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Anonymous create their own social network

July 18th, 2011 1 how

Google reported that it had banned a handful of anonymous members by Google + (is not exactly clear how many accounts have been closed). The group of hacktivists have compared the actions to those of Facebook Google, Twitter, YouTube, or how governments that block websites using different tools of Internet censorship. As a result, Anonymous has decided to create their own social network: Anonplus

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The U.S. is developing software for a propaganda campaign of cyber

June 6th, 2011 No comments

AlJazeera reports that the U.S. military are currently developing software that will allow military personnel to create multiple fake identities in line with the mission to go in chat rooms and online forums to spread “pro-American messages”.

Critics call it propaganda or “systematized falsehood”, while the Pentagon calls him “violent struggle against the enemy's extremist ideology outside of the United States.”

At this moment it is still uncertain how effective this campaign will be and how the success or failure will be measured. There is also the legal question of the military who use false identities in the United States, but the government ensures that the system will not be used within the U.S., but in the Middle East and South East Asia.

To me it seems ridiculous to apply the old strategies of nineteenth-century social media today. What do you say?

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Linkedin: the new connection request in facebook style

December 28th, 2010 No comments

Linkedin is a social networking service on the network used primarily for the professional network. Although since I joined , now 3 years, I have not received any offer of employment continue to use it because you can contact and know many colleagues who are my own work.

Moreover, unlike the more famous FaceBook being specialized in employment and in particular the work that revolve around the technology, has not yet invaded by the entire “spam”/trash style FaceBook. This morning, while requesting the connection (Facebook is in the friendship) with a colleague, I noticed that has changed in this way:

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