Privacy will not exist in 10 years, Pew survey of tech experts says
By End the Lie
[Dec 21, 2014]
(Image credit: Yuri Samoilov/Flickr)
A Pew Research Center survey of over 2,500 technology industry professionals and experts found that over half believe there will not be a “secure, popularly accepted and trusted privacy-rights infrastructure” in place in 10 years.
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The “Future of Privacy” survey found that 55 percent of the 2,511 experts polled do not agree that there will be a system in place allowing people to decide how their information will be shared while also letting companies make money, according to Top Tech News.
This comes as some have claimed that privacy is dead and has been for quite a while. Others are claiming that the public should just accept the lack of privacy as the new norm.
One executive at a top-level domain name operator, who spoke anonymously, reflected that perspective.
“Big data equals big business,” the anonymous executive said to Pew. “Those special interests will continue to block any effective public policy work to ensure security, liberty and privacy online.”
While that may be the case for the United States, some European countries are taking a stand for online privacy and the rights of consumers to control how their personal information is used.
The Netherlands, for instance, recently threatened Google with massive fines if the tech giant does not change their privacy policy to comply with their consumer protection laws.
Another expert said that the very concept of privacy will evolve so much over the next decade that it will be all but unrecognizable compared to the meaning it has today.
“Society’s definitions of ‘privacy’ and ‘freedom’ will have changed so much by 2025 that today’s meanings will no longer apply,” Nick Arnett, a business intelligence expert, said.
The notion of ubiquitous surveillance also came up in the Pew research. Today’s technology has allowed for mass surveillance that was previously unimaginable and experts say this problem will only get worse.
“I do not think 10 years is long enough for policy makers to change the way they make policy to keep up with the rate of technological progress,” said John Wilbanks, chief commons officer for Sage Bionetworks. “We have never had ubiquitous surveillance before, much less a form of ubiquitous surveillance that emerges primarily from voluntary (if market-obscured) choices. Predicting how it shakes out is just fantasy.”
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Revealed: Hacker Who Took Down Sony Playstation and Xbox Shows His Face: “This attack was basically done by three people”
by Mac Slavo
The Daily Sheeple
Dec 27, 2014
(Lizard Squad hacker “Ryan” reveals his face in a Skynews interview)
It’s not clear whether it was intentional or not, but a hacker operating for the Lizard Squad hacking group responsible for taking down the Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox networks has revealed his face in an interview with Skynews.
The man who goes by the name “Ryan” says that it only took three people to incapacitate the gamer networks for the world’s two largest gaming companies.
“This attack was basically done by three people. We had a couple of people from outside the group helping with the attacks, helping us a little bit, but most of the traffic was coming from one or two people.”
Ryan says that the trio decided to launch devastating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks simply to amuse themselves. The group later added via their Twitter page that they wanted to highlight vulnerabilities in networks that collect millions of monthly subscriber fees and choose not to upgrade their security.
Yesterday, Kim Dot Com, founder of the MegaUpload file sharing site, offered to pay the Lizard Squad group with 3,000 vouchers valued at around $300,000 USD if they would cease the attacks, an offer that they reportedly accepted. Within 12 hours of that deal being made the attack reportedly stopped.
Microsoft Xbox users say that their network status has been restored but many Playstation owners report that their network is still down.
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(Lizard Squad hacker “Ryan” reveals his face in a Skynews interview)
It’s not clear whether it was intentional or not, but a hacker operating for the Lizard Squad hacking group responsible for taking down the Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox networks has revealed his face in an interview with Skynews.
The man who goes by the name “Ryan” says that it only took three people to incapacitate the gamer networks for the world’s two largest gaming companies.
“This attack was basically done by three people. We had a couple of people from outside the group helping with the attacks, helping us a little bit, but most of the traffic was coming from one or two people.”
(Lizard Squad hacker “Ryan” reveals his face in a Skynews interview)
It’s not clear whether it was intentional or not, but a hacker operating for the Lizard Squad hacking group responsible for taking down the Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox networks has revealed his face in an interview with Skynews.
The man who goes by the name “Ryan” says that it only took three people to incapacitate the gamer networks for the world’s two largest gaming companies.
“This attack was basically done by three people. We had a couple of people from outside the group helping with the attacks, helping us a little bit, but most of the traffic was coming from one or two people.”
MUST LISTEN — “The Zionist-CIA Assault on Body and Mind” – Joshua Blakeney interviews Jan Irvin
Gnostic Media
Dec 9, 2014
The Zionist-CIA Assault on Body and Mind
By Joshua Blakeney
For this episode of The Real Deal I interviewed the illustrious Jan Irvin of Gnostic Media. He is the first intellectual I have interviewed twice since I began recording episodes of The Real Deal in November 2013. The scope and depth of Jan’s analysis will reveal why.
The main focus of the interview was to be Jan’s newly published article entitled “Entheogens: What’s in a Name? The Untold History of Psychedelic Spirituality, Social Control, and the CIA”. However we broached multiple subjects including:
- The CIA and Zionist genesis of the MKULTRA program
- The CIA and Zionist involvement in the Psychedelic Movement
- The roles of Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, R. Gordon Wasson, Edward Bernays et al. in the creation and popularization of psychotomimetic drugs
- The public relations efforts aimed at normalizing brain damaging drugs
- Dysgenics, eugenics and the destabilization of Western society
- The Soviet Union’s gulag (overt control) versus the capitalist West’s psychological warfare (covert control)
- The promotion of cultural, moral and epistemic relativism as a means of obscuring social and political reality
- The Frankfurt School of Social Research & Zionist racism
- The health implications of eating wheat, not drinking raw milk and adopting low fat diets
- Feminism and the destruction of the family
Part One: download here
Part Two: download here
Part Three: download here
Part Four: download here
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Joy Camp
Sept 26, 2014
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Having trouble fitting into the default world? The good news is there is no default world. Follow these simple steps to bring the magic of Burning Man back home: Watch the sunset, wear a dress, express yourself, play with your balls, go for a hike, connect with your neighbors, and share with others.
The ‘Selfie’ Obsession: A Chronic, Narcissistic Mental Disorder
21st Century Wire asks…
[Dec 13, 2014]
Does this picture make you uncomfortable?
President Obama and VP Biden: Was it just horse play, insecurity, or do they have compulsive narcissist tendencies?
Well, it should. As a member of the voting public, it should make you feel more than awkward seeing your top two chief executives engrossed in one of the most banal contemporary pastimes ever – taking a ‘Selfie’ [noun. a picture taken of a person, by that person].
One also must consider the very real possibility that these two men might be suffering from one of many mental conditions, including Body Dysmorphic Disorder, that are afflicting millions of smart phone users worldwide…
‘Gym Selfies’ are now some of the most popular forms of digital exhibitionism.
Everyone is taking selfies now. Should we really be worried about this trend, or is it just a case of people being empowered on a microblogging platform like Twitter, or Instagram? Writer Donna Highfill explains, “I have run into at least 10 people recently who have stopped on fast-moving, heavily-populated sidewalks to take a #selfie. There is no historical building behind them, no beautiful landscape, no real reason to take a picture of themselves other than the fact that they can reverse the camera on the phone, gaze at their own visage, and then share it on social media so the rest of the world can gaze upon it as well.”
“If smartphones were ponds, a large portion of our population would have already drowned.”
No one is immune. Even celebrities who you’d think are already getting enough face time are still drawn to the cheap narcissistic released provided by the selfie.
Yesterday, the digital oligarchs at Twitter declared 2014 as the ‘Year of the Selfie‘. According to executives there, the most popular, the most retweeted, ‘tweet’ of the year was by comedian Ellen DeGeneres at the Oscar awards last March – with her celebrity ‘friends’, including Bradley Cooper, Meryl Streep, and Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt. Her Tweet was ‘favorited’ over 2 million times and retweeted 3.3 million times.
ICON & SAD: There’s something uncomfortable about watching celebrities grovel for a Tweet (Image Source: First Post)
It later turned out that DeGeneres’s spontaneous selfie was just another corporate money-making scam, as was confirmed by the Wall Street Journal. Samsung executives even had to teach Degeneres how to use the Galaxy Note 3 device before the Oscars.
No occasion is sacred either, including somber events like funerals (see photo of Obama, Cameron and Danish PM further down article). Obama’s funeral gaffe went on to inspire other more macabre copycat selfies…
(Image Source: Manila Speak)
From a pop psychology perspective, the textbook definition of narcissism is fairly harmless, described as, “extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one’s own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type.” From a psychoanalysis point of view, it’s much more critical: “self-centeredness arising from failure to distinguish the self from external objects, either in very young babies or as a feature of mental disorder.”
Experts are now finding through new clinical studies, that this existing narcissistic mental disorder is now being further exacerbated by the introduction of hand-held technology and the ability to upload an image to a ready-made crowd of voyeurs in a matter of seconds.
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