RT @Liberationtech: @DARPA developing technology to identify & track hackers worldwide

“The goal of the Enhanced Attribution (EA) program is to develop technologies for generating operationally and tactically relevant information about multiple concurrent independent malicious cyber campaigns, each involving several operators; and the means to share such information with any of a number of interested parties without putting at risk the sources and methods used for collection,” reads the project’s official site.

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RT @jerezim: Is Ed Snowden actually John Connor? Snowden, the Terminator, and

We live already in the era of the Cyborg. Our Humanities are practically indistinct from the Machine. Functions of our bodies such as communicating, remembering, recognizing each other, our personal and shared memories and most of our works are now indivisible from the functions of the machines.

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Edward Snowden: Here’s how we take back the Internet

Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. "Your rights matter,” he says, "because you never know when you're going to need them." Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.

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The John Connor Curse: Nick Stahl, Edward Furlong and Christian Bale

 the disappearance of Stahl, best known for playing John Connor inTerminator 3: Rise of the Machines, also serves as further evidence of a very disturbing trend: all the actors who have portrayed the fictional rebel hero in theTerminator films seem to experience great misfortune.

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