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Internet: The Great Firewall of China
A non-profit group of web designers, film directors and journalists who want to make the Internet censorship system more transparent has put up a web site called the “Great Firewall of China”. On the site you can test if a particular website address is blocked in China and see how the site looks from the perspective of a Chinese user. It works by routing the requested url from…
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VoIP encryption in a surveillance society
Those of you that have time to get over to the Stanford campus this Wednesday afternoon (March 7th) should do and listen to “Phil Zimmerman’s” talk on VoIP encryption in a surveillance society. For all of you who can’t make it Stanford will put a video online at their “Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380)” site. Phil is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols…
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Web 2.0: Reuters will launch financial Social Network
Reuters is planning to launch this year a financial network for fund managers, traders and analysts similar to MySpace. The web site will be exclusive to Reuters’ subscriber base of about 70,000. “…People don’t want to have 100 friend requests from teenage girls in Florida if they are trading the…
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Video: Google’s Master Plan
Here’s your daily dose of conspiracy theory. The Video Google’s Master Plan – recently made available on YouTube – is looking into the “underlying” plans that are driving Google’s business. The movie is greatly done and uses excellent visualization techniques. A high quality version together with additional information is available at…
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Video: This thing called the “Internet”
A great 6 minutes TV documentary from 1993 about the thing called the “Internet”. We haven’t heard the sound of a connecting modem for a long time (3:00)…
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Video: 1h Blogumentary
Have a look at this one hour documentary on blogs…
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