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Archive for August, 2008

army & navy to air force: “we want in on Cyber Command”

For just a moment — a moment — I saw the headline Air Force Halts Cyber Command Program and though: great news! Some of you may have noticed the air force’s recent power grab, declaring that cyberspace is their’s to protect:

Back in November of 2006 the 8th Air Force became the new “Air Force Cyberspace […]

apple’s long-arm tactics

No one could of seen this one coming (cough). Apple has embedded a remote kill switch in the iPhone’s operating system that allows them to deactivate applications of their choosing — including applications which were knowingly installed by an iPhone’s owner. According to Wired’s Gadget Lab:
Jonathan Zdrianski, author of the book iPhone Open Application Development, […]

outtake: governing the semantic web

Another outtake from the article Cindi Katz and I have been writing on the relationship between U.S. children and young people and their technological environments in the post-9/11 security state:
In their pursuit of both national and homeland security as well as the creation of new markets, the state and corporations are engaging the free-flowing horizontal […]

wiretapping – at&t’s new marketing strategy

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now, but what with article deadlines, ecycolpedia entries, the NUDA Summer School, and Euro-SSIG, I’m just now getting around to it. Back in June, at&t briefly flirted with the idea of using the scandal surrounding their illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens’ domestic and international communications […]

outtake: public wi-fi & nola

The following is an outtake from an article Cindi Katz and I have been writing on the relationship between U.S. children and young people and their technological environments in the post-9/11 security state. Once/if the final article is published, I’ll post a link to it here. In the meantime, consider this a “teaser.”
These shifts, and […]