Tag: NRC

  • National cyber shelter keeps DDoS attacks outside the door

    National cyber shelter keeps DDoS attacks outside the door

    Recent DDoS attacks in the Netherlands, targeting banks, the airline KLM and the governmental identity management platform DigiD – each causing substantial financial losses – go to show how much society has come to depend on the internet, and how vulnerable vital websites and services are to this kind of attack, which, technologically speaking, could…

  • NRC

    Besides being an entrepreneur and a consultant, Danny Mekic’ (25) is also one of the founders of the young adults’ movement G500. „I think working on something is more fun than lying around on the couch.” At the age of 25, Danny Mekić has already accomplished more than many do in a lifetime. He started…

  • Stop censorship for students and scientists in Groningen

    Stop censorship for students and scientists in Groningen

    The University of Groningen blocks Bittorrent, a file exchange protocol. This is a violation of academic freedom, Danny Mekic’ states. In 1158, the University of Bologna, the oldest university in Europe, accepted the Constitutio Habita, a manifesto written by Frederick I of Hohenstaufen, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. This manifesto described students’ and scholars’…

  • This censorship will be the end of a free internet

    This censorship will be the end of a free internet

    In the USA, laws are in preparation that would mean the end of a free internet. The court of The Hague passed a verdict to the same effect. The culprits go unpunished and innocent internet users are the ones who suffer, Danny Mekic’ concludes. What do Facebook, Google, Twitter, eBay and Wikipedia have in common?…

  • Facebook has no exit

    Facebook has no exit

    Facebook is a burgeoning public utility service, according to Danny Mekic’. If it doesn’t want to be subjected to governmental meddling, it will have to start primarily catering to its users rather than its advertisers. Tell me if this sounds familiar: Where were you last night? Who else was there with you? This photo was…

  • No downloading, no Spotify, no innovation

    No downloading, no Spotify, no innovation

    Music revenue is on the rise exactly because of the internet Record labels are abandoning legal music downloading service Spotify. The Dutch government wants to make it a punishable offence to download from anywhere else. This works counter-productively. The previous weekend, 234 record labels announced they would no longer be offering their artists’ music on…