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  • World War Z!

    World War Z!

    In a Directed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack, attackers overwhelm websites and servers by bombardment with “traffic.” They use a network of compromised computers known as “zombies” to do so. The owners of these compromised computers have no idea that their equipment is moonlighting as a zombie minion.
    It is estimated that roughly 25% of the [...]

  • Cyber@War

    Cyber@War

    For this project, the behavior of concern will be cyberwar. The difficulties of defining cyberspace notwithstanding, cyberwar is legally, politically, and socially complex. War might be ancient, but cyberwar is not. This disconnection creates difficulties for scholars, lawyers, diplomats, soldiers and civilians.1 Cyberwar is simultaneously an action, an idea, a motivation, material and nonmaterial. It [...]

  • Defining Cyberspace

    Defining Cyberspace

    In the world of computer science, cyberspace is a unique term because unlike most computer terms, it does not have a standard, objective definition. This section introduces cyberspace and the ongoing difficulties of defining it. For some it is a conceptual individual space, and for others, cyberspace is a product of social interaction.1 Having many [...]

  • Social Movement of Facebook

    Social Movement of Facebook

    Have you ever taken a close look at who comments on various status updates of yours? It’s almost an archival snapshot of you development over time. If you haven’t taken a look, then either you say nothing of any significance to your friends and need to re-evaluate your social network or you’re a cybernerd like [...]

  • technically (not)together

    technically (not)together

    I find myself immersed in an ever proliferating sea of URLs, TumblrLs, Twitter identities to match with the aforementioned, and meanwhile constantly struggling to keep stored, edited, and backed-up an exponential amount of data that if lost I’ll practically cease to exist.

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9 March 2010 @ 7:02 am: Cyberczar: No, cyberwar. “There are no winners in that environment.” So, war equals a winner? #cyberwar #cybercrime
From China, With Love
[ 0 ] March 6, 2010

From China, With Love

The White House is preparing a new initiative to protect against what it fears could be a crippling attack against the U.S. by computer, from overseas, and in particular, from China.
After a series of cabinet-level meetings this month at the White House, computer security analysts say the Bush administration is considering creating [...]

Question to Ponder
[ 0 ] March 1, 2010

Question to Ponder

Do advanced technologies make life more secure, or do they expose humanity to escalating dangers?

Consuming Digital Death
[ 0 ] February 28, 2010

Consuming Digital Death

I find this story both stunning and tragic. The Age of 24|7 forces us to reexamine how we consume death while producing the content of death:
This isn’t the way you should learn about the death of your 17-year-old brother.
According to Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, twins Angela and Maryanne Vourlis had just woken up on their 20th [...]

Phantasmagoria
[ 0 ] February 26, 2010

Phantasmagoria

Knowledge is a violent object of domination. Truth is the space of infinite collapse and illumination; it catalyzes the ultimate phantasmagoria.

What constitutes a Warcrime in cyberspace?
[ 4 ] February 25, 2010

What constitutes a Warcrime in cyberspace?

If cyberspace has become a domain for war-fighting, then, as an intellectual exercise, what could be considered a warcrime?

Jefferson v. Hamilton
[ 0 ] February 23, 2010

Jefferson v. Hamilton

Who signs, and with what so-called proper name, the declarative act which founds an institution?
We, collectively, make cyberspace. The Internet is merely the space the code-writers give us. Nothing more, nothing less. No gods give us this code; we are the code-writers, the architects and builders of that space, the noplace.
We are the sovereign power [...]

World War Z!
[ 0 ] February 23, 2010

World War Z!

In a Directed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack, attackers overwhelm websites and servers by bombardment with “traffic.” They use a network of compromised computers known as “zombies” to do so. The owners of these compromised computers have no idea that their equipment is moonlighting as a zombie minion.
It is estimated that roughly 25% of the [...]

The invasion
[ 0 ] February 23, 2010

The invasion

[An] invasion force of digital signals marched across the border into Estonia…1

Bloor, Robin. June 11, 2007. Large-scale DOS Attack Menace Continues to Grow, The Register ↩

Oh Regina.
[ 0 ] February 23, 2010

Oh Regina.

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