http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/googles-privacy-principles.html
Google's Privacy Principles
1/27/2010 07:00:00 PM
Thursday, January 28th marks International Data Privacy Day. We're recognizing this day by publicly publishing our guiding Privacy Principles.
Use information to provide our users with valuable products and services.
Develop products that reflect strong privacy standards and practices.
Make the collection of personal information transparent.
Give users meaningful choices to protect their privacy.
Be a responsible steward of the information we hold.
If you are out of control enough to allow hard drives to walk out the door, you are highly unlikely to have control over your data inventory, now are you?
http://www.databreaches.net/?p=9643
(update) Missing National Archives hard drive contained more data than previously estimated
January 27, 2010 by admin Filed under Government Sector, Lost or Missing
The National Archives breach involving White House staff and visitors seems to be one of those breaches where after almost a year, estimates of number of people affected are still emerging and increasing. An article on Roll Call indicates that personal information on 250,000 Clinton administration staff and White House visitors sent to the National Archives was on a computer hard drive that disappeared nearly a year ago. Last month, the National Archives warned 150,000 people after initially warning 26,000.
Could we be setting foreign policy based on some smart crooks? If Google doesn't have the forensic expertise to make a solid determination, who does?
Was Operation Aurora really just a conventional attack?
by Steve Ragan - Jan 27 2010, 18:30
There are a lot of questions surrounding the Aurora attacks. From the very start, after internal investigations at Google, the blame was quickly placed on China. Further Malware analysis from several independent security researchers supported this theory. Yet, despite all the research and news, the evidence simply can’t hold the weight that China’s government condoned or ordered the attacks.
For your Security Manager (and whoever can ban the use of Internet Explorer) This is why you need to Design for Security!
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=7356
IE Windows vuln coughs up local files
January 27, 2010 by Dissent Filed under Internet
Dan Goodin reports:
If you use any version of Internet Explorer to surf Twitter or other Web 2.0 sites, Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina can probably read the entire contents of your primary hard drive.
The security consultant at Core Security said his attack works by clicking on a single link that exploits a chain of weaknesses in IE and Windows. Once an IE user visits the booby-trapped site, the webmaster has complete access to the machine’s C drive, including files, authentication cookies – even empty hashes of passwords.
Read more in The Register.
[From the article:
Microsoft's "rapid response team" didn't reply to an email, but a statement sent to other news outlets said the company is investigating the vulnerability and isn't aware of it being exploited in the wild. [First rule of Hacking: When you find a vulnerability. SHUT UP! Bragging leads to fixes. Bob]
The hole is difficult to close because the attack exploits an array of features IE users have come to rely on to make web application work seamlessly.
… "The things we are reporting are not bugs, they are features," Medina said. "They are needed for many applications to work, so [Microsoft] can't simply remove or truncate" them
Who has the FCC's ear? As Hernando (and any politician) would say: “It is better to look Neutral than to be Neutral.”
FCC's Net Neutrality Plan Blocks BitTorrent
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 28, @09:35AM from the well-of-course-it-does dept.
master_p writes
"The FCC's formally issued draft net neutrality regulations have a huge copyright loophole in them; a loophole that would theoretically permit Comcast to block BitTorrent just like it did in 2007 — simply by claiming that it was "reasonable network management" intended to "prevent the unlawful transfer of content." The new proposed net neutrality regulations would allow the same practices that net neutrality was first invoked to prevent, even if these ISP practices end up inflicting collateral damage on perfectly lawful content and activities."
Big Brother will make your life simpler! No need to go to the polls! We will can cast your vote based on your face! Thank you for voting for Big Brother!
Political Affiliation Can Be Differentiated By Appearance
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 27, @01:06PM from the if-it-looks-like-a-liberal-and-quacks-like-a-liberal dept.
quaith writes
"It's not the way they dress, but the appearance of their face. A study published in PLoS One by Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady of Tufts University used closely cropped greyscale photos of people's faces, standardized for size. Undergrads were asked to categorize each person as either a Democrat or Republican. In the first study, students were able to differentiate Republican from Democrat senate candidates. In the second, students were able to differentiate the political affiliation of other college students. Accuracy in both studies was about 60% — not perfect, but way better than chance."
There are several ways to do this, the immediate counter is to block them all... I'll be looking for details of their “solution”
Twitter Developing Technology To Thwart Censorship
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 27, @08:50PM from the unblockable-force dept.
SHMG writes
"Micro-blogging site Twitter is developing technology that will prevent government censorship, after Iran and China moved to censor its users. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams said the company was working on 'hacks' to stop any blocking by foreign governments. 'We are partially blocked in China and other places and we were in Iran as well,' he said. 'The most productive way to fight that is not by trying to engage China and other governments whose very being is against what we are about.'"
Think of this as an assertion that “We didn't stab that gunshot victim..”
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=7351
Barnes & Noble Reassures Customers That It Has Never Shared Credit Card Information with Discount Clubs
January 27, 2010 by Dissent Filed under Businesses, Court
From Dow Jones Newswires:
Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) confirmed it received a subpoena involving an investigation into alleged online retail fraud, although the company stressed it doesn’t turn over personal or credit-card information to online discount clubs.
“Customers should be reassured that their personal information, including credit- and debit-card information is not and never has been shared with discount clubs,” said President William Lynch.
The company, along with 21 other online merchants, is under investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo for allegedly linking consumers with discount promotions that end up charging them illegal fees.
The programs are run by third-party companies that charge unauthorized fees under the guise of discount offers and also receive consumers’ credit-card numbers, Cuomo said. The merchants subpoenaed have deals with three major companies that offer the discount programs: Webloyalty, Affinion/Trilegiant and Vertrue.
Read more on CNN.
[From the article:
It said that, when consumers complete a purchase on its Web site, they are presented with a Webloyalty advertisement offering a discount. If the consumer were to click on the ad, a message would signal that the consumer is leaving the Barnes & Noble Web site and is subject to Webloyalty's terms and conditions.
… When asked about the company's plan to continue its relationship with Webloyalty, a Barnes & Noble spokeswoman declined to comment.
New frontiers is no longer a plank in the Democratic platform? Perhaps we should do things not “because they are hard”
Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 27, @01:00PM from the selling-out-the-future dept.
bonch writes
"Obama's budget proposal will contain no funding for the Constellation program, which was to send astronauts to the moon by 2020. Instead, NASA will be focused on terrestrial science, such as monitoring global warming. One anonymous official said: 'We certainly don't need to go back to the moon.'" [“They ain't no voters there!” Bob]
Tools & Techniques Teaching
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/kubbu-com-making-the-job-of-teachers-simpler
Kubbu.com - Making The Job Of Teachers Simpler
Kubbu can be termed a tool for e-learning which is available to teachers everywhere. Using it, any such professional can come up with activities to keep his students engaged, and enhance the learning experience on the whole.
Tools & Techniques Use this as images in website links.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/shrinktheweb-screenshot-thumbnail/
ShrinkTheWeb: Automatically Creates Web Screenshot Thumbnails
Tools & Techniques Research Or, create an aggregate page instead of the list of useful links I prepare for each class.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/memonic-organize-web-content/
Memonic: Easily Store & Organize Web Content
Similar tool: Cloverr and Clipmarks.
The first feedback I've had from my Apple-geek friends isn't so positive. These articles seem to agree:
http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/what_apple_left_out
7 Essential Features Left Off of the iPad
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad
iPad DRM endangers our rights
Humor? Unfortunately not... My wife wants to buy a GPS, so she can constantly tell me where to go.
http://www.gadling.com/2010/01/26/let-your-own-voice-tell-you-where-to-go-with-the-garmin-gps-voic
Let your own voice tell you where to go with the Garmin GPS voice studio
No comments:
Post a Comment