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Use These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Become Your Own Spy Agency | Threat Level | Wired.com
►http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/nsa-manual-on-hacking-internet

Il y a tellement de données disponibles sur Internet que même les cyberespions gouvernementaux ont besoin d’un peu d’aide de temps en temps pour passer au crible tout cela. Ainsi, pour les aider, l’Agence de sécurité nationale [NSA] a produit un livre pour aider ses espions à découvrir les renseignements cachés du web.

Les 643 pages du livre, appelé Untangling the Web : A Guide to Internet Research [Démêler l’écheveau : Un guide pour les recherches Internet], vient d’être publié par la NSA suite à une demande FOIA déposée en Avril par MuckRock, un site qui exige des frais pour traiter des dossiers publics pour les activistes et autres .

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Utiliser les trucs de la NSA pour devenir son propre espion - Wired.com
►http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/nsa-manual-on-hacking-internet

La NSA vient de publier un rapport de 600 pages intitulé « Untangling the web » : http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf un guide pour utiliser l’internet afin de trouver ce qu’on y cherche. Un guide plein de ressources pour trouver des fichiers sensibles....  Tags : internetactu2net fing internetactu #piratage (...)

#moteursderecherche

White House Must Respond to Petition Seeking Swartz Prosecutor’s Firing | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/swartz-prosecutor-petition

A whitehouse.gov petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration remove Aaron Swartz’s prosecutor in the aftermath of the internet activist’s suicide has surpassed 25,000 signatures.

That means the Obama administration is obliged to enter the debate over whether authorities — including line prosecutor Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann — went too far in prosecuting the 26-year-old internet sensation.

Plutôt que de nous focaliser sur les Big Data, si on prêtait attention aux Long Data - Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/forget-big-data-think-long-data

Pour le mathématicien Samuel Arbesman, plus que les Big Data, nous devrions porter attention aux Long Data, aux données qui permettent d’avoir un large balayage historique. Pourquoi ? Parce qu’elles nous permettent non pas d’avoir un instantané, mais de voir les processus et interactions qui se déroulent au fil du temps. Elles permettent de comprendre comment le monde change et comment nous changeons avec lui. Bref, nous permettre de mieux appréhender notre avenir. Tags : (...)

#bigdata

Inside the Mansion—and Mind— of Kim Dotcom, the Most Wanted Man on the Net | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/ff-kim-dotcom/all

défense & illustration du fondateur de #megaupload

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/10/ff_kimdotcom4_f.jpg

#piratage #internet #nouvelle-zélande #répression #fbi

William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong | Underwire | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/interview-with-william-gibson/all

In this Wired interview, which will be published over the next three days, Gibson discusses a dizzying range of subjects, including antique watches, comic books, punk rock, fortune tellers, internet memes and the long-running plans for a Neuromancer movie.

Part II : William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/william-gibson-part-2-twitter/all

I think that the #TED phenomenon is the kind of hypertrophied expanse of the sort of cultural impulses that we’ve talked about in part today. It’s really the same thing…. “Yay! He’s going to tell us….” I’m usually not really interested in that sort of thing. I’m also not very often invited; it’s probably all for the best.

Part III : William Gibson on Punk Rock, Internet #Memes, and ‘Gangnam Style’ http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/william-gibson-part-3-punk-memes/all

“That’s something from a subculture we would have no way of knowing anything about, and suddenly it’s on YouTube and it’s got millions and millions of hits, and people all over the world are saying, ‘Wow, will you check this out?’” Gibson said.

It’s unlikely, Gibson noted, that the video will be more than a blip in popular culture — soon to be supplanted by the next big meme. But, as he added with a laugh, “I want to see his next video. I will be totally on it. I’m sure I will be, because people will tell me about it on Twitter.”
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Inside a Prague Brothel, Where Sex Is Free If You Perform for the Web (NSFW) | Raw File | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/06/inside-a-prague-brothel-where-sex-is-free-if-you-perform-for-the-web-nsfw

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/wp-content/gallery/wired-bigsis-hjakrlova/W11-BigSister-HJakrlova.jpg

In her book Big Sister, photographer Hana Jakrlova explores an internet sex club in Prague where the clients get to have sex for free as long as they agree to let their exploits be filmed and broadcast live across the web.“I was battling certain feelings of guilt, sort of like a war photographer,” she says.

“Are you a witness or are you going to be the one who throws away the camera and is going to help the person who is wounded.” “There were real moments of humanity,” she says. “But overall I found it quite depressing.”

Because the internet viewers are the only ones who are financially involved, it changes their role in the relationship, she says. In many ways it makes the viewers the johns and makes the real johns part of the prostitution.

For Jakrlova, this type of service is indicative of a larger, ominous trend of broadcasting more and more intimacies across the globe via the internet.

No comment.
#The_Truman_Show

CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher | Danger Room | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote

More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them.

Earlier this month, Petraeus mused about the emergence of an “Internet of Things” — that is, wired devices — at a summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm. “‘Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies,” Petraeus enthused, “particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft.”

All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if you’re a “person of interest” to the spy community. Once upon a time, spies had to place a bug in your chandelier to hear your conversation. With the rise of the “smart home,” you’d be sending tagged, geolocated data that a spy agency can intercept in real time when you use the lighting app on your phone to adjust your living room’s ambiance.

“Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing,” Petraeus said, “the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing.”

Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More) | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
►http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/github/all/1

#github #git #software
(final twist: l’article lui-même est forkable sur github)

Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/megaupload-indicted-shuttered
Megaupload, the popular file-sharing site, was shuttered Thursday and its executives indicted by the Justice Department in what the authorities said was “among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States.”

Seven individuals connected to the Hong Kong-based site were indicted on a variety of charges, including criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Four of the members of what the authorities called a “racketeering conspiracy” were arrested Thursday in Aucklund, New Zealand, the authorities said.

Amazon’s Future Is So Much Bigger Than a Tablet | Epicenter | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/09/amazon-bigger-than-tablet/all/1

Now that #Amazon controls the end-to-end relationship between suppliers of goods stacked in its warehouses and consumers of those goods using its devices, Amazon’s next opportunity is to eliminate anyone who stands as a bottleneck between the two.

#commerce #internet

Collusion, pour visualiser comment nous sommes tracés en ligne
►http://www.clochix.net/post/2011/07/10/Collusion,-pour-visualiser-comment-nous-sommes-trac%C3%A9s-en-ligne

Atul Varma est décidément quelqu’un que j’apprécie. Déjà à l’initiative de Hackasaurus, il vient de lancer un nouveau projet pour aider les internautes à mieux comprendre le Web : Collusion est une extension pour Firefox[1] pour permettre de mieux comprendre comme les régies publicitaires en ligne nous suivent à la trace. L’extension collecte les cookies déposés par chaque page que nous visitons, détermine grâce au site PrivacyChoice s’ils émanent de sociétés qui font du traçage, et affiche une synthèse des traces que nous laissons.

#Firefox #Mozilla #Collusion #vie_privée

#Dropbox Lied to Users About #Data #Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/dropbox-ftc

Dropbox, which has more than 25 million users, revised its website claims about its data security April 13, from:
— All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES256) and are inaccessible without your account password.
to:
— All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES 256).

‘Paranoia Meter’: #HBGary’s Plot to Find the Pentagon’s Next WikiLeaker | Danger Room | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/paranoia-meter-hbgarys-plot-to-find-the-next-pentagon-wikileaker

Barr’s proposal to Darpa — dated September 17 and reported by our sister site Ars Technica in February — envisioned CINDER as an online lie detector, searching for peaks and troughs in virtual “adrenaline” during a user’s network activity. “[W]e will have a rootkit on the host that monitors keystrokes, mouse movements, and visual cues through the system camera,” Barr pitched. “We believe that during particularly risky activities we will see more erratic mouse movements and keystrokes as well as physical observations such as surveying surroundings, shifting more frequently, etc.” He called his proposed creation a “‘Paranoia Meter’ — a human factor and activity correlation engine.”