In Dave Winer's session now, good stuff. I asked a question about the accidents of history that made Blogistan what it is today, like Extreme Tracking's free site-stats service. Etreme doesn't charge any money for stats-gathering and reporting, but if you get the free service, anyone can see your stats. The "premium" service costs money, and keeps the stats private. The outcome of this has been hundreds (thousands?) of blogs that have public referrer logs and hit-counters. This makes the Blogosphere much more interesting. I can follow one of my referrers to a site, then look at its links, and its referrers and look at how many visitors it gets, and so on, and keep on doing this forever. This deep-crawling is like a signpost on the road to a Web with about seven additional dimensions made of the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, as represneted by ASCII text files that can be programatically mined and moved and parsed.
Public referrer logs, an accident of history
Amazon used a China firm on U.S. blacklist for thermal cameras to monitor workers for COVID-19 fever
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Financial Times journalist Mark Di Stefano accused of accessing private Zoom meetings, then publishing the information
Mark Di Stefano of the Financial Times is accused by The Independent of accessing private Zoom meetings held by The Independent and The Evening Standard as journalists were learning how… READ THE REST
Hackers tried to break into WHO, which faces more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks
Hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier in March, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, Reuters reports. Security experts blame an advanced cyber-espionage hacker group known as DarkHotel.… READ THE REST
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