28 Sep 10
Fast Company
- The Netflix Of Terrorism: Terrorist organizations are nothing if not publicity hounds. Web video tends to be the preferred way they get messages across and recruit sympathizers. Now private company IntelCenter, has assembled one of the world’s largest collections of streaming terrorist videos for viewing on demand.
- Astronaut Ron Garan On His Harrowing Landing, Innovations In Outer Space, And Tweeting From The Final Frontier: In an extended interview, astronaut Ron Garan speaks with Fast Company about his nerve-wracking return to earth, what technology startups should develop for space travel, and life on the International Space Station. “We really need to start not just exploring space,” Garan says, “but utilizing space.”
- Secret Service Reveals How It Stalks Cybercriminals: The Secret Service recently spilled the beans on their anti-cybercrime investigations. Fake accounts on underground websites? Elaborate multinational credit card fraud investigations with Turkish law enforcement? They’re doing that.
- Saudi Crackdown On Bloggers Is More Subtle, Sinister Than Mere Licenses: On censorship, blogs and subtle armtwisting.
- How Haystack Risked Exposing Iranian Dissidents: Software that promised to shield Iranian web surfers from government surveillance was a great idea. Only it didn’t work.
- The Palestinian Conflict, Settled On Your iPhone: On the uses of iPhone apps for international cause advocacy.
- The Toilet of the Future Will Turn Poop Into Power: Bill Gates is betting more than $40 million on being able to turn your flushable buddies into usable charcoal. This is a good thing.
- DHS: Imported Tech Contains Hidden Hacker Attack Tools: Proud of this story that broke the news on how government authorities are aware of foreign-produced electronics being purposely infected with malware.
- Afghanistan’s Amazing DIY Internet: Genius geeks in Afghanistan managed to create a working wifi network covering an entire city entirely through repurposed scrap and garbage. Amazing.
