News Shaker - Dark Web

Ashley Madison! Yes old news by now and there are people scrambling to see if they have actually been "outed." There is a report of a policeman allegedly committing suicide because his name appeared on the A.W. site and he had never accessed the site. (A search for Captain Michael Gorhum will provide additional info).
However, Ashley Madison is not the shaker in this story. For me it is what exposed A.W. - something unknown to me before - the dark web. The apparent ability for unknown individuals/organizations to infiltrate servers of private. public, and government databases and escape detection is a news shaker. I have yet to see the same mass concern for this significant security threat as was shown when credit card numbers were stolen. I am not one for more government surveillance, but now I am rethinking my position.
I am probably behind the learning curve regarding what exists beyond our normal web of the Google's, Yahoo's, etc (the surface web). Here is an excerpt from the BrightPlanet - deep web intelligence site( http://www.brightplanet.com/2014/03/clearing-confusion-deep-web-vs-dark-web/  )

"Continuing with our definitions, we’ve learned that the Surface Web is anything that a search engine can access and the Deep Web is anything that a search engine can’t access. The Dark Web then is classified as a small portion of the Deep Web that has been intentionally hidden and is inaccessible through standard web browsers.
The most famous content that resides on the Dark Web is found in the TOR network. The TOR network is an anonymous network that can only be accessed with a special web browser, called the TOR browser. This is the portion of the Internet most widely known for illicit activities because of the anonymity associated with the TOR network"

Trump continues to amaze

I have had the opportunity to visit and work in other countries. I enjoyed each experience, but almost without a doubt, I was happy to be back in the good ole USA. As frustrating as politics can be in our country, it pales by comparison to the politics in places like Brasil where I worked for a year.
The great thing we have going is the ability for all of us and especially the media to question the elected officials and those that wish to become one of our representatives.

To watch the interaction of Donald Trump and members of the media, most recently Jorge Ramos, I believe tells a lot about what we can expect if Trump were to be elected. Like it or not - all candidates will be subjected to questioners trying to embarrass, criticize or just be a royal pain in the ..  How the elected representative or candidate handles one the basic rights of questioning the implementation our democracy is an important measure of future actions.

Here's a fairly well balanced account from the Christian Science Monitor:

http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/text/USA/Politics/Decoder/2015/0826/Donald-Trump-feuds-with-Univision-s-Jorge-Ramos-blow-to-GOP

The Donald

My blog, entitled News Shakers, Makers and Bakers, will at times focus on one of those areas, but at other times on people that seem to be in all three.
Who better to start with than Donald Trump? Love him or hate him - he certainly personifies all three areas. I had intended to keep my personal political leanings in the background, but I must admit I thought "this is a joke." However, I am spending some time trying to understand what is or are the areas that a significant part of the voting population feel Donald Trump may have palatable ideas.

More to follow