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DHS seeks intelligence on "domestic threats" from Twitter traffic

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Xeni Jardin - Nov. 01 (News) - Popular uprisings in the Mideast and North Africa, and now, Occupy Wall street: all examples of popular unrest powered in part by Twitter and other online social networks. In response, the U.S. government is reported to now be developing guidelines for culling intel from social media, according to a Homeland Security official.

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Energy policy is leaving the middle class behind

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Congresswoman reported shot in Arizona, was on Palin's infamous "target" map

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Boing Boing - Jan. 08 (Opinion) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was among the estimated 15 or more victims of a shooting outside a Safeway store in Tucson, Arizona within the past hour. So far, 15 are reported wounded, 6 dead. Details are still coming in, but what has been r

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TSA security groping leaves 61-year-old bladder cancer survivor soaked in own urine - Boing Boing

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

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Iranian nuclear facilities under "massive attack" by Stuxnet worm

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Xeni Jardin - Sep. 26 (News) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inspects centrifuges at a uranium enrichment plant. The Iranian government agency that oversees the country's nuclear facilities reported today that engineers are attempting to defend against "Stuxnet," a Windows-specific worm attacking industrial plants throughout the nation. The malware seeks out industrial systems made by Siemens. It has also been spotted in other countries, but Iran appears to be most heavily impacted country, by far. Affected nuclear sites in Iran include those the US believes are part of a nuclear weapons program. But the announcement raised suspicions, and new questions, about the origins and target of the worm, Stuxnet, which computer experts say is a far cry from common computer malware that has affected the Internet for years. A worm is a self-replicating malware computer program. A virus is malware that infects its target by attaching itself to programs or documents. Stuxnet, which was first publicly identified several months ago, is aimed solely at industrial equipment made by Siemens that controls oil pipelines, electric utilities, nuclear facilities and other large industrial sites. While it is not clear that Iran was the main target -- the infection has also been reported in Indonesia, Pakistan, India and elsewhere -- a disproportionate number of computers inside Iran appear to have been struck, according to reports by computer security monitors. More: New York Times, BBC, NYT Bits Blog, Al Jazeera. Stuxnet was discovered this June and has been the topic of discussion in security circles since; a Symantec advisory is here. Symantec plans to release more technical analysis of Stuxnet in a paper to be released at the Virus Bulletin Conference on September 29th. Not a word about this on the English-language website for Iran's official news agency, not yet anyway.

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Latest leaked draft of secret copyright treaty: US trying to cram DRM rules down the world's throats

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Cory Doctorow - Sep. 06 (Opinion) - Michael Geist writes in with the latest news on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the secret, closed-door copyright treaty that will bring US-style copyright rules (and worse) to the whole world. Particularly disturbing is the growing support for "three-strikes" copyright rules that would disconnect whole families from the Internet if one member of the household was accused (without proof) of copyright infringement.

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Is the web really dead?

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Rob Beschizza - Aug. 17 (Review) - Without commenting on the article's argument, I nonetheless found this graph immediately suspect, because it doesn't account for the increase in internet traffic over the same period. The use of proportion of the total as the vertical axis instead of the actual total is a interesting editorial choice.

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The $2 billion error

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Steampunk Ghostbusters tribute: "Whom Shall You Telegram?"

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:20:00 -0700

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Apple iPhone 4: Hands-on review

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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FCC hands Hollywood the keys to your PC, home theater and future

Sat, 08 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Cory Doctorow - May. 08 (Opinion) - The FCC has given Hollywood permission to activate the "Selective Output Control" technologies in your set-top box. These are hidden flags that allow the MPAA to deactivate parts of your home theater depending on what you're watching. And it sucks. As Dan Gillmor notes, "Fans of old TV science fiction will remember the Outer Limits. Given Hollywood's victory today at the FCC -- they'll be able to reach over the lines and disable functions on your TV -- the intro to the show takes on modern relevance."

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Refined carbs are bad for the heart, not fat

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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The "fair use economy" is enormous, growing, and endangered by the relatively tiny entertainment industry

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Chimerical Avatars and Other Identity Experiments from Prof. Fox Harrell

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Volcano science update: Two surprising reasons to go boom

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Shirky: What "people must pay for content" really means - Boing Boing

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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World's biggest scrap-metal sculpture is a steampunk wonderland

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Cory Doctorow - Apr. 03 (Opinion) - If you want to live in the creative universe where anyone with a cool idea can make it and give it to you to run on your hardware, the iPad isn't for you.If you want to write code for a platform where the only thing that determines whether you're going to succeed with it is whether your audience loves it, the iPad isn't for you.

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Peter Watts may serve two years for failing to promptly obey a customs officer

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Cory Doctorow - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - David Nickle, a mutual friend who worked with Peter on his defense, has a very good post on the subject, including a quote from one of the jurors: The job of the jury was to decide whether Mr. Watts "obstructed/resisted" the custom officials. Assault was not one of the charges. What it boiled down to was Mr. Watts did not follow the instructions of the customs agents. Period. He was not violent, he was not intimidating, he was not stopping them from searching his car. He did, however, refuse to follow the commands by his non compliance. He?s not a bad man by any stretch of the imagination. The customs agents escalted the situation with sarcasm and miscommunication. Unfortunately, we were not asked to convict those agents with a crime, although, ...

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Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting down

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:25:56 -0700

Boing Boing - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - FTA: Picture an entire city, a modern, wealthy place, in the richest country in the world, in which the vital services provided by libraries are withdrawn due to political brinksmanship and an unwillingness to spare one banker's bonus worth of tax-dollars to sustain an entire region's connection with human culture and knowledge and community.

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Tibet's uprising and the internet

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Xeni - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - Tibetans and their supporters around the world held vigils this week in support of the ongoing uprising in Tibet, as Chinese military and police jailed protesters inside Tibet, and reports of injuries and deaths continue.

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Sicko inspires grassroots action in Dallas cinema

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:06:31 -0700

Boing Boing - By Cory Doctorow - Jul. 05 (Opinion) - Here's a first-hand account of a trip to see Michael Moore's Sicko in a suburban mall in Dallas, in which the audience of conservative cowboys were converted to health-care activists

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Technorati State of the Blogosphere, Q3 2006

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:28:06 -0800

Boing Boing - By Cory Doctorow - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days. * About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day, again down slightly quarter-over-quarter but probably due in part to spam fighting efforts.

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