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For Their Own Enjoyment

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:11:24 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: OMG! Haven't they realized their own cyber could be much more fun than reading other's?

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence analysts eavesdropped on personal calls between Americans overseas and their families back home and monitored the communications of workers with the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations, according to two military linguists involved in U.S. surveillance programs.

Describing the allegations as "extremely disturbing," Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said the panel had launched an inquiry and requested records from the Bush administration.

"I observed people writing down, word for word, very embarrassing conversations," Faulk told The Times. "People would say, 'Hey, check this out, you're not going to believe what I heard.' "

Indicting the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's private email - Harpers.org

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:59:29 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: The DOJ has mounted an extraordinary case against the hacker who revealed Sarah Palin's apparent systematic violation of the Open Records Act (by using a private email address to conduct government business). Given that the DOJ normally doesn't care much about cyber-crime, one has to wonder how the decision to allocate those resources was made.

Clip Source: harpers.org

Cyber crimes are rampant in America today. Frequently they involve theft of identity metrics used to tap the victim’s credit. As I reviewed in a recent piece for the BBC, however, the Department of Justice has allocated few resources to investigate these crimes except in very large scale and systematic cases—that is crimes in which there is a clear criminal purpose and a clear victim, and tens of millions at stake. Generally the Department has not acted in cases in which the result of the intrusion is merely to embarrass the target, for a fairly obvious reason. At best we’re only talking about a misdemeanor. The Palin email hacking case quite plainly falls into this category. So what is going on?

Tags: politics, presidential_campaign_2008, palin, internet, crime, law, news, opinion

Terence McKenna - Seeking the Stone Part 1

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:59:17 GMT

clipped by: Michael Black
clipper's remarks: The first part of a video of the seminar , in which Terence McKenna present his perspective on the idea of a spiritual path for all and an impending transformation of the human world . In his singularly lucid , prosaic style , McKenna presents profoundly compelling ideas that challenge our beliefs and encourage our participation in the creation of a new social reality. He champions the individual’s freedom of choice in deciding one’s own sexual and spiritual development and techniques. He highlights the role of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic societies and their impact on the evolution of human cultures. See why this cyber-techno-shaman is drawing freethinking crowds wherever he speaks and find out what role you may play in the unfolding of our “post-historical future” as we approach a major “concresence” in human history.

Clip Source: video.google.com

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Tags: seminar

Cyberbullying of Teens Common

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:35:21 GMT

clipped by: Kelika
clipper's remarks: "Why do so few teenagers tell their parents about being bullied online?

The most common reason for not telling an adult, cited by half the bullied participants, was that teens believe they "need to learn to deal with it." In addition, 31 percent reported that they do not tell because they are concerned their parents might restrict their Internet access. This concern was especially common among girls between the ages of 12 and 14, with 46 percent fearing restrictions, compared with 27 percent of boys in the same age group. One-third of 12-to-14-year-olds reported that they didn't tell an adult out of fear that they could get into trouble with their parents.

Many parents have little understanding of their children's Internet use."

"Of those participants who experienced bullying, 51 percent said the bullying was done by schoolmates, 43 percent said they were bullied by someone they knew only online and 20 percent said they were bullied by someone they knew, but who was not from s

Clip Source: www.newsroom.ucla.edu

Nearly three in four teenagers say they were bullied online at least once during a recent 12-month period, and only one in 10 reported such cyber-bullying to parents or other adults, according to a new study by UCLA psychologists.

Of those who were bullied online, 85 percent also have been bullied at school, the psychologists found. The probability of getting bullied online was substantially higher for those who have been the victims of school bullying.

Many teenagers do not realize how many of their peers are being bullied online and think cyber-bullying happens much more to them than to others, she said.

"When kids start thinking, 'It's just happening to me,' they likely blame themselves, and once they do that, it increases their risk of depression," Juvonen said. "Kids don't know how common cyber-bullying is, even among their best friends. Cyber-bulling is not a plight of a few problematic children but a shared experience."

Safe online? Or are you just saying that?

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:24:36 GMT

clipped by: douchrti
clipper's remarks: Why lie by telling a pollster youre safe behind a good AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, and Firewall program?
Is it worth having your ID stolen and your bank account emptied?
Get educated, and use what you learn.

Clip Source: www.eweek.com

Americans Confused as Ever over Cyber-security

The study shows little difference the percentage of Americans who had anti-spyware software installed (82 percent) and the percentage who said they had it installed (83 percent). Still, close to one-fifth of all users do not have adequate spyware defenses.

Tags: online safety, antivirus, antispyware, firewall

Its Cyber Security Awareness month!

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:05:25 GMT

clipped by: douchrti
clipper's remarks: And, there will be a quiz, so listen up.

Clip Source: www.educause.edu

Resource Kit for National Cyber Security Awareness Month

The purpose of cyber security awareness presentations is simply to focus attention on cyber security. Awareness presentations are intended to allow individuals to recognize information technology security concerns and respond accordingly.

Tags: cyber security, online safety, computer security

Hackers Planning To Steal Election For McCain

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:28:55 GMT

clipped by: paleblue

Clip Source: www.infowars.com

Cyber Security Expert: Hackers Planning To Steal Election For McCain

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10 Most Mysterious Cyber Crimes

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:33:05 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

The 10 Most Mysterious Cyber Crimes

These are 10 of the most infamous unsolved computer crimes (that we know about).

The WANK Worm (October 1989)

WANK (Worms Against Nuclear Killers) ran a banner (pictured) across system computers as part of a protest to stop the launch of the plutonium-fueled, Jupiter-bound Galileo probe.

Ministry of Defense Satellite Hacked (February 1999)

group of hackers traced to southern England gained control of a MoD Skynet military satellite

CD Universe Credit Card Breach (January 2000)

blackmail scheme gone wrong, the posting of over 300,000 credit card numbers by hacker Maxim on a Web site entitled

Military Source Code Stolen (December 2000)

a hacker broke into government-contracted Exigent Software Technology

Anti-DRM Hack (October 2001)

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

Dennis Kucinich on CBSNews.com (October 2003)

CBSNews.com homepage

replaced b

campaign's logo

Hacking Your MBA App (March 2006)

The 26,000 Site Hack Attack (Winter 2008)

Supermarket Security Breach (February 2008)

Comcast.net

Redirect

May 2008

Tags: cyber crimes, hackers, internet, websites

Did Sarah Palin Really Say She Wouldn't Hire Blacks?

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:45:31 GMT

clipped by: Spiritualmonkey

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

On April 29, 14 black leaders in Alaska, including prominent ministers, NAACP officials, and community activists, met with Palin to voice their complaint over minority hiring and job opportunities. During the meeting she allegedly said that she didn't have to hire any blacks. Even more damning, she purportedly said that she didn't intend to hire any.

Gwen Alexander, president of the African-American Historical Society of Alaska, initially reported Palin's quip. This charge is so racially incendiary that it sounded like yet another one of the legion of Palin urban legends that have fueled the cyber gossip mill from the moment Republican presidential contender John McCain put her on his ticket. The charge had to be confirmed or denied. If Governor Palin or any other public official flatly said that they had no intention to hire blacks, that would be politically unpardonable. And for a potential vice-president, it would and should be the kiss of death.

Tags: race, politics, bigotry, sarah-palin, alaska, quotes

Claude Steiner - emotional literacy, transactional analysis, warm fuzzies and more

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:48:13 GMT

clipped by: Lexica

Clip Source: www.claudesteiner.com

Claude Steiner's Emotional Literacy

Home Page

TransactionalAnalysis/EmotionalLiteracy/RadicalPsychiatry/Cyberpsychology/Strokes/WarmFuzzies/ AboutClaudeSteiner/AboutEricBerne/FreeDownloads/Ordering/Schedule/Spanish/WRITEME

PAGINA WEB EN ESPANOL

I am a clinical psychologist and transactional analyst. Since 1965 I have studied, written, taught and lectured about the importance that the emotions --especially love--have in our lives and our personal power.

I have developed a program for emotional literacy training (click here) using transactional analysis (click here) principles and methods.

Three Books to Read:

My work in emotional literacy and cyber-psychology is informed by former activism (1969-1978) in Radical Psychiatry, a socially aware psychology and social psychiatry in which the abuse of power and its antidote--loving cooperation--were central themes.

Central America politics, propaganda, and even the California psychologist oral exams are additional interests

Tags: psychology, development, children

Superstruct Begins

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:35:05 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: The human species has a long history of overcoming tremendous obstacles, often coming out stronger than before. Indeed, some anthropologists argue that human intelligence emerged as the consequence of the last major ice age, a period of enormous environmental stress demanding flexibility, foresight and creativity on the part of the small numbers of early Homo sapiens. Historically, those who have prophesied doom for human civilization have been proven wrong, time and again, by the capacity of our species to both adapt to and transform our conditions.

It is in this context that the Global Extinction Awareness System (GEAS) offers its forecast of the likely extinction of humankind within the next quarter-century.

Clip Source: ieet.org

Today is the “preview” launch for Superstruct, the massively-multiplayer forecasting game that Jamais Cascio has been working on with the Institute for the Future. All IEET folks will love it.

The game goes live on October 6, but there are already people out on the intertubes starting to do very cool stuff. For those of you who use Twitter, Jamais has started a Superstruct in-game feed @cascio2019. All signs are that this is going to be big.

Here’s the content that went live today.

Video reports on the five superthreats:

And ”The Final Threat”—the overview report from the Global Extinction Awareness System.

Clip Source: www.superstructgame.org

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Tags: gaming, future, cyber

Internet Addiction

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:45:25 GMT

clipped by: jimmy123

Clip Source: www.myaddiction.com

For a condition that some don’t believe even exists, internet addiction goes by many names—net compulsions, internet addiction disorder, compulsive surfing, web dependency—none of which holds any official status. In fact, the contrary is true, as no credible medical association has been willing to embrace the condition.

Either way, one might safely regard the term as a catch-all holding company of sorts; a folder with no true meaning of its own, but containing any number of files, or web-related activities which have, according to the scant documentation available, shown some capacity to cause problems in one’s life. One widely quoted estimate suggests that between 5-10% of people online are "web dependent."

Online activities included under the banner of this addiction may include:

Cyber Sex

Cyber pornography

Online Affairs

Multi-User Role Playing Online Games

Shopping (including auction sites like Ebay)

Online Gambling

Extensive surfing

Addiction Types

Tags: internet, addiction, rehab

WT? Hoaxcall.com???

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:03:37 GMT

clipped by: missmartini
clipper's remarks: Cyberbullying...

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Get your ready made controversy here, folks

A press release lands in our inbox: "Is Hoaxcall.com the Latest Form of Cyber-bullying?", it asks, pushing frantically at the big red controversy button implanted in every journalist's brain. Except this isn't a campaign against the website, but an ad for the website itself: it's just trolling by the site's creator, Marc Waesche, to try and generate some heat. Cynical? Of course, which is why we're pointing it out and not linking to it. Let's just hope there isn't a blogger or hack actually lazy enough to follow this up.

Tags: cyberbully, hoax, call, website, article, education

Sun May Be Galactic Hitchhiker

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:24:54 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: I knew Adams was right. We will be in the way of a cyber by-pass.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Astronomers have long believed that most stars are homebodies which stick close to their birthplaces. But a new simulation supports the suggestion that our sun might have once hitchhiked through the galaxy.

Where our sun or another star ends up migrating seems to depend on its position in a spinning spiral galaxy. Stars tagging along behind a massive spiral arm can get a gravitational speed boost that sends them into a bigger orbit around the galactic center. The stars leading in front of a spiral arm may end up getting slowed by the arm's gravitational pull and fall back into a smaller orbit.

"Our simulation is still like a toy model, but a step more complex than the ones observing migrations before," said Rok Roskar, an astronomer at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Previous simulations followed star migration in a preset galaxy. The new computer model goes back 9 billion years to track a galaxy's evolution from a giant cloud of gas.

Tags: astronomy, earth

Kids don't tell on cyber-bullies

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:03:17 GMT

clipped by: edtechnnorris
clipper's remarks: Parents' reaction to the news that their child is being cyberbullied is to take away their computer privileges.

Clip Source: www.nzherald.co.nz

Many young people keep quiet about online bullying for fear they will not be allowed to keep using computers, says a bullying expert.

But this approach merely punished the victim.

Clip Source: www.nzherald.co.nz

American psychologist and associate professor of early childhood education at the University of South Florida Ilene Berson said about 95 per cent of sex crimes in the United States were "non-forceable" - the young person knowing in advance the intention of a "real world" meeting with their abuser.