Your withering stare would have no effect in a Dublin Starbucks.
- Bernie Goldbach
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Heard on Grey’s Anatomy. Fell in love. It’s all over YouTube but I can’t seem to buy it on iTunes, very frustrated. - http://steph.tumblr.com/post...
Notez ce mot : qui. La plus grande valeur qu’un média peut apporter à ce nouvel écosystème de l’information est d’identifier, d’organiser, de passer en revue et de former les gens. Idéalement, cela doit se faire avant que l’événement éclate. - http://steph.tumblr.com/post...
But now that Iran has been experiencing turmoil surrounding its recent election, many Bay Area technology leaders finally realize the importance their technology and services can play in shaping world events. As foreign media have been kicked out of the country, information technology services suddenly have become a crucial tool to get and receive... - http://steph.tumblr.com/post...
So instead of superficial support, like Twitter users changing their avatars to green to support Iran’s reformist movement, Silicon Valley minds and money should pool resources as a way to help Iranians get around this information blockade by providing easier-to-use proxies, anonymizers and maybe even unfiltered Internet access through hardware. - http://steph.tumblr.com/post...
One way to get Iranians online help is to provide support by “anonymizing” online traffic through software like Tor or creating proxy servers through tools like Psiphon and Freegate. These allow computers to send their Web traffic encrypted through other computers so that it can’t be traced by Iranian authorities. But even these software tools... - http://steph.tumblr.com/post...
Twitter famously received a call from the U.S. Department of State nearly two weeks ago asking the company to postpone its scheduled maintenance to suit those in Tehran’s time zone, rather than those on Pacific time. Facebook recently added Persian language support for its iconic social networking site. Google took things to an entirely new level... - http://steph.tumblr.com/post...
Canada should leverage its position among the G-8 to convene a meeting of major powers to formulate a Treaty of Cyberspace recognizing that this domain is now of equal importance to that of land, air, space and sea. Cybersecurity should not be just a question of national security but of global security. The preamble of this treaty should make it... - http://steph.tumblr.com/post...
While much of the world’s attention is focused on Iran, Psiphon is involved in a very similar battle unfolding in a country nearby: Kyrgyzstan. Unfortunately, this crisis receives very little media scrutiny. In Kyrgyzstan, authorities have coerced ISPs to filter access to opposition websites leading up to elections in July. Working with Kyrygyz... - http://steph.tumblr.com/post...