Drew Clark: What a delight when the sharing economy meets the Internet of Things

I recently had occasion to drive roundtrip between Salt Lake City and Washington, DC. It showed me how far technology has brought us — and how far it has yet to go.

My cargo van was full on the first leg of the 30-hour journey. Having a nearly empty vehicle on the return trip prompted me to ask: What is the Uber for shipping goods?

Uber, of course, is the popular ride-sharing service. It’s the leading example of the successes that some — including Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida — are celebrating in our “sharing economy.”

Uber’s idea is powerful, and the execution is good, too. When we have excess capacity and the desire to “share” a good or service, transaction costs can impede such sharing. The revolution of computing power embodied in Moore’s Law has lowered them.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865648208/What-a-delight-when-the-sharing-economy-meets-the-Internet-of-Things.html?pg=all

 

Revealed: The NSA’s Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Security

The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show.

Many users assume — or have been assured by Internet companies — that their data is safe from prying eyes, including those of the government, and the N.S.A. wants to keep it that way. The agency treats its recent successes in deciphering protected information as among its most closely guarded secrets, restricted to those cleared for a highly classified program code-named Bullrun, according to the documents, provided by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor.

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-nsas-secret-campaign-to-crack-undermine-internet-encryption

INTERNET FAMOUS ‘HOT COP’ ARRESTED FOR RUNNING OVER 2 PEDESTRIANS AND FLEEING

According to a San Francisco Police Department news release, officer Kohrs rammed his Dodge Charger into two men who were crossing near Broadway and Montgomery streets in the city’s North Beach neighborhood.

Instead of stopping and rendering aid to the two people he just ran over, police say that Kohrs ditched the car and ran from the scene around 2:20 a.m. Having the unmistakable face of ‘Hot Cop’ made Kohrs readily identifiable and he was arrested later that day on two counts of felony hit-and-run.

Internet Famous ‘Hot Cop’ Arrested for Running Over 2 Pedestrians and Fleeing

CHINA IS MAKING A MASSIVE NEW MOVE TO CENSOR THE INTERNET

Key “network security officers” will monitor the work of key websites and Web firms for crimes such as fraud and the “spreading of rumors,” China’s Ministry of Public Security said in a statement. These officers would be a part of the roughly 2 million people employed by the government to monitor Web activity, as first reported by the BBC.

The ministry didn’t say which companies would be getting a new in-house police unit, the Wall StreetJournal notes. It also wasn’t clear whether these new measures would apply to international companies as well as local tech firms operating in China.

Still, this news will be of special interest to the three biggest Internet companies in China: retail giant Alibaba, messaging company Tencent and search-engine service provider Baidu. Alibaba has already issued a statement to TechCrunch saying it will work “with Chinese authorities to combat illegal and criminal activities on the Internet. It is our priority to maintain the reliability and security of our platforms to protect our customers.” Baidu and Tencent have yet to respond to the news.

http://www.infowars.com/china-is-making-a-massive-new-move-to-censor-the-internet/