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INet: Google adds email sobriety test
Google has acted to protect its users against a seemingly widespread problem with email: Once you’ve pressed the send button it’s out in the wild. And some times you might have written something you shouldn’t have send to that person.
Seemingly for many this phenomenon occurs more frequently at certain times of the week / day - let’s say late Friday night.
From now on you can setup your Gmail account that at…
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Data Visualization: Internet Censorship
A great visualization by Good Magazine and the Lifelong Friendship Society on Internet censorship around the world.
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Video: YouTube in Super-HD
A great idea - how to create a kind of super-HD on YouTube.
And no video would be better suited for that then Rick Astley’s - Whenever you need somebody
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Humor: (Dada) Time Waster web sites (3)
Another site in the best tradition of the “dadaist nihilistic movement”, this one related to the current doomsday scenarios with the LHC at the Cern in Geneva.
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Humor: Change your nationality with Google Chrome
Not even out a day as a Beta release Google’s new web browsers already has massive impact on people living in parts of Europe.
If your Belgium, Austrian, Danish, Dutch or from parts of the Czech Republic and Switzerland from now on you’re part of the Greater German Reich. Please send your passport to Google and…
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Google: A Comix to create interest for a new web browser
To gain further interest and introduce new features of its web browser launched today, Google created a comix book about the browser. On 38 pages the comix describes benefits, key scenarios and advantages of the Google Browser in comparison to existing solutions…
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Security: YouTube Hijacking
It’s an issue of the Internet infrastructure well known since at least the 1990s - data / packets can be rerouted to more or less any IP address via the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP, RFC 4271).
BGP is normally used to announce between routers which networks are reachable by which (preferred) routes. And on the Internet all routers trust each other and there are no mechanisms built into the protocol to assure that the counterpart in a communication “does not lie“.
The issue, as said, is not new and known at least to insiders…
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DEFCON: From war-dailing to war-carting
Three MIT students have shown the weaknesses of the Boston and other local transportation systems in the US (and of course got sued instead of learning from it). The image below is a compilation of some of the DEFCON slides from their presentation…
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Internet warfare: All Georgia Government web sites down
About a month ago the website of Georgia’s President was under a distributed denial of service attack and offline for some time. Based on forensic analysis it became clear that the root of these attacks were to be found in Russia.
Now with a state of war declared as it seems all official Government web sites of Georgia are not responding, not reachable or do not display any content…
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i-Patriot, Censorship, Internet 2 and the day the routers died
Last week again saw strong discussions on the changes happening on the Internet, this time fueled by an video where Lawrence Lessig provided insides on an potential i-Patriot Act ante portas - similar to the 9/11 crashing of civil rights. Watch the “video” or read “the highlights” of it - the points raised make a lot of sense in the context of the changes seen the last 12/24 months.
When listening to the discussions it reminded us of the song “The day the routers died” from the RIPE 55 conference. While definitely not intended to be political in the context of an i-Patriot act it gets a completely new twist (particularly some of the verses)…
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