Monday, June 27, 2016

Cyberculture agenda: “Timeline: The rise of bitcoin”…

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Timeline: The rise of bitcoin

A look at the history of bitcoin, the world’s newest and potentially most powerful currency.

The FBI has “hundreds of millions of dollars” to spend on developing technology for use in both national security and domestic law enforcement investigations — but it won’t reveal the exact amount.

4 ways gamification is advancing cybersecurity


There’s no doubt that the cybersecurity industry is in dire straits. Each year, data breaches are growing in size, numbers and severity while the cybersecurity talent gap is widening and there aren’t enough experts to fill vacant posts. And with internet-based services encroaching over every aspect of our lives and tasks, new vulnerabilities are sprouting every day, providing malicious actors with new possibilities and attack vectors to carry out their evil deeds. Every person, every connected device and every piece of software running on the network can become an exploit opportunity, and there’s only so much that can be done…
Political campaigns can be refined by the analysis of “big data” to analyse and target voters. The challenge is knowing how best to use the data, said Guillaume Liegey.

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Sunday, June 26, 2016

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#Brexit gives the pretext for Turkish authorities to brag about the EU… A FP roundup…

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has suggested Turkey could hold a referendum over whether to continue its long-stalled accession process to join the European Union
Turkey has urged the European Union to adopt a more inclusive vision for the future, stressing that it wished to see the continuation of a stronger union after the United Kingdom’s historic departure
Turkey, the Brexit bogeyman, is not so different from the UK | Liz Cookman
The leave campaign used the threat of migrant Turks to great effect, but Britain and Turkey have a lot in common, including a growing romantic nationalismSo, it happened. Brexit is upon us. The politics of fear won the day – the Turks are no longer coming. As we come to terms with the idea that the long EU divorce process is about to get going, Turkey – the country whose people Britons are apparently petrified of – is still plodding on with the longest engagement in history.
Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek has described the choice of the British people to leave the European Union as an “opened Pandora’s box.”
Turkey has condemned as “very unfortunate” Pope Francis’s declaration that the mass killings of Armenians a century ago by Ottoman forces amounted to a genocide, saying it bore traces of “the mentality of the Crusades”
The pontiff’s previous use of the term in reference to the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians infuriated Armenia’s hostile neighbor Turkey.
The pope prayed on Saturday at a national memorial for the genocide, and urged the country’s young people to become peacemakers.
The Turkish national football team’s Euro 2016 odyssey came to an end on June 22 after its hopes of reaching the last 16 as one of the best third-placed teams was dashed by a late goal from Ireland
Turkey is blocking plans by a German delegation to visit the Incirlik air base, German officials say, in a further sign of strained relations between Berlin and Ankara.
Turkey’s foreign minister has said that a visit by German politicians to İncirlik Air Base, one of the centers from where the U.S-led anti-Islamic State of Iraq and theLevant (ISIL) campaign is managed in southern Turkey, was “not appropriate.

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Anthropology roundup: “Decolonizing Anthropology Textbook Covers….

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Saturday, June 25, 2016

Paranoid style: Gülenists, PKK, ‘Armenian brigands,’ YPG, NGOs, EU’s islamophobia just a few of Turkey’s enemies…

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President Erdoğan has listed the outlawed PKK, “the Armenian brigands,” the People’s Defense Units (YPG) and “the Armenian terror organization” as collaborators of the purported “parallel state”
Civil society organizations “working against the state” have largely been “destroyed” during the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) time in power since 2002, President Recep Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on June 23 that negative statements by European Union officials and member state leaders were reflections of Islamophobia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed to reconstruct the historic Taksim military barracks in Istanbul’s Gezi Park, a project that sparked country-wide anti-government protests in 2013

Radiohead, Ramadan and Gezi: News of the Week in Turkey

Istanbul court finds computer science lecturer Chris Stephenson not guilty of giving out Kurdish ‘propaganda’

Turkey guilty verdict for depicting Erdogan as Gollum
A Turkish man gets a suspended one-year jail term for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by depicting him as the Gollum character from the Lord of the Rings.

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