A suspected hacker indicted after a broadcast of "further investigation"

Internet, Wikileaks, Transparency - Supplement ... partipirate by The Paris prosecutor opened a criminal investigation for fraud against a young man who boasted on television to have penetrated the computer systems group Thales. Arrested on April 7 in Paris, the alleged attacker was taken into custody.

Thales had complained after the recent airing of a program "further investigation" on France 2, in which the young man had boasted of being returned to the company intranet and sites of the army. The individual has been indicted for fraudulent access to such a system of automatic data processing, theft and embezzlement.

Mobile Phones: Free request a postponement of the licensing 4G

Iliad, the parent of the Internet access provider Free (whose boss, Xavier Niel, is an individual shareholder of the World), asked the government to delay the allocation of frequencies mobile fourth generation (4G). The group feared a "preemption" on the part of the largest operators. These licenses must be a call for nominations in May, for a frequency allocation planned for late 2011.

The French government has to raise revenues of about EUR 2 billion for these licenses. "The procedure, as envisaged to date, focuses on land use and enhancement of the spectrum [frequency]. The development of competition is not taken into account," laments Illiad in a letter to the Minister of industry, Eric Besson, published Monday, April 11, the daily économiqueLes Echos.

Facebook and Baidu could create a common social network

Facebook has reached an agreement with the Chinese internet giant Baidu for creation of a joint social network, reports the Chinese website Sohu. com, quoting anonymous employees of Baidu. The agreement, which has not been officially confirmed, would come after a series of meetings between Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, Robin Li, Baidu's CEO, which took place in recent months.

Facebook is now banned in China, where only Chinese social networks are allowed; Facebook, like Twitter, has received approval from the authorities because the social network does not comply with Chinese rules on censorship. If workarounds are available, the penetration of Facebook in China, estimated at 0.09%, is almost zero, while in other Asian countries, including Indonesia, the social network is in a strong position .

Google continues to photograph the German streets

Google Street View, Google Maps system featuring photographs of cities will no longer be updated with new pictures in Germany, said a spokesman for the search engine. In other countries where the service is available, "Google Car", equipped with cameras to 360 degrees, regularly take new pictures to put the service to date.

But in Germany, Google believes that "the number one priority is to use the Google cars to collect information such as names of streets and traffic signs to improve our standard cards." The launch of Google Street View sparked controversy in Germany, where the law is particularly protective for the privacy of citizens.

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Facebook, the product is you. As always

Before yesterday evening I was out of town and aimed at a quiet dinner. But the fourth SMS received from friends asking me if I was in front of the TV watching Report, I had to give up and I did what I do every Sunday evening to watch the program Gabanelli undertaken to examine the business models of Google and Facebook and the implications for our lives internettara.

Yesterday, at least on websfera a bit 'nerdy and a little' geek that I and my party with pride we missing diopters, there was no talk of nothing else. My personal analysis of the episode may also end with the words of those who know more than me, that Stefano Epifani, who last week wrote on his blog: "[Sunday] we celebrated yet another wasted opportunity to speak (once so seriously) Network and the problems it raises.

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