- Amit Yoran, the new Cybersecurity Tsar for Homeland Security,
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- JEWS AND THE COMPUTER WORLD
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- According to Forbes magazine, by 1998 Michael Dell was
the seventh richest person on the planet, worth $16.5 billion, and also
the youngest to have ever been listed on the Forbes 500 "rich list."
He is the head of the Dell computer company, a direct-sales firm. Dell
is an active philanthropist in the Austin, Texas, Jewish community. In
2001, Dell Ventures, a division of Dell Computers, announced plans to invest
in hi-tech development in Israel. [GORDON, B., 1-21-01]
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- In 1998, Steve Ballmer became president of monopolistic
computer software giant Microsoft. In 1999, he also became that company's
CEO. He is the fourth richest man in America, worth $20.1 billion. Ballmer,
whose mother is Jewish, has contributed a "generous" donation
to the Jewish National Fund. [BERMAN, S., 4-21-2000, p. 1] And, as the
Jewish Exponent observed in 1999, "Jewish employees [at Seattle-based
Microsoft] estimate their number at 10 to 15 percent of the company."
[MONO, B., 12-30-99, p. 1] Nate Kantor, became the president of MCI International
in 1982, helping it to become a telecommunications giant. David Colburn,
also Jewish, is the President of Business Affairs at the America Online
internet server. Jan Brandt, also Jewish, is president of marketing for
the same firm. [JEWHOO, 2000] Steven Kirsch founded Infoseek, one of the
major Internet navigation services. [MOTHER JONES 3-5-01] After the merger
of Internet access providers Netzero and Juno in 2001, the resulting company
(United Online, Inc.) became the second largest Internet access provider,
only behind AOL. The chairman and CEO of Netzero, and now United, is Mark
Goldston. [REUTERS, 6-7-01]
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- In April 2001, Jewish movie mogul Terry Semel became
the CEO of Yahoo. (He was, that same year, a co-chairman of the Israeli
Film Festival). JEWISH POST, 2001]
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- In 1997, Andrew Grove, a Holocaust survivor worth $300
million today, was named Time magazine's "man of the year." Grove
drew attention as chairman and CEO of Intel, a company that manufactures
over 90% of the world's microprocessors. [EPHROSS, p. 22] Intel's popular
Pentium II computer chip was developed at Intel's plant in Haifa, Israel.
Israel's Digital Signal Processing company is also the world's largest
manufacturer of customized computer chips." [FRANKEL, p. 274]) "After
the Silicon Valley [the high-tech center in northern California] and Boston,"
notes Yaacov Yisraeli of the Israel America Chamber of Commerce, "Israel
is the most important high tech area in the world." [ALBUM, 1999]
IBM has one of its four world research centers there, as does Microsoft.
In the Silcon Valley itself, notes the Jewish Bulletin of Northern California,
it is "full of Israelis and Israeli high tech companies." [JEWISH
BULLETIN OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, 11-5-99, p. 24]
-
- Among such entrepreneurs is David Gilo, an immigrant
from Israel with dual American-Israeli citizenship, heads Vyyo Inc., a
Silicon Valley telecommunications firm that sells "equipment that
provides wireless, high-speed data connections to homes and businesses
... Gilo made headlines recently for his $100 million investment in Israeli
start-ups, promoting Tel Aviv as the next Silicon Valley." David Shimmon's
fortune is over $100 million, thanks to his investments in Kinetics Group,
"a firm that makes equipment used in semiconductor manufacturing."
Bernard Schwartz heads Loral Space and Communications (a prominent weapons
firm that is branching out into telecommunications). [MOTHER JONES, 3-5-01]
-
- ICQ ("I seek you") was a firm founded in Tel
Aviv, Israel, "the brainchild of four Israeli computer programmers
... [Within six months] it claimed the title of world's largest online
communication network." [NIESE, A., 11-15-01] Another Israeli computer
company, StarBand, "is America's first consumer two-way, always-on,
high-speed satellite Internet service provider." [CEO: Zur Feldman;
President: David Trachtenberg]
- [http://www.starband.com/whoweare/index.htm] Starband
is part of the Israeli company Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd.
-
- Even Jewish-American Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus
"is also working to link the Israeli economy to his home state. The
country has the second-highest density of startups after Silicon Valley,
and the hardware mogul has helped persuade state officials to offer the
Israeli firms incentives to relocate in Georgia." [MOTHER JONES, 3-5-01]
-
- Isabel Maxwell, daughter of corrupt British Jewish mogul
Robert Maxwell, is "president of the Silicon Valley's hottest internet
investment company" -- CommTouch ... The company was founded in 1991
by a group of technology-savvy former [Israeli] army officers led by Gideon
Mantel, a bomb disposal expert ... [Ms. Maxwell] has a deep affinity for
Israel ... CommTouch employs 400 staff. Its head office is in Silicon Valley.
R&D sales are run from Tel Aviv." [CASSY, J., 6-22-00, p. 26]
-
- A list of other Jewish computer barons must include Mitchell
Kapor, who, as head of Lotus Developer Corporation (makers of Lotus 1-2-3
and Symphony software), was by 1988 "one of the highest paid CEOs
in the United States." [HENDERSON, A., 6-13-88, p. T14] Another, Mark
Cuban, sold Broadcast.com, which includes Audio.Net, in 2000 for about
a billion dollars. Herbert Becker, founder and CEO of BEE Multimedia, is
a "strictly observant Jew ... [who] does not have a television in
his home. That has not stopped him, however, from developing software that
allows TV to be broadcast live on the Internet ... He claims to be the
first to make this technology a reality." [ARNOLD, J., 9-7-00]
-
- Then there is Lawrence Perlman, co-chairman of Seagate,
"the world's largest disc-drive maker." [WALL STREET JOURNAL,
3-30-2000] John Roth is the CEO of prominent computer systems giant Nortel
Networks. Benjamin Rosen, long time CEO of the company that sells the most
computers, Compaq Computer, is "a pioneering figure in the personal
computer industry and a founding investor in both Compaq Computer and Lotus
Development." The CEO, President, and Chairman of rival Packard Bell
NEC, the second-largest computer maker, was Beny Alagem, until he stepped
down in 2000. He too is Jewish.
- Lawrence Ellison is the CEO of Oracle Systems, Inc.,
the foremost producer of computer software for corporate databases. (Ellison
has built a $150 million home in Woodside, California, featuring "a
ten-building compound modeled after a Japanese imperial villa"). [LI,
D., 4-1-01, p. 7] The aforementioned Michael Dell, head of Dell Computers,
is one of the richest people on the planet. Sandy Lerner is the "founder
of network software giant Cisco Systems." [WALSH, M., 12-23-96, p.
17] Irwin Jacobs founded and heads Qualcomm, Inc., "the telecommunications
company [that] has grown to $3.3 billion in annual revenues by providing
wireless telephone service, mobile satellite communications, and Internret
software." [MOTHER JONES , 5-3-01] Stanley Kalms, also Jewish, heads
Great Britain's largest Internet provider: Freeserve.
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- In Russia, Anatoly Karachinsky, Jewish like all the others
noted here, is head of Information Business Systems and is "regarded
in Russia as the country's answer to Bill Gates. [He] is about to become
the country's first high-technology dollar millionaire." [FINANCIAL
IMES, 10-2-01] Karachinsky "set up NewspaperDirect, a system that
allows newspapers from anywhere in the world to be printed on a desktop."
[FINANCIAL TIMES, 10-2-00]
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- Jewish American billionaires who are under 40 years old
(who have made their fortunes in computers and high technology) include
Rob Glaser, the CEO and Chairman of Real Networks (worth $2.27 billion);
Monte Zweben, the Chairman, President, and CEO of Blue Martini Software
(worth $1.69 billion); and Jerry Greenberg (co-CEO and co-founder of Sapient
(worth $1.47 billion). Others with high-ranking fortunes who are under
40 include Eric Greenberg, Chairman of Scient (worth $603 million); Danny
Lewin, co-founder and CTO of Akamai Technologies (worth $591 million at
age 30), and Dan Snyder, head of Snyder Communications, (with $540 million).
[DIBA/WATSON9-18-2000, p. 112-120] Among the above, Lewin was killed in
the 2001 terrorist attack upon the World Trade Center. "In July,"
noted CNN, "Lewin was named one of the Top 10 people of the Enterprise
Systems Power 100, a list of industry leaders chosen for their effect on
the IT (information technology) landscape and for their ability to influence
the industry's direction ... Born in Denver, Colorado, and raised in Jerusalem,
Lewin is an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, having served in the
country's military for more than four years." [SIEBERG, D., 9-11-01]
-
- From: When Victims Rule. A Critique of Jewish Pre-eminence
in America
- (Citation sources for the above quotes are at the end
of this online book)
-
-
- Googley-eyed over success,
- USA Today, August 27, 2001
- "Walk into Google's headquarters, and the first
thing you see on the wall is a constantly changing real-time projection
of some of the 100 million daily searches taking place on its site ÷
everything from the song-swap service Kazaa to condoms to Martha Stewart.
On the Web Google At Google, with 1,800 queries a second, searching is
what it's all about. 'Our decision early on, and it turned out to be the
right one, is that just being the best search engine was enough,' says
Sergey Brin, 27, who co-founded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford University
Ph.D. candidate Larry Page ... Brin [is the] son of a Jewish refugee from
the former Soviet Union who has lived in the USA since age 6."
-
- Google Watch,
- (a web site that critically analyzes Google)
-
-
- Startup Nation. Israel has more startups than anywhere
outside of Silicon Valley.What's fueling the Internet boom? Soldiers, officers,
code-breakers, and spies,
-
- Business 2.0
- November 2000
-
- "On the northern tip of Tel Aviv, where the old
port used to be, sits a nightclub called Dugit. One of many open-air clubs
on this stretch of beach, Dugit also rubs shoulders with auto shops, abandoned
warehouses, and a pet-supplies store. During most summer evenings, Dugit
and the other hot spots here attract some of Tel Aviv's hippest after-hours
club crawlers. But one recent sweltering night, Dugit turned into a teeming
nest of spies.
-
- They were Israeli soldiers -- 300 elite operatives from
some of the nation's most secretive high-tech intelligence and electronic
warfare units. They were on a mission so sensitive that their superior
officers had been deliberately left out of the loop -- no need for them
to know, and they wouldn't have been happy had they known. Many had been
enticed here by one of the oldest tricks in the spy handbook: an invitation
from a pretty young woman working for the other side. Some of the operatives
were armed, M-16s hanging loosely from their shoulders. All were hunting
for what has become one of the most coveted objectives in Israeli intelligence
circles today: startup funding.
-
- L'affaire Dugit was, in fact, a recruiting party thrown
by a group of Israel's big-gun high-tech companies. The attendees were
targeted because they are among the brains behind the Israel Defense Forces,
or IDF. They belong to units that dream up the state-of-the-art intelligence
and communications technologies that give the IDF its tactical edge. These
technological innovations power Israel's far-ranging high-tech boom.
-
- In Israel, yesterday's soldier is tomorrow's entrepreneur,
and the event's sponsors, established Israeli tech outfits that include
Comverse Technology, RoseNet, and Yazam, are trying to get an early line
on ideas to fund or geniuses to hire ... The United States has MIT, Stanford,
and a handful of other academic hothouses that nurture the talent and research
from which many high-tech powerhouses emerge. In Israel, the military,
much to its own discomfort, increasingly plays that role.
-
- Since the creation of Israel in 1948, the military has
compensated for its lack of resources and manpower with brainpower. Particularly
in the past 20 years, the IDF has invested billions of dollars in developing
technological warfare. The result is a number of secret, semisecret, and
open-secret divisions devoted to coming up with cutting-edge technologies
designed to help Israel know what its enemies are doing -- and to kill
them when the need arises. With the spread of the Internet, the kind of
technological wizardry once used to guide missiles, beam secure communications,
and break codes suddenly presents enormous commercial opportunities.
-
- 'By sheer luck," says Professor Shimon Schocken,
dean of the school of computer science at the Interdisciplinary Center
Herzliya, a private Israeli university, 'Israel already had the solutions
to so many of the problems of the Internet.' Even a short list of hot tech
companies that have recently spun out of Israel's military-technological
complex is long, [including Amiram Levinberg's] Gilat Satellite Networks,
which last year made more than half of the interactive VSATs (small satellite
earth stations used in communications networks) sold in the world. Several
of the founders of Israel's best-known tech success, the Internet security
firm Check Point Software Technologies, are former members of 8-200 who
specialized in developing firewalls between classified military computer
networks. Today, the seven-year-old company has a market cap of $23.4 billion
and commands 52 percent of the worldwide market for commercial firewall
software.
-
- Gideon Hollander, CEO of wireless software maker Jacada,
is a veteran of those units, where he worked on artificial intelligence
systems. Founders of new startups iWeb (software for delivering Web ads),
CTI2 (Web telephony), AudioCodes (voice-compression technology), and hundreds
of others are former secret warriors. All this technological ferment has
catapulted Israel into the front ranks of global tech powers -- and transformed
an economy that just a decade ago was a disaster.
-
- There are now more startups in Israel than there are
anywhere outside Silicon Valley. Israel, a country of 6 million people,
ranks third in the world in the number of Nasdaq-listed companies, behind
the United States and Canada. ... (More recently, according to Israeli
and international press reports, Israel acquired a urine sample from ailing
Syrian president Hafez Assad by clandestinely doctoring a toilet that was
set aside for his exclusive use at the funeral of Jordan's King Hussein
in February 1999. The toilet's pipes were rerouted to lead to a specimen
jar; Israeli agents later analyzed the sample for clues about the Syrian
leader's health and concluded that he was living on borrowed time.
- Assad died 16 months later.)
-
- But it is military intelligence, more than any other
single factor, that accounts for Israel's tech prowess. In fact, the demands
made by the elite intelligence units seem as if they're meant to be basic
training for startup entrepreneurs. Soldiers work in small, highly motivated
teams, with brutal hours and little sleep. The pressure to innovate is
crushing -- national survival is at stake ... Aryeh Finegold ... recently
founded his third company, Orsus, an e-commerce software maker. As an engineer
for Intel in the United States in the 1980s, Finegold was a principal architect
of the 286 and 386 chips.
-
- One of his previous startups, Mercury Interactive, an
e-commerce monitoring software company, has a market cap of about $11.2
billion ... Talpiot's [a special military division] role in the current
tech boom is no secret. Assaf Monsa and another Talpiot graduate, Yair
Mann, along with two other alumni of elite tech units, three years ago
founded RichFX, which has developed streaming video technology that Monsa
says uses between one-twentieth and one-hundredth of the bandwidth gobbled
up by competing systems ... Marius Nacht, another Talpiot grad, is a co-founder
of Check Point.
-
- Eli Mintz, CEO and president of Compugen, a gene sequencing
technology firm, and Yuval Shalom, co-founder and CTO of Wiseband, a maker
of wireless phone technologies, also went through Talpiot .... [Another
military group, Mamram] comes from its founding members: 8 Ashkenazi Jews
and 200 Iraqi immigrants who were specialists in wireless communications
and had worked for Iraqi Railways. Their skills became the cornerstone
of the electronic intelligence gathering, encryption, and other activities
known to be among the unit's specialties.
-
- It's illegal for past and present members to talk about
8-200, although it has become something of an open secret in the tech world.
The unit has also attained a mythical status among venture capitalists
for the entrepreneurial wizards who are veterans of the unit ... About
90 percent of Israeli startups are incorporated not in Israel but in the
United States. That's in part because the United States is such a huge
market, but it's also because the country has a less troublesome tax regime
and deep ranks of managerial and marketing expertise from which Israeli
companies can draw. Some of Israel's largest and most successful tech companies
call the United States home: Comverse, a voice messaging company with a
market cap of $14.9 billion, is based in Woodbury, N.Y.; Mercury Interactive
is based in Sunnyvale, Calif.
-
- More common these days is what's known as the fast exit,
whereby startups either sell out to a foreign multinational entirely or
split themselves in two, keeping R&D in Israel but moving sales and
marketing to the United States."
-
- Netscape Heeds Jews' Gripes Over Web Directory
-
- [Jewish] Forward
- November 22, 2002
-
- "Internet giant Netscape has acknowledged anti-Israel
bias in its massive Web cataloguing service and has taken several steps
to correct the situation, including dismissing the volunteer editor Netscape
says was responsible. Responding to a complaint by the Jewish Internet
Association, an Internet watchdog group, Netscape's Robert Keating said
the company would also eliminate a category that linked users to Jewish
extremist groups such as Kahane Chai and would add a separate list of pro-Israel
organizations under their own category.
-
- The service, known as the Open Directory Project, is
an effort to create a comprehensive catalog of the Internet, with millions
of Web sites placed into categories and subcategories. Hosted and administered
by Netscape, the directory is now featured by various search engines, including
the popular Google. Tens of thousands of volunteer editors choose the Web
sites, Web site descriptions and categories that will be placed in the
directory, but Netscape 'sets the editorial policies and direction' of
the project, according to the directory's own Web site. Netscape has said
that the volunteers are chosen by unpaid senior editors, who are approved
by Keating, the editor in chief of the project.
-
- Chriss said his organization discovered problems in the
directory last month, and sent a letter with specific allegations of bias
and distortions to Steve Case, chairman of Netscape's parent company, AOL
Time Warner. [Chuck Chriss, president of the California-based Jewish Internet
Agency] complained that the directory contained a link to 'Jewish Hate
Groups,' including Kach and Kahane Chai, but did not contain a corresponding
category for Islamic extremists, nor any sites describing antisemitism
among Muslims.
-
- Shortly afterwards, Chriss received a letter from Keating
saying Netscape agreed that there was bias in the directory and that it
had decided to dismiss the volunteer editor who they said was responsible.
In addition, the company eliminated the 'Jewish Hate Group' section, added
a separate list of pro-Israel organizations under their own category and
included the Jewish Internet Association's own pro-Israel 'Palestine Facts'
Web site. Chriss told the Forward last week that he did not blame Netscape
for the initial bias, saying they had a small staff supervising tens of
thousands of volunteer editors ... Derick Mains, a Netscape spokesman ...
suggested that pro-Israel activists volunteer to be editors on the directory
and correct some of the perceived bias."
-
- GIL SHWED, Chairman and CEO Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd.,
-
- CIO Magazine
- October 1, 2002
-
- "You can forgive Gil Shwed for not wanting to discuss
his age, which he reluctantly confirms is 34. He was just shy of 25 when
he and two colleagues started Check Point Software. The company's rise
thrust Shwed into a spotlight most executives don't see for decades. His
appearance on Forbes' 2002 list of under-35 'billionaire babies' has led
some wags back home to call him the 'Bill Gates of Israel.' All that attention
comes thanks to Check Point FireWall-1, the first mass-market firewall
that made its debut just as the Internet was taking off in 1993. That product
and subsequent Check Point offerings are credited with helping define the
nascent markets for network security and virtual private networks. It was
during Shwed's four years in the Israeli Defense Forces that he first had
the idea for stateful inspection÷the network security standard for
which he holds a patent."
-
- Semel: The New Yahoo on the Block,
-
- news.com
- April 17, 2001
-
- "Terry Semel has already made his mark on Hollywood.
Now he's hoping to do the same with one of the Internet's most visited
Web portals. On Tuesday, Yahoo announced that Semel will replace outgoing
Chief Executive Tim Koogle after an executive search mounted less than
two months ago. The move brings a media veteran with international experience
and a self-proclaimed specialty in marketing to the helm of the troubled
Internet bellwether. It also puts Semel back in the hot seat about a year
and half after he quit his job as co-head of Warner Bros., presumably to
pursue a quieter life running an Internet investment firm."
-
- <http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Ballmer.html>Steve
Ballmer, Jewish Virtual Library (A Division of the American-Israeli Cooperative
Enterprise)
- "Steve Ballmer, 43, was appointed president and
chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. on January 13, 2000. In his
capacity as president and CEO, Ballmer is responsible for the overall management
of Microsoft ... The Detroit-born son of a Jewish mother is now the world's
richest Jew, worth an estimated $25 billion."
-
- Time Magazine Honors Survivor
-
- Jewish Bulletin of Northern California
- January 2, 1998
-
- "Time magazine has named a Holocaust survivor its
1997 Man of the Year. The magazine honored Andrew Grove, chairman and CEO
of Intel, which produces nearly 90 percent of the world's personal computer
microprocessors. Grove was born Andras Grof in Hungary to a dairyman and
a bookkeeper ... [Intel] is now worth $115 billion and earns $5.1 billion
annually in profits, making it the seventh most profitable company in the
world." [Other Jewish moguls in the computer world in recent years
include Michael Dell, head of Dell Computers; Steve Ballmer, president
of Microsoft; Nate Kantor, president of MCI International; Steven Kirsch,
founder of Infoseek; Mark Goldston, CEO of NetZero; Mitchell Kapor, head
of Lotus Development Corporation; Mark Cuban, head of Broadcast.com and
Audio.Net; Lawrence Perlman, head of Seagate; John Roth, CEO of Nortel
Network; Benjamin Rosen, founder of Compaq computers; Beny Alagem, CEO,
president, and chairman of Packard Bell NEC (Hewlett-Packard); Laurence
Ellison, CEO of Oracle Systems; Sandy Lerner, founder of Cisco Systems;
Irwin Jacobs, founder of Qualcomm Inc., Rob Glaser, CEO and Chairman of
Real Networks; Monte Zweben, President and CEO of Blue Martini Software;
Jerry Greenberg, co-founder of Sapient; Eric Greenberg, Chairman of Scient;
Danny Lewin, founder of Akamai Technologies; and Dan Snyder, head of Snyder
Communications.] The Jewish Exponent estimates that 10-15% of all Microsoft
employees are Jewish. -- [Mono, Brian. Spiritual Wealth: The Economy Is
Doing Just Fine, Jewish Exponent, 12-30-99, p. 9] Among the above, Lewin
was killed in the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. As CNN noted: "Lewin
was named one of the top 10 people of the Enterprise Systems Power 100,
a list of industry leaders chosen for their effect on the IT (information
technology) landscape and for their ability to influence the industry's
direction ... Born in Denver, Colorado, and raised in Jerusalem, Lewin
is an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, having served in the country's
military for more than four years." [SIEBERG, D. <http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/09/11/akamai.founder/index.html>Akamai:
Co-Founder Dies in WTC Plane Crash, 9-11-01, CNN.com]
-
-
- I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday. How PayPal Has Already Won
the Battle of the Internet Payment Systems,
-
- PBS
- August 31, 2000
-
- "Max [Levchin], who is 25 years old and working
for his fourth Internet startup company, is Chief Technical Officer at
X.com. And X.com, while it sure sounds to me like a great place to find
dirty pictures online, is actually a financial services site on the World
Wide Web. X.com's claim to fame is PayPal, an Internet payment system built
by ... Max Levchin. Since it was launched last Fall, PayPal has become
the payment system of choice for 3.3 million web surfers, many of whom
use it to buy and sell things on eBay and other auction sites. When PayPal
(not yet X.com) was organized in January 1999, it wasn't a particularly
auspicious time to start a micropayment system, or any payment system for
that matter ... Max, who is a very bright, very articulate kid who immigrated
nine years ago from the Ukraine and speaks better English than I do, fits
the Silicon Valley model better than does PayPal. Max lives in an apartment
with no furniture, drives a $57,000 sports car, and has a mother back in
Chicago who fears (she doesn't know for sure) that her son is a failure
because he doesn't have a Ph.D. or even a masters degree. PayPal, on the
other hand, just shifts around dollars and cents from one person to another."
-
-
- AOL's Point Man in the Web War. How CEO Barry Schuler
plans to leave Microsoft in the dust
-
- Business Week
- JULY 2, 2001
-
- "This Barry M. Schuler has the typical geek pedigree.
The CEO of America Online Inc. (AOL ) took apart gadgets as a kid, built
his own microcomputer in the mid-'70s, and now has rigged up a home network
so he can listen to his collection of 7,000 jazz and rock music files through
speakers in any room in his house. But Schuler has something many techies
lack: He understands most people aren't like him. 'Normal people don't
lust after technology,' he says. 'They want whatever it's supposed to do'
... Schuler, 47, who has been the online service's CEO since January, deserves
just as much credit for AOL's explosive success. For the past three years,
Schuler has run the AOL service, putting his stamp on much of the design
that makes it so simple to use and the features that make it so popular
with families ... You can credit Schuler's parents for encouraging his
eye for design, his comfort with technology, and his stay-close-to-your-customers
credo. His artsy homemaker mom encouraged his childhood enthusiasm for
painting, sculpture, and photography--even letting him turn the basement
of their suburban New Jersey home into a darkroom. Schuler's father, a
Jew who fled Austria a step ahead of the Nazis, ran a warehousing business."
-
- Ray Kurzweil (well known in the "Artificial Intelligence"
field has a web site.
- Kurzweil's 1996 lecture in Israel, "Israel in the
Age of Knowledge." He sits on two advisory boards for an Israeli company
called Jerusalem Global Ventures.
-
- Rich in Love
-
- Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
- March 28, 2003
-
- "When Susan Samueli met her future husband, Henry,
at a dance at Stephen S. Wise Temple in Los Angeles in 1979, she never
could have anticipated how different her life would be today. That was
24 years and three children ago, before Samueli became a household name
in much of Southern California, as Henry co-founded Broadcom, the leading
provider in broadband high-speed communications technology. It was way
before Broadcom went public, and the Samuelis, with Henry serving as chief
technical officer, became multimillionaires nearly overnight ... Her family,
her Judaism and her career (she ran an alternative health-care consulting
practice until 1995) all guide her new life, just as they did her old one
... Samueli's interest in health care is matched by her husbandâs
passion for technology. 'But we have a common interest in Judaism,' Henry
said. Raised in the Valley,
- Susan Samueli was always immersed in the activities of
an active Jewish community. 'It was very different where I went to high
school at Grant. During the High Holidays, the campus was empty. Of course,
everyone was ditching who wasn't Jewish, too,' Samueli said.
-
- In the spring of 2001, the Samuelis bought 20 acres of
land adjacent to the already existing Tarbut VâTorah Community Day
School for $20 million. The site, overlooking the hills and valleys of
much of
- Orange County and directly opposite UC Irvine, will be
the future site of the Samueli Campus. The campus currently provides both
elementary and high school education. The second phase of the building
project includes a full-service Jewish Community Center with a fitness
center, pool, theater and auditorium and facilities to house the Jewish
agencies of Orange County. Groundbreaking will begin when the $20 million
campaign goal is reached. (Approximately 80 percent of phase two has been
raised.) The couple has also been instrumental in the construction of two
Orange County synagogues and recently funded a synagogue in a suburb of
Tel Aviv. They also give extensively to the Bureau of Jewish Education,
Jewish Family Services, the Jewish Federation of Orange County and Morasha
Jewish Day School."
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- The Secrets of Drudge Inc. How to set up a round-the-clock
news site on a shoestring, bring in $3,500 a day, and still have time to
lounge on the beach
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- Business 2.0
- April 2003
-
- "Pound for pound, who's the biggest, richest media
mogul on the Web? Terry Semel? Nope. Sumner Redstone? Not exactly. Try
Matt Drudge. Years after his big "scoop" -- leaking that Newsweek
was sitting on a story about the tryst between President Clinton and Monica
Lewinsky -- Drudge's website is bigger than ever. Run on a shoestring,
the Drudge Report, a plain-Jane page of news links and occasional scoops,
clears, by our back-of-the-envelope estimate, a cool $800,000 a year. While
other news sites make money, they don't mint it Drudge-style.
-
- New York Times Digital scored an operating profit of
$8.3 million last year. But it has 237 full-time employees, meaning that
each worker accounts for about $35,000 in profit. (And that doesn't take
into consideration the fact that the site's reports are actually generated
by the newspaper staff, a cost allocated to the paper side only.) By any
calculus, Drudge's site might be the most efficiently run on the Web; it
makes the Times site look bloated. Drudge's is a two-person operation (although
he never mentions his right-hand man); that means it makes $400,000 per
employee. And he never has to leave the comfort of his Miami condo.
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- Lessons From a Web Media Powerhouse How to give a two-man
shop the reach and influence of a major news organization.
-
- 1. Offload the Work. Instead of paying reporters to ferret
out stories, Drudge gets the news through his network of sources. 'To my
knowledge Matt does virtually no independent reporting whatsoever,' says
his pal Lucianne Goldberg.
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- 2. Aggregate, Don't Duplicate. When Drudge gets wind
of breaking news, he doesn't bother trying to report the story. Instead
he just points his readers to other news sources that already have the
story, whether it's an obscure Norwegian paper or the New York Times.
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- 3. Zero Bureaucracy Means Great Speed. Drudge can post
breaking news in the time it takes to type a headline into an HTML file.
There's no anchor to put in the makeup chair or layers of editors who need
to vet a story before it goes live.
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- 4. Don't Discuss Business. Drudge never explains how
he stays on top of the news 24 hours a day. This builds mystique and creates
buzz, which translates into traffic. The result: millions of readers and
not a penny spent to advertise the website ...In fact, Drudge does sleep.
And he isn't exactly chained to his keyboard. 'He swims on the beach every
day and goes and has a burrito for lunch,' according to friend Lucianne
Goldberg, a conservative talk-radio host ... Michael Kinsley, founding
editor of Slate, who once tried, unsuccessfully, to do business with Drudge,
says the go-it-alone persona is just a mask. 'Matt's very different from
his public image. He thinks he's this incredibly powerful, ruthless avenger,'
Kinsley says. 'But he's actually sort of an innocent, Walter Mitty type
-- except that his fantasies are more or less true.' In fact, he's written
the book on building an online media business."
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- [Note: Akamai Technologies was co-founded by Daniel Levin.
Levin, an officer in the Israeli military, was killed in one of the planes
involved the 9-11 attack. Another censor listed below is Yahoo! -- which
is headed by Terry Semel, also Jewish and a judge at a recent Israel Film
Festival.]
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- Al Jazeera and the Net - free speech, but don't say that
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- By John Lettice
- The Register (UK)
- April 7, 2003
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- "Arabic satellite TV network Al Jazeera's efforts
to build an English-language web site have run into another speed bump.
Akamai Technologies, whose 'Accelerated Networks can stand up to unpredictable
traffic and flash crowds for even the largest events,' fired Al Jazeera
last week. Akamai issued a statement saying it had worked 'briefly' last
week with Al Jazeera, but that it had decided 'not to continue a customer
relationship' with the channel. No reason was given for the decision, but
an Al Jazeera spokeswoman told the New York Times that companies were coming
under 'nonstop political pressure' to refuse to do business with the channel.
Al Jazeera launched an English-language web site at the end of last month,
and this immediately came under fire on several fronts. It was hacked,
DDoSed, Network Solutions was tricked into allowing the domain to be hijacked
(which inspires confidence), and US host DataPipe gave it notice after
what Al Jazeera claimed was pressure from other customers. The English
language site was up at time of writing, but Al Jazeera clearly needs to
find a robust, long-term solution, and this is equally clearly going to
be very difficult indeed. There are many ironies to the multi-decked 'get
Al Jazeera' campaign; one attack suppressed the site with the slogan 'Let
Freedom Ring!' (only up to a point, presumably), while practically none
of those busily denying themselves the right to access it can have had
time to read it in the first place ... Al Jazeera protests, in fairly mild
terms, that it is 'increasingly appearing to be subject to a campaign designed
at limiting its access to Western audiences,' and this does look awfully
like the truth ... Essentially Al Jazeera's 'Iraqi propaganda' activities
are no greater (perhaps even rather less) than those of many liberal media
outlets. In the UK many of these have also been criticised by the government,
but they have not been the subject of major hacking attacks, nor have hosting
and services companies declined to do business with them. We should also
clarify something regarding the footage of the prisoners and the dead servicemen;
military spokesmen to the contrary, reproducing such images is not a breach
of the Geneva Convention. The Geneva Convention is directed at governments,
and does not cover news organisations. Al Jazeera has arguably broadcast
images of the Iraqi Government breaching the Geneva Convention, but that
is not the same thing. To get this into perspective, note that one of the
most striking pictures from the Vietnam war was of a South Vietnamese officer
shooting a prisoner - do we argue that this should not have been published?
If Al Jazeera had footage of an Iraqi shooting a British prisoner, should
that be broadcast? The other way around? Are our standards today different
from those of the 60s, or do the criteria differ depending on the nationalities
of the participants and/or the audience? The answers are not straightforward,
nor should they be ... By Western standards Al Jazeera may have breached
standards of taste and decency, and may not (again by Western standards)
have sufficiently contextualised bin Laden and Iraqi exercises in propaganda.
But by Middle Eastern standards Western media could similarly be accused
of too readily parrotting propaganda in the other direction, and of too
frequently operating a system of self-censorship. There's some merit to
both points of view, the demise of Arnett being a good example of self-censorship,
but there's no good reason for casting Al Jazeera into outer darkness -
unless of course the problem is that its coverage has been increasingly
reaching a Western audience. Or an Internet audience. Back in the irony
department Yahoo!, which you may recall had some trouble with the French
government a while back over Nazi memorabilia, is one of the companies
declining to carry Al Jazeera advertising owing to 'war-related sensitivity,'
and there's probably a high correlation between people who want Al Jazeera
run off the web and people who oppose virtually any kind of internet censorship.
Al Jazeera meanwhile has racked up millions more new TV viewers than it
could possibly hope to gain via a web site, and its service has continued
to be available in the US during the war. So why is the Internet different?
To some extent, it possibly isn't. Al Jazeera seems to have been able to
run an Arabic web site without coming under serious fire until it introduced
the English version. Similarly, it's been able to run an Arabic TV station
without Western companies trying to pull the plugs on it, and with Western
governments denouncing it on the one hand while using it in order to get
to its audience on the other. So it's possibly OK if it's over there, in
Arabic, but not if it's over here, in English (if it goes ahead with its
planned English TV service later this year, then we'll no doubt find out).
The Internet is different, however, in that despite it being, allegedly,
the New Frontier, the ultimate medium for free speech, it's also eminently
suited to the suppression of free speech. Sure, anybody can set up a web
site and say whatever they like, but only if not too many people read what
they say, and only if they're careful about what it is they say. Say something
controversial that enough people don't like, and you'll get attacked. Say
something particular pressure groups don't like, and you'll get attacked
on multiple fronts, bombarded via email, mail and voice phone, indirectly
via your neighbours, other people in your organisation, hosts your organisation
deals with, other outfits using the same hosts who don't like the publicity."
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- [So, uh, how is "devising" this attack a plus
for the world?]
- Snail mail attack could be launched online,
- New Scientist, April 15, 2003
- "An avalanche of unwanted post could be released
upon an unsuspecting victim using nothing more than an internet connection
and some simple code, a team of US researchers says. The attack, devised
by Aviel Rubin at Johns Hopkins University and Simon Byers [also Jewish?]
and David Kormann at AT&T Labs, involves automatically subscribing
a victim to hundreds of thousands of catalogue request forms that are available
online. Using search engines to instantly locate such forms and then simple
code to automatically feed a victim's name and address into them, the researchers
say such an attack would be dangerously simple to carry out. 'We have been
living in a state of bliss, spoiled by the lack of any concerted attacks
that utilise these new services, search engines in particular,' the researchers
write in a paper entitled Defending Against an Internet-based Attack on
the Physical World. The researchers say guarding against an attack would
be difficult ... Aside from the impact on individuals, Rubin and his co-authors
warn that such an attack could even disable a local postal office."
-
- [Which Country Leads the World -- By Far -- in Computer
Hacking Attacks?]
- Riptech [pdf file: Origin of Attacks -- See page 16]
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-
- Fans launch "Free Kobe" Web site,
- [sidebar to the article entitled: Kobe Submits DNA during
hospital visit]
- ESPN, July 10, 2003
- "A pair of sports fans have launched a Web site
to take advantage of the Kobe Bryant legal situation, the Rocky Mountain
News reported Wednesday. Californian Jeff Reichman and Boston-area resident
David Feingold have created a campaign and a retail store at www.freekobe.com,
where they are offering T-shirts, coffee cups and hats. The two men launched
the site Tuesday in response to reports that Bryant, a guard/small forward
for the Los Angeles Lakers, was arrested in Eagle County on suspicion of
sexual assault. Bryant has not yet been formally charged. "There are
not really any superstars to look up to anymore," Reichman, 24, said
to the newspaper. The site's creators, according to the newspaper, say
they are seeking to "protect one of the few remaining role models
in this tumultuous world of basketball fandom." "It's not so
much that we are huge fans of Kobe, but it's more that we are fans of the
idea that there can be a hero, somebody to look up to in professional sports,"
Reichman said. The T-shirts and hats sold on the site feature a "Free
Kobe" logo and slogans such as, "Because we're running out of
heroes."
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- [The "Russian" mafia is dominantly Jewish.]
- Hackers Hijack PC's for Sex Sites,
- By JOHN SCHWARTZ, New York Times, July 11, 2003
- "More than a thousand unsuspecting Internet users
around the world have recently had their computers hijacked by hackers,
who computer security experts say are using them for pornographic Web sites.
The hijacked computers, which are chosen by the hackers apparently because
they have high-speed connections to the Internet, are secretly loaded with
software that makes them send explicit Web pages advertising pornographic
sites and offer to sign visitors up as customers. Unless the owner of the
hijacked computer is technologically sophisticated, the activity is likely
to go unnoticed. The program, which only briefly downloads the pornographic
material to the usurped computer, is invisible to the computer's owner.
It apparently does not harm the computer or disturb its operation ... The
current version of the ring is not completely anonymous, since the hijacked
machines download the pornographic ads from a single Web server. According
to the computer investigators, that machine apparently is owned by Everyones
Internet, a large independent Internet service company in Houston that
also offers Web hosting services to a large number of companies. Jeff Lowenberg,
the company's vice president of operations, said that he was not aware
of any illegal activity on one of his company's computers but said that
he would investigate ...Mr. Stewart, who has written a technical paper
to help antivirus companies devise defenses against the porn-hijacking
network, has named the program "migmaf," for "migrant Mafia,"
because he thinks the program originated in the Russian high-tech underworld.
Hackers from the former Soviet Union have been linked to several schemes,
including extortion attempts in which they threaten to shut down online
casinos through Internet attacks unless the companies pay them off. Antispam
activists have also accused Russian organized crime organizations of taking
over home and business PC's to create networks for sending spam. "They
always seem to lead back to the Russian mob," Mr. Stewart said."
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- Israel ECtel wins U.S. telecoms carrier deal,
- Forbes, August 19, 2003
- "A major U.S. telecoms carrier has ordered Israeli
company ECtel's lawful interception application, the firm said in a statement
on Tuesday. A valuation for deal was not given and a spokeswoman for the
firm declined to comment on the size of the contract. ECtel, a unit of
telecoms equipment holding firm ECI Telecom, makes monitoring equipment
for communications networks. Shares in ECtel were up 0.7 percent at $6.15
in morning trade on the Nasdaq exchange.
-
- [The following Israeli article is about Amdocs. What
is Amdocs? This, from Fox News reporter Carl Cameron (at <http://cryptome.org/fox-il-spy.htm>http://cryptome.org/fox-il-spy.htm)
: "Most directory assistance calls, and virtually all call records
and billing in the U.S. are done for the phone companies by Amdocs Ltd.,
an Israeli-based private telecommunications company. Amdocs has contracts
with the 25 biggest phone companies in America, and more worldwide. The
White House and other secure government phone lines are protected, but
it is virtually impossible to make a call on normal phones without generating
an Amdocs record of it. In recent years, the FBI and other government agencies
have investigated Amdocs more than once. The firm has repeatedly and adamantly
denied any security breaches or wrongdoing. But sources tell Fox News that
in 1999, the super secret National Security Agency, headquartered in northern
Maryland, issued what's called a Top Secret sensitive compartmentalized
information report, TS/SCI, warning that records of calls in the United
States were getting into foreign hands - in Israel, in particular. Investigators
don't believe calls are being listened to, but the data about who is calling
whom and when is plenty valuable in itself. An internal Amdocs memo to
senior company executives suggests just how Amdocs generated call records
could be used. ãWidespread data mining techniques and algorithms....
combining both the properties of the customer (e.g., credit rating) and
properties of the specific Îbehavior·.âä Specific
behavior, such as who the customers are calling. The Amdocs memo says the
system should be used to prevent phone fraud. But U.S. counterintelligence
analysts say it could also be used to spy through the phone system. Fox
News has learned that the N.S.A has held numerous classified conferences
to warn the F.B.I. and C.I.A. how Amdocs records could be used."]
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- Billing firm Amdocs closes in on two massive deals,
- By Gitit Pincas, Haaretz (Israel), August 24, 2003
- "Billing software developer Amdocs has reached the
advanced stages in a $100 million tender conducted by credit card and financial
services company Visa, according to a source in the industry. ABN AMRO,
the world's 10th largest bank, is also examining Amdocs solutions. Amdocs
refused to comment on the reports. Amdocs' billing and customer relationship
management (CRM) software is directed primarily at the telecommunications
sector, but the company has recently tried to penetrate the banking and
financial services sectors, as well as technology manufacture, health care,
commerce and retail. The industry believes the company has a good chance
of entering the financial services market, as its CRM solution, Clarify,
has already been applied under similar circumstances. Amdocs maintains
secrecy surrounding expansion plans, code-naming projects like the Visa
tender, Venus, and the ABN AMRO project, Beta. Staff members involved in
the projects are asked only to use the code names to prevent information
leaks. The Clarify software became part of the Amdocs product line after
the company purchased Nortel subsidiary Clarify for $200 million in October
200 ... Visa has issued more than 1 billion cards in 150 countries and
handled $2.4 trillion in transactions in 2002. ABN AMRO boasts more than
3,000 branches in 60 countries."
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- Hackers using Israeli 'net site to strike at Pentagon,
- By Nitzan Horowitz, Middle East Facts (originally from
Haaretz - Israel), July 30, 1999
- "An Israeli Internet site is being used by international
computer hackers as a base for electronic attacks on U.S. government and
military computer systems, according to Pentagon officials who were quoted
in a Washington Times report yesterday. The paper said that the National
Security Agency detected the hackers and warned government security officials
last week about the electronic penetration attempts. The warning was issued
by the National Security Incident Response Center, an interagency group
set up by the NSA to track computer attacks, the Washington Times explained.
The attacks were traced to an Internet protocol (IP) address in Israel,
said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. (An IP address
is a number that identifies a computer connected to the Internet.) Many
probes of government and military computers were detected from the Israeli
site, the agency noted, adding that the site is a popular "jump point"
for hackers in Israel and other countries. Hackers have also used the site
to store hacker-related materials, such as software and database information,
the Washington paper reported. Such materials can include special password-breaking
programs that are used to find entry points into Internet sites."
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- "[Yet another wolf guarding the henhouse. "Amit
Yoran" sounds Israeli. Interesting fact: "Adjusting for the number
of Internet users in each country, the intensity of attacks from Israel
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- s nearly double the attack intensity rate of any other
individual country."
- White House Names Yoran as Cybersecurity Chief,
- By Roy Mark, siliconvalley.internet.com, September 15,
2003
- "Amit Yoran, the founder of an Internet government
security firm and a current vice president at Symantec, has been named
by the Bush administration to head the Department of Homeland Security's
(DHS) cybersecurity division. In his new role, Yoran will be responsible
for implementing the administration's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace,
a report issued by the White House in February that depends more on private
industry cooperation than government mandates and regulations ... Yoran
is the co-founder of Riptech, an Alexandria, Va.-based firm that focused
on government cybersecurity. In July of last year, Symantec bought Riptech
for $145 million and Yoran stayed on as vice president for managed security
services. Before joining Riptech, Yoran was director of the vulnerability
assessement program for the Defense Department's computer emergency response
team."
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- THE INSIDE SCOOP OF THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN CYBERSPACE.
Amit Yoran, The New Cybersecurity Tsar For Homeland Security - Who Is This
Man Who Will Be Watching Everything We Do Online, And Can He Be Trusted?,
by Samuel A. Stanson, The Moderate Independent, SEPTEMBER 20, 2003 - "When
you first hear the name Amit Yoran as the person who has just been charged
with overseeing cybersecurity - keeping an eye on everything that goes
on online - for America's Department of Homeland Security, it sounds odd.
One would not normally expect to here a foreign-sounding name for such
an important national security position. Yoran has always been a bit of
an oddball ... Born into a life of relative privilege, Amit was one of
four sons of Israeli immigrants. As people from Israel like to say, you
mature very quickly there, and paying attention to world affairs is not
something that makes a kid a dork or egghead, it is simply a fact of existence
there. And so Amit's focus at a young age on international affairs and
embrace of the boldly pro-Israel foreign policy of the Reagan administration
is easily understood. And, as someone descended from a nation whose existence
is threatened on a daily basis, the importance these things played in even
his early life begins to not seem so odd after all ... Riptech, the cybersecurity
firm Amit started with his West Point brother Elad - thanks to his connections
in government circles in part - took off like an Tomahawk missile, and
after only 4 years of running the company, they were bought out by Symantec
for $145 million."
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- [The Jewish Thought Police seeks to disband the innate
democracy of ideas in the Internet to narrow search results to think "like
they would."]
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- Wanted: a search engine that feels our pain. Industry
seeks a savvy, more-human way to take Internet users where they're looking
to go,
- By STEPHANIE EARLS, Times Union, September 25, 2003
- "The 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"
introduced us to the HAL 9000, a self-actualized supercomputer that spoke
in dulcet tones, empathizing with its beleaguered crew while piloting them
through space (and, ultimately, plotting to kill them -- but that's another
story) ... "We want it to be people, not just a machine," said
Shelly Shapiro, director of the Holocaust Survivors & Friends Education
Center in Latham. But a machine it was, in 1995, when Shapiro held a teacher's
seminar in which she instructed her charges to type the word Holocaust
into computer search engines. A top response that emerged on sites was
a report by a notorious Holocaust revisionist, claiming the Holocaust never
occurred. Sharpiro was horrified. "You could type in the word Auschwitz,
and up came pages about there being a debate on whether or not it happened,"
she said. "Students don't want to go to the library anymore, they
want to go to the computer and have it act like a librarian. But a librarian
wouldn't put a book about white supremacy on the bookshelves, presenting
it like it's an argument." Shapiro wanted the computer to think like
she would. She was told -- by AltaVista, for one -- that responses were
just math, but, she said, "we decided to find a way to help the search
engines do their job." In the end, Shapiro found empathy at LookSmart,
where Ontology Manager Alice Swanberg in February agreed to "properly
categorize" the Holocaust denial sites ... In the meantime, honing
our genuine intelligence (and computer literacy) may be the best way to
get the Internet to respond in kind, said University at Albany network
services librarian and Webmaster Laura Cohen. Learning to ask the right
questions, when it comes to search engines, is a start. "Search tools
have become very humanized in the past years."
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- [Sergey Brin, co-founder and head of Google, is Jewish.]
- Google Fascists?,
- IndyMedia (from Google-Watch.org), October 13, 2003
- "Take a look at this... 1. Google's immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038.
This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent
cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace
among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to
challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk.
Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't
already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID
number. 2. Google records everything they can: For all searches they record
the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search
terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing
results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as
"IP delivery based on geolocation." 3. Google retains all data
indefinitely: Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence
that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect
and save. 4. Google won't say why they need this data: Inquiries to Google
about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28)
asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information,
he had no comment."
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- Israel top base for Internet attacks,
- Interest Alert! (from UPI), October 20, 2003
- A survey by Symantec says Middle Eastern countries comprised
six of the top 10 bases for Internet attacks, it was reported Monday. In
the first half of 2003, the top offenders included Israel as well as Iran,
Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, WorldTribune.com
said. Symantec ranked the threats according to the size of a country's
Internet population base. Israel was cited as the biggest source of Web-based
attacks with an Internet user base of more than 1 million, Middle East
Newsline reported. About 80 percent of all attacks originated from systems
located in 10 countries. "The Internet is a great leveler and the
issue of Web security in the Middle East is no different from any other
part of the world," Kevin Isaac, regional director at Symantec, said.
"Wherever there is high bandwidth availability and a proliferation
of the Internet, the chances of breaches taking place are high."
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