Berto Jongman: John McAfee Vows to Make Internet “Impossible to Hack” + Internet/Human Intelligence Meta-RECAP [Bottom Line Up Front: Internet without Intelligence and Integrity is Noise]

John McAfee vows to make Internet ‘impossible to hack’ By Dan Nakaso dnakaso@mercurynews.com >Posted:   09/24/2013 05:38:37 PM PDT | Updated:   a day ago SAN JOSE — Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, who buried himself in the sand to hide from police in Belize, faked a heart attack in a Guatemalan detention center and …

Ramez Naam: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet (Video and Book)

Ramez Naam is the author of More than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement, which offers a tour of emerging technologies and makes a case for embracing human enhancement, showing readers how these technologies are powerful new tools in humanity’s quest to improve ourselves, our offspring and our world. His latest book, The Infinite …

Stephen E. Arnold: SharePoint Search: An Open Source Widget

SharePoint Search: An Open Source Widget If you have SharePoint responsibilities, you know how fabulous Microsoft’s Swiss Army knife solution is. Let me explain. The “fabulousness” applies to consultants, integrators, and “experts” who can make the rusty blade cut better than it does once the system is installed. I learned about “SharePoint 2013 Search Query …

Berto Jongman: Google Evil – Exploits All Wi-Fi Passwords

Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world By Michael Horowitz Computer World, September 12, 2013 If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password. Considering how many Android devices there are, it is likely that Google can access most Wi-Fi …

Berto Jongman: NSA’s War on Encryption

The NSA’s War Against Encryption New revelations about National Security Agency abuses, which now include everything from industrial espionage to reports that the agency can access most data on our smartphones, seem to put everything we know about how business is done on the Internet in danger. Complete story below the line.

Stephen E. Arnold: Replicant Hopes to Free Mobile from the Tyranny of Proprietary Software

Replicant Hopes to Free Mobile from the Tyranny of Proprietary Software August 27, 2013 Citing freedom and security concerns, the makers of Replicant are calling for donations, we learn from “Fundraising a Fully Free Fork of Android” at Boing Boing. The project hopes to give us all the choice to run our Android-based mobile devices …