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.”
PODCAST — Interview 880 – Ryan Grant Explains Distributism
The Corbett Report
05/08/2014
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Today on the program we explore the philosophy of distributism and its attempt to create a decentralized economy based on the widespread distribution of private property. Joining us to help explore this topic is Ryan Grant, contributing editor of The Distributist Review.
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Blockchain.info Security Update Results in Stolen Bitcoins
by Giulio Prisco
CryptoCoinsNews
Dec 8, 2014
The security of the popular Bitcoin wallet Blockchain.info has been often addressed in the news recently. Hundreds of bitcoins have been lost during this Blockchain.info update.
For example, there have been several reports of users losing their funds after using Blockchain.info through the Tor network. In response, the company temporarily blocked all Tor exit nodes, and then started using HSTS as well as providing a dedicated Tor onion address to its Tor population. Blockchain.info was the second company in the world, after Facebook, to receive an SSL certificate for their .onion address.
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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.”
5 injured in Christmas Day arson attack on Swedish mosque
RT News
Published time: December 25, 2014 19:07
Edited time: December 25, 2014 21:16
Firemen work as smoke billows from the windows of a mosque in Eskilstuna December 25, 2014 (Reuters / Pontus Stenberg)
An arsonist has set a mosque ablaze in the southeastern Swedish town of Eskilstuna. The Christmas Day attack comes amidst heightened anti-immigration sentiment in the country.
Up to 20 people, including children, were in the mosque at the time of the attack, which occurred in a residential area of the medium-sized town on Thursday.
Sweden: A basement used as a mosque was set alight and 5 people have been hurt by the blaze. http://t.co/iybWygpea5 pic.twitter.com/x0BcygsdBX
— Anonymous Operations (@AnonOpsSE) December 25, 2014
The ”Shape-Shifting Sheik” and the ”Sydney Siege”
by Tony Cartalucci
Activist Post
Dec 16, 2014
Suspect had multiple aliases, granted political asylum by Australian government, interviewed by Australian media, spent years as fake pro-Western “Shia’a cleric” condemning Iran and Syria before recently “converting” to Sunni and supporting ISIS.
Another embarrassing chapter has unfolded for Western intelligence and security communities in the wake of the so-called “Sydney Siege.” The suspect named by the media as “Man Haron Monis” also has gone by the names “Manteghi Boroujerdi” and “Mohammad Hassan Manteghi” and was an individual now confirmed to have long been on the radar of the Australian government, media, law enforcement, and court system since his arrival on Australian shores almost two decades ago.
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| Image: Anti-Western ISIS Wahabi terrorist, pro-Western “liberal” Shia’a cleric, and secular common man. As with any long-time actor, the “Sydney Siege” suspect has been cast for many diverse roles, with many different names, and an extensive wardrobe. He had played both the hero and the villain. It is beyond bizarre that he has remained in the spotlight across Australia’s political stage for nearly two-decades with a growing criminal record, increasingly disturbing and disruptive behavior, and yet somehow “eluded” Australia’s indiscriminate and all-invasive surveillance network and multiple terror sweeps made just in the past several months. It appears that this “shape-shifting sheik” played a central role in manipulating the Australian public at integral junctures of the West’s “War on Terror.” |
Claiming he was a “lone wolf” attacker whose violence and extremism could not have been foreseen is betrayed by an extensive criminal record including murder, preceded by the suspicious circumstances that brought him to Australia to begin with.
He fled Iran in 1996 for unknown reasons, claiming in a 2001 Australian ABC interview that he was formerly of Iran’s “Ministry of Intelligence and Security.” He claimed in the same interview to have been in contact with the UN about “secret information” he had regarding the Iranian government.
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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