Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

A Message From Twitter – Clean The Gulf…

Posted on 2010 06, 28 by rockingjude

The Most Over Rated Story of the Week: Goldman Sachs Charged with Fraud by the SEC

Posted on 2010 04, 17 by rockingjude

I’m so sorry …but I had to put this up after my full on rant last night on twitter with a couple of good folks @littlefoxy @yeneewSmiT @deepbluesealove @opphoto @Lisa_Sage and a lot of great folks listening in…I actually got put in “twitter jail” for a couple of hours for “too many updates”…go figure…too funny…anyway I couldn’t have said it better and should think about taking up my writing again!!! TY to @brysown for sticking up for me on the privacy issue )

04/10

by John Galt

April 16, 2010

Congrats America!

You’ve been suckered again. While the Obamites and his minions have been laying the plans for the remainder of this Congressional term, you’ve been distracted again by the obvious:

Wow, Goldman Sachs may have been engaged in securities fraud.

Baked beans give you gas, the sky is blue, and Hillary Clinton liquor’s bill is higher than her licker bill.

Knock me over with a feather.

This story from Reuters:

Goldman Sachs charged with fraud by SEC

could have been written with ________________ charged with fraud by SEC and still have had a 99.9% chance of being accurate. Fill in the name of your favorite bank. Hell, fill in the name of your local bank if it is publicly traded and has a derivatives operation and odds are you would be correct. The reason this story is as important as the first name of the very first cat to reside in the White House during the 20th Century?

Well, don’t ask me, I don’t know about that cat but one of mine has bad aim, so how is that for breaking news? The reason the story is not important is that the end result will be the same. The United States government is not about to create a major headache for a United States Treasury Department Primary Dealer who could walk away from an auction and not pick up the slack. The U.S. is also not about to attack an institution that “supposedly” owns 11-12% of the Federal Reserve of the United States. The U.S. government is also NOT going to create a situation where Goldman Sachs is unable to function or make money in any market, bear or bull, recession, expression or depression. So why is this story getting so much play?

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Privacy – Giving It All Away

Posted on 2010 04, 16 by duo

By Emma L. Devlin

emmadevlin.com

Facebook and other sites on the internet collect our names, the names of our spouses, partners, parents, children, friends, our birth dates, where we live, where we go when we leave our homes, where we work, what activities we enjoy, our ethnicities, where we went to school, where we grew up, details about our health and sexual orientation – quite simply, everything about us.

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Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets

Posted on 2009 10, 20 by rockingjude

By Noah Shachtman
October 19, 2009 |

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.

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Internet/twitter Failure…

Posted on 2009 08, 30 by rockingjude

Sorry guys…had high hopes of catching up….but for everything a reason and a reason for everything….Hopefully tomorrow i won’t be fighting the Internet..orrrrrr maybe I will..

God bless you all and your continued support…Please!!! As I am in a remote area try to get out the Red alert on the Internet….I’m calling for a full blown RED ALERT and we better WAKE up or what’s left of our Freedom of speech will be gone!!!

My spirit warriors and all of those with well wishes have sped me through with increasing vision….Keep it going and PLEASE spread the word…

Hugs, and Luv ya all,

~jude

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KreiosC2..twitter and networking

Posted on 2009 08, 14 by rockingjude

KreiosC2

KreiosC2 is a proof of concept bot which uses Twitter as its Command and Control channel. Obviously this can be used for malicious purposes but also for good ones, you can set up a bot at home to listen to your Twitter feed and perform actions on it. I’ll discuss the potentially malicious use of it here but it would be easy to take the concepts and use them for good.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words so a video must be worth more, here is a video of KreiosC2 in action put together by Tom Eston for his Defcon talk.

Whats new since version 1?

First the name change. Version 1 of this project was called TwitterBot. Unfortunately, I didn’t do any research before using the name and only after I launched it I realised that there were already a lot of other projects out there with the same name. The name KreiosC2 was created by Tom and is made up from Kreios, a Greek Titan God, and C2 which is the name the military uses to define command and control.

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Can China contain the microblog?… Miss you China…~jude

Posted on 2009 07, 29 by rockingjude

CPJ Blog

Press Freedom News and Views

By Madeline Earp/Asia Research Associate

Social networking sites are under increasing pressure in China. Someone seems to have realized just how difficult they are to monitor when it comes to breaking news.

Twitter and Facebook have been inaccessible for a while; next to go dark was Fanfou, a Chinese service offering microblogging services like Twitter’s, which became unavailable in China shortly after this month’s unrest in Xinjiang, according to international news reports. The Associated Press said that Digu and Zuosa, also microblogging platforms, closed on Tuesday, citing maintenance needs.

Online security was tight across the board today, AP reported. The technology news sites of two popular Internet portals, Sina and Netease, were also down for several hours after posting stories on a corruption probe into a company formerly overseen by President Hu Jintao‘s son. The Berkeley, California-based China Digital Times has posted a censorship notice the Central Propaganda Department apparently sent to all online news providers regarding the subject.