industryterm:internet access

Netblocks suit les interruptions de services sur internet au Venezuela, concomitantes aux interventions de Juan Guaidó. Ici, les coupures au moment du coup d’état raté du 30 avril.

Internet services restricted in Venezuela amid uprising - NetBlocks
▻https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-services-restricted-in-venezuela-amid-military-uprising-xAG4RGBz

Network data shows that Venezuela’s state-run internet provider ABA CANTV (AS8048) has restricted access to Twitter, Periscope, YouTube, Facebook and several other services after Juan Guaidó used Twitter to announce the final phase of Operation Freedom from the perimeter of a military base in La Carlota. The project, which has reportedly gained the support of defectors from the military, has the stated goal of reinstating democratic establishments in Venezuela.

Access to each of the services remains intermittently available as the restrictions do not appear to be 100% effective, matching the patterns of network outage observed in previous nationwide censorship incidents.

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With WhatsApp servers already unstable, Telegram messenger’s web interface and website have become fully unreachable for users of Venezuela’s state-run internet provider as of 21:00 UTC (17:00 VET). The two applications have been used extensively by Venezuelans to keep track of the situation in the country. Telegram includes blocking countermeasures which can allow the mobile version of the app to continue working:

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Internet access was finally restored towards the end of Tuesday, 20 minutes prior to a live-streamed speech by Nicolás Maduro:
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Governing Big Tech’s Pursuit of the “Next Billion Users”
▻https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/governing-big-techs-pursuit-next-billion-users.pdf

Governing Big Tech’s Pursuit of the “Next Billion Users”Ten years ago, only 6 percent of the population in low-income and lower-middle-income countries had access to the internet. Today, nearly one in every three people there does. The rapid expansion of internet access across the globe is a welcome development, but it raises new policy challenges. And while there is broad agreement in the development community on the importance of getting digital policy “right,” too little attention has been (...)

#Google #Facebook #domination #bénéfices #publicité #GAFAM

##publicité

Kremlin says cyber attacks on Russia often launched from U.S. territory | Reuters
▻https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-trump-russia-kremlin-idUKKCN1QG187

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the U.S. military had disrupted the internet access of a Russian troll farm accused of trying to influence American voters on Nov. 6, 2018, the day of the congressional elections.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters he did not know how much truth there was to that media report.

“But in general I can say that U.S. territory is constantly being used to organise a huge number of cyber attacks against various Russian organisations. That’s the reality with which we live.”

#cyberattaques #Russie #Etats-Unis

Bytes.io — Beta release
▻https://hackernoon.com/update-4-roaming-disruption-app-9897c60521c2?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3-

Bytes.io — Beta releaseFurther to the teaser we published earlier this month, here is a full debrief of our progress developing Bytes, with two small demos and some prediction of what is to come next.Since the Alpha release, we have split our team in two. One half specialises on the building of an #iota based IoT Internet access trading stack. This is a Linux + JavaScript stack (JS is great for IoT too). The other half of the team is working exclusively on our beautiful mobile app.Intro: What is Bytes?Bytes offers a platform for last mile, distributed, Internet access trading. Last mile means we are not substituting ourselves to regular ISPs, and distributed means the trade is not intermediated.No third party is involved in processing or enforcing the transaction, not even ourselves: the (...)

#blockchain #tourism #development #internet-of-things

US School Safety Commission largely gives games a pass
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-12-18-us-school-safety-commission-largely-gives-games-a-pass

Group convened by Trump in wake of mass shooting earlier this year suggests schools monitor internet access, media ratings bodies review policies

#Legal

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MACE:

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▻https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/kb/articles/what-is-mace

Everything You Didn’t Know About the Handshake Naming System — How this #blockchain Project Will…
▻https://hackernoon.com/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the-handshake-naming-system-how-this-blo

Everything You Didn’t Know About the Handshake Naming SystemHow this Blockchain Project Will Disintermediate the Keepers of the InternetThe project was conceived by the people who brought you Purse and Private Internet Access.Handshake, despite popular misconception, is not a blockchain project that seeks to decentralize existing #dns infrastructure in its entirety. That’d be biting off something much more than any #cryptocurrency-backed system could chew. Indeed, it is part of the reason why the predecessors of Handshake have not seen true adoption.According to the project paper,“The Handshake naming protocol differs from its predecessors in that it has no concept of namespacing or subdomains at the consensus layer. Its purpose is currently not to replace all of DNS, but to replace the root (...)

#technology #open-source

#Facebook recruiting map experts to help map the world

▻https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/25/facebook-hiring-map-experts-to-help-map-world.html

Facebook has been looking for contractors who can help it interpret mapping data to deliver internet access to remote parts of the world, according to job listings and people approached by the company.

The company has been seeking editors and quality analysts for its Maps team, whose jobs would focus on improving internet access in rural areas and finding areas that may need disaster relief. According to the job listings, the hires would analyze and check data from OpenStreetMap, a project that uses crowdsourced information to provide a map of the world.

#cartographie

Are #chatbots a Must Have Tool for an #ico?
▻https://hackernoon.com/chat-bot-a-must-have-tool-for-your-ico-initial-coin-offering-fbc0e1d9c4d

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Initial coin offerings: One of the most used fund-raising buzz word so far from 2017 and ongoing for this year as well. Following the trend, the momentum seems unstoppable. Till now it is estimated that $1.67 billion have already been raised so far, $1.3 billion was raised in 2017 alone, showing 600% strong year-on-year growth.Unlike raising capital from venture capitalist firms or traditional IPOs, ICOs are accessible to anyone with internet access. Investors are no longer men and women in professional attire, cryptocurrency and especially Bitcoin has motivated everyone to invest in digital currency. Nowadays, college students, retirees and other people are looking for opportunities to be a part of the biggest financial tech revolution.So many potential investors prevent from (...)

#crypto-tokens #ico-development-services #chatbot-development

How Blockchain Is Solving the #energy Crisis in Developing Nations
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-blockchain-is-solving-the-energy-crisis-in-developing-nations-440f5b

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This paid story is brought to you by ImpactPPABasic electricity access is taken for granted in the tech and cryptocurrency worlds, but many people across the globe lack this basic commodity. 1.1 billion people globally lack energy access; many more communities have inconsistent or prohibitively expensive electricity.Electricity poverty has serious ramifications for quality of life in communities experiencing it. Without electricity, many modern medical procedures are impossible to do safely. Well water can’t be drawn with electric-powered pumps, lighting and climate control can’t provide basic comforts to students studying for exams or government workers carrying out important administrative tasks. Many communication tools, such as internet access or even computers themselves, are (...)

#blockchain-technology #paid-story #developing-nations #blockchain-startup

In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
(Sept 2017)

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“A cellphone and some earbuds are all it takes to place yourself in your own world, isolated from the rest of society,” Mr. Wesner said. “In some sense that is profoundly anti-Amish.”

▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/amish-technology.html

The Amish have not given up on horse-drawn buggies. Their rigid abstinence from many kinds of technology has left parts of their lifestyle frozen since the 19th century: no cars, TVs or connections to electric utilities, for example.

But computers and cellphones are making their way into some Amish communities, pushing them — sometimes willingly, often not — into the 21st century.

[...]

But for people bound by a separation from much of the outside world, new tech devices have brought fears about the consequence of internet access. There are worries about pornography; about whether social networks will lead sons and daughters to date non-Amish friends; and about connecting to a world of seemingly limitless possibilities.

[...]

John, the woodworker at Amish Country Gazebos, spends part of his time operating the computer-guided saw, which would look at home in any modern cabinetry shop. His mastery of the machine, at 68, can be a source of teasing at home.

“We call him the computer geek sometimes,” said his son, Junior, laughing as the family sat down to supper.

[...]

Lizzie said she was upset by how people had become so attached to their phones.
“People are treating those phones like they are gods,” she said. “They’re bowing down to it at the table, bowing down to it when they’re walking. Here we say we don’t bow down to idols, and that’s getting dangerously close, I think.”

#Amish

Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit’s Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet - Motherboard

▻https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz3xyz/detroit-mesh-network

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Being stuck without access to the internet is often thought of as a problem only for rural America. But even in some of America’s biggest cities, a significant portion of the population can’t get online.

Take Detroit, where 40 percent of the population has no access to the internet—of any kind, not only high speed—at home, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Seventy percent of school-aged children in the city are among those who have no internet access at home. Detroit has one of the most severe digital divides in the country, the FCC says.

#détroit #internet #initiatives_participatives cc @fil

North Korea Gets New Internet Link via Russia
▻https://dyn.com/blog/north-korea-gets-new-internet-link-via-russia

Being single-homed behind China Unicom gave China control over North Korea’s internet access. This is important as the international community tries to persuade China to use its influence to reign in the nuclear aspirations of North Korea. However, now with an independent connection to Russia via TTK, such leverage is greatly reduced. With alternatives for international transit, the power shifts to North Korea in deciding whether or not to maintain its connectivity to the global internet.

#BGP #single_point_of_failure #internet #cyberwar

Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. Here’s why. | Poynter
►https://www.poynter.org/news/text-only-news-sites-are-slowly-making-comeback-heres-why
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These text-only sites — which used to be more popular in the early days of the Internet, when networks were slower and bandwidth was at a premium – are incredibly useful, and not just during natural disasters. They load much faster, don’t contain any pop-ups or ads or autoplay videos, and help people with low bandwidth or limited Internet access. They’re also beneficial for people with visual impairments who use screen readers to navigate the Internet. (Related: Designing Journalism Products for Accessibility.)

In recent months, Twitter, Facebook, and Google News have also published their own versions of stripped-down sites that use less bandwidth, mainly aimed at users in emerging markets who might not have access to faster network connections. Earlier this week, Twitter announced that it was now experimenting with an Android app designed to use less data for people with limited connectivity.

#Webdesign #Accessibilité

Undercover With the Alt-Right - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/opinion/alt-right-white-supremacy-undercover.html

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Last September, Patrik Hermansson, a 25-year-old graduate student from Sweden, went undercover in the world of the extreme right. Posing as a student writing a thesis about the suppression of right-wing speech, he traveled from London to New York to Charlottesville, Va. — and into the heart of a dangerous movement that is experiencing a profound rejuvenation.

Mr. Hermansson, who was sent undercover by the British anti-racist watchdog group Hope Not Hate, spent months insinuating himself into the alt-right, using his Swedish nationality (many neo-Nazis are obsessed with Sweden because of its “Nordic” heritage) as a way in. It wasn’t always easy. “You want to punch them in the face,” he told me of the people he met undercover. “You want to scream and do whatever — leave. But you can’t do any of those things. You have to sit and smile.”

What he learned while undercover is one part of a shocking, comprehensive new report from Hope Not Hate that sheds light on the strange landscape of the alt-right, the much discussed, little understood and largely anonymous far-right movement that exists mostly online and that has come to national attention in part because of its support for Donald Trump.

The extreme alt-right are benefiting immensely from the energy being produced by a more moderate — but still far-right — faction known as the “alt-light.”

The alt-light promotes a slightly softer set of messages. Its figures — such as Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and Mike Cernovich — generally frame their work as part of an effort to defend “the West” or “Western culture” against supposed left-liberal dominance, rather than making explicitly racist appeals. Many of them, in fact, have renounced explicit racism and anti-Semitism, though they will creep up to the line of explicitly racist speech, especially when Islam and immigration are concerned.

According to researchers, the key to hooking new recruits into any movement, and to getting them increasingly involved over time, is to simply give them activities to participate in. This often precedes any deep ideological commitment on the recruits’ part and, especially early on, is more about offering them a sense of meaning and community than anything else.

Intentionally or not, the far right has deftly applied these insights to the online world. Viewed through the filters of alt-light outlets like Breitbart and Prison Planet, or through Twitter feeds like Mr. Watson’s, the world is a horror show of crimes by migrants, leftist censorship and attacks on common sense. And the best, easiest way to fight back is through social media.

The newly initiated are offered many opportunities to participate directly. A teenager in a suburban basement can join a coordinated global effort to spread misinformation about Emmanuel Macron, France’s centrist president, in the hopes of helping far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Anyone who wants to do so can help spread the word about supposed mainstream media censorship of the Muslim “crime wave” the far right says is ravaging Europe.

These efforts — a click, a retweet, a YouTube comment — come to feel like important parts of an epochal struggle. The far right, once hemmed in by its own parochialism, has manufactured a worldwide online battlefield anyone with internet access can step into.

#Alt_right #Extrême_droite #Médias_sociaux #Post_truth

Will Qatar’s Diplomatic Exile Spark the Next Great War? | Foreign Policy
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/05/will-qatars-diplomatic-exile-spark-the-next-great-war-saudi-arabia-tr

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Sarajevo 1914, Doha 2017 ?

Carrément !

Is Public Wi-Fi Really Safe?
▻https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2017/02/09/public-wi-fi-really-safe

Basically, the answer is: No, it’s not! However, there are ways to secure your connection, and the way I use is by connecting to a VPN service when I’m outside my home. I’ve tried many solutions, and Private Internet Access offers one of the best, easiest to use, and cheapest VPN services out there. I’ve been using them in hotels, airports, restaurants, and more, for the past 2 years and they’ve never let me down once!

China cracks down on VPNs, making it harder to circumvent Great Firewall
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/china-vpn-cleanup-great-firewall-censorship

A 14-month government ‘cleanup’ of internet access services will make it harder for users to access websites that are usually censored or restricted China has begun a crackdown on the use of virtual private networks, or VPNs, making it harder for internet users to circumvent the Great Firewall. The nation’s ministry of industry and information technology announced a 14-month “cleanup” of internet access services, including making it illegal to operate a local VPN service without government (...)

#VPN #web #surveillance

Alphabet ended drone Internet project, saying economics didn’t work out | Ars Technica
▻http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/alphabet-axed-internet-drones-says-balloon-broadband-is-more-promising

Alphabet’s airborne broadband plans no longer include drones, as the company says balloons are a more promising delivery mechanism for bringing Internet access to remote and rural areas.

Google bought drone maker Titan Aerospace in 2014 and began testing drones that could eventually be used to bring Internet connections to remote places. But the company quietly scrapped those plans nearly a year ago, 9to5Google reported yesterday. More than 50 employees were moved to other Alphabet projects.
[…]
“[…] Many people from the Titan team are now using their expertise as part of other high-flying projects at X, including Loon and Project Wing.”

Washington moves to silence WikiLeaks - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/19/pers-o19.html

The cutting off of Internet access for Julian Assange, the founder of #WikiLeaks, is one more ugly episode in a US presidential election campaign that has plumbed the depths of political degradation.

Effectively imprisoned in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for over four years, Assange now is faced with a further limitation on his contact with the outside world.

On Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry of Ecuador confirmed WikiLeaks’ charge that Ecuador itself had ordered the severing of Assange’s Internet connection under pressure from the US government. In a statement, the ministry said that WikiLeaks had “published a wealth of documents impacting on the US election campaign,” adding that the government of Ecuador “respects the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other states” and “does not interfere in external electoral processes.” On that grounds, the statement claimed, the Ecuadorian government decided to “restrict access” to the communications network at its London embassy.

#contrôle #surveillance #états-unis

Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi

▻http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34942685

A new method of delivering data, which uses the visible spectrum rather than radio waves, has been tested in a working office.
Li-fi can deliver internet access 100 times faster than traditional wi-fi, offering speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second).
It requires a light source, such as a standard LED bulb, an internet connection and a photo detector.

[...]

Laboratory tests have shown theoretical speeds of up to 224Gbps.

[...]

The term li-fi was first coined by Prof Harald Haas from Edinburgh University, who demonstrated the technology at a Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in 2011.

#Li-fi #Lifi
#wireless

Islamic State Uses Satellite Internet To Spread Message - SPIEGEL ONLINE
▻http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-uses-satellite-internet-to-spread-message-a-1066190.html

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The answer to this question is an extremely problematic one for Europe, for it is European companies that provide the terrorists with access to the platforms they use to spread their propaganda. It remains unclear whether the companies knowingly do so, but documents obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE show that they may very well know what’s going on. And the documents show that the companies could immediately cut off Islamic State’s Internet access without much effort.

If you need to get online in Syria or Iraq, the technology needed to do so can be purchased in the Hatay province — a corner of Turkey located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian border.

#tic_arabes

Mali’s Voice of Reason — International Reporting Project
▻http://internationalreportingproject.org/stories/view/malis-voice-of-reason

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Studio Tamani has transformed Mali’s media landscape in just two years. In a country where internet access is sparse and just a third of adults are literate, everybody listens to at least one of the country’s plethora of radio stations. But this one stands out. It has hosted the country’s political top brass, broken major stories, aired unprecedented debates on controversial topics like female genital mutilation, and become one of the most widely listened-to and respected radio stations. Moreover, it is that rare example of a foreign aid project that has worked unequivocally — in terms of bang per buck, it’s been a foreign donor’s dream. (The studio was founded by Fondation Hirondelle, a Swiss NGO.) And at the heart of it all is Famoussa Sidibé, a young Malian journalist who unexpectedly found himself hosting the studio’s flagship debate program.

#radio #mali

Tim Berners-Lee “just says no” to internet.org

▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/29/tim-berners-lee-urges-britain-to-fight-snoopers-charter

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Tim Berners-Lee urges Britain to fight ’snooper’s charter’ | Technology | The Guardian

Berners-Lee also warned about attempts to improve internet access around the world by offering cut-down versions of the web, such as Facebook’s Internet.org project. Users should “just say no” to such proposals, he insisted. (...)

The Web We Want campaign is promoting five key principles for the future of the web: Freedom of expression online and offline, affordable access to the net, protection of user data and privacy, a decentralised and open infrastructure, and net neutrality.

But the campaign is insistent that the five principles are a minimum starting point, and that compromise on those points is not helpful to the goal. That puts it in conflict with more than just the usual suspects. When asked about Internet.org, Facebook’s non-profit organisation that aims to extend access to a few select websites in the developing world, Berners-Lee said people should “just say no” to the project.

When it comes to compromising on net neutrality, “I tend to say ‘just say no’,” he said.

“In the particular case of somebody who’s offering … something which is branded internet, it’s not internet, then you just say no. No it isn’t free, no it isn’t in the public domain, there are other ways of reducing the price of internet connectivity and giving something … [only] giving people data connectivity to part of the network deliberately, I think is a step backwards.”

#internet #neutralité #internet.org #facebook

Refugees in Croatia can’t get to the Internet, so the Internet comes to them

▻http://mashable.com/2015/09/21/mobile-free-internet-refugees/#C4oCADWQrEqV

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Nearly 30,000 refugees have entered Croatia since Wednesday — many of whom are hungry, tired and in need of medical aid. Volunteers are working night and day to help, but the people waiting at various refugee centers and train stations, trying to find a way into western Europe, are desperate for information. They are trying to figure out routes to get to Germany, and with the borders to Slovenia and Hungary closing and reopening every few hours, that information is vital.

And without Internet access, they have none.

#réfugiés #migrations #internet #asile #hongroe