79 Cloud Computing threatens Microsoft's monopoly

(1) Porn trap on Google?
(2) Has the NSA broken Skype's VOIP encryption? Has Ebay (Skype's owner) sold out?
(3) Cloud Computing threatens Microsoft's monopoly
(4) Yahoo! in Jewish hands
(5) The Guardian on how Israel´s Foreign Office tries to promote Israel via MySpace
(6) eBay & Paypal - Jews as High Technology Entrepreneurs and Managers

(1) Porn trap on Google?

From: Howard & Rosemary <mymms@optusnet.com.au>  Date: 05.09.2009 07:11 PM

Hi Peter, on checking out your info on porn sites on Google, I noticed on a linked page there is an image that I would describe as a porn trap

It shows an older, white haired man fondling a very young girl, the girl probably pre puberty.

I suggest this image may have been planted by the wowzer Police to entrap.

I am particularly disturbed that dishonest Police are attempting to trump up unwarranted charges against unwary persons.

There really is no crime in an adult viewing an image that is in the Public Domain, after-all no harm can be done to that image, the parent of that child has already committed a criminal act and not been apprehended?

Why don't these lazy do gooders act against he source of this criminal activity.

This a civil liberty issue, otherwise we could all be arrested for noticing that a child was naked on a public beach or swimming pool.

Comment (Peter M.):

Nudity in a natural setting is innocuous. But porn is salacious and exploitative.

(2) Has the NSA broken Skype's VOIP encryption? Has Ebay (Skype's owner) sold out?

From: chris lenczner <chrispaul@netpci.com> Date: 04.09.2009 07:46 PM

Has Skype's VOIP encryption been broken?

http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/02-140/

I have explained before that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies have found it impossible to intercept Skype's instant messaging and voice traffic. Like other voice-over-Internet protocol (VOIP) communications providers, Skype uses technology that converts audio signals to data, and transports them through most of the Internet infrastructure in binary, rather than audio, format. Furthermore, Skype uses very complex algorithms to encrypt its customers' communications. Skype has repeatedly pointed to the technical complexities of VOIP communications, arguing that it is often technically impossible to facilitate communications interception requests by government authorities. There are rumors among communications interception specialists that the NSA is offering billions to anyone who can come up with a reliable eavesdropping model for Skype. Remarkably, on August 25, a Swiss software developer released what he claims is the source code of a program for tapping into encrypted Skype communications. I don't know whether the source code (essentially a trojan) is effective. He claims it is. If this is confirmed, then several people in Fort George F. Meade, Maryland, will be really close paying attention. ==

http://facthai.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/nsa-offers-billions-to-crack-skype-the-register/

NSA offers billions to crack Skype-The Register
17-02-09

[FACT comments: The rub here is the same as using encryption such as Pretty Good Privacy, Gnu Privacy Guard, TrueCrypt--does the NSA already have the means to decrypt all these and Skype? NSA certainly has a lot to gain by such disinformation to trick the public into thinking we're safe.]

NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution
Business model for P2P firm at last?
Lewis Page
The Register: February 12, 2009

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_for_skype_pwnage/

Counter Terror Expo-News of a possible viable business model for P2P VoIP network Skype emerged today, at the Counter Terror Expo in London. An industry source disclosed that America's supersecret National Security Agency (NSA) is offering “billions” to any firm which can offer reliable eavesdropping on Skype IM and voice traffic.

The spybiz exec, who preferred to remain anonymous, confirmed that Skype continues to be a major problem for government listening agencies, spooks and police. This was already thought to be the case, following requests from German authorities for special intercept/bugging powers to help them deal with Skype-loving malefactors. Britain's GCHQ has also stated that it has severe problems intercepting VoIP and internet communication in general.

Skype in particular is a serious problem for spooks and cops. Being P2P, the network can't be accessed by the company providing it and the authorities can't gain access by that route. The company won't disclose details of its encryption, either, and isn't required to as it is Europe based.

This lack of openness prompts many security pros to rubbish Skype on “security through obscurity” grounds: but nonetheless it remains a popular choice with those who think they might find themselves under surveillance.

Rumour suggests that America's NSA may be able to break Skype encryption – assuming they have access to a given call or message – but nobody else. ...

But corporate parent eBay, having had to write down $1.4bn already following its $2.6bn purchase of Skype back in the bubble-2.0 days of 2005, might see an opportunity here. A billion or two from the NSA for a backdoor into Skype might make the acquisition seem like a sensible idea.

We asked the NSA for comment, particularly on the idea of simply buying a way into Skype, but hadn't yet received a response as of publication. ==

http://ultraparanoid.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/why-skype-is-evil/

June 19, 2007...4:12 pm
Why Skype is Evil™

So, you're a security-minded individual who uses a HW firewall, a client firewall, antivirus SW and anti-spyware SW to protect yourself, your computer and your privacy. Great! Now you've found a great way to communicate with your friends and family in a secure fashion: Skype! Well, let's take a deep breath and have a closer look at Skype. Here's a conversation between me and you:

You: I've found a way to communicate with my friends and my family in a secure fashion!

Me: Wow, that's great. Tell me more about it.

You: It's a voice-over-IP program with chat functionality.

Me: Sounds nice, but how exactly is it “secure”?

You: It encrypts everything with a 256-bit EAS algorithm – it's unbreakable! ...

Me: Now, let's take a look at the eBay purchase of Skype in the first place. Why would eBay buy Skype?  ... Skype has no real revenue potential. Skype's business model has long been questioned by many economists. The software is gratis and the calls are mostly gratis. ... Or perhaps there is a second buyer, helping eBay finance the purchase? Do I know that NSA helped fund eBay's purchase of Skype? No, I certainly do not.

What I DO know is:

    * eBay has no obvious reason for buying Skype (granted, this being my weakest point); certainly not for $2.6 billion.
    * eBay has a history of handing out extensive user information to government officials without any subpoena or court order at all.
    * Skype has done everything in its power to make it impossible (warning: link to big PDF) for anyone to verify the encryption implementation or whether there are any backdoors in the program.
    * Skype is known to behave in a suspicious manner, for example collecting BIOS and motherboard information – information that a VoIP/chat program has no legitimate use for. Or imposing artificial limitations based on CPU vendor.
    * Skype has time and again refused to discuss Skype security issues, phone records and Skype interactions with law enforcement.
    * NSA has a duty to monitor as much foreign communication as possible.
    * Skype has been (presumed to be) a huge thorn in the side of NSA.
    * NSA has a secret budget. Its size and its uses are unknown.

All these facts would, in a court of law, be called “circumstantial”, but putting two and two together, I wouldn't use Skype for anything sensitive. At least not for something I wouldn't want NSA to know, and perhaps not for anything I didn't want a random competing US company to know either (Warning: PDF document. See point 10.9.2). ...

This transcript of a Skype conversation was brought to you by NSA – your friendly neighborhood Big Brother™.

1) The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 prescribes procedures for the physical and electronic surveillance and collection of “foreign intelligence information” between or among “foreign powers”. Even though the act specifically forbids spying on US citizens without a court order, it can be argued that it is impossible to separate domestic internet traffic from non-domestic internet traffic. Therefore, in order to be able to monitor foreign internet traffic, one must monitor ALL internet traffic. Besides, the U-SAP-AT-RIOT Act of 2001 largely removes the public protection that existed in previous laws. If that wasn't enough, GWB has shown us that rewriting the law on-the-fly as he sees fit is just as fun.

2) Yes, Skype is a peer-to-peer software, as opposed to a server-client model, but the software is not self-certifying which means it needs to connect and login to a centralized Skype server to certify each user's public key.

3) My apologies to Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch.

(3) Cloud Computing threatens Microsoft's monopoly

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik3-2009sep03,1,5337158.column

Microsoft's grip on users is being lost in the cloud

By Michael Hiltzik

September 3, 2009

The other day I had a vision of the death of Microsoft.

It came just hours after I placed a curse upon the huge company for, oh, the ten-thousandth time.

The occasion for my latest malediction was the discovery that Microsoft had dispensed with the "backward compatibility" of its Word application. As a result, a document created in, say, Office 2007 and e-mailed for my perusal won't open in the Word 97 program on my home computer as anything but gibberish.

Microsoft's goal obviously is to coerce me to upgrade to the new version of Office, which would cost me as much as $400, take up an enormous amount of my hard drive space and undoubtedly consume obscene quantities of my computing power. ...

Google offers a suite of Office-like applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation program similar to Word, Excel and PowerPoint for free use online. Although none is as oppressively overstuffed as their Microsoft analogues, none is quite as serviceable as even the decade-old versions on my computer. But what's the over/under on how long it will take Google to polish them to the point of adequacy? A year? Six months?

Microsoft acknowledges that its consumer sales of Office have slipped, in part because retail buyers are shifting to "lower-priced products" -- with Google's zero-priced offerings presumably high on the list.

So what does it say about the company's future if it's beginning to lose control of its cash cow? It wasn't so long ago that the prevailing image of Microsoft was as a juggernaut on its way to world domination, like a James Bond villain. The fear that it might become unstoppable is what provoked the U.S. and European governments to spend many years and millions of dollars and euros pursuing it in court

Yet it now looks as though the Internet has accomplished something that antitrust regulators failed to do -- break Microsoft's ability to monopolize software markets.

Microsoft exercised its dominance in part by bundling applications with its Windows operating system on new PCs, making it hard for competing software to get a foothold. Its crushing of Netscape in the 1990s browser wars was the signature exhibit of this tendency. (Netscape has since risen from the dead in the form of Mozilla's free Firefox browser, developed from its old code.)

But as applications move up to the network and the need to keep them on one's own computer ebbs, so does Microsoft's power to dictate what its customers use. This undoubtedly contributed to Google's strategy of challenging Microsoft with its own stripped-down Chrome operating system and Web browser.

All this leads us to another phenomenon you will be hearing a lot more about: "cloud computing," which signifies the network of big computers where your software applications and, increasingly, your data, will reside rather than on your home or office hardware. It's already where your Google documents and e-mail are found, for example.

Cloud computing will make those files and data more accessible -- you can open them anywhere you have an Internet connection while reducing the demand on your own computer storage space and computing power -- but it raises issues of privacy and ownership that we haven't begun to resolve.

We've already seen a few examples of how the cloud's technological capability is outpacing corporate practice and legal precedent. Earlier this year, Amazon.com reached into its customers' Kindle e-books without their permission and removed versions of George Orwell's "1984" that turned out to have been unauthorized for electronic sale. Only then did many users discover that their "purchased" books resided in the cloud, and what they had bought was only a license to read them on the Kindle -- evidently a revocable license.

And the social-networking site Facebook has been caught keeping its users' personal information in its cloud, even after people cancel their memberships. (Facebook has promised Canadian authorities, who identified the problem, that it will upgrade its privacy policies.) The cloud may enable law enforcement agencies, creditors, marketers and hackers to gain access to your personal information behind your back, unless legal rights and responsibilities become better defined for the new world.

Still, the cloud is opening the playing field for sellers of what's known as "software as a service" -- instead of buying a program and managing it in your home or office, you pay these guys a subscription fee to maintain the program and hold your data on their computers. (What happens to your data if your subscription lapses or the servicer goes out of business is another issue still lost in the, er, clouds.)

No one should bet that Microsoft will let the cloud develop without staking out a role for itself. The company announced in July that it would offer free online versions of its Office programs starting next year -- plainly a counterstrike at Google Docs. It is investing billions in a cloud strategy and placed it directly under its chief software architect, the master programmer Ray Ozzie. Ozzie is already designing a cloud operating system dubbed Azure.

But Microsoft plainly knows the ground has shifted under its feet. It may yet manage to hold on to its dominant position in operating systems and Web and office software; it survived the earthquake known as the World Wide Web, thanks to Bill Gates' aggressive leadership. But history is littered with the carcasses of companies once thought impregnable in their core businesses, only to be undone by technological change. (Are you listening, Google?) The software and network businesses are about to become a lot more interesting.

Michael Hiltzik's column appears Mondays and Thursdays. Reach him at michael.hiltzik@latimes.com, read previous columns at www.latimes.com/hiltzik, and follow @latimeshiltzik on Twitter.

(4) Yahoo! in Jewish hands

Behind the Net: PayPal,Goog,Facebk,Wiki,Yah,MySp,eBay

The Jewish (Zionist?) hand behind Internet

Freedom Research, June 2009

All Pics. + Graphics at:
http://radioislam.org/islam/english/jewishp/internet/jews_behind_internet.htm

Yahoo!

Yahoo! in Jewish hands

The Jew Terry Semel was CEO of the search engine company Yahoo! between 2001 and 2007.

During his time as Yahoo! CEO Semel used his position to impress on his fellow Jews. For instance Semel in the shape of Yahoo-boss appeared as one of the main speakers at the Jewish Community Federation in San Fransisco´s meeting, January 25, 2006, according to the organization´s homepage (http://www.sfjcf.org/aboutJCF/photos/album/default.asp?album=blcbreakfast-jan2006&page=1):

300 JCF donors gathered at the Julia Morgan Ballroom to kibbitz and build a Jewish network of business professionals. Featured speaker Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel gave an engaging, personal talk, sharing his views on philanthropy and leadership.

Terry Semel speaks at Jewish Community Federation in San Fransisco

The Jewish site Jweekly.com writes on the event:

Yahoo CEO talks of philanthropy, teamwork at JCF event

Friday, February 17, 2006

 by Maureen Earl, correspondent

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/28498/yahoo-ceo-talks-of-philanthropy-teamwork-at-jcf-event/

With more than 420 million users around the world, Yahoo can claim a high spot on the Internet echelon. But it wasn't always smooth sailing for the Sunnyvale-based company.

When Yahoo's chairman and CEO, Jewish Brooklyn native Terry Semel, first arrived at the company in 2001, it had just lost $98 million on revenue of $717 million. Semel was determined to put Yahoo back in the black.

His strategy worked. Last year Yahoo earned $1.2 billion on sales of $5.3 billion - and those 420 million users aren't bad, either.

On Jan. 25 Semel addressed 300 donors to the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation who gathered for the JCF's first Business Leadership Council breakfast.

Semel, once one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood and now one of the most commanding leaders in Internet technology, started the keynote address by announcing that he was not a morning person.

"I prefer to take an hour to reflect and catch up in the morning," he said.

Soft-spoken but authoritative, Semel discussed the importance of philanthropy in business. "Business and philanthropy go hand in hand," he said. "I came from a lower-income family in Brooklyn, yet by the age of 10 or 12 I'd already been taught the importance of giving.

"You need to start kids off that young so that it becomes a habit. To accomplish things you also have to give. At first maybe with time, then later with money, and eventually even both if you are able."At the age of 10 it was a dollar from his allowance; today, Semel no longer thinks on a small scale.

"I now think in terms of hundreds of millions," he said, "but the same principles apply whether it's a two-person philanthropy organization or a giant like Yahoo."

Tikkun olam, repairing the world, is how Semel operates both in philanthropy and business. He recalled how, as an ambitious young man working as a sales trainee at Warner Bros. in the mid-1960s, his boss would arrive shouting and yelling at all and sundry.

"There and then I decided I would not do that. How people are treated is vital."

Semel, who graduated in 1964 with an accounting degree from Long Island University, went on to become chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. During his 24-year career there, Semel and his business partner, Robert Daly, helped shape the company into one of the world's largest media outlets, generating nearly $11 billion in total revenue from businesses in 50 countries.

In 1999, Semel and Daly pressed their hands into wet concrete outside Hollywood's legendary Mann's Chinese Theater. With the executives thus immortalized in Hollywood lore, the ceremony marked the last day of work for the two at Warner Bros.

In May 2001, after an 18-month hiatus, Semel joined Yahoo as CEO and chairman immediately after the dot-com collapse in Silicon Valley.

"I was looking for a challenge. I didn't take the position for the money," he said.

Whether he was looking for it or not, Semel has netted $403 million by exercising Yahoo options and selling shares. He still owns shares and options worth more than $230 million.

The credit of Yahoo's success, Semel said, goes to his staff and their practiced team ability.

"It's always about team. No one wins if it rests on one star athlete. The superstar ideal will not get you to the Super Bowl, it's not sustainable. It has to be the team. And we [at Yahoo] actually like each other - we love the challenge."

Last year Yahoo added 220 people a month and now employs about 10,000. Daniel Rosensweig, Yahoo's chief operating officer, said, "Terry's a Brooklynite at heart. He expects a new fight every day."

One of the biggest challenges Semel faces is adapting the company to fit its users' ever-changing preferences.

"The big change in technology is that we used to have someone else program everything for us," he said. "Someone else programmed television, so you watched what was on when it was on. Internet has turned the user into programmers - we want what we want, when we want, and we get it."

On Friday evenings, Semel boards his private jet in Sunnyvale and returns to his family and home in Bel Air for the weekend. There he is able to relax for a couple of days knowing that he has helped grow Yahoo into a company that has the widest global reach of any Internet site.

Not shabby for a man who, prior to joining Yahoo, had rarely gone near a computer.

Semel may constantly redirect attention to his team, but he is very much an individual. "I would not have succeeded had I not been true to myself. I never wanted to be the guy who looks back and says 'I wish I'd done this, done that,'" he said. ...

Terry Semel is a friend of Arnon Milchan, the Jewish Hollywood producer with Mossad connections, and was one of the invited att Milchan´s Israel party 2008, a party co-organized by the Israeli consulate (The Jewish Journal, September 25, 2008).

Other Yahoo! Jews

The Israeli Jew Andrei Broder, a graduate from Israel´s Technion Institute, is Vice President for Search & Computational Advertising at Yahoo! Research. Broder also serves as Chief Scientist of Yahoo's Advertising Technology Group. He has previously worked for AltaVista as the Vice President of research and for IBM Research as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis.

David Goldberg was Vice President and General Manager of Music at Yahoo! Inc., since the acquisition of LAUNCH Media, Inc. by Yahoo! in August 2001. David Goldberg is married to and has kids with Sheryl Sandberg, the Jewish Internet boss formerly with Google and presently "second-in-command" in Facebook (see our long entry on her in our Google section).

Goldberg left Yahoo! in 2007.

The Israeli engineer Udi Manber, also a graduate from the Israeli Technion Institute and who we portray in more depth in our section on Google, was chief scientist at Yahoo! from 1998 to 2002. Manber then joined Amazon.com where he became "chief algorithms officer" and a Vice President. He was later appointed CEO of the Amazon subsidiary company A9.com, where he led the company's A9 search engine work. In 2006, he was hired by Google as one of their Vice Presidents of engineering.

Yahoo! and Israel

Semel was in Israel during the festive events 2008, celebrating Israel´s 60th anniversary. Semel appeared as a speaker on Shimon Peres' "President's Conference" in Israel May 15, on the topic "The Revolution of the Internet and the new media", together with Google´s Jewish co-founder and President Sergey Brin. Semel was here to represent his post-Yahoo! company Windsor Media, where he is chairman and CEO.

Susan Decker, the present President of Yahoo! Inc., also attended and spoke at the 2008 Israel conference. Decker is the person that took over the Presidency over Yahoo! directly after Semel.

The Israeli paper Ha´aretz writes:

Facebook, Google founders to attend Jerusalem conference in May

by Guy Grimland, Ha´aretz Correspondent

Ha´aretz 01/04/2008

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/970667.html

Co-founder of internet giant Google, Sergey Brin, will join Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Yahoo president Susan Decker at a presidential panel on technology to be held at the Jerusalem International Convention Center May 13-15.

The convention, which was formed at the initiative of President Shimon Peres, will also be attended by a number of Israeli political, religious and financial leaders, as well as academics and cultural figures.

The panel will discuss issues facing technology in today's age and the future, in particular in regard to how it will affect Israel and the Jewish world.

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair will also take part in the conference, as will French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former prime minister of the Czech Republic Vaclev Havel, Nobel Prize Laureate Eli Wiesel, and Georgia President Michael Saakashvili ==

Other Zionist participants at the meeting were Rupert Murdoch and Maurice Levy, the latter a powerful French Jew with enormous might in the advertisement/publicity business (Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi), and a man very dedicated to promoting Israel´s image.

The meeting was moderated by Israel´s "technology guru" Yossi Vardi, whom Yahoo! already had business dealings with (see below).

The "President's Conference" figured other speeches by staunch Zionists such as Israel´s Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and "American" agents of Israel such as Dennis Ross and Henry Kissinger.

And the collaboration between Yahoo! and Israel deepens

Here follows three Ha´aretz articles on the subject.

Yahoo! President Susan Decker takes interest in Israel

by Haaretz Staff and Channel 10, May 18, 2008

Susan Decker, the president of Yahoo! Incorporated, visited Jerusalem last week to attend the 2008 Presidential Conference.

Decker oversees one of the most popular Web sites in the world, with more than 400 million page views daily. She is the second highest paid female executive in the United States, with 14,000 people working under her.

Decker suggests that Yahoo! exemplifies the fact that the glass ceiling she was spared is a thing of the past.

Internet giant Yahoo! to follow rivals Google, Microsoft to Israel

by Raz Smolsky and Maayan Cohen

Ha´aretz 14/01/2008

Internet giant Yahoo! is coming to Israel, and not only over the Net. The company is taking its battle for survival against Google and Microsoft to Israel on two levels. It will open a research and development center in Haifa, and will also enter the content side of the business here for the first time through a cooperation agreement with Walla!, which is partly owned by Haaretz.

Yahoo! is following Google, which set up R&D centers in Tel Aviv and Haifa, as well as establishing a marketing center that also deals in joint content arrangements with Israeli portals. Microsoft, meanwhile, has set up a sales and marketing branch in Ra'anana, as well as R&D centers in Tel Aviv and Herzliya.

Yahoo! is now negotiating office space in the Matam high-tech park in Haifa; and is expected to open its research center within a few months. ...

Yahoo!'s first foray into the Israeli content market is based on a strategic deal signed with portal Walla!. The goal is to threaten Google's hegemony in the Israeli search market for the first time and the real challenge is to compete in search-based advertising. ...

Israeli Internet advertising was estimated at $90 million in 2007, 10% of the total advertising pie. Of this figure, search engine advertising took about half, $40-50 million, the large majority of which went to Google.

Yahoo buys no-sales FoxyTunes for $40m

by Guy Griml

Ha´aretz, February 05, 2008

Yahoo, the Internet giant that Microsoft wants to take over, is gearing up for its second Israeli investment: FoxyTunes, owned by entrepreneurs Vitaly and Alex Sirota. The exact amount has not been announced, but sources close to the situation say the company will go for between $30 million and $40 million.

The Sirota brothers, new immigrants from Russia, are the big winners in the deal, along with Yossi Vardi and a group of private investors from the United States. Initial investment in the company is estimated at just a few million, and the brothers will be raking in a total of $15 million.
 [...]
 "We will become part of Yahoo Entertainment, and they will distribute the FoxyTunes toolbar to as many people as possible." ...

MySpace

MySpace is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.

Jewish co-founders and President

The MySpace project was overseen by Brad Greenspan (eUniverse's Founder, Chairman, CEO), who managed Chris DeWolfe (MySpace's starting CEO), Josh Berman, Tom Anderson (MySpace's starting President), and a team of programmers and resources provided by eUniverse.

Known Jews in this lot are Anderson, Greenspan and Berman.

As one Jewish blogger writes:

 The website was co-founded by Tom Anderson. Although Tom's last name reflects his father's Scottish heritage, he and his mother are Jewish and he was raised in a messianic Jewish household.

Josh Berman, the other Jewish co-founder of MySpace.com, also served as the company's Chief Operating Officer.

Jewish Vice Presidents including an Israeli paratrooper (reserves)

Another Jew, Richard Rosenblatt, was former Chairman of MySpace and thus earned the title the "MySpace guru".

The Jew Travis Katz is presently the international head of MySpace and a senior Vice President (2009).

Josh Brooks

Among other names as senior Vice Presidents we have Shawn Gold, the Israeli Nimrod Lev (former Israeli paratroopers and military intelligence) and Josh Brooks. Whether Steve Pearman also is Jewish, we don´t know.

Another Jew - with political insights - is Jeff Berman who joined MySpace in 2006 as Senior Vice President of Public Affairs. In 2007, Berman was promoted to General Manager of MySpaceTV (http://myspacetv.com), where he oversaw the launch of the company's global video platform. There he cooperated with media Jews Michael Eisner, Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick. In 2008 Berman was appointed Executive Vice President of Marketing and Content of MySpace, responsible for spearheading the development and implementation of marketing initiatives and campaigns for MySpace's more than 110 million users worldwide. Berman will thus report to MySpace's CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe.

Before joining MySpace, from 2001-2005, Berman served as Chief Counsel to the Jewish U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts.

Jeff Berman, MySpace Jew with political insights

MySpace, and its parent company eUniverse (now renamed Intermix Media) was bought in July 2005 for US$ 580 million by arch-Zionist Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

Murdoch is a fanatic pro-Israeli. In the Jewish magazine 15 Minutes, Issue 26, July 1, 2001, one could read:

[Murdoch] explained at a Museum of Jewish Heritage dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria that, "I have always believed in the future of Israel and the goals of the international Jewish community".

MySpace and Israel

The Israeli paper Ha´aretz writes, January 09, 2007:

Hey, Israeli startups - MySpace wants you

by Lior Haner

Even though most Israeli entrepreneurs say they want to develop their startups into large companies, most secretly wish for generous purchase offers from abroad - and may even prefer working as senior vice presidents in an American corporation.

Both of these wishes were granted to Israeli Internet serial entrepreneur Nimrod Lev, 35, who founded KSolo in 2005, sold it last summer to Fox Interactive Media and now works as a senior vice president at Fox.

Fox Interactive is owned by the media conglomerate News Corp., and owns the popular MySpace Internet Web site. Lev is currently on a personal trip to Israel, and will be speaking at the Israel Management Center's convention this coming Sunday, January 7, where participants will choose the 2006 high-tech CEO of the year.

... Lev believes that the next big high-tech field combines the Internet and cellular services ...

In 1999 Lev left Walla to join Zion Madmon, the founder of cupid.co.il, to help promote that company and develop it abroad, thus beginning his journey to American Internet.

"We established JCupid, which joined forces with JDate," recalls Lev. "In 2004, Cupid was sold to Spark Networks, which operates JDate. That was my first exit and I immediately started looking for my next project and remained in the United States. The next thing turned out to be KSolo." KSolo, run by the Israeli developers of Cupid and headed by Lev in New York, is a site for karaoke singing and recording. ...

(5) The Guardian on how Israel´s Foreign Office tries to promote Israel via MySpace

Israel seeks friends through MySpace

by Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

The Guardian, Saturday 24 March 2007

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/mar/23/news.israel

A 58-year-old Jerusalem woman is not a typical MySpace user - the hugely popular social networking site is inhabited mostly by people at least 30 years younger.

But the profile she is reading is a profile with a difference: it represents the entire state of Israel. Officials hope that running a MySpace page dedicated to Israel will help improve relations with people from other countries, and increase awareness and communication with those under 35.

The idea belongs to David Saranga, a diplomat based at the Israeli consulate in New York. Mr Saranga said research had shown Israel's image among the young was not good, and that by reaching out through one of the internet's most popular sites he could repair some of the damage.

"We saw that we had a problem with the 18 to 35 age group. The reason is that this group doesn't see Israel as relevant.We have to talk to them in their language, in platforms they are using, and the new media is one of the ways to do so," he said.

The page is particularly targeted at young Americans, who make up a large proportion of MySpace users. Since Mr Saranga set up the page, "Israel" has gained 963 friends from around the world, including fictional characters such as TV secret agent Jack Bauer and Star Wars heroine Princess Leia, as well as, it is claimed, the Hollywood actors George Clooney and Leonardo Di Caprio.

The pages include pictures of Israeli cities, as well as music that invites the audience to question the cycle of violence and to "end this holy war". Among Mr Saranga's other initiatives are a blog called "isRealli" and an internet TV station.

Shawn Gold of MySpace

Article from Prison Planet.com on arch-Zionist Murdoch´s "cyber trojan horse":

MySpace Is The Trojan Horse Of Internet Censorship

Media elite's last gasp effort to save crumbling empire

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | March 16 2006

MySpace isn't cool, it isn't hip and it isn't trendy. It represents a cyber trojan horse and the media elite's last gasp effort to reclaim control of the Internet and sink it with a stranglehold of regulation, control and censorship.

Since Rupert Murdoch's $580 Million acquisition of MySpace in July 2005, it has come from total obscurity to now being the 8th most visited website in the world, receiving half as many page hits as Google, despite the fact that on first appearance it looks like a 5-year-old's picture scrap and scribble book.

MySpace is the new mobile phone. If you don't have a MySpace account then you belong to some kind of culturally shunned underclass.

What most of the trendy wendy's remain blissfully unaware of is the fact that MySpace is Rupert Murdoch's battle axe for shaping a future Internet environment whereby electronic dissent, whether it be against corporations or government, will not tolerated and freedom of e-speech will cease to exist.

MySpace has been caught shutting down blogs critical of itself and other Murdoch owned companies. They even had the audacity to censor links to completely different websites when clicking through for MySpace. When 600 MySpace users complained, MySpace deleted the blog forum that the complaints were posted on. Taking their inspiration from Communist China, MySpace regularly uses blanket censorship to block out words like 'God'.

Earlier this week Rupert Murdoch sounded the death knell for conventional forms of media in stating that the media elite were losing their monopoly to the rapid and free spread of new communication technologies. Murdoch stressed the need to regain control of these outlets in order to prevent the establishment media empire from crumbling.

MySpace is Rupert Murdoch's trojan horse for destroying free speech on the Internet. It is a foundational keystone of the first wave of the state's backlash to the damage that a free and open Internet has done to their organs of propaganda. By firstly making it cool, trendy and culturally elite for millions to flock to establishment controlled Internet backbones like MySpace, Murdoch is preparing the groundwork for the day when it will stop being voluntary and become mandatory to use government and corporate monopoly controlled Internet hubs. ...

(6) eBay & Paypal - Jews as High Technology Entrepreneurs and Managers
Behind the Net: PayPal,Goog,Facebk,Wiki,Yah,MySp,eBay
The Jewish (Zionist?) hand behind Internet

Freedom Research, June 2009

http://radioislam.org/islam/english/jewishp/internet/jews_behind_internet.htm

eBay

The Jewish boasting page www.jewishachievement.com writes on the Jewish first President of eBay, the Canadian-born Jeff Skoll:

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Jeff Skoll did not create eBay, non-Jew Pierre Omidyar did in 1993. For Omidyar, born to French and Iranian parents, creating an on-line auction Web-site was a Labor Day weekend hobby project. For its first couple of years, it was simply a free Web-site Omidyar ran on his own home page along with several other of his Web page creations. During the first few months, he tried to recruit Skoll, a Jewish French-Canadian he met through friends, to become his partner. Skoll turned him down, choosing to remain at Stanford Business School.

In early 1996, Omidyar's Internet service provider began charging him $250 a month to host the site. Omidyar was forced to start charging a fee, which he passed along to the site's users based on the sale price of auction items. As the checks started rolling in Omidyar realized he needed help. Again, he approached Skoll. This time, after a few months of consulting for eBay, Skoll signed on as its first full time employee and President.

Skoll grew up in Canada and showed early signs of being a driven entrepreneur. At twelve, he was selling Amway products door-to-door. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a 4.0 grade point average, he set up two high tech companies before moving to Palo Alto to enroll at Stanford Business School. Compensating for Omidyar's easy going ways and enjoyment of programming, Skoll was the driven leader who planned the business and made things happen. He hired key people, established much of the culture, and constantly pushed to build the business.

The result is the number one auction Web site in the world. It grossed $3.9 billion in 2004, netted $936 million and was worth $53 billion by mid 2005, all of which made both Omidyar and Skoll very wealthy. Skoll has since left eBay and now devotes the bulk of his time to philanthropic activities, particularly his Skoll Foundation to which he has donated $250 million. The Foundation supports social entrepreneurs working to effect lasting positive social changes worldwide. In 2003, Skoll won recognition from Business Week magazine as "one of the most innovative philanthropists of the past decade"

Ed Skoll also interacts with fellow Jewish Internet entrepreneurs. We have named the Israel-loving financier and Board member of Facebook, Peter Thiel, in our section on that company.

Thiel togeher with the Ukrainan Jew Max Rafael Levchin founded PayPal. The company was then bought by eBay. In an excerpt from "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0", by Sarah Lacy, (see: http://www.metroactive.com/metro/06.11.08/cover-supermen-0824.html ), we can see how Skoll "became friends with the PayPal crew" of Jews and even entered the movie business:

The PayPal mafia even had Hollywood success. Jeff Skoll was one of the first eBay executives who became friends with the PayPal crew when eBay bought the company in 2002. He started up Participant Productions on a lark, and it has been one of the most profitable productions companies in Hollywood. Among its first four films were Syriana, Good Night, and Good Luck, North Country, and An Inconvenient Truth. Skoll's success convinced Max and Peter to start dabbling in Hollywood, bankrolling the 2006 indie flick Thank You for Smoking, along with David Sacks, PayPal's former chief operating officer. ...

Just to clarify both David Sacks, PayPal's former chief operating officer, and George Zachary, "Skoll's early partner in Participant Productions and a friend of Max and Peter's", are Jewish. ... ==

Jews as High Technology Entrepreneurs and Managers

http://www.jewishachievement.com/domains/hightech.html

Jews have traditionally been seen as prominent in such industries as finance, merchandising, apparel, textiles, entertainment, media, and publishing. And in most of them, Jews were true pioneers. They played leading roles as those industries emerged on the scene.

Their disproportionate importance to the contemporary world of 24/7 competitive high technology is less well known, but they have flourished there as well. ...

Technology is a high risk meritocracy.  ... Jewish entrepreneurs have done well. They:

    * Created the world's largest and most valuable personal computer company; (Michael Dell, Dell Computers)
    * Co-founded the world's most successful search engine; (Sergy Brin, Google)
    * Head the world's largest software company; (Steve Ballmer, Microsoft)
    * Co-founded and head the world's second largest software company; (Larry Ellison, Oracle)
    * Co-founded, led and served as Chairman of the dominant microprocessor and memory chip company whose products drive most of today's personal computers; (Andrew Grove, Intel)
    * Created the first "killer application" software which ignited demand for personal computers; (Mitch Kapor, Lotus 123)
    * Served as Number 1 or 2 person in three of the world's four most valuable Internet companies according to a May 2004 Fortune study (Terry Semmel at Yahoo, Jeff Skoll at e-Bay and Barry Diller at IAC)
    * Co-founded and head the communications protocol/chip company whose technology is the market leader in U.S. cell phones and is likely to be the world leader as the next generation cell phone technology (3G) is adopted worldwide. (Irwin Jacobs, Qualcomm). ...

Microsoft: Steve Ballmer did not found Microsoft. Non-Jews Bill Gates and Paul Allen did.  ... Ballmer served first as the Company's financial disciplinarian and later became the number two guy, holding down every senior job in the Company before being named President in 1998 and CEO in 2000. ...

eBay: Jeff Skoll did not create eBay, non-Jew Pierre Omidyar did in 1993. ... after a few months of consulting for eBay, Skoll signed on as its first full time employee and President. ...

Yahoo: Terry Semel did not create Yahoo. Non-Jews Jerry Yang and David Filo did in 1994, as a hobby, while pursuing their electrical engineering PhD's at Stanford.  ... Semel quickly pushed Yahoo's marketing, consumers' services and acquisitions and by 2003, he had turned the company around. In 2004, Yahoo made $1.6 billion under his leadership. ...

One measure of entrepreneurial success is provided by the Fortune "40 Under 40" annual list of the wealthiest young Americans, nearly all of them self made. Though entrepreneurial success is not simply about wealth, it is one scorecard. The Fortune's 2004 list is included as Exhibit 16a. While it includes thirteen athletes and entertainers, the remaining twenty-seven are successful young entrepreneurs, mostly from high technology companies they started or led. Of the twenty-seven, at least six are Jewish. Three of them are among the top five and five of them among the top ten. In order, the six include: #1 Michael Dell, #3 Jeff Skoll, #5 Sergey Brin, #9 Dan Snyder, #10, Marc Benioff, and #17 Jerry Greenberg. Statistically, at two percent of the U.S. population, Jews would be lucky if even one of the twenty-seven was Jewish. At 22 percent, the result is ten times what one would expect.

The Forbes 400 corroborates the Fortune list. (Exhibit 16b) Of the year 2004 ranking, at least 25 percent of the "400" are Jewish. And like the Fortune "40 Under 40," many of them made their wealth as entrepreneurs who started successful businesses. Prominent among the first twenty-five are #9 Michael Dell, #10 Lawrence Ellison, and #11 Steven Balmer. As with the Fortune 40, the performance defies expectations. We would expect perhaps eight Jews among the 400, the actual figure (at least 102) is twelve times that.