Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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One More Time: Iran Isn’t Using Deep Packet Inspection
Thanks to the Wall Street Journal last week, it’s become common knowledge that Iran is using deep packet inspection technology to track down dissenters online and imprison or even kill them. When such heinous acts are happening in full view of the world, everyone’s looking for a suspect to hang the crime on. In this ...
Social Media Fact-checking [Michael Jackson’s Confirmed Death]
Only moments ago, it was confirmed that Michael Jackson’s death was confirmed by sources of the LA Times: Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times. Most news sources, cable and online alike, carried the ...
Google Voice Slowly Opening Up to the Public
The Official Google Blog loudly trumpets today that invites to the coveted “follow-me” call service are going out now: A couple of months ago we announced Google Voice, a service that gives you one phone number to link all your phones and makes voicemail as easy as email. We are happy to share that Google ...
Mobile Ad Network Catfight: AdMob vs. The World
Yesterday, Paul Boutin wrote over are Venturebeat about an interesting dustup forming in the mobile app monetziation world between AdMob and other mobile ad aggregation networks like Adwhirl and Tapjoy. In the world of mobile advertisement, much like in the world of web advertisement, it often helps to hedge your bets against one particular ad ...
The FTC is Opening a Hornet’s Nest [ANGLE Round-Up]
At this point, it’s almost remedial for us to cover this ground again at SiliconANGLE, since we’ve said so much on the subject already, but the blogosphere is expressing a new round of blind support for the new FTC regulations on blogging. We maintain our very strong position of criticism of the FTC. This is ...
Iran Probably Isn’t Using Deep Packet Inspection [#iranElection]
…Or at least they’re not using particularly sophisticated Deep Packet Inspection. That’s the opinion of those of us in SA Labs today, after re-examining the data we collected last week and looking over the new behaviors being identified in the efforts by the Iranian Ministry of Information to block communications by their citizens. The Wall ...
Will Someone Please Show John C. Dvorak an Aggregator?
John C. Dvorak put out a Marketwatch article this weekend that attempts to debunk the prevailing opinion that Twitter is a legitimate source of news. He breaks down his second opinion into seven major points, which I’ll try to summarize and rebut here. 1) Elephant Syndrome: There’s an Indian fable about three blind men and ...
More Details Emerge on Iran’s Internet Censorship
It seems that the parts of the rest of the blogosphere weighed in on our analysis on the Iranian IT situation, picking their pet theories we presented late last night. – Arbor Networks thinks that the networks were taken offline and migrated to low-capacity proxy servers. – GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham agrees, saying that “some unscrupulous ...
How Iran is Blocking the Internet Suggests They Weren’t Prepared for an Election Backlash [#iranElection]
Renesys, an Internet infrastructure research outfit, has released data today that illuminates a bit on how the government of Iran is restricting access to outside websites to their citizenry. As they illustrated with graphs showing uptime and traffic levels, the pipes leading into the country of Iran are still active and showing quite a bit ...
7 Sites for Tracking #IranElection
As many of you know, I’ve been keeping close tabs on the #IranElection aftermath as both a one who studies international politics as well as a technologist and social media pundit. A lot of hay has been made about the role that Twitter has played in allowing the citizens of Iran to self-report what’s going ...
