Anonymity apps are on the rise
April 11, 2014 | Technology
Anonymity apps are on the rise. Apps such as Whisper are intended to promote online anonymity. The developers claim this will prevent and combat cyber-bullying. According to Mashable, "The team regularly hears from users that the network's community has helped them stop self-harming behaviours." Another premise behind the service was to counter the "best possible self" ego-driven self-aggrandizing "vanity" posting done on Facebook, and as an antidote to the phenomenon of "over-sharing" and "too much information" that young users engag...
Exclusive: Revenge Porn – Ugotarrested.com
April 11, 2014 | Technology
You may not have heard of it but Revenge Porn is the new scourge of the internet. Reaching as far a New Zealand we have come across two cases in the last 12 months where victims have fallen prey to this crime. Kevin Christopher Bollaert allegedly created ugotposted.com in 2012, a revenge porn site that required posters (typically jilted ex-lovers) include subjects’ full names, locations, ages and Facebook profiles, making this site somehow even more morally bankrupt than others. Some of the revenge porn victims would discover their ph...
Towering Depths of the MH370 Search
April 11, 2014 | Technology
The Australian Navy vessel Ocean Shield picked up the signals using a US Navy device called a towed pinger locator. It's essentially a long cable with a listening device, or hydrophone, attached to the end. It's pulled behind the boat at a depth of 3 kilometres.The pinger locator is designed to detect signals at a range of 1.8 kilometres, indicating it would need to be almost on top of the black boxes - the flight data and voice recorders - to detect them if they were on the ocean floor, which is 4.5 kilometres under the surface. Howe...