Cyberpressure and Cyberforce

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Cyberpressure and Cyberforce: The should-be-obvious conflations of the current Administration's growing pressure on other countries regarding cyberattacks on Google and other Internet services. True, while in concept the Internet should not be attacked nor hacked, nor should any cyberasset be attacked, its not going to stop...is it? Does anybody else feel vaguely uncomfortable that the USA might be turning into a cyber police force...not just a cyber force-for-good?


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FOM: Obama keeps up pressure on China









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Blog of Note? No...

Blog of Note: No, no, no...not us. But Cycle Chic from Copenhagen has been for the past week... Did Google lay everybody off? Is anybody watching the store? Helllloooo.... Oh, that's right Mr. Hooper and Mr. Whipple were killed in that horrible Milk Delivery Truck and Pepperidge Farm Delivery Truck crash.... Milk, cookies and bodies were just everywhere.... Horrible, horrible...

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Foogle

Foogle: The unfortunate conceptual collision of offensive and Google. The downloading of or finding of racist or otherwise offensive images on the internet.

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FOM: Michelle Obama image in race row and Link to Offensive (Images) on flickr...






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Scoogle

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Scoogle: The obvious and unfortunate portmanteau of scam and Google. Google announces finding email scam.

FOM: Google targeted in e-mail scam , Web mail scam propagates itself and Key-logging.

Updated: Wednesday, October 7, 2009







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Wave (from Google)

Wave: Google's new, real-time, open source communication platform app with email, IM and everything else you're using to communicate on the net...

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FOM: Google invites users to join Wave and Google Wave.





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Shoogle

Shoogle: The portmanteau of shutdown and Google. (1) The inadvertent shutdown of Google's email service due to engineering miscalculations. (2) The inadvertent shutdown of any major internet service due to engineering miscalculations and (lack of) foresight.

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Reference(s): Engineer error knocks out Gmail and Google.

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Twacker

Twacker: The rather obvious portmanteau of Twitter and hacker. A person or persons responsible for the (malicious) shutdown of social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and other internet websites.

See also: Twither and Twusher or Twiorger.

References: Another attack downs Twitter, briefly this time, Web attack blogger blames Russia, Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown', Statement from Twitter on denial of service attack, Twacker, Twither, Attacks on single blogger knocked out Twitter , Twitter hack gets everyone's attention and Denial-of-Service Attack.

Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2009






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Twusher or Twiorger

Twusher / Twiorger: The rather unfortunate collision between Twitter and Russia or Georgia. (1) The attempt to shut down pro-Georgian tweets in retaliation over the conflict earlier last year. (2) The (malicious) shut-down of any social networking service, internet service, website or other digital media in retaliation for politically-charged postings.

References: Web attack blogger blames Russia, Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown', Statement from Twitter on denial of service attack, Twacker, Twither, Attacks on single blogger knocked out Twitter , Twitter hack gets everyone's attention and Denial-of-Service Attack.



Revised / Updated: Sunday, August 9, 2009








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Twither

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Twither: The unfortunate portmanteau of Twitter and wither. (1) The virtual shutdown of Twitter, Facebook, Google etc. via Denial-of-Service Attack. (2) The (malicious) shutdown of any internet service, website, social networking site and so on via Denial-of-Service Attack for political or any other reasons.

See also: Twusher or Twiorger and Twacker.

References: Another attack downs Twitter, briefly this time, Twitter outage clamps tweets, cause 'unknown', Statement from Twitter on denial of service attack, Attacks on single blogger knocked out Twitter , Twitter hack gets everyone's attention and Denial-of-Service Attack.

Revised / Updated: Saturday, August 8, 2009. Sunday, August 9, 2009. Wednesday, August 12, 2009.







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