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Mesh net Darknet plans over on Reddit in response to SOPA

Mesh net Darknet plans over on Reddit in response to SOPA

By Dan Morrill on November 28, 2011

Image by cambodia4kidsorg via Flickr Just thinking about the difficulties in rolling out a network is enough to make anyone’s head spin, but the boffins over at Reddit are thinking about doing just that in a direct response to SOPA. While this is an interesting idea there are some security things they are going to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged darknets, Domain Name System, Internet service provider, Reddit, SOPA, Techwag Basics, TOR, United States | 2 Responses

Seattle Startup Weekend -  Some Thoughts

Seattle Startup Weekend – Some Thoughts

By Dan Morrill on November 15, 2011

  It has been over a two years since I went to my last startup weekend here in Seattle, and the sad part is that it really did not leave an impression. You would think that something like this would, but two years ago, it did not. This year however, I was able to go […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged google, Marc Nager, seattle, silicon valley, start up, startup weekend, TechStars, Techwag Basics | 2 Responses

Facebook's new "Needs Review" feature

Facebook’s new “Needs Review” feature

By Dan Morrill on November 15, 2011

I like Facebook a lot, and spend significant social media time there talking to people and otherwise engaging in the usual social media voyeurism. What was very cool today though was the “needs review” tag that is automatically opt-in rather than the usual don’t sweat it you have to manually figure out how to opt-in […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged facebook, google, Image, linkedin, social media, Social network, Techwag Basics, twitter | 2 Responses

The Day Network News Died

The Day Network News Died

By Dan Morrill on November 7, 2011

I have been reading an entry over on Torrent Freak about the shut down of one of the few Tier-1 Usenet servers on the planet. Usenet is a holdover from the very early days of the internet and has been one of the major ways that people communicated and shared information before P2P and long […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BitTorrent, Megaupload, News-Service.com, rapidshare, Techwag Basics, TorrentFreak, Usenet

Law Firm going after individual sellers on Amazon for Patent Violation

Law Firm going after individual sellers on Amazon for Patent Violation

By Dan Morrill on October 31, 2011

I don’t know enough about this right now to go and make the statement of if this is a valid legal issue, or if this is simply “patent trolling”, but apparently a law firm representing Kelora Systems is now going … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, Ebay, google, lawsuit, microsoft, Patent, Patent infringement, Techwag Basics | 1 Response

New Klout Scores. No Sir, Many People Do Not Like That.

New Klout Scores. No Sir, Many People Do Not Like That.

By Dan Morrill on October 26, 2011

The whining has been phenomenal today with the changes to how Klout scores your relative influence within social media and networks. While it is an interesting system, and one that I do watch because when I have a Klout score of above 50 people offer me interesting things to do, there are still some things […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged facebook, High school, Klout, orkut, social media, Social network, Techwag Basics, twitter, wordpress | 1 Response

Did the hacker who shared internal Occupy Wall Street emails violate CEH ethics

Did the hacker who shared internal Occupy Wall Street emails violate CEH ethics

By Dan Morrill on October 17, 2011

Gawker has run a very interesting expose on a Certified Ethical Hacker who infiltrated Occupy Wall Street (OWS) as a private citizen, and shared internal OWS e-mails with Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government page. The question that he did it is fairly well established with his own writing on the Big Government page, and the Gawker […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged Big Government, Bradley Manning, Certified Ethical Hacker, ethics, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Techwag Basics, wall street

And I get a takedown Notice from Aiplex in India

And I get a takedown Notice from Aiplex in India

By Dan Morrill on September 30, 2011

About a year ago (to be exact, September 20th 2010) members of 4chan started an attack against low yield targets against the MPAA, RIAA and Aiplex. That article was picked up by Cloud Avenue and was an article that flew under the wire, few if any paid attention, and like all events this one was […]

Posted in Security | Tagged Aiplex, Filesharing, mpaa, Recording Industry Association of America, riaa, Techwag Basics, Torrent Freak, TorrentFreak, United States | 7 Responses

The Google Plus 1 Tab looks a lot like Stumble Upon

The Google Plus 1 Tab looks a lot like Stumble Upon

By Dan Morrill on September 30, 2011

Should Stumble Upon worry about Google Plus? One of the things I really do like about Google Plus is that it has the plus one list so I can keep track of what I am plussing. It does not mean I had to make this public, if anything you have to consciously click a button […]

Posted in Featured Posts | Tagged Digg, google, google plus, Search Engines, Stumbleupon, Techwag Basics

Europe VS Facebook the data deluge edition

Europe VS Facebook the data deluge edition

By Dan Morrill on September 28, 2011

Trolling Facebook is in high fashion today as Reddit users swamp Facebook with requests for individual user data. It would be awesome to know what Facebook knows about you, and to get an idea of just how popular this idea is, check Slashdot this morning. What is interesting though is out at Europe-V-Facebook.org website they […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged data liberation front, facebook, google, Reddit, Techwag Basics | 3 Responses

I wish that Klout allowed for divergent systems

I wish that Klout allowed for divergent systems

By Dan Morrill on September 25, 2011

I like Klout; it is an interesting system that can be easily tweaked to work with the major social systems out there. Klout support most of the major systems such as Facebook, Blogger, Flickr, and others to try to put together a bird’s eye view of how your influence and supporters/followers tend to influence others […]

Posted in Application Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged blogger, facebook, flickr, Google Profile, Klout, SmugMug, Techwag Basics, vimeo, youtube

Twitter Malware loose tonight 9-18-2011

Twitter Malware loose tonight 9-18-2011

By Dan Morrill on September 18, 2011

I have been getting a lot of twitter malware links tonight that uses a pretty simple browser based exploit that is easily caught by just about any anti-virus. But tonight malware links are making the rounds, and unfortunately they are going everywhere. So far have about 3 accounts I follow in the comic book community […]

Posted in Security | Tagged antivirus, Cameroon, Malicious Software, malware, operating system, Techwag Basics, Viruses

Cloud Computing in Education

Cloud Computing in Education

By Dan Morrill on September 12, 2011

I was up late last night talking to some of my very old contracting buddies from a long time in my past. We were talking about the adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise, and the influence that is having on the ability to hire employees who really get cloud computing, virtualization, security, cryptography, and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, education, Learning, Techwag Basics | 3 Responses

Amazon cuts deal with California on Sales Tax collection

Amazon cuts deal with California on Sales Tax collection

By Dan Morrill on September 8, 2011

This means that the end of the tax free shopping on line party is starting to end, as Amazon cuts a deal with the state of California on collecting sales tax on sales to customers in the state. For Amazon retailers they should not see this, as it will be tacked on at the end […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Amazon.com, california, Los Angeles Times, online shopping, sales tax, tax, Techwag Basics | 3 Responses

Consequences far outweigh the positives with spamming social data streams

Consequences far outweigh the positives with spamming social data streams

By Dan Morrill on September 1, 2011

While I am not overly surprised that spammers have found that Google Plus (indeed any social network) is an awesome place to sell or otherwise try to engage people with their get rich quick, enlarge your anatomy or other scams, … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured Posts | Tagged E-mail spam, facebook, google, Search engine optimization, social media, Social network, spam, Techwag Basics

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