In Attack on Vatican Web Site, a Glimpse of Hackers’ Tactics

Hacking will never go away , and I think that is a good think when done right;

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NYTIMES: By NICOLE PERLROTH and JOHN MARKOFF

Published: February 26, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO — The elusive hacker movement known asAnonymous has carried out Internet attacks on well-known organizations like Sony and PBS. In August, the group went after its most prominent target yet: the Vatican.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/technology/attack-on-vatican-web-site-offers-view-of-hacker-groups-tactics.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1330309412-0Xu53cDoCX2qZGuCvZKtdw

Willard Middling ( @WillardMiddling ) "I just want to be President of the USA so bad."

Hey!! Leave me alone!! I deserve to be President . 
Don't you understand that!  
@MittRomney @RickSantorum @Newt2012HQ@RepRonPaul @MittRomney

"Online Data Helping Campaigns Customize Ads"

~~Very TechoPolitical ~ 

By TANZINA VEGA

Published: February 20, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/us/politics/campaigns-use-microtargeting-to-attract-supporters.html?hp
Political campaigns, which have borrowed tricks from Madison Avenue for decades, are now fully engaged on the latest technological frontier in advertising: aiming specific ads at potential supporters based on where they live, the Web sites they visit and their voting records.

#SPOCK2016

Re: Syria

For those of you who still doubt

 Obama did the right thing in Libya,

 just look at all the dead innocents in Syria now: 


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@NYTIMES: February 19, 2012
"Two Senators Say U.S. Should Arm Syrian Rebels
"By ALISSA J. RUBIN
KABUL, Afghanistan — With the Syrian government continuing its deadly crackdown on its citizens, two senior American senators who were on their way to the Middle East spoke out strongly on Sunday in favor of arming the Syrian opposition forces.


The senators, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both Republicans, laid out a series of diplomatic, humanitarian and military aid proposals that would put the United States squarely behind the effort to topple President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. The senators, both of whom are on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that rebel fighters deserved to be armed and that helping them take on the Syrian government would aid Washington’s effort to weaken Iran.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/world/middleeast/mccain-and-graham-suggest-helping-syrian-rebels.html?_r=1&hp

"2012: Year of #Birthcontrol Moms?"

‎#Democrats win this issue easy @ Mr. #GOP; & Mrs.GOP agrees with me too: "2012: Year of #Birthcontrol Moms?"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73043.html
‎" >Hasn’t been a front-burner political issue since the Supreme Court decided Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965.
>But then Rick Santorum said states ought to have the right to outlaw the sale of contraception.
>And Susan G. Komen for the Cure yanked its funding for Planned Parenthood.
>And the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops teed off on President Barack Obama’s contraception policy.
>And House Republicans invited a panel of five men — and no women — to debate the issue.
>And a prominent Santorum supporter pined for the days when “the gals” put aspirin “between their knees” to ward off pregnancy. "


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73043.html

Never trust any hardware or software.

Never trust any hardware or software. Nor any one on the internet. Even sites you use regularly.~ tp ---
Anger for Path Social Network After Privacy Breach - NYTimes.com

By NICK BILTON

 | February 12, 2012, 11:00 AM 

"Last week, Arun Thampi, a programmer in Singapore, discovered that the mobile social network Path was surreptitiously copying address book information from users’ iPhones without notifying them."

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/disruptions-so-many-apologies-so-much-data-mining/

The Death of the Cyberflâneur : By EVGENY MOROZOV

~~ The internet grows up. Now far from its wild west type free wheeling eclectic early days, the web today is a place of functions-- and not so much  a place of recreations.~~ TP

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NYT -op-ed :The Death of the Cyberflâneur

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html

By EVGENY MOROZOV

Published: February 4, 2012

"It’s easy to see, then, why cyberflânerie seemed such an appealing notion in the early days of the Web. The idea of exploring cyberspace as virgin territory, not yet colonized by governments and corporations, was romantic; that romanticism was even reflected in the names of early browsers (“Internet Explorer,” “Netscape Navigator”).

"Online communities like GeoCities and Tripod were the true digital arcades of that period, trading in the most obscure and the most peculiar, without any sort of hierarchy ranking them by popularity or commercial value. Back then eBay was weirder than most flea markets; strolling through its virtual stands was far more pleasurable than buying any of the items. For a brief moment in the mid-1990s, it did seem that the Internet might trigger an unexpected renaissance of flânerie.

"However, anyone entertaining such dreams of the Internet as a refuge for the bohemian, the hedonistic and the idiosyncratic probably didn’t know the reasons behind the disappearance of the original flâneur"

File-Sharing Website The Pirate Bay Brushes Off Guilty Verdict

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/the-pirate-bay-brushes-off-guilty-verdict.php