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Saturday, February 4, 2017

#Cyberculture agenda: “The Cyborg Bill of Rights v1.0”

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The Cyborg Bill of Rights v1.0
 

In anticipation of the battle for the body, we can envision a conflict among competing interests in property located within a person’s body and likely connected to externally controlled resources for storage, logging, and monitoring–for instance, a medical device–and we can imagine that someone’s body may contain more than one such synthetic organ, life sustaining system, or other supportive technology–all of which having different owners with different interests and claims on a person’s innards.

 

For almost three weeks, Dong Kim sat at a casino and played poker against a machine. But Kim wasn’t just any poker player. And this wasn’t just any machine.

How to keep your secret activist Twitter account a secret

 

Despite his widely read criticism of Tor, The Gruqq — a legendary, pseudonymous security expert — uses it as first and last line of defense in keeping your secret, activist Twitter account a secret.

 
The ACLU, in an average year, fundraises around $4 million. After stridently opposing Trump’s unconstitutional immigration ban last weekend, the civil liberties watchdog was rewarded by the American public with a windfall of donations totalling $24 m
 

Eric Schmidt — long-serving former CEO of Google, current chairman of Google parent-company Alphabet, who knows a thing or two about evil — addressed Googlers this week, calling the Trump #muslimban “evil.”

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Friday, January 20, 2017

#Cyberculture agenda: “Botting Politics”..”‘Pokémon Go’ highlights efforts to solve the world’s biggest problems at Davos…

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People attending the world’s largest meeting of political and business leaders may meet some unexpected, lovable creatures this year — and for a good cause
Botting Politics
 

During the 2012 US Presidential election, the Romney campaign was accused of buying fake Twitter followers from a bot network after he gained a whopping ~150,000 new followers in one day.  Romney’s following jumped 17% in one day, providing him with a significant bump in the general perception of his grassroots popularity and support for a paltry ~$2,700 ($18 per thousand followers).

Russia Allows Edward Snowden to Remain Through 2020

 

Edward Snowden’s exile in Russia looks set to continue after authorities in the country reportedly signed off on a new three-year visa for the former National Security Agency contractor.

 

Using an open platform like Android means you have to be willing to take the good with the bad. Without stirring up an annoying Android vs iOS debate, it’s a fact that Android plays host to more malware than iOS due, in part, to its open ecosystem.

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