Albert Einstein Quote

Very true: "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." - Albert Einstein

Quote of the April

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln

JFK Quote

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." - John F. Kennedy

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Thomas Jefferson

EU proposes a central cybersecurity platform, urges companies to report online attacks

EU proposes a central cybersecurity platform, urges companies to report online attacks

The European Union has officially published guidelines for a central cybersecurity framework that will allow countries to share information about threats and require companies to disclose when they've suffered major security breaches. The proposal, which was first reported last month, must be approved by the European Parliament before going into effect; it's meant to improve what the EU calls "fragmented" past efforts. If it's passed, countries will have 18 months to adopt a Network and Information Security plan, and to designate an authority to manage cybersecurity. From there, the EU will organize a system to share information and conduct peer reviews of individual countries' systems, though it says it's not looking to dictate specific policies.

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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

Anonymous hacks MIT after Aaron Swartz's suicide

Just hours after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pledged an investigation into its role in events leading up to the suicide of Aaron Swartz, online hacktivist group Anonymous defaced the school's Web site. 

Swartz, a Reddit cofounder who championed open access to documents on the Internet, committed suicide on Friday. The 26-year-old was arrested in July 2011 and accused of stealing 4 million documents from MIT and Jstor, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers. He faced $4 million in fines and more than 50 years in prison if convicted. 

After MIT President L. Rafael Reif issued a statement this afternoon promising a "thorough analysis of MIT's involvement from the time that we first perceived unusual activity on our network in fall 2010 up to the present," Anonymous targeted at least two MIT Web sites. Lacking the loose-knit group's usual feisty language, the message posted on the Web site was a call for reform in the memory of the late Internet activist.  

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