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After brand NaMo, get ready for ‘Wikileaks’ T-shirts and accessories

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New Delhi, Oct 09: Taking a cue from the success of Narendra Modi and Being Human T-shirts and franchise, Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange has now decided to launch his range of apparel and accessories in the lucrative Indian market.

Wikileaks is a non-profit organisation which tries to bring out the truth hidden by the governments from the common public.

The 43-year-old whistleblower journalist hopes that Indian youth's love for online shopping will transform him into a brand icon on the lines of the famous Argentine revolutionary, Che Guevara. Che Guevara T-shirts are a very popular amongst Indian youth.

Che was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, who became a prominent figure of the Cuban Revolution. His name became synonymous to global insignia in popular culture and used by free thinkers around the world.

As per a TOI report, Olafur Vignir Sigurvinsson, an Iceland-based WikiLeaks representative, who had arranged a chartered plane for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's journey to Moscow, "India is one of the countries where awareness about WikiLeaks is the highest and Julian is excited about the proposition."

Branding of Wikileaks would also help the website for not only gain popularity but also generate the funds for the non-profit organisation, which runs on donations from across the world.

Gaurav Marya, chairman with Franchisee India, the company that is facilitating brand WikiLeaks' entry into the country, told TOI that he is hopeful that the e-commerce boom will give a leg up to the domestic merchandising industry.

The products like T-shirts and sweatshirts, sport taglines like 'Leaks exposing injustice' and 'Enemy of the state' will also be out in the online market. However, it will be interesting to see if this experiment will be a hit or turns out a flop market gimmick.

OneIndia News

Story first published: Thursday, October 9, 2014, 13:28 [IST]

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Edward Snowden: Escape From Hong Kong @ TheGameFever.com – Video

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Edward Snowden: Escape From Hong Kong @ TheGameFever.com
Your character, Edward Snowden, attempts a daring escape from Hong Kong in this politically charged runner game similar to Canabalt and Temple Run. Visit exotic locals such as Russia, Vietnam,...

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Matt Olsen on the NSA and Edward Snowden (Oct. 8, 2014) | Charlie Rose – Video

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Matt Olsen, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, talks to Charlie Rose about the fallout from Edward Snowden #39;s leaks regarding NSA surveillance programs. Watch to find out...

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Snowden, pope, refugees, Congo rights campaigner in the buzz for 2014 Nobel Peace Prize

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Published October 09, 2014

STAVANGER, Norway Bettors this year are putting their money on Edward Snowden, Pope Francis or a Pakistani schoolgirl as favorites to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

As usual, the secretive Norwegian Nobel Committee hasn't dropped any hints ahead of Friday's announcement, revealing only that it had received a record 278 nominations. Geir Lundestad of the Norwegian Nobel Committee has suggested the choice was more difficult this year, telling The Associated Press they had "seven meetings rather than five or six."

Here's a look at some names generating the most Peace Prize buzz this year:

EDWARD SNOWDEN

The former National Security Agency contractor blew the lid on mass U.S. surveillance in the summer of 2013 too late to be a contender for last year's prize but two Norwegian lawmakers nominated him for the 2014 award. One of them, Snorre Valen, said Snowden's disclosures qualified for the peace prize because "surveillance is the latest arms race. For there to be any chance of peace, countries have to be able to trust each other." Snowden, who remains exiled in Russia, has said he is proud to have been nominated but considers himself an outsider for the $1.1 million award.

POPE FRANCIS

Since he became pope in March 2013, Francis has been a notable champion of the poor with incognito visits to homeless people and demands for development and wealth redistribution. The pope is the bookmakers' favorite but, after the fallout when President Barack Obama got the prize in 2009, awarding Francis the Nobel a year into his papacy might be too soon. If he did win, the Argentine would be the first head of the Catholic Church to get the prize.

MALALA YOUSAFZAI

The Pakistani teen who campaigned against the Taliban's destruction of girls schools was shot in the head by the group in 2012. Many guessed she would win last year and were wrong, as the prize went to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Now 17, she has continued to speak out in support of women's rights but is considered more of an outsider for the prize. Still, her odds have dropped to 12-1 from 20-1 a few weeks ago, according to the betting firm Unibet.

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Google Chairman on NSA Spying: ‘We’re Going to Break the Internet’

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Google chairman Eric Schmidt lobbed harsh criticism at NSA surveillance on American citizens.

Just because you can do it, doesnt mean you should do it, Schmidt said during a hearing in Palo Alto, Calif. hosted by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

The hearing on Wednesday came weeks before a potential Congressional vote on the USA Freedom Act, a bipartisan bill that would stop the NSA from collecting the phone records of U.S. citizens. The event was designed to gin up public support for the legislation while giving Silicon Valley executives a venue to vent about how recent revelations about government spying threaten their businesses.

For years, Sen. Wyden had suggested the NSA was engaged in questionable surveillance practices. But it was not until former government contractor Edward Snowden leaked top-secret documents last year, confirming widespread monitoring of online communications, did the issue gain worldwide attention.

In 2011 on the floor of the United States Senate, I warned that people were going to be stunned and angry when they found out how the U.S. government has been secretly applying its surveillance authority, Sen. Wyden said. And it turned out I was right about that.

The event, held in the gym of Palo Alto High School, was carefully choreographed as an outlet for outrage at government surveillance. Executives were uniformly critical of the NSA, mostly answering softball questions lobbed by Sen. Wyden, who had attended the school long before the Internet industry grew up around it.

The scene, itself, was a bit surreal. Over 100 high school students sat on the basketball court in the bleachers as executives spoke and, at one point, interrupted the proceedings by leaving en masse after the school bell rang to signal the end of a class period.

Joining Schmidt were Microsoft Executive Vice President Brad Smith, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, Dropbox General Counsel Ramsey Homsany and John Lilly, a venture capitalist with Greylock Partners.

Revelations about the surveillance have tarnished the reputations of many Silicon Valley companies. Some documents have suggested that U.S. tech giants were complicit in handing huge amounts of customer information to the federal government, an accusation that the executives vehemently deny. Rather, they say they only respond to legal demands for user data. Any wholesale surveillance, they insist, was done without their help or knowledge.

Whether the companies should even be collecting so much personal data never came up. Digital rights groups have been particularly critical of the practice, saying it leaves users vulnerable.

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Web Encryption – It’s Not Just for E-Commerce, Anymore

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Last week, I re-tweeted Cloudflare's announcement that they are providing universal SSL for their customers. I believe the announcement is a valuable one for the state of the open Internet for a couple of reasons:

First, there is the obvious they are doubling the number of websites on the Internet that support encrypted connections. And, hopefully, that will prompt even more sites/hosting providers/CDNs to get serious about supporting encryption, too. Web encryption it's not just for e-commerce, anymore.

Second, and no less important, is the way that the announcement articulates and shares their organizational thought processes. They are pretty clear that this is not a decision made to immediately and positively impact their bottom line of business. It's about better browsing, and a better Internet in the long run is better business. And, they are also pretty open about the challenges they face, operationally, to achieve this. That's another thing that can be helpful to other organizations contemplating the plunge to support SSL.

So, go ahead and have a read of their detailed announcement and please forget to check if my website supports encrypted connections. It does not :-/ (yet). I've added it to my IT todo list right after dealing with some issues in my e-mail infrastructure. I asked the head of IT for a timeline on that, and she just gave me a tail-flick and a paw-wash in response. Life as a micro-enterprise.

More substantially, I could easily become a Cloudflare customer and thus enable encryption up to the Cloudflare servers. But, proper end-to-end encryption requires my site to have a certificate, based on a unique IP address for this website and the going rate for that, given where my site is, is $6/mo. That adds, substantially, to the cost of supporting a website, especially when you might have several of them kicking around for different purposes.

There's work to be done yet in the whole security system (economics) model, it seems to me. Open discussion of practical issues and eventual work arounds does seem like a good starting place, though.

A version of this post originally appeared on http://www.thinkingcat.com.

By Leslie Daigle, Principal, ThinkingCat Enterprises and Editor, InternetImpossible. More blog posts from Leslie Daigle can also be read here.

Related topics: Privacy, Security, Web

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Smartphones ‘remotely wiped’ in police custody, as encryption vs. law enforcement heats up

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Summary: British police are warning that smartphones in custody for forensics and ongoing investigations are being remotely wiped, potentially killing vital evidence.

British police forces have complained that as many as six smartphones seized have been remotely wiped in the past year, potentially killing vital evidence as part of ongoing investigations.

The somewhat comical angle from the BBC News on Thursday was thatCambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham, and Durham police "don't know how people wiped them."

Here's a hint, police: "Find my iPhone."

The issue stems around the technology that allows users to remotely wipe their device, and potentially corporate secrets and personal information, in cases where their devices have been lost or stolen.

Most modern phones come with this technology: Apple iPhones, Android and Windows Phone devices all do. In many cases, like with BlackBerry handsets, company IT administrators can also remotely wipe data.

But this poses a problem for the British bobbies. The report said, citing one forensics expert, "If a device has a signal, in theory it is possible to wipe it remotely."

Police often use radio-frequency shieldedbags, or even microwave ovens (so long as they're never turned on) to prevent cell service from getting through.However, in some cases, even that short period of time after a device has been seized can be enough to send through a remotely-activated data kill switch.

Law enforcement in the U.S. over the past few weeks have complained at Apple and Google's move to encrypt data on their devices by default, forcing police and federal agents to go to the device owner, rather than to the company themselves.

Many U.S. federal agencies, including the FBI and the NSA, complained that Apple and Google's encryption efforts will hamper investigations.Drug dealers, pedophiles, identity thieves, and other violent criminals will be able to evade capture, they say, with the FBI DirectorJames Comey criticizing Apple for allowing its customers to "place themselves beyond the law."

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