Morning Coffee - Privacy and Tech News

Stories about privacy, new technology and the social implications of computing gathered from around the web:

Gadgets/Hardware

Does maintenance increase downtime? Coupled with poor documentation and human error, yes.

Tiny robots developed to study swarming behavior

Hacking
How not to get an IT job - hack the employers system and threaten extortion

4 people in Philippines accused of hacking U.S. AT&T accounts and diverting funds to terrorists.


Higher Education
Mississippi state auditor questions laptop purchase that didn't go out to bid

China canceling unprofitable college majors

Software

System can recognize Human emotion:

I'm tougher than you are because I work at a startup.

Social Media

Venture capitalist uses the term "social proof" rather than "testimonial" to describe marketing - interesting for vocab reasons.

Privacy/Surveillance
Good post about protecting "your" data

Palantir would like to aggregate government databases to fight terrorism

A future vision of airport security - cloned sniffer dogs, thermal lie detectors

Policy
Feds supposedly seize 130 domain names, why do we need SOPA?