Category: Security & Privacy

Benchmarking cloud sync and storage

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off
By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com

Does Drive stand a chance against sync and backup veterans?

Google’s very own “Loch Ness monster,” also known as Google Drive, has final­ly launched. It’s the new face of Google Doc­u­ments, and it’s also Google’s oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It…

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Ambient electricity sounds and forensic digital anthropology

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Electricity’s ‘hum’ helps forensic experts detect manipulated audio recordings
By Chris Welch, theverge.com

An aver­age per­son on the street may find it hard to tell the dif­fer­ence between an unal­tered record­ing and one that’s been edit­ed or tam­pered with in some way, but foren­sic experts are often tasked with just that respon­si­bil­i­ty.…

RT @verge: Electricity’s ‘hum’ helps forensic experts detect manipulated audio recordings http://flip.it/C4SiB http://flip.it/o6beR

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Copyright law on the digital frontier

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Use of Google’s take­down tool for search results has grown ten­fold in the past six months, the com­pa­ny reports. When it start­ed pub­licly post­ing take­down notices in late May, around 250,000 requests a week went through the sys­tem — which…

RT @verge: Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May http://flip.it/op5xB http://flip.it/F12Dx

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Visualizing aging via web app stimulates financial literacy

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money
By Colin Lecher, popsci.com

People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly.

Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced ver­sion of your­self, you’re more like­ly to save extr…

RT @PopSci: Hey kids! Come play the superfun game that digitally ages you, reminding you of your own mortality! http://flip.it/NYfJc http://flip.it/LpdX6

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Shootings stimulate mass online petitions for gun control

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control
Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com

Update: The peti­tion has reached 25,000 sig­na­tures

Almost imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the trag­ic school shoot­ing in Con­necti­cut, over 16,000 peo­ple have signed an offi­cial White House WeTheP­eo­ple peti­tion to “Imme­di­ate­ly…

RT @TechCrunch: Scores Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control http://flip.it/rYqC0 by @ferenstein http://flip.it/5wgja

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Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Security & Privacy

Phil Plait, slate.com

[Note from the author: This is not my first vaccine rodeo, and I expect some interesting remarks in the comments section. As always, I have copiously linked key phrases in this article to more information backing up my claims. Please read them…

Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery

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Marijuana Vending Machine Maker’s Stock Skyrockets

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

 

 

A one month's supply of Sonata 10mg capsules.
A one month’s supply of Sonata 10mg capsules. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mike Epstein, mashable.com

Based on this month’s elec­tion, the idea legal­iz­ing mar­i­jua­na seems more pop­u­lar than ever. Two states, Wash­ing­ton and Col­orado, have legal­ized pot at the state level. With the legal mar­i­jua­na mar­ket look­ing stronger than ever, th…

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Marijuana Vending Machine Maker’s Stock Skyrockets

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How to use Creative Commons visuals

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

How to Use Creative Commons Visuals on Your Site
Nina Frazier, mashable.com

Tracking down quality visuals to accompany stories and blog posts can be difficult. Luckily, there are more than 200 million free photos on the web that are available for almost anyone to use — as long as they follow the tenets of Creative Common…

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John Hodgman’s Apocalypse Survival 101

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy
John Hodgman
John Hodgman (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

beeeeeenr, youtube.com

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John Hodgman’s Apocalypse Survival 101

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Why you do not need to be irradiated by airport security

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science, Security & Privacy

For those about to opt-out: a TSA scanning machine cheat-sheet
Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net

As Cory notes in this pre-Thanksgiving trav­el day post, some trav­el­ers in Amer­i­ca will be opt­ing out of scan­ning machines in TSA lines for pri­va­cy con­cerns, or for health and safe­ty rea­sons. I want­ed to post a reminder, how­ev­er, tha…

RT @xeni: For those about to opt-out: Not all TSA “Full Body Scanners” are created equal. Cheatsheet to take with you to airport. http://flip.it/E49SU http://flip.it/Y0nBg

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LinkedIn and identity theft

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Identity fraud more common among LinkedIn users – Salon.com
By Natasha Lennard, salon.com

The personal information openly shared on social media sites is a goldmine for fraudsters

The pro­lif­er­a­tion of per­son­al infor­ma­tion shared via social media cor­re­lates with a sig­nif­i­cant spike in instances of iden­ti­ty fraud. In 201…

RT @Salon: “A goldmine for fraudsters”: Identity fraud more common among LinkedIn users http://flip.it/hyxbM http://flip.it/EIeEM

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Doomsday preppers: Americans stockpiling beans and bullets

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy, Systems Science

“Doomsday Preppers”: Living like you’re gonna die tomorrow – Salon.com
By Roger Catlin, salon.com

Forget “The Walking Dead” and “Revolution.” These National Geographic characters are truly ready for doomsday

The envy was fair­ly pal­pa­ble among the gath­ered “Dooms­day Prep­pers” as the 25-ton, 10-foot-tall, 18-inch-thick doors swung open,…

RT @NYTjamescobb: Doomsday preppers “imagine they’ll have the last laugh deep inside their individual bunkers as the world crumbles” http://flip.it/gVvKG http://flip.it/jxoTB

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