Technogaze

15 Mar 2014

Telstra Privacy Breach, Twitter Crashes, SXSW, CIA Hackings and the Value of Metadata

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Technogaze was brought to you this week by Mark, Raena & Michael who looked at the latest Tech news including crowdsourced efforts to try and locate the missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370, the fine imposed on Telstra for publishing private customer information, Twitter crashes and the 25th anniversary of the conception of the WWW.

The annual South by SouthWest (SXSW) film, interactive and music festivals were held in Austin Texas during the week. Edward Snowden appeared via internet link and stated that he would do it all again if the opportunity arose to act as a whistleblower. He also discussed how encryption of data traffic can help to combat casual eavesdropping of data and encouraged major Tech Companies to offer this for their websites and products. A drone featuring an on-board taser was showcased at the festival as was perhaps a glimpse of the future of computing: using electrons around a nucleus as a replacement for the transistor – this technology promises speed improvements of a factor of 10,000.

We also donned our tin-foil hats and talked about the accusation by a US Senate Intelligence Chief accusing the CIA of hacking into their enquiry and deleting documents. Thanks to Stanford University research, we discovered that metadata around phone calls and their duration is not nearly as anonymous as we have been led to believe.