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The speeds may be from 2002, but at least they don’t keep all of my logs for five years and send them to the NSA for data collection forever.

At least Sonic.net plans on installing fiber in the sunset which means the surrounding neighborhoods, including mine will be able to get Gigabit fiber for $70/month, that is if your residence uses overhead lines since this ISP hasn’t figured out how to engineer installing fiber via underground. They’re also expanding in the North Bay if you just happen to be from there.

kadist:

I (heart) Data Mining, 2012

A special commission of Kadist
By Amy Balkin

Data mining is a computer software process that can involve the neutral or benign analyzing of data for patterns, but data mining also implies the more sinister activities of surveillance or subject-based information gathering. From the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping at AT&T’s Folsom Street, San Francisco location (by splitting fiber optic lines carrying Internet backbone traffic) to the targeting and tracking of individuals for commercial or political purposes, most internet users have no knowledge of these invisible programs that capture and process the information traveling through computer networks. 

Who (hearts) data? I do.

Who (hearts) data mining? Most everyone, since the ramifications of new knowledge patterns found in masses of previously uncollectible or un-parsable data allow for new insights and new types of social connectedness.

Who (hearts) data mining? Anyone who profits off of it, or uses it to political ends, such as Facebook, Investigative Data Warehouse, Apple Computer, The Department of Homeland Security, Narus, Target, Twitter, Project Narwhal, or now-shut programs like ADVISE, which in 2006 “was capable of analyzing one billion pieces per hour of ‘structured’ information, such as databases, and one million pieces per hour of ‘unstructured’ information, such as intelligence reports, emails or news articles.” 1

— Amy Balkin

I (heart) Data Mining, 2012 will be on view through August 31, 2012.

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shanksinatra:

This may seem totalitarian, but they did give us the whole thing, so they may have a point. Via M.I.T.’s Technology Review:

The U.S. Department of Defense may have funded the research that led to the Internet, but freewheeling innovation created the patchwork of privately owned technology that makes up the Internet today. Now the U.S. government is trying to wrest back some control, as it adjusts to an era when cyberattacks on U.S. corporations and government agencies are common.

At the RSA computer security conference yesterday, representatives of the White House, U.S. Department of Defense, and National Security Agency said that safeguarding U.S. interests required them to take a more active role in governing what has been a purely commercial, civilian resource. But some experts are concerned that the growing influence of defense and military organizations on the operation and future development of the Internet will compromise the freedom that has made it a success.

great…. another threat to the internet as we know it.

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