NY Times Article Prompts Policy Change at Microsoft
Microsoft has announced significant policy changes following the publication of astory in the New York Times linking Microsoft to the shuttering of advocacy groups & opposition newspapers in Russia.
View ArticleStuxnet “Cyber-weapon” Targets Iranian Nuclean Plant
Image Credit: Symantec Computers in Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor are among the 30,000 Iranian computers infected by the sophisticated “Stuxnet” worm, according to the IRNA news agency. Iranian...
View Article“Great Firewall” Architect Driven Offline
If anyone had any doubt about how Chinese Internet users feel about their web censorship… Thursday, December 23, 2010 The architect of the vast internet censorship system known as the...
View ArticleNY Times: Vast Hacking by a China Fearful of the Web
” As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing one reason top Chinese...
View ArticleNY Times: Haiti Interactive
NY Times has a fantastic interactive feature on Haiti for the 1-year anniversary of the earthquake that wrecked Port-au-Prince and its surroundings this time last year. The NYT team stitched together...
View ArticleiOS4 Location Tracking
British researchers announced that Apple’s iPhone has been secretly storing information that tracks the location history of the phone. The file is unencrypted and contains extensive GPS and wireless...
View ArticleGitmo Files
Wikileaks, the whistleblower site that the US gov’t loves to hate, has just released the first in it’s latest batch of classified US documents – the Gitmo Files. Wikileaks released...
View ArticleWSJ Launches ‘SafeHouse’
The Wall Street Journal yesterday announced the launch of ‘SafeHouse‘ their proprietary, in-house document submission portal, modelled after Wikileaks, it would appear. WSJ offers the following...
View ArticleICANN & the Naming of the Internet
ICANN’s recent decision to open up the rules governing Internet domain names garnered it quite a bit of media attention in the last week or so. Since there has...
View ArticleNew Home!!!
Finally got around to moving off of wordpress.com & onto a proper hosted server where I can run whatever scripts I need to. The ICANN post runs in-site now, just...
View ArticleVoice of the Vulnerable Challenge Winner
This was the winning entry to the the Voice of the Vulnerable Challenge, a project organized by UN Global Pulse in partnership with Visualizing.org that was looking foor unique...
View ArticleJMSC iPhone App Out Now!
The iPhone RSS app that I put together for the Journalism and Media Studies Center at HKU (my alma mater) is finally available in the iTunes Store. The app pulls...
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