http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/world/asia/22diplo.html?hp
Clinton Urges Global Response to Internet Attacks
By MARK LANDLER Published: January 21, 2010
WASHINGTON — Declaring that an attack on one nation’s computer networks “can be an attack on all,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a warning on Thursday that the United States would defend itself from cyberattacks, though she left unclear the means of response.
… Her speech was the first in which a senior American official had articulated a vision for making Internet freedom a plank of American foreign policy.
… Though Mrs. Clinton said the administration would air its differences with Beijing, she said it would be in the context of a “positive, cooperative, and comprehensive relationship” — a clause added to her speech at the last minute. [In other words, we're just flapping our lips? Bob]
(Related)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10439049-265.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
White House puts companies on notice in China
by Tom Krazit January 21, 2010 3:03 PM PST
… "...We are urging U.S. media companies to take a proactive role in challenging foreign governments' demands for censorship and surveillance. The private sector has a shared responsibility to help safeguard free expression. And when their business dealings threaten to undermine this freedom, they need to consider what's right, not simply what's a quick profit," Clinton said in remarks Thursday at the Newseum, before an audience including members of Congress, representatives from nonprofit groups, and perhaps more than one Internet company executive forced to ponder the meaning of that paragraph.
… But with Clinton's remarks, U.S. companies are in an even more difficult place than they were when Google made its announcement last week. Will they have a harder time getting government contracts if they do business with the Chinese government? Will there be additional taxes, or even eventually fines for following censorship laws in other countries?
(Related) Doesn't this read like you caught a 12 year old with his hand in the cookie jar?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10439469-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
China warns U.S. over Web censorship stance
by Stephen Shankland January 22, 2010 4:30 AM PST
… "The U.S. has criticized China's policies to administer the Internet and insinuated that China restricts Internet freedom... This runs contrary to the facts and is harmful to China-U.S. relations," a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement quoted by Reuters, the BBC, and others. (Here is a Google translation of the statement.)
Follow up: Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. OR “Government is as government does” F Gump
FBI, Telecoms Teamed to Breach Wiretap Laws
By Ryan Singel January 21, 2010 2:29 pm
… But in a surprise buried at the end of the 289-page report, the inspector general also reveals that the Obama administration issued a secret rule almost two weeks ago saying it was legal for the FBI to have skirted federal privacy protections.
Is this an unintended consequence of HIPAA/HITECH?
http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=1880
Doctors fear privacy sold in HealthNet sale
By Dissent, January 22, 2010 9:10 am
Rob Varnon reports:
Doctors fighting United Health Group’s takeover of HealthNet of the Northeast are demanding an investigation to see if the privacy rights of thousands of Connecticut residents are being violated by the deal.
The Connecticut State Medical Society said Tuesday it has asked state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to investigate whether the $510 million deal would violate patient privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
Blumenthal already is suing HealthNet under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act for a massive data breach last year. HITECH authorized state attorneys general to enforce HIPAA.
Read more on newstimes.com
One major factor in evaluating security is to determine how serious management (and therefore employees) are about applying “Best Practices” and common sense to their security procedures.
Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris"
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 21, @02:56PM from the ad-nauseum-roundhouse dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes
"A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."
If you have discovered a security flaw, be extremely careful how you use it. A careful hacker can exploit a bug for years if some ignorant rookie doesn't draw unwanted attention. Now I've only got six good bugs left!
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9146820/Microsoft_confirms_17_year_old_Windows_bug
Microsoft confirms 17-year-old Windows bug
Google engineer reveals ancient flaw in all 32-bit versions of Windows
By Gregg Keizer January 21, 2010 07:00 AM ET
Computerworld - Microsoft late yesterday issued its second advisory of the last week, warning users that a 17-year-old bug in the kernel of all 32-bit versions of Windows could be used by hackers to hijack PCs.
Remember that the Internet was developed to avoid precisely this problem. You have to work hard to force failure like this.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10439263-245.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Router glitch cripples California DMV network
by Elinor Mills January 21, 2010 3:43 PM PST
The California Department of Motor Vehicles department suffered a network outage on Thursday due to an equipment glitch, a state official said.
A router switch malfunctioned, said Bill Maile, spokesman for Office of Technology Services for the state of California.
"It's very rare," he said. "Our staff quickly diagnosed the problem and re-routed network traffic to restore connectivity."
For every security move there is an immediate counter move.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/20/pirate-bays-vpn-goes.html
Pirate Bay's VPN goes public: Ipredator
As governments around the world consider proposals to hand surveillance powers to the entertainment industry and twitchy cops, the Pirate Bay is striking back. Its new €5/month IPRedator service is an encrypted VPN that you can use to hide your traffic (whatever it may contain) from prying eyes. The name comes from Sweden's adoption of IPRED (the "IP Rights Enforcement Directive," a punishing piece of anti-Internet legislation). I've been looking for a reliable VPN to use on public hotspots -- this might just be it.
Playing “catch up” again or do they have an agenda here?
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=7194
Microsoft Seeks New Legal Framework For Cloud
January 22, 2010 by Dissent Filed under Featured Headlines, Internet, Legislation, U.S.
J. Nicholas Hoover reports:
Microsoft is asking Congress to pass new legislation to regulate cloud computing, Brad Smith, the company’s general counsel, announced Wednesday in an address at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Specifically, Microsoft is proposing what it calls the Cloud Computing Advancement Act, which would make changes to three major areas of Internet policy: privacy, security, and the international legal framework.
“We need government to modernize the laws, adapt them to the cloud, and adopt new measures to protect privacy and promote security,” Smith said. “There is no doubt the future holds even more opportunities than the present, but it also contains critical challenges that we must address now if we want to take full advantage of the potential of cloud computing.”
Read more in Network Computing.
See also Grant Gross’s coverage, Microsoft calls for Cloud privacy code.
(Related) Some of the Notes are spot on. These are the concerns of people who have been delivering services much like Cloud Computing for years now.
Game Developers Note Net Neutrality Concerns To FCC
Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 22, @02:35AM from the game-developers-are-people-too dept.
eldavojohn writes
"A list of notes from game developers (PDF) was sent in a letter to the FCC which represented a net neutrality discussion between the developers and FCC representatives. Game Politics sums it up nicely, but the surprise is that developers are concerned with latency, not bandwidth, unlike the members of many other net neutrality discussions. One concern is that each and every game developer will need to negotiate with each and every ISP to ensure their traffic achieves acceptable levels of latency for users. 'Mr. Dyl of Turbine stated that ISPs sometimes block traffic from online gaming providers, for reasons that are not clear, but they do not necessarily continue those blocks if they are contacted. He recalled Turbine having to call ISPs that had detected the high UDP traffic from Turbine, and had apparently decided to block the traffic and wait to see who complained.' It seems a lot of the net neutrality discussions have only worried about one part of the problem — Netflix, YouTube and P2P — while an equally important source of concern went unnoticed: latency in online games."
[From the Game Politics article:
Scherlis indicated that a pay-for-priority setup with ISPs would be “acceptable,” but only if “all developers could purchase prioritization on equal terms.” Bellows worried that such a setup would “restrict competition for development of QoS [Quality of Service]-dependent applications to well-financed companies or those already dominant in the sector.”
Attention website students
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_begins_to_support_html5.php
YouTube Begins to Support HTML5
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 20, 2010 5:35 PM
YouTube just announced that it will begin supporting HTML5 video players this evening across many of the videos on the site.
… The biggest benefit of HTML5 support is that it frees users from the need to use proprietary plug-ins like Flash player or Microsoft's Silverlight by using a simple bit of code to render video.
… For more details, see these 3 great HTML5 demonstration videos we highlighted previously.
One for my lawyer friends...
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/goclio-com-for-lawyers-wanting-to-hone-their-skills
GoClio.com - For Lawyers Wanting To Hone Their Skills
Clio can be defined as a web-based practice management tool that will let practitioners hone their skills in a dynamic and safe setting. It is also suitable for small firms that want to train their lawyers in a cost-effective way, and the fact that Clio is a wholly browser-based application simply makes it all the more compelling for everybody. After all, it means that practices can take place from the any spot, at the time that suits everybody best. As the say on the site “Your practice is wherever you are”.
For us teachers
How to give a (good) webinar
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