Holy Crap! A Giant Robot Storms San Diego Comic Con 2013

It took the mighty minds and resources of WIRED, YouTube, Stan Winston School, Legacy Effects, and Conde Nast Entertainment to create an insanely detailed, one-of-a-kind, 9 foot 9 inch Mech with four arms to usher in the 2013 San Diego Comic Con. And who better to announce it than Adam Savage, of Tested and Mythbusters. It is ready to blow your mind. And coming soon to YouTube’s Geek Week … a huge mini-series showing how this colossus was built.

Criminalizing Free Speech- Arizona to outlaw annoying Internet comments

Arizona‘s House Bill 2549 on the surface is designed to combat bullying and stalking, making it a crime to use an electronic device to talk to someone in a way that would terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy, or offend. But lawmakers are saying that commenting repeatedly on the Internet is the same thing as calling someone over and over on the phone. So those ‘annoying’ or ‘lewd’ comments on Youtube or facebook would be a crime in Arizona.

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Apple launches latest iPad with Retina Display

Apple‘s Philip Schiller unveils the company’s newest iPad. The device offers a higher-resolution Retina Display and better camera. The pricing starts at $499 for a 16GB Wi-Fi model and 4G starting at $629.

 

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Find your lost or stolen Android phone FREE!

Get the lowdown on locating your lost or stolen Android phone, even if it’s on silent.

 

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Getting Loaded: Breaking down the Facebook IPO

Pinterest ties with Twitter and Google for referral traffic, HTC cures security bug, and Facebook reveals finances in its filing to go public.

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Tired of being “Rickrolled”? Here’s how to stop it!

Ok so maybe I’m getting old! I actually had to look up the definition of “Rickrolled”, but it was worth my time and effort just for the laugh I got from the definition which is as follows:

To post a misleading link with a subject that promises to be exciting or interesting, e.g. “World of Starcraft in-game footage!” or “Paris Hilton blows Busta Rhymes‘ dick” but actually turns out to be the video for Rick Astley’s debut single, “Never Gonna Give You Up” – Urban Dictionary

Wish you could see what that YouTube video is about, before you click on that link? On today’s Tekzilla Daily, Veronica has a Greasemonkey script that converts URLs to the real title so you never get Rickrolled again.

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They Like Me! They Really Like Me! – Facebook Sued Over ‘Like’ Ads

Facebook is facing a lawsuit over how they do advertisements using “likes” and friends on the social networking site.

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Rick Perry’s newest Campaign ad is setting records on Youtube… more than 350k dislikes and counting

Media savvy Rick Perry is soaring to new heights. His newest campaign video entitled “Strong” has gone viral in a new and unprecedented way…. It has garnered more than 368,900 DISLIKES or as YouTube puts it “Thumbs Down” 3 cheers for Rick Perry!!!  I Just wonder when his campaign will hear the “Big Pop” and end all the lunacy of running for president. Internet Political Commentator “TJ – The Amazing Atheist” breaks down the Top 10 reasons why he thinks Rick Perry is still relevant. (Strong Language Warning, but it’s all in good fun!)

GO DISLIKE RICK PERRY NOW!!! (Below is Rick Perry’s ad “Strong”)

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You’re being spied on! – Smartphone Spyware “CarrierIQ” what it is, why it’s there, and how to remove it

If you have a cell phone, chances are you have a smartphone.  You know the ones, with fancy screens and capabilities galore…….. Well, as a catch to having a phone capable of doing almost anything, there lurks buried inside of that phone, hidden applications that track and record everything you do, call behavior, history, etc.  Sounds creepy, but it’s true.  Most smart-phones carry a hidden app called CarrierIQ, which, for lack of a better expression, spies on the phones user or users.  This post is a cumination of articles and videos  from various sources explaining Carrier IQ, what it is, what it does, and how to remove it.

(HuffPost–Gerry Smith  ) A security researcher has posted a video detailing hidden software installed on smart phones that logs numerous details about users’ activities.

In a 17-minute video posted Monday on YouTube, Trevor Eckhart shows how the software – known as Carrier IQ – logs every text message, Google search and phone number typed on a wide variety of smart phones – including HTC, Blackberry, Nokia and others – and reports them to the mobile phone carrier.

The application, which is labeled on Eckhart’s HTC smartphone as “HTC IQ Agent,” also logs the URL of websites searched on the phone, even if the user intends to encrypt that data using a URL that begins with “HTTPS,” Eckhart said.

The software always runs when Android operating system is running and users are unable to stop it, Eckhart said in the video.

“Why is this not opt-in and why is it so hard to fully remove?” Eckhart wrote at the end of the video.

In a post about Carrier IQ on his website, Eckhart called the software a “rootkit,” a security term for software that runs in the background without a user’s knowledge and is commonly used in malicious software.

Eckhart’s video is the latest in a series of attacks between him and the company. Earlier this month, Carrier IQ sent a cease and desist letter to Eckhart claiming he violated copyright law by publishing Carrier IQ training manuals online. But after the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, came to Eckhart’s defense, the company backed off its legal threats.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the software that Eckhart has publicized “raises substantial privacy concerns” about software that “many consumers don’t know about.”

Carrier IQ could not immediately be reached for comment. But the company told Wired.com that its software is used for “gathering information off the handset to understand the mobile-user experience, where phone calls are dropped, where signal quality is poor, why applications crash and battery life.”

On its website, Carrier IQ, founded in 2005, describes itself as “the world’s leading provider of Mobile Service Intelligence solutions.”

(Trevor Eckhart)More information about Carrier IQ. If youd like to talk about it, post below, tweet with #CIQ or if you have a board discussion about it post the URL here. I will be doing NO moderation.

While your out there thank the @EFF for letting me continue 🙂

Why are you looking at CarrierIQ for information and not HTC? Look at how many devices have Carrier IQ hidden. HTC is just including 3rd party software. They have privacy policies everywhere for their programs, this is not just an HTC/Android issue.

Visit http://androidsecuritytest.com/features/logs-and-services/loggers/carrieriq/c… for more info.

Videos were shot with E4G/E3D, so dont complain about quality.. If you want a better shot of something let me know!

Video Contents:
Part 1 – Start – Device setup
Part 2 – 3:15 – Where we don’t see CIQ
Part 3 – 5:05 – Finding CIQ Application

Part 4 – 8:34 – Watching Carrier IQ Watch Us
8:39 – Keypresses
12:27 – Receiving a SMS Message
13:35 – Using Browser on WiFi

Part 5 – 15:45 – Carrier IQ on an out of service device
Part 6 – 16:49 – Conclusions

Go check out sassibob over at TweetFind too –http://blog.tweetfind.com/carrier-iq-occupycarriers.html

Carrier IQ Official Video

How To Remove Carrier IQ

This will show you how to remove CIQ on your Epic! Let me know what you think!

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Cyber warfare on the rise / Is ‘Anonymous’ targeting a Mexican cartel?

Anonymous

Governments and corporations find they’re coming under attack by a new and dangerous enemy. CNN’s Barbara Starr reports. A video purportedly from the hacker ring “Anonymous” threatens that information on cartel supporters can be published.

The Age of Cyber Warfare

Anonymous Targets a Mexican Drug Cartel