Twitter Alternatives, Mesh Networks & Jim Balsillie in Action. The July 21st, 2020 Age of Ingenuity

Twitter insists that their employees were “manipulated” by sinister outside “hackers” who took over hundreds of twitter accounts on Wednesday, scooping up private data and bitcoins while making a nuisance of themselves.

And Jim Balsillie, the Canadian businessman, philanthropist and pillar of our innovation ecosystem, has plans for Canada's current intellectual property regime...

Sources cited during this episode include the following:

• The July 15th, 2020 Motherboard post, "Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts."

• The April 17th, 2020 CSO Magazine post, "The 15 biggest data breaches of the 21st century."

• The July 27th, 2017 Digital Guardian post, "A Timeline of the Ashley Madison Hack." 

• The January 21st, 2009 Bank Info Security post, "Heartland Payment Systems, Forcht Bank Discover Data Breaches." 

• The May 31st, 2015 Forbes post, "Heartland Payment Systems Suffers Data Breach."

• The July 16th, 2020 Ars Technica post, "Twitter lost control of its internal systems to Bitcoin-scamming hackers."

• Google search on "Twitter Character Limits." Retrieved July 21st, 2020. 

• The July 18th, 2020 Cointelegraph post, “Crypto Twitter Hack Recap: A ‘Wake Up Call’ for Centralized Platforms.”

• The July 22nd, 2020 Yahoo News post, "Kanye West says he wants to divorce Kim Kardashian in Twitter rant."

• The May 26th, 2020 New York Times post, "Twitter Must Cleanse the Trump Stain!"

• The February 2nd, 2020 Help Desk Geek post, “What is Mesh Networking and How Does it Work?"

• The November 8th, 2019 News 18 post, “Mastodon, SocialX and More: Best Social Media Alternatives to Facebook and Twitter.”

• The March 20th, 2020 BitCoin Magazione post, “From ISP To P2P: How Mesh Networks Take Bitcoin Off The Grid.”

• The March 12th, 2018 MyNewsDesk post, “How journalists use social media to source stories and disseminate news."

• The 2013 Ryan Holiday book “Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator.”

• The July 19th, 2020 Rebel News post, “Twitter Hackers’ Bitcoin Scam Reveals Hidden Social Media Blacklist: Allum Bokhari with Ezra Levant.” 

• The January 23rd, 2020 Los Angeles Times post, "Pence falsely links Iranian general to 9/11 attacks."

• The February 5th, 2015 Wired post, “This is your Brain on Twitter.”

• The November 9th, 2017 Esquire post, “How is Twitter Affecting our Mental Health.”

• The February 6th, 2019 Psychology Today post, “Addicted to Twitter? Here’s Why.”

• The July 18th, 2020 News Ontario Press release, "Province Launches Intellectual Property Action Plan."
• Jim Balsillie bio. The Canadian Encyclopedia. 

• The December 31st, 2019 Financial Post article, "Space-tech firm MDA back in Canadian hands with $1B sale to investors including Balsillie." 

• The July 16th, 2020 BetaKit post, "BDC Commits $160 Million to Fund IP Development in Canada."

• The April 23rd, 2019 MacLeans post "Jim Balsillie emerged from retirement with a mission to save Canada's tech sector."

• The June 29th, 2020 Hill Times post, “It’s easy to see why U.S. Big Tech sees Canada as a happy hunting ground.”

"Age of Ingenuity" tracks Canada's "innovation ecosystem," the organizations, agencies and individuals attempting to turn innovative Canadian start-ups into world class, billion dollar "unicorns," able to anchor industries and create jobs.

Age of Ingenuity Credits

Producer and Host - Chuck Black

Host and Contributor - Brian Orlotti

Host and Contributor - Al Calder

Associate Producer and Contributor - John Penturn

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