Ferdinand Zebua
Internet adventurer extraordinaire! :P
Internet adventurer extraordinaire! :P
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Seems awful complicated; would it even work..?
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A captcha for AIs and replicants.
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Ukraine, as a target & victim of Russian fake news propaganda program.
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This, after that shooting yesterday at that newspaper..
Violence is a really bad idea
This idiot set the cause of net neutrality back, and set the police state minutes-to-midnight forward. This is not a failure of nonviolence or civility, but a man who failed a test of character and temper.
Don't be that guy. Nonviolence is not for wimps.
It's terrifically important to stay disciplined around nonviolence because any threats of violence advance justifications for draconian measures against both violent and nonviolent groups.
We have FISA warrants because during the peace movement, even the Friends Service Committee (Society of Friends/Quakers -- pacifists) were classified as a threat to national security in order for the Intelligence Community (FBI/CIA/NSA/COINTELPRO) to have carte blanche to monitor their domestic and overseas communications and those of members and contacts.
During G+'s #nymwars, I did something similar to what this man did. But nonviolently.
Using open sources, through g+, Google profile, Picasa and Google search, I was able to gather all of this data plus enough emergency contact data to pick up Vic Gundotra's kids from their very ritzy private school in the hills of a silicon valley community. I could have driven up, identified myself with the "password" info, and kidnapped his kids after school by claiming a family emergency.
I informed Google executives to get them to shut down the vulnerable sources of income, and blogged the experience in the extreme abstract once I knew the vulnerability was clear. I did not name what exec was involved, for example, to discourage others from engaging in curious "fishing expeditions." I didn't mention all the tools and methods used, but enough to make a case.
I made it clear that Google's real name policy was not secure, and locking down your own profile was no guarantee since it was easy to derive a contact list from cross posting and search.
I identified the school from a Little League jersey his son wore in a Picasa image. I did not mention this until years later.
Privacy is fragile. No one knows that better than those who work to protect it.
This is how a white hat operates. Find a way to "do no harm" to yourself or others, while healing society.
This idiot set the cause of net neutrality back, and set the police state minutes-to-midnight forward. This is not a failure of nonviolence or civility, but a man who failed a test of character and temper.
Don't be that guy. Nonviolence is not for wimps.
It's terrifically important to stay disciplined around nonviolence because any threats of violence advance justifications for draconian measures against both violent and nonviolent groups.
We have FISA warrants because during the peace movement, even the Friends Service Committee (Society of Friends/Quakers -- pacifists) were classified as a threat to national security in order for the Intelligence Community (FBI/CIA/NSA/COINTELPRO) to have carte blanche to monitor their domestic and overseas communications and those of members and contacts.
During G+'s #nymwars, I did something similar to what this man did. But nonviolently.
Using open sources, through g+, Google profile, Picasa and Google search, I was able to gather all of this data plus enough emergency contact data to pick up Vic Gundotra's kids from their very ritzy private school in the hills of a silicon valley community. I could have driven up, identified myself with the "password" info, and kidnapped his kids after school by claiming a family emergency.
I informed Google executives to get them to shut down the vulnerable sources of income, and blogged the experience in the extreme abstract once I knew the vulnerability was clear. I did not name what exec was involved, for example, to discourage others from engaging in curious "fishing expeditions." I didn't mention all the tools and methods used, but enough to make a case.
I made it clear that Google's real name policy was not secure, and locking down your own profile was no guarantee since it was easy to derive a contact list from cross posting and search.
I identified the school from a Little League jersey his son wore in a Picasa image. I did not mention this until years later.
Privacy is fragile. No one knows that better than those who work to protect it.
This is how a white hat operates. Find a way to "do no harm" to yourself or others, while healing society.
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Intriguing consumer device concept...
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Sad.
Kinda glad Yahoo/Oath decided to sell Flickr to SmugMug instead of 500px.
Though yeah I don't hear anything new from Flickr/SmugMug yet... at all...
Kinda glad Yahoo/Oath decided to sell Flickr to SmugMug instead of 500px.
Though yeah I don't hear anything new from Flickr/SmugMug yet... at all...
500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons
Photography platform 500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under a Creative Commons license, and is removing the functionality to search and download such images. The site also closed down its stock photo platform, 500px Marketplace yesterday, replacing it with distribution partnerships with Getty Images and Visual China Group....
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/1/17521456
Photography platform 500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under a Creative Commons license, and is removing the functionality to search and download such images. The site also closed down its stock photo platform, 500px Marketplace yesterday, replacing it with distribution partnerships with Getty Images and Visual China Group....
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/1/17521456
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The eight locations, which are in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC, are "peering" facilities that normally route other telecom companies' data traffic onto their network as part of their regular Internet service.
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Nvidia made an AI that creates missing frames based on its best guess to generate a nearly perfect, smooth, slow-motion video out of any standard video clip. "The team trained their system on over 11,000 videos of everyday and sports activities shot at 240 frames-per-second. Once trained, the convolutional neural network predicted the extra frames."
"It's a cool effect -- especially when they take clips from The Slow Mo Guys and slow them down even further -- but I can't help but feel a sinister edge to this kind of image manipulation."
"It's a cool effect -- especially when they take clips from The Slow Mo Guys and slow them down even further -- but I can't help but feel a sinister edge to this kind of image manipulation."
This Artificially Created Slow Motion Looks Better Than a 300,000 FPS Camera
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