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Thursday, January 5, 2017

#Cyberculture – Strange times: “Donald Trump backs Julian Assange over Russia hacking claim

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Donald Trump backs Julian Assange over Russia hacking claim

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

President-elect Donald Trump backs Wikileaks founder over alleged Russian meddling in the US election.

The Future Of Encryption

Digital Tonto by Greg Satell

The new era of quantum encryption is coming sooner than you think. If you want to protect your business, the time to start is now. Related posts: Can Encryption Keep Our Information Safe? The…

Feminist cybersecurity 101

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

The DIY Feminist Guide to Cybersecurity, available in Spanish and English, is designed to be a quickstart for “gendered, racialized, queerphobic, transphobic, ableist, and classist” threats to digital autonomy, created because “companies and developers frequently ignore or underestimate the digital threats to these spaces and their users.”

Algorithms: the villains and heroes of the ‘post-truth’ era

open Democracy News Analysis – by David Beer

We often focus on the negative or positive impacts of algorithms. But is this a distraction from how power is actually deployed through them?

‘Fake news’ sites. Raphael Satter/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Over the last few months, discussion of ‘post-truth’ has been everywhere. Questions about the status of truth and fact in political debate have acquired a pre-eminence in commentaries on the complex political developments of 2016. These stories vary, but they share an understandable concern with the consequences of a misinformed electorate. Which, of course, are far-reaching.

The Biggest Security Threats Coming in 2017

Wired Top Stories by Wired Staff

This year was a busy one for security and hackers. We expect more of the same in 2017, with a few new twists.

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What did we expect? “Turkey’s coup commission wraps up work with little outcome

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Turkey’s coup commission wraps up work with little outcome

Parliament’s coup investigation commission, set up to probe Turkey’s failed July 15, 2016 military takeover bid, wrapped up its work on Jan. 4, amid opposition criticism that the commission was ineffective and left many details of the coup attempt in the dark

Turkish deputy PM: Emergency rule extended to purge Gülenists

EurActiv.com

Turkey’s parliament voted overnight to extend emergency rule by three months in a move which the government said was needed to sustain a purge of supporters of the US-based Muslim cleric accused of directing July’s coup, state media said on Wednesday (4 January)

The Guardian view on Turkey: multiple traumas, immense courage | Editorial

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk

Despite the pressures there remains a vivid civil society in Turkey, aspiring to democracy, openness and tolerance. It deserves our supportThe massacre of 39 people in a New Year attack on Istanbul’s Reina nightclub, which Islamic State has claimed responsibility for, has plunged Turkey into new depths of grief and anxiety. It turned a festive night into a bloodbath, with dancers and partygoers felled by automatic rifle fire, echoing the November 2015 Bataclan attack in Paris. The world should express its solidarity with the victims as staunchly and vocally as it did with France’s.

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Eurosphere agenda: 20 more refugees die today in the Aegean sea…#RefugeeCrisis

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20 refugees die in separate disasters on Aegean

The bodies of at least 20 refugees who were attempting to cross to Greece have washed up in the Aegean districts of Ayvalık and Dikili after two boats overturned in stormy weather, amid fears that the death toll could rise

A 2-year-old boy is the first refugee to drown in 2016

Mashable! by Megan Specia

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The first refugee to drown in 2016 is a 2-year-old boy who was trying to cross into Europe from Turkey. The child was on a boat with 39 other refugees when it slammed onto the jagged rocks of a small Greek island on Saturday

Poland’s government clashes with EU over media control

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Poland’s ruling party set to control public TV

The cracks begin to show: a review of the UK economy in 2015 (part two)

open Democracy News Analysis – by Özlem Onaran, Andrew Simms, Jeremy Smith, Richard Murphy, Ann Pettifor and John Weeks

Thus, the ultra-flexible UK labour market (“with employers in the driving seat”, in the government’s own charming words) – to be enhanced by the repressive new Trade Union Act – has had the effect of causing productivity to fall. Read part one here.

Read part one here.

2015: Growth based on shaky foundations without a healthy recovery in wages

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The cracks begin to show: a review of the UK economy in 2015 (part one)

open Democracy News Analysis – by Özlem Onaran, Andrew Simms, Jeremy Smith, Richard Murphy, Ann Pettifor and John Weeks

On the first day of 2016 trading the FTSE 500 index nosedived. This surprised perennially optimistic business commentators, but will not surprise those who read the EREP review of the UK economy in 2015. Read part two here.

The year 2015 has repeatedly disappointed those who had high expectations that the UK economy was back to “normal times” and destined to see significant continued economic “growth.” At the start of the year, there was a general expectation that inflation would start to rise after the sudden fall in oil prices, and that the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee would start, gently, the process of raising interest rates as “slack” in the economy disappeared.

Dutch EU presidency under pressure over migration

EurActiv.com

The rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union fell to the Netherlands on 1 January. For half a year, the country will have to tackle the various challenges that have weakened the EU over recent months.

Bodies of suspected refugees wash ashore on Turkey’s Aegean coast

A large number of bodies believed to belong to refugees who were attempting to cross to Greece have washed up in the Aegean district of Ayvalık

MAIN FOCUS: Sweden and Denmark seal themselves off | 05/01/2016

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After Sweden on Monday introduced passport checks for everyone entering the country from Denmark, Copenhagen has in turn introduced controls on its border with Germany. Both countries want to limit the number of refugees entering their territory with these measures. The much proclaimed end of the Schengen Area will become reality in 2016, some commentators predict. Others suspect that Northern Europe simply wants to exclude the weaker South from Schengen.

Russia and Europe’s evolving relationship

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

How Russia’s view of Europe has evolved

Germany sees Schengen ‘in danger’ with new EU border curbs

The passport-free Schengen zone is “in danger” because of Europe’s refugee crisis, Germany warned on Jan. 4 after Nordic countries announced new controls at their borders to stem a migrant influx

Hans Blix – a diplomatic life

open Democracy News Analysis –

Hans Blix ponders his long career in international politics and diplomacy, the state of the Middle East, and why he is an advocate for nuclear power. Interview.

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“Saudi Arabia Fires Up American PR Machine”, Western powers and (of course Turkey) siding with Jihadist-sponsor Saudis against Iran…

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After Executing Regime Critic, Saudi Arabia Fires Up American PR Machine

The Intercept by Lee Fang

Saudi Arabia’s well-funded public relations apparatus moved quickly after Saturday’s explosive execution of Shiite political dissident Nimr al-Nimr to shape how the news is covered in the United States.

The execution led protestors in Shiite-run Iran to set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, precipitating a major diplomatic crisis between the two major powers already fighting proxy wars across the Middle East.

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Iran and Saudi Arabia: The Showdown Between Islam’s Rival Powers
The New Yorker
At a meeting with U.S. officials in 2008, Nimr insisted that he was not as radical as he had been portrayed publicly, according to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks. He told the Americans that he strongly opposed the “authoritarianism of the …
Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Iran after embassy in Tehran attackedSouth Texas News
Canada decries mass execution in Saudi Arabia which killed 47, including clericThe North Star National

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Cyberculture agenda: “Ukraine faces world’s first blackout caused by hackers” “Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2016”

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Ukraine faces world’s first blackout caused by hackers

The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal

While 2015 was rife with news of hackers stealing data from governments, health insurers and adultery sites, it looks like targeting our energy infrastructure might be the next big thing in cyberattacks. Three regional power authorities in Ukraine were infected with malware last week, leading to a blackout across hundreds of thousands of homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Ukrainian news service TSN reported that the outage was the result of malware that disconnected electrical substations. Researchers from security firm iSIGHT Partners, who said that they had obtained samples of the malicious code, echoed the report. If those findings are true,…

TorrentFreak

2016 Most file-sharers are creatures of habit, but when their favorite site disappears they gladly hop over to the next one.

This is also reflected in our annual top 10 which sees the usual names on top but also features some dubious newcomers.

Facebook’s Best Hacks of 2015

All Facebook by David Cohen

Facebook’s famous hackathons have spawned many a new product and feature, and emerging markets product manager Chris Marra looked back at the social network’s favorite hacks of 2015.

Marra said in a blog post:

Every year, we host a number of hackathons across the globe, where teams come together for a few days to brainstorm, build for fun or craft innovative solutions to sticky problems. The passion people have for the ideas generated in this space outside of their daily work results in everything from new products to open-source tools for the developer community. Here are a few of our favorite features that have hackathon roots and that debuted in 2015.

Four Persistent Online Piracy Misconceptions Busted

TorrentFreak

upload Fifteen years ago, online peer-to-peer file-sharing was a fairly straightforward process. One simply downloaded a file-sharing client such as Kazaa, searched for whatever tickled one’s fancy, and waited for the file to transfer.

Spying on Congress and Israel: NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated

The Intercept by Glenn Greenwald

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the NSA under President Obama targeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top aides for surveillance. In the process, the agency ended up eavesdropping on “the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American-Jewish groups” about how to sabotage the Iran Deal. All sorts of people who spent many years cheering for and defending the NSA and its programs of mass surveillance are suddenly indignant now that they know the eavesdropping included them and their American and Israeli friends rather than just ordinary people.

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For the record: Erdoğan SAID “Turkey and Israel need each other”

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Turkey and Israel need each other, says President Erdoğan

Turkey and Israel are two countries in the Middle East that need each other, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated, speaking on his return from an official trip to Saudi Arabia

Bodies of suspected refugees wash ashore on Turkey’s Aegean coast

Hurriyet Daily News

A large number of bodies believed to belong to refugees who were attempting to cross to Greece have washed up in the Aegean district of Ayvalık

İzmir businesses to demand opening of Greek market during Tsipras’ Turkey visit

Turkish businesses will ask for the removal of barriers to the Greek market during Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ visit to İzmir planned for next month