Is Kaspersky Labs a Security Threat to the US?
Is Kaspersky anti-spyware...or is it Russian government spyware? That's the question for US state & local gov't users. Arguably one of the best-known Russian companies in the world is Kas…
Showing posts with the label Internet Governance
Jack Ma & The Legend of Alibaba's 1M US Jobs
The guy on the right can pretend to be a huckster like the guy on the left...when it suits. [DISCLAIMER: The blogger is an investor in Alibaba.] Well, here's another entry in this seemingly never…
.so Appropriate: Kickass Torrents Takes Somalia Domain
Psst...got the latest episode of Doctor Who ? One of the more curious things that software copyright holders have to deal with is the global public's willingness to "steal" intellectua…
Tech Frontliners: Bangladesh's Traveling Infoladies
Screening instructional videos is one of their tasks. Your feelgood story of the day comes courtesy of Bangladesh's social entrepreneurs known as the "infoladies." Like vast swathes of …
PRC's Tech Jihad Vs. 'IOE': IBM, Oracle, EMC
The Chinese government has stepped up efforts to get rid of computer systems from American manufacturers being purchased by domestic firms. You can't say the Yanks did themselves any favors with…
The Amoeba Boys: Philippine DDoS Attacks on China
Filipino "hackers" are the Amoeba Boys of cyberspace. Well this is embarrassing: Having played up the Philippines' emergence as a technology hub in Southeast Asia to rival India, the…
How the Heartbleed Bug Got Its Own Logo & Website
Ah, fun with Photoshop and someone else's logo. Something that's piqued my curiosity about the Heartbleed virus which is designed to, well, bleed through security layers is that it's alwa…
NSA Spying: A Visual Guide
I likened the NSA to East Germany's notorious secret police the Stasi via a job placement for electro-spooks a few moons ago. Data privacy is very much a hot topic in IPE as to the appropriatene…
Rousseff+Lula Double Act Unloads on US Net Spying
Cybersecurity is not an end unto itself; it is instead an obligation that our governments and societies must take on willingly, to ensure that innovation continues to flourish, drive markets, and i…
Can Brazil Escape Abusive, US-Centric Internet?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton Think of Barack Obama as the cyber-equivalent of Bashar al-Assad. Just as Assad does not own up to his chemical-attacking ways, so does Obama not own …
Agents of Imperialism? Bolivia Expelled USAID
I have become captivated by the twists and turns of the Edward Snowden real-life spy caper. While the original accusation that the US was using its advantageous position in the Internet infrastructur…
With (Spying) Friends Like US, Who Needs US-EU FTA?
It seems the Yanks have gotten themselves into yet another fine mess with their Internet Unfreedom spying activities. [ Hello NSA lackeys, I hope you're enjoying yourselves reading this post in b…
Snowden Files: Ecuador Cuts US Trade Benefits + More
It's probably not the wisest thing to do, but at least Ecuador may be accepting the consequences of putting its foot in its mouth. Famously harbouring WikiLeaks' Julian Assange in its London …
More "Internet Freedom" Hypocrisy c/o the Yanks
This post will be brief: I have identified the several contradictions of Hillary Clinton's hoary notion of "Internet Freedom" in a previous co-authored essay . Mind you, that bit of wri…
Twitter Revolution My Sassafrass: Back to Egypt
The self-styled American digerati has me ROFL even more now with their belief about the central importance of digital media in the Arab Spring events. A few days ago, we gathered that Egypt was in m…
Throwing a Shoe at China's Great Firewall Creator
[NOTE: This is the first of two China and authoritarian development posts. ] In case you missed it, you should really get a hold of this. For some time, I've been fascinated with shoe throwing as…
WikiLeaks: Shell 'Infiltrates' Nigeria, Hugo Bossed
I can hardly believe that this is my third post on WikiLeaks. After cataloguing typical American double-speak on "Internet freedom" (whatever that is) and suggesting that WikiLeaks move to…
Hey Assange, Take WikiLeaks.ch to Montenegro
Whatever you may think of Julian Assange's now world-famous leaks, you have to wonder about his follow-through. Having plied a cache of cables from the world's most formidable foreign service…