AllThingsD, Facebook, Facebookery, Humor, Tech Humor, Timeline Violations, kara Swisher | Friday, January 27, 2012 at 8:30 
via the genius of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech™
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 8:00 
News, of rather strong disputation, of a recently reported on memo, detailing the recent electronic attack (characterized as a cyber-attack) allegedly targeting our nation’s train system (actually a system near and dear to my heart up here in the Pacific Northwest).
“…”Following more in-depth analysis, it appears that the potential cyber incident did not in fact target a transportation entity,” a senior DHS official told CNET today. “DHS worked with the affected entity, the FBI, and the Transportation Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) to resolve the issue and send alerts to notify the community of the anomalous activity as it was occurring.” “The official, who asked to remain unidentified, declined to provide additional details…”
DHS, Electonic Warfare, TSA, Trains Plance Automobiles | Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 16:00 Absolutely phenomenal - a turntable that plays tree rings… Primeval derivative sounds? Must be heard to be believed.
“…A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently…” via Traubeck
All Is Information, Art, Encoded Information, Science, Stunning, Tree RIngs | Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 8:00 
Evidence of plagiarization has rooked, if you will, the artificial intelligence driven chess world. All puns (bad and good) aside, BoingBoing’s Rob Beschizza reports on the issues therein, and around the accused, and now proven culpable Rybka, a the chess application, under scrutiny.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 20:01 
Welcome to the ‘new’ world of Google Inc. (NasdaqGS: GOOG) cross-site user tracking [throughout the Google Inc. empire, that is]. The reality, of course, is the company’s tracking of users, and the sharing of that tracking information has gone on for years.
Is this turn of the so-called Google Privacy and Prnicples, perhaps a lead up to consolidate the company’s position prior to a concerted FTC anti-trust action against the little-search-engine-that-could, and provide leverage for same, admidst those legal proceedings? What will br the extent of user backlash? Will anyone outside of the technical industry (so to speak) actually read the new Privacy Policy? Will anyone actually believe Brin and Page, now so expertley coached by Eric “Beelzebub” Schmidt?
These are the questions bandied about at Infosecurity.US, whilst I am sure there are more of same, in your neck of the woods…
Homage and apologies to H.P. Lovecraft and Cthulhus everywhere…
Evil Empire, Fools, Google Inc, The End of Google | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 16:00 Short (mercifully), yet informative C-SPAN video, this time with Greg Wilshusen, Director, Information Security Issues, within the United States Government Accountability Office’s (GAO). In which, Director Wilshusen details Federal government accountability related to the information security realm. Enjoy.
CSPAN, Civilian Data Security, Data Security, GAO, Information Security | 
