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White House Cyber Czar: “There is No Cyberwar”
Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the U.S. is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing. “There is no cyber war,” Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.
Continue reading »Indie Movie Explodes on BitTorrent, Makers Bless Piracy
Written and directed by Jamin Winans, Ink is the story of a brutal mercenary who appears in the dreamscape of a comatose 8 year old called Emma. Like virtually every movie nowadays, the film ended up being ripped and put on BitTorrent just a few days ago. In this short time span it was downloaded by more than 400,000 people on BitTorrent alone, earning it a spot in TorrentFreak’s chart of top 10 most pirated movies this week.
Continue reading »Are Torrents a Tool for Predicting the Future?
Gigaom Pro is featuring an article of mine today, and the tag line is “Music and movie downloaders have more than once proven to be on the bleeding edge of connected consumer tech.” It’s available to subscribers only, but this short preview might give you an idea of what it’s all about … wait, you’re already a subscriber? Then let me now what you think about it! Tags: trends , connectedconsumer , btaccel , furk , gigaom , gigaompro
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