",,,,,in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon."

~~ I would label this Retro-TechnoPolitical. :) ~~~

10 Sep 09 10:03 11:03 UK

South Africa pigeon 'faster than broadband' !!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8248056.stm

Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.

A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.

Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds.

The idea for the race came when a member of staff at Unlimited IT complained about the speed of data transmission on ADSL.

He said it would be faster by carrier pigeon.

"We renown ourselves on being innovative, so we decided to test that statement," Unlimited's Kevin Rolfe told the Beeld newspaper, 'No cats allowed,"

~~ This is almost Surreal !!!

But it is the Technopolitical Age we
live in . Cyber-Spying among nations ,
even Cyber Warfare , and also Big Time Corprate Cyber-Biz Spying where billions of billions of $$ are at stake.

Man it is a

 rough place,
this
Cyber 

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30280436/

U.S. seeks hackers to protect cyber networks: 

Homeland Security wants someone who can 'think like the bad guy'.

updated 12:06 p.m. ET, Sat., April 18, 2009

WASHINGTON - Wanted: Computer hackers.

Buffeted by millions of digital scans and attacks each day, federal authorities are looking for hackers — not to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks.

General Dynamics Information Technology put out an ad last month on behalf of the Homeland Security Department seeking someone who could "think like the bad guy." Applicants, it said, must understand hackers' tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30280436/
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~~~  Please Be Real !! 

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free to post my stuff on your site ! 

Thats fair , right? ~~~