Tag Archives: awareness

Swift Access at the Cost of Swift Access: Diginotar

Stijnie Thuijs | 14 September 2011, 10:30 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

On the tenth of July 2011, the Dutch web security company Diginotar was hacked by (supposedly) a student from Iran. He was able to corrupt the so called SSL certificates and break into Gmail accounts and government websites. Nine days later, Diginotar noticed the infiltration in their system. The company claims to have responded according to security protocol. More…

Getting data, sharing data and raising political awareness.

olga paraskevopoulou | 07 May 2011, 3:35 pm | tags: , , , ,

Using vision to amplify cognition. According to the Light Switch Theory, vision appeared on Earth around 543 million years ago and triggered the Cambrian explosion (evolution’s Big Bang). Before that none of the living entities could see and relied to other senses for their survival. The evolution of the eye changed life dynamics. When living organisms were able to

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Interactive information visualization for disaster/crisis awareness

Maarten Hoogvliet | 04 May 2010, 11:27 pm | tags: , , ,

Natural disasters always have threatened man’s existence. However, as the report ‘New Technologies in Emergencies and Conflicts’ by the United Nations cites; “the number of humanitarian crises has been rising in recent years. Moreover, disasters strike more frequently, and with the most devastating impact, in the least developed countries.”[1] Of course, this claim seems somewhat subjective; it either proves…

Watching You Watch Me!! (…on Facebook)

Kai Henriquez | 22 September 2008, 1:28 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Web 2.0 application FACEBOOK analysed through FOUCAULTS PHILOSOPHIES ON SOCIETY.

WARNING|DANGER: With this knowledge a consciousness is created with which people become aware about the possibilities of people watching/observing/monitoring people, both virtually as in the real world.