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Journal Journal: More on Google remote app wipe

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20008922-245.html
Google has remotely removed two free apps from several hundred Android phones because the apps misrepresented their purpose and thus violated Android developer policies, according to a company spokesman.
"The apps "were not designed to be used maliciously, and did not have permission to access private data--or system resources" beyond accessing the Internet, Rich Cannings, Android Security Lead, wrote in at http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/exercising-our-remote-application.html
Australia

Journal Journal: Stephen Conroy saved by by sensitive negotiations?

http://www.crn.com.au/News/217702,ludlam-change-in-comms-ministry-unlikely.aspx
From Communications spokesperson Senator Scott Ludlam "a change in Communications Ministers is "really unlikely".., due to difficulties in handing over the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) while significant, sensitive Telstra and NBN Co dealings take place."
Google

Journal Journal: You Don’t Want ISPs to Innovate

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/06/you-dont-want-isps-to-innovate/
"Building out infrastructure means redirecting stock-dividend dollars and putting them back into the company, which Wall Street punishes companies for â" and which hurts the massive stock packages of telecom executives. Itâ(TM)s literally not in telecom executivesâ(TM) best interest to invest in broadband and solid networks."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Next WikiLeaks Release May Involve ECHELON

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/22/2933892.htm
He agreed it would be of the "calibre" of publishing information about the way the top secret Echelon system - the US-UK electronic spying network which eavesdrops on worldwide communications traffic - had been used.

Australia

Journal Journal: Fears internet costs will rise due to NBN

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/fears-internet-costs-will-rise-due-to-nbn/story-e6frg6nf-1225882485870
"This deal between the NBN and Telstra could make broadband prices much worse for consumers if the NBN Co only decides to lease backhaul from Telstra and leaves the other backhaul providers stranded,"
Great backhaul lock in from one old monopoly to another.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Spiegel 8 part series on climate research

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686697,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686697-2,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686697-3,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686697-4,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686697-5,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686697-6,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686697-7,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686697-8,00.html

User Journal

Journal Journal: Wikileaks and Whistle-blowers

http://vimeo.com/10615688
Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald and Cryptome.org founder John Young talk to Brian Lehrer.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Meet the Sims and Shoot Them

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/22/meet_the_sims_and_shoot_them?page=full
"All told, the U.S. military is spending roughly $6 billion each year on its virtual side"

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