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Uma ferramenta não muito “smart”, o SmartFilter, vem ajudado empresas e governos a bloquear sites ao redor do mundo. Vejam Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: “At fault in most of these cases is a US-based censorware company called Secure Computing, which makes a web-rating product called SmartFilter. But Leia mais… »
Vejam essa…Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: “Australia Copyright Agency to schools: pay Internet licenses or shut down the net! Australian schools may have to pay a copyright fee every time a student is told to look at the web, if a plan from the national collecting society is Leia mais… »
Blog revela mais sobre pós 11/09. Do The Guardian Blogger bares Rumsfeld’s post 9/11 orders: “The handwritten notes, with some parts blanked out, were declassified this month in response to a request by a law student and blogger, Thad Anderson, under the US Freedom of Information Act. Anderson has posted Leia mais… »
Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data – New York Times: By JOHN MARKOFFPublished: February 25, 2006 (…) “The tools they were looking for are new, but their application would fall under the well-established practice of data mining: using mathematical and statistical techniques to Leia mais… »
Smart Mobs: “Texting and suicide Posted by Jim_Downing at 01:14 PM This article from the Irish Examiner says ‘people about to take their own lives are increasingly using text messages and voicemail instead of handwritten notes as a means of delivering the chilling messages,a coroner revealed at the weekend.The coroner Leia mais… »
Lendo o Boing Boing caí nesse site que cria um Map of registered and convicted sex offenders and predators in your neighborhood. Incrível, ele cruza dados da polícia local (tem de todos os estados dos EUA) e indica as casas e locais de trabalho de vários infratores, divididos em “offense Leia mais… »