they recruit, raise money, and plot future attacks on a global scale. American specialists have become especially proficient at forging the onscreen cyber-trademarks used by Al Qaeda to certify its Web statements, and are posting confusing and contradictory orders, some so virulent that young Muslims dabbling in jihadist philosophy, but on the fence about it, might be driven away."

Within a few weeks of 9/11, Poindexter was stationed at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon's research arm, and given the funds to develop a program he had been thinking about ever since he went to the Reagan White House 20 years earlier to modernize its technology. Total Information Awareness (TIA), whose logo featured a pyramid with an all-seeing eye, would use powerful computers to search all electronic data compiled about everyone, everywhere to hunt for hidden patterns that could indicate terrorist activity. 

Ist Facebook ein Religionsersatz? Was können wir von Google lernen? Wie überstehen wir erfolgreich die mediale Überforderung? Ein Interview mit dem Soziologen Dirk Baecker. "Ihre These lautet, dass der Computer das Verbreitungsmedium der „nächsten Gesellschaft" sei, an deren Schwelle wir uns gerade befänden. Was wird diese nächste Gesellschaft kennzeichnen?"