Residents of several states across the US may soon have to register with the government and pay a fee to have the state grant them the "privilege" to view pornography online.
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A mother is speaking out this week after she found that an AI robot with pedophilia-like tendencies had been sending her 7-year-old daughter sexually explicit messages.
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Years ago, when my kids were in elementary school, I let one of them play a kid’s game on my computer. Hours later, when I got back on the computer, I had a virus. This was our first of many discussions about cyber safety.
It’s safe to say that the internet is increasingly becoming more of an unsafe place thanks to new cyber threats coming out and child predators finding more sophisticated ways of accessing our children’s accounts. While this frightens parents, it doesn’t seem to stop children from wanting to get online to play games, hang out with friends, or research. Parents must stay ever vigilant in making sure children know the threats that are out there.
As a parent, I have explained the dangers on the internet and what they need to avoid, but is this enough? We say our “Stay Safe Online and Keep Away From Perverts” lecture and send them on their merry way? There is much more that we must explain to them!
Part of having the responsibility of being on the internet is using it safely. These tips are musts for ensuring your kids are staying safe online.
For added safety, use these same tips for cellular phone and text message safety as well. Instruct children not to accept unknown phone numbers. Kids should only answer phone calls and text messages from their contact list.
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Are “privacy” and “anonymity” mere synonyms, at least, when placed in the context of online safety and IT security? Simply put, no. While privacy and anonymity may have similar tradecraft practices and protocols, the very heart of their differences lay in the desired objective.
Perhaps the most succinct way to tell the two apart is this: think of online privacy measures as a defensive deployment to deter attackers that operate under the stealth of anonymity. In other words …
Privacy uses an active approach to prevent the leakage of data, which is usually executed at the software level. It’s a bit like using camouflage so that the bombers can’t find your bunker.
Anonymity is what makes a stealth bomber, stealthy. Whatever that bomber decides to do next, however, is up to the bomber. Whether or not it decides to kill its target or not, it is kept safe because stealth (anonymity) means missiles can’t find it.
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One such service that employs these tactics would be Protonmail. Their end-to-end encryption of your email keeps your communications private. However, their proxy-server location in Switzerland ensures that even if the NSA wanted to take a peek at who sent an email, they’d have no idea who they actually were looking at.
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What Is Online Anonymity?
Everyone Can Be Found. Not Everyone Wants to Try That Hard.
Whether you seek a titanium wall of privacy or total anonymity, it’s important to realize that the moment an impregnable system exists, it’s already on its deathbed. The world of IT security and Internet privacy is one that is ruled by a gargantuan arms race. Regardless of how strong and robust the defenses, any digital castle can be brought to its knees if an attacker possesses the necessary determination to do so. For this reason, the winner in this game tends to be the stealthy, swift sniper, and not the slow, massive tank.
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Wired’s Andy Greenberg, in an article titled How to Be Anonymous Online, argued that by using “cryptographic anonymity tools to hide your identity,” network eavesdroppers “may not even know where to find your communications, let alone snoop on them.”
“Hide in the network,” security guru Bruce Schneier said. “The less obvious you are, the safer you are.”
However, it’s not always about the software, adding layer after layer of protections, rerouting your communications from node to node, bouncing your data packets from Beijing to Jamaica in order to access some private server in Sweden. It’s about being a needle in a field of needles. It’s about not being noticed by the people who may be looking for you. It’s about achieving the transformation into a non-obvious digital being just like the rest of them, and blending in with the billions of others in the information sea.
To trade your uniqueness is engaging in this global shell-game of titanic proportions, the Holy Grail of digital anonymity.
What are your best tips for staying anonymous online? Share your advice in the section below:
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Google facing two more charges under bloc "competition rules"
Shawn Collins/Flickr(INTELLIHUB) — Google has been fined €2.4B ($2.7B USD) after a European Union antitrust court ruled the tech giant knowingly favored itself over its competitors online search results.
Two additional charges under bloc ‘competition rules’ may arise.
“What Google has done is illegal under E.U. antitrust rules,” Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. “It denied other companies the chance to compete on the merits and to innovate. And most importantly, it denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefits of innovation.”
Intel was the last to fall victim to Antitrust laws when the corporation was fined €1.2B in 2009.
Withal, the commissioner has also set her sights on the Apple corporation which reportedly owes back tax in Ireland.
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Holiday sales for many traditional stores were pretty abysmal this year … Amazon far and away captured the majority of online sales.
Stores like Macy’s, on the other hand, actually saw a sales decrease during one of the most crucial shopping times of the year.
Now The New York Times reports the store chain will be closing 100 stores and cutting over 10,000 jobs.
The company, which now has 730 stores, announced in August that it would close 100 of them. On Wednesday, it identified 68 stores to be closed.
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Some employees may be offered positions at nearby stores, but Macy’s estimated that 3,900 workers would be affected by the closings. It also said it planned to restructure parts of its business, leading to a reduction of an additional 6,200 jobs. Over all, the job cuts represent about 7 percent of its work force.
Meanwhile, Sears Holdings Co. also announced this week it will close 78 Kmart Stores and another 26 Sears locations this spring.
The company’s statement read in part:
Many of these stores have struggled with their financial performance for years and we have kept them open to maintain local jobs and in the hopes that they would turn around. But in order to meet our objective of returning to profitability, we have to make tough decisions and will continue to do so, which will give our better performing stores a chance at success.
They admitted it: the stores were kept open mainly just to maintain local jobs.
That’s probably true of many major employers the nation over. As automation continues, jobs will continue to be lost. It’s a well-known fact that the majority of low-paying jobs that employ the most adult workers in this country such as cashiers and waiters/waitresses will inevitably be replaced.
The only question is what does the system plan to do with tens of millions of unemployed workers?
This article was written by Melissa Dykes and originally published at The Daily Sheeple.
This article was written by Adan Salazar and originally published at Infowars.com.
Editor’s Comment: There is no shame whatsoever in the powers that be. Despite the fact that the “mainstream media” routinely distorts facts, reads from scripts and teleprompters and arguably even deliberately frames falsities, it is the alternative media and the dissenting voice that is being labeled as “fake,” untruthful and unworthy of anyone who might care to read it.
Rather than continue competing with independent journalists, caught-on-phone reports and voices from the other side of complex issues, the powers that be would prefer to try to put the genie back in the bottle, and to put bumpers on the bowling lanes of the world wide web. Streamlined, authorized, sanitized and, ultimately, corporate friendly. What will the future look like? Will anyone even notice when the truth disappears?
Facebook to Decide What’s Real Vs. Fake News for Users
by Adan Salazar
Social media giant Facebook has announced the site will prompt users if they attempt to share news articles disputed by third parties, the latest in an array of efforts to stifle independent media.
In an announcement Thursday, Facebook said it would aid the spread of “hoaxes and fake news” by partnering with media organizations and fact-checkers, including Snopes, ABC News, The Washington Post and The Poynter Institute.
“If the fact checking organizations identify a story as fake, it will get flagged as disputed and there will be a link to the corresponding article explaining why. Stories that have been disputed may also appear lower in News Feed.”
The site explains: “Once a story is flagged, it can’t be made into an ad and promoted, either.”
If a story is proven fake, users will be shown a prompt that says, “Disputed by 3rd parties,” when they attempt to share the article.
Facebook claims it will focus on “the worst of the worst, on the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain, and on engaging both our community and third party organizations.”
CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post Thursday said the new steps would help “build a more informed community and fight misinformation.”
As noted by Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson, Facebook’s appointment of establishment media organizations as their foremost authorities on fake news is puzzling given a majority of Americans do not trust the mainstream media.
How can the mainstream media be empowered to decide what’s “fake news” when two thirds of the American public don’t even trust them?
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) December 15, 2016
And of course the organizations chosen to sort fake from real news aren’t infallible either. Just last week The Washington Post, one of Facebook’s new fact checkers, had to retract a story claiming various media outfits were working with the Russians to push Kremlin propaganda.
Additionally, The Poynter Institute’s fact checking project, launched last year, was revealed to have been funded by grants from organizations with close ties to the Obama White House, guaranteeing bias will be prevalent in the censorship of so-called fake news.
While Facebook claims it’s protecting users from the scourge of fake news, it’s more likely the company will employ the new feature to blacklist information which runs contrary to mainstream media narratives.
This article was written by Adan Salazar and originally published at Infowars.com.
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