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Posts from the ‘Tech’ Category

Anonymous Declares War!

October 4th, 2011

MindSet

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The hacker group Anonymous released a video and a statement on October 2nd, effectively declaring war on Wall street.

The activist hacker group plan on taking down the New York Stock Exchange on October 11th, 2011 at 3:30pm EST as part of a “New Civil Rights Movement”.

Below is the groups full statement:
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Mobile Privacy?

April 21st, 2011

MindSet

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An accidentally discovered file on the Apple iPhone, has put privacy advocates in a tither, as it tracks the users location and then saves itself to the phone and the users computer once synced.

While the reason this data file exists probably has more to do with potential software improvements and advertising, than with government snooping.  It does make users snap out of their slumber, even if only for a moment or two, and see how wide open our lives have become in this technical age.
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Password is not a ‘strong’ Password

April 19th, 2011

MindSet

Hacking for password

Passwords are a major part of digital life, and in an attempt to regain some form of privacy, the more complex the password, the better.

Privacy is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, as invasive advertisers, government snoopers and scam artists invade almost every aspect of daily life, the need for secure passwords has become a necessity.
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The Singularity is near

March 30th, 2011

MindSet

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I’m not entirely sure why, but for the last several days I have been pondering The Singularity, and its possible outcome.

So what’s a Singularity?

The Singularity as postulated by Ray Kurzweil, is a theory that machines will achieve consciousness and become self aware around 2045, and then go on to completely out match humans in every capacity somewhere around 2060. This theory is currently confirmed by everything we know about how reality, conscience and technology functions, all leading to the fact that sentient machines infinitely smarter than us, will start to appear on Earth in about 50 years.
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TV Will Rot Your Mind

March 8th, 2011

Piration

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Hey Mind Setters I thought you would find this show interesting, this is episode 3 Aspiration

I heard your call out on the podcast Peter ;-)

Comedy series in which Charlie Brooker uses a mix of sketches and jaw-dropping archive footage to explore the gulf between real life and television.

Great fun, containing oodles of honest truth skillfully disguised  as comedy!
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The Future of Advertising?

February 28th, 2011

MindSet

futuread

Could this be the future of advertising?

Privacy is dead, and has been for a number of years now.

For people who grew up pre-internet, this is a disturbing fact.  Knowing that practically every aspect of modern life is either publicly available or stored for later retrieval on a server somewhere out there in cyberspace, can be an unnerving thought for “old timers”.
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