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Thiruvananthapuram, March 3:
The International Centre for Free and Open Source Software here has completed the first batch of training in Internet of Things (IoT) hardware.
This will help students get started on programming for this emerging domain, said Satish Babu, Director of the centre.
The international centre started work on IoT and open hardware in 2012 with prototypes using technologies such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
It now plans to continue the work with sensors, including for applications such as sensor-based pesticide residue detection in vegetables and sensor clusters for macro- and micro-nutrients in soil and air quality monitoring, Babu added.
The hands-on training on IoT introduced 20 participants to the MicroHOPE controller board, a low-cost programmable controller developed by the Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi.
The participants were students drawn from engineering colleges from across Kerala. The skills learnt would enable them to take up further work on their own, particularly in developing new applications using the controller and free software-based tools as part of the main project in their curriculum.
IoT is the third generation Internet application that aims to connect the physical world to the cyber world through a combination of sensors and sensor networks, actuators, cloud-based repositories and analytics and decision-support systems.
Much of the emerging innovations today are centred on IoT, and it is largely in the domain of free and open source software.
The market for IoT is expected to cross $7 trillion by 2020, Babu said.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAR 3:
The International Centre for Free and Open Source Software here has completed the first batch of training for Internet of Things (IoT) hardware.
This would help students get started on programming for this emerging domain, said Satish Babu, director of the centre.
STUDENT PARTICIPANTS
The international centre started work on IoT and open hardware in 2012 with prototypes using technologies such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
It now plans to continue the work with sensors, including for applications such as sensor-based pesticide residue detection in vegetables and sensor clusters for macro- and micro-nutrients in soil and air quality monitoring, Babu added.
The hands-on training on IoT introduced 20 participants to the MicroHOPE controller board, a low-cost programmable controller developed by the Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi.
The participants were students from engineering colleges from across Kerala. The skills learnt would enable them to take up further work on their own, particularly in developing new applications using the controller and free software-based tools as part of the main project in their curriculum.
EMERGING INNOVATIONS
IoT is the third-generation Internet that aims to connect the physical world to the cyber world through a combination of sensors and sensor networks, actuators, cloud-based repositories and analytics and decision-support systems.
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WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy is a 2011 book by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding. It tells the story of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and the leak by Chelsea Manning (then known as Bradley) of classified material to the website in 2010. It was published by Guardian Books in February 2011.[1]
The book describes Assange's childhood and details about his work creating and expanding WikiLeaks. It explains how his surname comes from his stepfather, a "touring puppet theater owner", and not his biological father, a choice that Assange made himself.[2]
After the release of the book, Assange threatened to sue The Guardian, making a Twitter post on the WikiLeaks account saying, "The Guardian book serialisation contains malicious libels. We will be taking legal action." The Hindu writer, Hasan Suroor, said Assange's concern is that the book is "critical of [Assange's] robust style and his alleged tendency to be a 'control freak'".[3] One of the points of disagreement is that the book said he had initially refused to remove the names of Afghan informants from the Afghan war logs; the book reports him as saying they would "deserve it" if they were killed.[4]
In the book, Leigh mentioned the password to a set of unredacted classified US State Department cables. WikiLeaks had earlier distributed multiple copies of files containing all these cables, and others had mirrored their files with BitTorrent. WikiLeaks blamed Leigh and The Guardian for unnecessarily disclosing the password.[5] In response The Guardian said "It's nonsense to suggest the Guardian's WikiLeaks book has compromised security in any way." According to The Guardian, WikiLeaks had indicated that the password was temporary and that WikiLeaks had seven months to take action to protect the files it had subsequently decided to post online.[6] Wikileaks replied that others posted the files online, and as they were publicly available, the password was still useful. The cables contained in the file had their original form and thus they did have all the names that were erased for the safety of the informants. Specifically, the book mentions about the password:
Assange wrote down on a scrap of paper: ACollectionOfHistorySince_1966_ToThe_PresentDay#. Thats the password, he said. But you have to add one extra word when you type it in. You have to put in the word Diplomatic before the word History. Can you remember that?
David Leigh, WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy[7][8]
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MOSCOW Tue Mar 3, 2015 4:29pm EST
Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden appears live via video during a student organized world affairs conference at the Upper Canada College private high school in Toronto, in this file photo taken February 2, 2015.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden said on Tuesday the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of the government's mass surveillance programs was working with American and German lawyers to return home.
In Washington, U.S. officials said they would welcome Snowden's return to the United States but he would have to face criminal charges which have been filed against him.
Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, who has links to the Kremlin, was speaking at a news conference to present a book he has written about his client. Moscow granted Snowden asylum in 2013, straining already tense ties with Washington.
"I won't keep it secret that he... wants to return back home. And we are doing everything possible now to solve this issue. There is a group of U.S. lawyers, there is also a group of German lawyers and I'm dealing with it on the Russian side."
The United States wants Snowden to stand trial for leaking extensive secrets of electronic surveillance programs by the National Security Agency (NSA). Russia has repeatedly refused to extradite him.
Snowden has said in the past he would like to return home if he was assured he would be given a fair trial.
A deeply divisive figure, he is praised by some as a civil rights campaigner and whistleblower and condemned by others as a traitor who compromised U.S. security. Kucherena said in August Snowden had been given a three-year Russian residence permit.
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Edward Snowden became a polarizing political figure after leaking thousands of U.S. government documents that exposed top-secret surveillance programs. A former employee of the National Security Agency, he was assailed as a traitor and celebrated as a hero for his actions, and now lives in Russia to avoid American legal authorities.
Laura Poitras Oscar-winning documentary, Citizenfour, captured Snowden at the intimate and pivotal moments when he decided to act, shaking the D.C. power structure and impacting the U.S.s relationships with friends and foes alike, and Hollywood didnt waited long to mount its own version of the story.Oliver Stone is currently directing Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Snowden, which Open Road Films will open on Dec. 25. In the first-look image, Gordon-Levitt wears Snowdens glasses, but hes also in uniform, a soldier. Before he was a whistle-blower, Edward was an ordinary man who unquestioningly served his country, Open Road says in a promotional statement.
Before working for the CIA and the NSA, Snowden joined the United States Army Reserve in 2004with hopes of joining Special Forces in Iraq. He was discharged after breaking both his legs in a training accident.
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The Herald -- with investigative journalist Nicky Hager -- is working on stories based on files from the United States National Security Agency (NSA), taken by whistleblower Edward Snowden in the biggest intelligence breach in history.
Internationally, the information obtained by Snowden has sparked concerns about the behaviour of the intelligence agencies in the grouping of Five Eyes nations, of which New Zealand is a member.
Fierce debate has raged over diplomatic breaches, the intrusion into citizens' privacy and a shift towards a "collect it all" policy.
Hager obtained access to files from the Snowden trove through a partnership with the news site The Intercept, set up by campaigning journalist Glenn Greenwald after he revealed Snowden as a whistleblower who took a vast number of files from his former employer because he was concerned by the extent of the agency's actions and reach.
Hager said the information would show New Zealand was "far more involved than most people realise".
"The discussion about GCSB [Government Communications Security Bureau] in New Zealand has always been about GCSB spying on New Zealanders. What this is going to be about is all the other countries New Zealand spies on.
"Some of that won't be a surprise and some of it will be a great surprise."
Hager said the information would not only surprise the public but also "people all through the foreign policy and intelligence bureaucracy who will know much more about this subject at the end of these revelations than they did before.
"When I read through this material and see that New Zealand is doing these things, it seems bizarre to me -- like it is from another era."
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Berlin (dpa) - The encrypted mobile phone of a legislator leading investigations of US electronic spying on German officials has possibly been hacked, according to a report in newspaper Die Welt.
According to the report, which appeared online Tuesday, Patrick Sensburg, chairman of a committee looking into questions of internet spying, noticed problems with his Blackberry Z30 in February and sent the device to Germanys Federal Office for Information Security for servicing.
When the phone emerged from its security packaging at the office in Bonn, it was clear that the special transporter had been opened while the phone was in transit and signs that the phone removed and replaced, raising fears that someone had accessed its data.
Officials at the legislature, or Bundestag, have demanded an investigation.
Sensburgs committee was created in 2014 as German grappled with the news that various officials and institutions, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, had been the target of spying by the US National Security Agency.
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