Future crimes
An FBI futurist and senior advisor to Interpol analyzes the digital underground to reveal the alarming ways criminals, corporations and countries are using emerging technologies to target individuals and wage war.
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- That’s not a new problem with selling info on dark web marketplaces. if you're interested in learning more, here are a couple of books you might enjoy:
"The Dark Net” – Jamie Bartlett “We Are Anonymous” – Parmy Olson “Future Crimes” – Marc Goodman “Kingpin” – Kevin Poulsen
- Future Crimes by Marc Goodman
a good book from Goodman
- Having trouble getting the article in its entirety but I don't allow my kids to use facebook or any other of the other social media services. I want them to have some level of privacy for as long as they can. They can txt, call or meet their friends. They don't need facebook to do that.
Some great info on the subject can be found in "Future Crimes" - Marc Goodman . Everyone should give it a read.
An excerpt from the book.
>Facebook is by far the largest social network in the world. It has succeeded by getting people to talk about themselves in ways never previously imagined. Sexual orientation, relationship status, schools attended, family tree, lists of friends, age, gender, e-mail addresses, place of birth, news interests, work history, catalogs of favorite things, religion, political affiliation, purchases, photographs, and videos—Facebook is a marketer’s dream. Advertisers know every last intimate detail about a Facebook user’s life and can thus market to him or her with extreme precision based upon the social graph Facebook has generated.
Moreover, Facebook created a variety of innovations that allow it to track users across the entirety of the Web, including via its omnipresent Like button. You’ve been trained to click on the cute little blue thumbs-up button to express your support for a particular idea, status update, or photograph; after all, it’s the polite thing to do. Your friends see that you support their message, but what neither of you see is what happens with the data generated with each and every Like—data that are captured, dissected, and sold to marketers and data brokers around the world. When you use Facebook’s ubiquitous log-in credentials to visit other sites on the Web, such as Spotify and Pandora, Facebook’s data-mining engine is crunching your preferences for Lady Gaga over Blake Shelton, just as it is tracking all the Web sites you visit with the Facebook icon on them (even if you don’t log in).
In case you aren’t sharing enough, Facebook is happy to create new rules and regulations to force you to share more, as it did in 2012 when it instituted its mandatory timeline “feature.” The change provided advertisers a dynamic, ever-updating window into your life’s interests at any moment in time and more fodder for Facebook to sell to advertisers.<
Facebook is building a new data center in Ft Worth, TX. If you saw the size of it you would be terrified. It makes a Walmart Distribution Center look small.
- I don't think it's about trade but the wholesale theft of IP, R&D, etc.
According to Marc Goodman, in his book "Future Crimes" he details how China is responsible for the largest transfer of wealth in Human History all through theft of I&P.
I know my companies own experience led to the closing of a factory after it was discovered that the Chinese Military had infiltrated the Factory floor and was actively trying to harvest IP and Financial Information.
I just finished speaking to someone who is in the plastic injection molding industry and they are carefully managing the technology they send to China and don't allow dies to be manufactured there because of the extent of IP Theft.
This is about survival and trade will be used to fight the war.
- In Marc Goodman's book "Future Crimes" he discusses the largest transfer of Human wealth to ever occur.
Through China's hacking efforts they have stolen Trillions of Dollars of US Tax Payer money that has gone into research and development of anything the Government has done including the F 35 fighter development.
They have also attacked US Industry and stolen trade secrets and software. Recipes for Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel, etc. Decades of R&D and 100's of millions of dollars gone. Chinese State Owned Sinovel Wind Group stole AMSC's computer code that was developed to run power generating Wind Mills. It cost the company almost a 1 billion dollars a year in lost revenue and all the money it took to develop it.
Here is an article regarding the F 35 Program.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/o...
Is it really innovation when all you do is steal and copy from the west?
