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Peter Ruwoldt

IT Conversations | Tools of Change Conference from O'Reilly Media | Scott Sigler - 0 views

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    People need to adapt and have business models that work with the new technologies.  This is an example. By the end of Scott Sigler's 20-episode podcast series, EARTHCORE, he had gained 10,000 followers. From there, he engaged the small publisher, Dragon Moon Press, to issue ANCESTOR. Its success on Amazon got the attention of Crown Publishing, which signed him for a five-book deal.
Peter Ruwoldt

Australian-Records - Background Check, People Search, Court Records, Mugshots,Public Re... - 0 views

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    This information includes address history, phone numbers, possible aliases, neighbors, a criminal and civil records check, marriage records and much more! You can start your background checks with a name, maiden name, address or Social Security number. We search billions of current utility company records, court records, county records, change of address records, property records, business records and a variety of other public records and publicly-available records to find information for each background check.
Peter Ruwoldt

Security in the information age - 0 views

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    Has article that looks at the major security risks posed to organisations by ICT. Most of these are framed in terms of risks to private businesses
Peter Ruwoldt

Business & Technology | UW team researches a future filled with RFID chips | Seattle Ti... - 0 views

  • The project is meant to explore both positive and negative aspects of a world saturated with technology that can monitor people and objects remotely. "What we want to understand," Borriello said, "is what makes it useful, what makes it threatening and how to balance the two."
  • Our objective is to create a future world where RFID is everywhere and figure out problems we'll run into before we get there,
  • For more than a year, a dozen researchers have carried around RFID tags equipped with tiny computer chips that store an identification number unique to each tag. Researchers installed about 200 antennas throughout the computer-science building that pick up any tag near them every second.
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  • The system can show when people leave the office, when they return, how often they take breaks, where they go and who's meeting with whom,
  • if people don't see the tags, it's easy to forget they are giving out information whenever they come within range of a reader.
  • how to make the technology useful while protecting privacy
  • The system is transparent, so each can tell if the other has checked his whereabouts.
  • Users can search the calendar to jog their memories about when they last saw someone or how, where and with whom they spent their time.
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      I can see these things being useful. Like the idea of transparency
  • have been designed to divulge more information than necessary, opening the door to security and privacy problems
  • There's no reason to have remotely readable technology in a driver's license," Borriello said. He recommends a system that requires contact with the surface of a reader, so the license-holder knows when information on his license is being read.
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      Ethical issues to choose the right technology for the problem. Good point
  • data from radio tags can be pieced together to offer a detailed profile of a person's habits without his or her knowledge.
  • People don't understand the implications of information they're giving out," Borriello said. "They can be linked together to paint a picture, one you didn't think you were painting."
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      Critical for people to be street smart. Important role for schools
  • Last year, the number of police requests for information from London's RFID-based transit card rose from four per month to 100
  • It's important to understand what the technology can do and we, collectively, have to decide what we're going to use it for
  • As soon as it becomes widely used, then it's more attractive and people start attacking it," showing its vulnerabilities, Borriello said. The trouble is "by that time, it's hard to change.
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      Good that someone is being proactive about this.
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    The project is meant to explore both positive and negative aspects of a world saturated with technology that can monitor people and objects remotely. "What we want to understand," Borriello said, "is what makes it useful, what makes it threatening and how to balance the two."
Peter Ruwoldt

Honda Acura Database Hacked - 0 views

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    The Japanese motor company, Honda, today issued an alert to U.S. customers concerning a security breach resulting from a hacked database. The database that was managed by a third-party marketing group contained confidential information, including names of car owners, personal e-mail addresses, and even Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN).
Peter Ruwoldt

Mark Pesce's answer to Will this century see the end of privacy as we know it? - Quora - 0 views

  • Five hundred years ago we didn't have this kind of privacy - everyone in the village/tribe knew all of our business
  • Now that we can each keep an eye on the city the same way we kept our eyes on the village/tribe, we may be 'retribalizing' (McLuhan predicted this) into an urban form which isn't very private at all.
Peter Ruwoldt

HTML5 Could Be the OS Killer - Business Center - PC World - 0 views

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    Its focus on running applications within the browser is an important driver of interest in cloud computing, where applications live somewhere off on the Internet and are delivered by the browser. The focus of future browsers will shift from "going places" to "doing things." This will be a boon to free operating systems, which will increasingly be able to hide themselves under the browser user interface. While Windows and Mac OSX won't go away overnight, the pressure on them will be to innovate beyond the browser, perhaps through a common set of extensions for HTML5 applications to use.
seth kutcher

Top Online PC Repair Service - 1 views

I consider my computer as my best friend because it is through it that I make a living. I have an online business and in order for me to monitor my sales, I need to stay in front of my PC for more ...

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