If a group of young hackers are not ready to become full-fledged terrorists (some do, some don’t), they better stay underground. Or quit while they’re ahead. This rule doesn’t apply to governments nor international police organizations, obviously, who have a bigger margin of error.
YVES BENNAÏM – Why LulzSec is important. But why it had to die. – Yves Bennaïm Online.
It breaks my heart that a project I did for fun, on the side, and out of pure love and dedication to the source material ended up costing me so much — emotionally and financially. For me, the chilling effect is palpably real. I’ve felt irrationally skittish about publishing almost anything since this happened.
Link: Kind of Screwed – Waxy.org.
Jon Stewart Rips Fox News for Editing His Chat with Chris Wallace
Jon Stewart Rips Fox News for Editing His Chat with Chris Wallace.
Two of Color’s photo-sharing competitors, Instagram and PicPlz, exemplify the lean start-up ethos. They started with $500,000 and $350,000, respectively, and teams of just a few people. As they have introduced successful products and attracted users, they have slowly raised more money and hired engineers.
Color, meanwhile, spent $350,000 to buy the Web address color.com, and an additional $75,000 to buy colour.com. It rents a cavernous office in downtown Palo Alto, where 38 employees work in a space with room for 160, amid beanbag chairs, tents for napping and a hand-built half-pipe skateboard ramp.
Tech Investors Feel an Aura of Hope, a Touch of Dread – NYTimes.com.
People want reliability, commitment, and encryption.
Despite reports that it was at war with the loose online collective Anonymous, today hacker group LulzSec has announced it is to team up with the online community to begin “Operation Anti-Security”, a declaration which will see it attack any government or agency that “crosses their path”.
This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn’t released something publicly. We’re sitting on 200,000 Brink users right now that we never gave out. It might make you feel safe knowing we told you, so that Brink users may change their passwords. What if we hadn’t told you? No one would be aware of this theft, and we’d have a fresh 200,000 peons to abuse, completely unaware of a breach.
LulzSec manifesto: “We screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction”.
You have a hundred trillion of these guys in you right now. Before you were born, you had hardly any.
Back then, you were floating in amniotic fluid, protected, sanitized. Bacteria kept their distance. Until you slipped down that birth canal, you were pretty much spic-and-span.
Then came your birthday, and all of a sudden, you were invaded. From the delivery, from the doctor’s hands, from the first meal at your mother’s breast, from your older sister who kisses you (or, if no one’s looking, spits on you), from everyone, from everywhere came an army of bacteria that moved in and stayed.
Link: Gut Bacteria Know Secrets About Your Future : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR.
Matt Cherette — Last night, CNN’s John King moderated the first Republican primary debate of the 2012 election season. High on theatrics, like King’s stupid "This or That" questions for each candidate, the debate had many critics. And as you’ll see in the above clip from tonight’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart wasn’t all that impressed either.
Link: Jon Stewart Mocks CNN for Its GOP Debate Theatrics – Gawker.
You and your friends simultaneously leave posts on someone’s Facebook wall. Once you “reserve” a block of posts, change your profile pictures to a letter, spelling out anything you want.
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