http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090519050536413
Two New Judges for the FISA Court
Tuesday, May 19 2009 @ 05:05 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court has appointed two new judges to the eleven-member Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a spokesman for the Court said today.
Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the D.C. District Court and Judge Susan Webber Wright of the Eastern District of Arkansas were each appointed to seven-year terms on the Court, expiring May 18, 2016, said spokesman Sheldon Snook.
Source - Secrecy News
[From the article:
The current membership of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court may be found here.
What's less secure than passwords?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/19/0037208&from=rss
Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 19, @05:10AM from the name-of-your-late-great-aunt's-fifth-parakeet dept. Security
wjousts writes
"Several high-profile break-ins have resulted from hackers guessing the answers to secret questions (the hijacking of Sarah Palin's Yahoo account was one). This week, research from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University, presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, will show how woefully insecure secret questions actually are. As reported in Technology Review: 'In a study involving 130 people, the researchers found that 28 percent of the people who knew and were trusted by the study's participants could guess the correct answers to the participant's secret questions. Even people not trusted by the participant still had a 17 percent chance of guessing the correct answer to a secret question.'"
Schneier pointed out years ago how weird it is to have a password-recovery mechanism that is less secure than the password.
I've see variations on this theme – essentially all your search results lead to malware...
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/19/1215253&from=rss
Drive-By Download Poisons Google Search Results
Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 19, @08:53AM from the monocultural-imperialism dept. Security Google IT
snydeq writes
"A new attack that peppers Google search results with malicious links is spreading quickly, CERT has warned. The attack, which can be found on several thousand legitimate Web sites, exploits flaws in Adobe software to install malware that steals FTP login credentials and hijacks the victim's browser, replacing Google search results with links chosen by the attackers. Known as Gumblar because at one point it used the Gumblar.cn domain, the attack is spreading quickly in part because its creators have been good at obfuscating their attack code and because they are using FTP login credentials to change folder permissions, leaving multiple ways they can get back into the server."
FREE FOOD! All you need to do is go back to a restaurant that violated your privacy!
http://www.databreaches.net/?p=4153
Proposed settlement in Olive Garden FACTA lawsuit
May 18, 2009 by admin Filed under: Business Sector, Commentaries and Analyses, Other, U.S.
Sandra Pedicini of the Associated Press reports that a tentative settlement in a class action lawsuit against Olive Garden for breaching a requirement of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act has been reached. The settlement would require the restaurant to provide a $9 appetizer voucher to anyone who ate at Olive Garden between Dec. 4, 2006, and Aug. 10, 2007 and who used a debit or credit card.
Okay, so Olive Garden did not comply with FACTA. But do you think that a $9 voucher per person is reasonable? Yes, it will bring them in some customers/money, perhaps, but in this case, the fine seems a bit out of proportion when you think about the TD Ameritrade proposal or you think about the Hannford lawsuit getting thrown out.
Now this is an interesting question. Who would you recommend for the 'congress' to write this? Looking at the article and the comments I think we may have a start, but we need someone smarter to put all these ideas into viable words. Might make an interesting “geek Ethics” class...
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/18/2112243&from=rss
What Should Be In a Technology Bill of Rights?
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 18, @06:06PM from the careful-wording dept. Government
snydeq writes
"The Deep End's Paul Venezia argues in favor of the creation of a Technology Bill of Rights to protect individuals against malfeasance, tyranny, and exploitation in an increasingly technological age. Venezia's initial six proposed articles center on anonymity rights, net neutrality, the open-sourcing of law enforcement software and hardware, and the like. What sort of efficacy do you see such a document having, and in an ideal world, which articles do you see as imperative for inclusion in a Technology Bill of Rights?"
Related. How do you change a promise?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090518175004815
Report: Mint Considers Selling Anonymized Data from Its Users
Monday, May 18 2009 @ 05:50 PM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
According to a report from Bloomberg today, Mint.com's CEO Aaron Patzer is considering selling anonymized data about the service's users. Mint, the online personal finance aggregator, obviously sits on a lot of very interesting data, some of which the company has shared on its blog now and then. Given that this was just a short interview, the details about this plan are more than vague, and it would be interesting to know what kind of data Mint might be planning to sell. What is clear, though, is that Mint will have to be very careful if it doesn't want to scare away its customers.
Related? What is privacy (and does Woody Allen deserve any?)
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090518174515684
American Apparel Settles with Woody Allen
Monday, May 18 2009 @ 05:45 PM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
It had a certain cinematic flourish. On the morning the big trial was to begin, movie star Woody Allen and American Apparel (APP), the fast-growing retail chain he had sued for unauthorized use of his image, announced a settlement. The Los Angeles chain agreed to pay Allen $5 million, half of what he was seeking in damages.
"I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness, and image and used them publicly to promote their business,"Allen said in a statement he read outside the Manhattan courthouse on May 18. He called the settlement "the largest ever paid under the New York right-to-privacy law" and said he hoped the amount would "discourage American Apparel or any one else from ever trying such a thing again."
Source - BusinessWeek
[From the article:
American Apparel founder Dov Charney, meanwhile, said in a lengthy response posted on his company's Web site that he was forced to settle by his company's insurer, which paid the bulk of the claim.
Related? How could we define surveillance?
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090519050305760
EPIC Launches Campaign to Suspend 'Whole Body Imaging' at Nation's Airports
Tuesday, May 19 2009 @ 05:03 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
EPIC announced a national campaign today to suspend the use of "Whole Body Imaging" -- devices that photograph American air travellers stripped naked in US airports. [More than a little hyperbole? Go to Google Images and search for “Millimeter Wave Images” Bob] The campaign responds to a policy reversal by the TSA which would now make the the "virtual strip search" mandatory, instead of voluntary as originally announced.
Source - EPIC.org
I wonder if a collection of handouts from my classes would be worth $2.98? (Perhaps a year's worth of “Clippings”?)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/18/225247&from=rss
Scribd Becomes a DRM-Optional E-Bookstore
Posted by kdawson on Monday May 18, @09:31PM from the going-legit dept. Books
Miracle Jones writes
"In an effort to compete with Amazon and Google, the document-hosting website Scribd will now be letting writers and publishers sell documents that they upload. They will be offering an 80/20 profit-sharing deal in favor of writers. Writers will be able to charge whatever they want. In addition, Scribd will not force any content control (although they will have a piracy database and bounce copyrighted scans) and will let writers choose to encrypt their books with DRM or not. This is big news for people in publishing, who have been seeking an alternative to Amazon for fear that Amazon is amassing too much power too quickly in this brand-new marketplace, especially after Amazon's announcement last week that they will now be publishing books as well as selling them."
For my website class
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15 Hand Picked Color Palette and Color Scheme Generators
May 19th, 2009 by Webmasterish in Articles, Hot
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