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Predicting the future of WikiLeaks: Follow the media!

Submitted by Jon on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 10:51

 

"One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary -- perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting -- where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate N.G.O.'s to advocate on their causes. Under this model, WikiLeaks staffers would act as idea salesmen relying on one very impressive digital Rolodex."

FTC Names Edward W. Felten as Agency's Chief Technologist; Eileen Harrington as Executive Director

Submitted by Jon on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 20:29

 

Boingboing: "The glorious Ed Felten, Princeton professor and RIAA taunter extraordinaire--"Your DRM smells of elderberries, ha!"--has been appointed the Federal Trade Commission's first Chief Technologist. He will advise the agency on emerging tech issues and policy. "

If other industries were as like the RIAA

Submitted by Jon on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 20:21

 

This is what DRM looks like

Proposed space-time cloak to "hide" events?

Submitted by Jon on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 20:19

 

"the team has designed a less efficient version to be built from optical fibres — inside which light can be accelerated and slowed without breaking the fundamental speed limit. Lasers would be used to control the fibres' refractive indices, opening and closing the temporal void"

Working 8-bit CPU in Minecraft

Submitted by Jon on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 20:15

 

"with 8 bytes of RAM, an output register, a code-loader and the ability to branch conditionally and unconditionally."

Feds admit to storing tens of thousands of images from naked scanners - unknown number leaked back to manufacturer

Submitted by Jon on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 18:37

 

You know those naked scanners that we're seeing at the airport that use backscatter radiation to show snoopy security staff high-resolution detailed images of your genitals, breasts, etc? The ones that aren't supposed to be storing those images from your personal involuntary porn shoot?
Well, the US Marshals have just copped to storing over 35,000 of these personal, private images taken from a single courthouse scanner in Florida.

What's more, another machine used in a DC courthouse was returned to the manufacturer with an unspecified number of naked images on its hard drive.

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