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Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. Evgeny Morozov
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Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server. Evgeny Morozov
As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of them run their own servers and blogs – and have thousands of friends on their social networks – so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of … Read more
Republicans didn’t lie to the American people about whether there were classified e-mails on that server and Republicans didn’t tell families of Americans killed in Benghazi that a video was to blame for their murders. There isn’t a vast right-wing conspiracy, Madam Secretary. Just like there wasn’t one back in 1998. Eric Bolling
Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have make a joke about wiping the server clean with a towel or now we find out about bashing old Blackberries to get rid of them or the fact that she had 13 Blackberries. Eric Bolling
There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes. Edward Snowden
A zero-day exploit is a method of hacking a system. It’s sort of a vulnerability that has an exploit written for it, sort of a key and a lock that go together to a given software package. It could be an internet web server. It could be Microsoft Office. It could be Adobe Reader or … Read more
You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it’s very likely not in your country. It’s somewhere else in the world. Edward Snowden
The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it ‘out there.’ Douglas Rushkoff
Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they’re corporate gifts? We pay with our data. … Read more
Removed from ‘Gmail’ doesn’t necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors – the real product it is offering its advertisers. Douglas Rushkoff