Howard Dean?s Internet Technology
Dean?s Website: www.deanforamerica.com Convio Provided Fundraising Technology
Convio?s Website: www.convio.com Constituent Relation Management (CRM) Newsletters, Polling, Interaction Raised $3.6M in first 90 days ($25M to date) Over 410,000 online supporters and 1,600 ?Dean Team? leaders 110,768 contributions from 84,713 supporters ($61.14 average) Plans to raise $200M
$100 from 2 million contributors Will forego Federal matching dollars A real grassroots effort using credit card technology
Unofficial Peer-to-peer
Others Take Note
Non-profits (MADD, ASPCA) Politicians both in US and Abroad Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Helmut Kohl
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Grows Up
Napster Pioneered file sharingKazaa picked up the mantleRIAA Began Suing Customers (wrong solution)
12 year old ($2,000 paid by single mom) 15 year old in Seattle, WA
Mary Dickenson downloaded 1,100 songs (sharing left on) Asked to pay $3,500 or go to court ($825,000 liability)
50 others have settled 200 others have been sued
Steven Jobs Solved the puzzle with iTunes
99 cents per song from iTunes Music store One million songs purchased in first three days Named Invention of Year by Time Magazine Songs must be played on iTunes or iPod iTunes supports both Mac?s and PC?s Restrictions
Unlimited number of iPods Up to three PC?s or Mac?s
Price still too high (prices should drift to less than 50 cents)
Swarming ? Latest Peer-to-Peer Activity Blogging ?- Peer-to-peer idea sharing Friendster ? Peer-to-peer networking
Website: www.friendster.com Just secured $13M in VC Online community that connects people through networks
Can only talk to your friends and their friends and their friends Challenge is to grow your own network Largest network is 525,000 people
Large networks are even for sale on eBay
Coolest Guy Association ($12.04) Hipster, Musicians ($4.00)
Text Messaging ? Peer-to-peer phone communication
Uses SMS Protocol Short Message Service Up to 160 characters Very popular in Europe and US with teenagers Cheap way to communicate Three ways to send message
Use email client Use messaging gateway Use cell phone
Microsoft Rigs MSN Search
Check out key words ? ?linux windows? Google hits = 10 M MSN hits = 16 That?s no way to build credibility Google has refused to sell out to MS (hooray)
Electronic Voting Machine Report Card
Diebold Scandal
Johns Hopkins Security Institute analyzed code Found to be susceptible to smart card hacking Used by MD for all voting precincts Suing to stop all Internet discussion Internal Memos Posted on Net (chroot.net/s/lists )
Fairfax County, Virginia
Several voting machines malfunctioned Some votes may have been lost
Boone County, Indiana vote count errors
Voting machines registered 144,000 votes from 5,352 ballots Only 19,000 registered voters in town Software glitch was fixed during the day MicroVote Machines
Other developments
Operation Cyber Sweep
Investigation started on October 1st Uncovered 125,000 victims with losses topping $100 million Seventy indictments have led to arrest or conviction of 125 Stolen credit card numbers, software piracy, sale of stolen goods
Fake requests for information (phishing)
Fishing for information with fake requests Email requests or fake website forms
Website for Info: www.antiphishing.org
Identity Theft
27 million cases in last five years
Loss of $5 billion to individuals Loss of $48 billion to financial institutions and businesses
9.9 million cases in last year alone Data gathered by dumpster diving, phishing, purse snatching FTC Identity Theft Website: www.consumer.gov/idtheft/ FTC Identity Theft Phone Number: 1-877-IDTHEFT
Wordspy for Newly Coined Words
Butt Call — An unintended phone call placed by sitting on one’s cell phone. Flash mob — A large group of people who gather in a usually predetermined location, perform some brief action, and then quickly disperse Google — To search for information on the Web, particularly by using the Google search engine War Driving — A computer cracking technique that involves driving through a neighborhood with a wireless-enabled notebook computer and wireless access points. Phishing.– Creating a replica of an existing Web page to fool a user into submitting personal, financial, or password data. ?adj. Himbo — A man who is good-looking, but unintelligent or superficial. Brain on a stick — An intelligent person who lacks emotion or social skills Brain Fart — Quick-and-dirty creative output
Novell Buys Suse Linux
Good for Novell and for Linux Linux is getting broad based support from IBM If only SCO would drop their attack on IBM Bill Gates would love to kill the open source movement
Wireless Alphabet Soup
802.11 Standards (a, b, and g) Components
Wireless network card Access Point/Firewall
Security
Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP) Mac Address Filtering
Stratford News
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