Attorney General set to destroy tens of millions of users' legitimate...
An attorney for MegaUpload -- which was shut down by the US government earlier this month, and whose assets have been frozen, following copyright complaints from the entertainment industry -- says...
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Dropbox: "We wuz hacked"
A couple weeks ago, a few hundred Dropbox users noticed they were receiving loads of spam about online casinos and gambling websites, at email addresses those users had set up only for Dropbox-related...
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Debunking the NYT feature on the wastefulness of data-centers
This weekend's NYT carried an alarming feature article on the gross wastefulness of the data-centers that host the world's racks of server hardware. James Glanz's feature, The Cloud Factory, painted a...
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Schools and the cloud: will schools allow students to be profiled and...
Kate sez, "Technology companies are moving rapidly to get tools like email and document creation services into schools. This link to a recent survey of schools in the UK shows that use of such...
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Ardent Industries to build raining voxel cloud on a forklift
Ardent Industries, the crazy people behind such large art installations as Dance Dance Immolation and SYZYGRYD, are building a giant 3D Mario cloud stuck to the top of a forklift so they can rain on...
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US businesses stand to lose up to $35B as a result of PRISM
How Much Will PRISM Cost the U.S. Cloud Computing Industry? [PDF], a report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation -- a highly regarded DC think-tank -- estimates that the US cloud...
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Bittorrent Sync seeks alpha testers
Bittorrent Sync is a Dropbox-like service through which the bittorrent protocol is used to synchronize all your devices. I recently used it to receive a large file from a friend in Los Angeles, and I...
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Copyfraud, uncertainty and doubt: the vanishing online public domain
In Enclosing the public domain: The restriction of public domain books in a digital environment, a paper in First Monday, researchers from the Victoria University of Wellington document the widespread...
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Snowden: Dropbox is an NSA surveillance target, use Spideroak instead
A remarkable moment from last night's remarkable Snowden video from the Guardian. (more…)
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FBI investigating Denver cops who erased citizen video of beatdown
Denver police were videoed savagely beating David Flores and his pregnant girlfriend by Levi Frasier, who had his tablet confiscated and the video deleted after one of the cops shouted "camera" -- but...
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LED cloud lights
The battery-powered LED cloud is handmade in Australia and projects a moon and stars on the ceiling above. (more…)
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Incredibly strange and sublime cloud portal with a rainbow inside
big_mac_heart_attack posted this gorgeous example of a "fallstreak hole" with a rainbow in a cloud formation over eastern Victoria, Australia. They are rare enough that some people think they are...
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Vtech breach dumps 4.8m families' information, toy security is to blame
Vtech is a ubiquitous Hong Kong-based electronic toy company whose kiddy tablets and other devices are designed to work with its cloud service, which requires parents to set up accounts for their...
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Kickstarting a tool to block robocalls and tie up scammers
Roger Anderson, a telephony expert, developed the Jolly Roger Telephone Company to block and madden robocallers. (more…)
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Iphones secretly send your call history to Apple's cloud, even after you tell...
Apple has acknowledged that its Icloud service is a weak link in its security model, because by design Apple can gain access to encrypted data stored in its customers' accounts, which means that the...
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The kickstarted Pebble smartwatch is now a division of Fitbit, so they may...
If you're one of the 60% of Pebble employees who didn't get a job offer from Fitbit, the company's new owner, you're probably not having a great Christmas season -- but that trepedation is shared by...
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That big Amazon S3 outage was caused by a typo, company admits
On Monday, many websites, news services, publishing platforms, and other internet-connected things that use Amazons AWS platform went dark. The cause can finally be revealed. (more…)
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Using structured encryption to search protected photos in the cloud
In a recent presentation at the Real World Crypto symposium, researchers affiliated with Brown University and a startup called Pixek presented their work developing an app that encrypts photos at the...
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NHS okays hospitals and doctors storing patient data on public cloud servers
NHS Digital has issued guidance to the independent authorities and businesses that make up the UK's National Health Service, setting out the case for storing extremely sensitive patient data on public...
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Amazon orders Signal to stop using AWS to defeat censorship
Repressive autocracies like Egypt, Oman, and the UAE ban Signal and other encrypted messaging apps, using national firewalls to try to block their traffic; Signal evades these blocks by using "domain...
View ArticleA prolific credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured "buckets" in...
Magecart is the hacker gang that pulled off the British Airways and Ticketmaster credit-card heists; now they've build an Amazon cloud scanner that systematically probes S3 storage "buckets" for...
View ArticleGooglers circulate petition demanding a moratorium on contracts with US...
Despite the departure of its most prominent leaders amid claims of harassment and retaliation, the Googler Uprising lives on, with Google employees circulating an internal petition demanding that the...
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View of monster storm at sky level
Plane flying past a storm from ThatsInsane This passenger got a front row seat of exactly what the pilot of their plane wanted to avoid: a cumulonimbus giant storm cloud thrashing the earth dwellers...
View ArticleGrendel: free/open source software for protecting your cloud data
Marc Hedlund sez, "Wesabe just open sourced a project called Grendel that makes it easy for web apps to encrypt data using the user's login password, and only decrypt that data when the user is logged...
View ArticleGoogle gets into the YouSendIt business: send 250MB attachments with Google Docs
Google is getting into the YouSendIt business: the free Google Docs now supports file-hosting of up to 250MB, along with access-restrictions based on Google accounts (just like other Google Docs). I'm...
View ArticleTim O'Reilly explains the Cloud
Here's Tim O'Reilly on the future of Cloud computing and the "Internet of Things," speaking at the MySQL CE 2010 conference." As Bruce Sterling sez, "It looks like he's just telling disconnected...
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WPA Cracker cracks WiFi passwords in the cloud
WPA Cracker is a WiFi security compromiser in the cloud, running on a high-performance cluster. Send them a dump of captured network traffic and $35, and they will try 136 million passwords in 40...
View ArticleDropbox's new security policy implies that they lied about privacy from the...
Miguel de Icaza noticed that Dropbox's new security terms of service allows it to decrypt your stored files for law enforcement; but Dropbox has always claimed that it did not store the keys necessary...
View ArticleDropbox CTO on their security policy
Arash Ferdowsi, CTO of Dropbox, wrote to me to clarify Dropbox's present and historical privacy policy: first, I'd like to clarify what our intent was in how we represented privacy in our TOS. in our...
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