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Hackers – White Hat Cowboys?

December 27th, 2011

Strategic Forecasting Inc., Stratfor, which is a US based security think tank that counts branches of the US military among its client list was hacked, and unlike many companies that have been in their position before, Stratfor admits that they got jacked up really bad. The hacktivist group, Anonymous, claimed responsibility for the attack. By [...]

 
 

China and SEO Part Two

November 10th, 2011

After the Chinese government announced intent to crack down on microbloggers and the social media platforms that they use, SEOs from around the world immediately noticed that support has come in from Chinese technology companies. The fairytale story would be that the large corporations came to the aide of the masses that make their platforms [...]

 
 

China Cracks Down on Social Media Bloggers – Again

October 31st, 2011

China has vowed to crack down on social media controls in a move that surprised nary and SEO or SMM. The growth of micro logs and people having an opinion which may be contrary to the opinion of the ruling communist government has sparked this announcement. Social media plays into this because the combination of [...]

 
 

The Google War on Censorship

September 22nd, 2010

According to CY Talk, “The US government asked Google for user information 4,287 times during the first six months of 2010. During the same timeframe the UK government put in over 1,000 such requests.” This is a partial look at Google’s new Transparency Report. According to BBC News, “Earlier this year, Google released details about [...]

 
 

China Backs Down, Renews Google’s License

July 9th, 2010

In the face of enormous backlash from China’s scientific and educational communities in response to threats of shutting Google down in China entirely, a compromise has apparently been reached allowing the Chinese government to save face and Google to continue to operate uncensored. In 2007, when Google originally secured a license to operate in China, [...]