My Ethical Hackers are taught that “not
being detected at all” is better than “blaming it on someone
else” and “being underestimated” is always good strategy.
"A new paper argues that
China's
cyber-warfare capability is actually pretty poor. '[China has]
evinced little proficiency with more sophisticated hacking
techniques. The viruses and Trojan Horses they have used have been
fairly easy to detect and remove before any damage has been done or
data stolen. There is no evidence that China's cyber-warriors can
penetrate highly secure networks or covertly steal or falsify
critical data,' the
paper reads (PDF). 'They would be unable to systematically
cripple selected command and control, air defense and intelligence
networks and databases of advanced adversaries, or to conduct
deception operations by secretly manipulating the data in these
networks.'"
Gary Alexander sends another
interesting article. Could lawyers be leaders on the Privacy issue?
Law
Firm Technology Survey 2011
It's been some time since the economy
wasn't the dominant theme in our yearly survey. But while the
struggling recovery must still be reckoned with, feedback from the 82
law firm technology chiefs who responded this year—and follow-up
interviews with nearly a dozen of them—reveal that the top focus
has moved from dollars to data. The key issue: How do firms make
information accessible to their lawyers without making it too
accessible.
An interesting topic. Cuts to the
heart of the public/private writings issue.
October 31, 2011
Paper
shares some information addressing questions of judges' personal use
of social networks
Judicial
Ethics and Social Networking Sites: "Michael Crowell UNC
School of Government, September 2011 (Revised)
- "One of the significant developments in communication in the last few years is the astounding growth of social networking websites. Increasing numbers of people join Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter or other on-line social networks as a means to notify others of news in their lives, to learn what their friends and relatives and acquaintances are doing, and to generally stay in touch with other people with whom they have something in common. Businesses, organizations and government agencies use social networks to communicate information about their products and services and get limited feedback. For individuals, and for some kinds of organizations, the appeal of such sites is the opportunity for ongoing back-and-forth communication among large groups of people. Typically a social network allows someone to post a profile and photographs, videos, music, etc., and invite others to become “friends” or “fans.” Some information may be shared with the whole world; other parts may be restricted to a select, small group. For some time now state bar regulatory agencies have been addressing the effect of electronic communication on traditional ethical rules for lawyers ― the extent to which law firm websites constitute advertising, whether e-mail inquiries establish an attorney/client relationship, and so on. Likewise, judges hearing cases have faced new legal issues involving electronic discovery and searches of computers. Judges are becoming familiar, too, with problems of jurors communicating with the outside world and conducting their own research via their Blackberries, smart phones and other devices. Compared to the information available on those other electronic communication issues, there is relatively little reference material for judges concerning their own social networking and the Code of Judicial Conduct. The purpose of this paper is to share some information addressing questions of judges’ personal use of social networks. I welcome any additional material anyone knows about."
Another strategy we haven't bothered to
develop.
November 01, 2011
New
GAO Reports:
- Biosurveillance: Nonfederal Capabilities Should Be Considered in Creating a National Biosurveillance Strategy, GAO-12-55, Oct 31, 2011
I know you guys are new to 'da bidness
woild' so let me give you a tip. If it ain't in writing, it ain't a
contract. Just because someone “Likes” you does not mean the
like you...
Property
tax confusion pokes Facebook in Ore.
The promise of lucrative tax breaks
helped persuade Facebook to build a data center in one of Oregon's
most economically depressed counties. Now, the state and the company
are in a dispute over how much Facebook may owe in property taxes,
and the social networking giant fears it could be taxed on intangible
assets like the value of its powerful brand.
Facebook has said the state's action
has the potential to rewrite an economic development deal it cut with
Crook
County, but not even state tax officials seem to know for sure
whether the company is overreacting or it's truly facing a tax
surprise.
… Under its agreement with local
officials, Facebook built its data center in a rural enterprise zone,
allowing the Palo
Alto, Calif., company to pay property taxes only on its land, not
on its buildings and other assets, for 15 years.
Confusion arose when the state
Department
of Revenue asserted that Facebook is a utility company because
it's involved in the communications business, and its taxes should
therefore be assessed by the state under a different section of the
tax code.
… State officials say their
decision doesn't change Facebook's tax bill — about $26,000 this
year — and the money still goes to local governments in Crook
County. But Facebook is concerned that the state will someday try to
tax the company based on the value of its intangible assets, perhaps
including computer files, patents, its labor force and goodwill.
Could this be the game changer I've
been looking for?
Republic
Wireless to launch $19 unlimited voice, SMS and data service
Republic
Wireless, a division of Cary, N.C.-based VoIP and bandwidth
provider Bandwidth.com will
launch a hybrid cellular voice and VoIP service on Nov. 8, 2011.
Jason
Kincaid first reported the story, but we have some more details
and a couple of screenshots. The service, which costs $19 a month,
will allow you to make VoIP phone calls over Wi-Fi and will switch to
cellular-based calling when a Wi-Fi network is unavailable. Text
messages can also be sent via Wi-Fi or cellular networks. The
service does require a special Android handset. The plan
includes unlimited voice and text messaging. It
also includes unlimited data without any bandwidth caps.
… When
inside the office or your home or inside a Wi-Fi hot-spot, all phone
calls and text messages are sent and received via the Internet. When
there is no Wi-Fi, the calls are routed over a cellular network.
It's cheaper than carrying around a
xerox machine.
Scan
Documents On Your Phone With CamScanner [Android & iPhone]
CamScanner
is an exceptional application designed to make high quality document
scanning easy for you using your smartphone. It’s really quite
sophisticated, making it easy to scan multiple pages into one
document or to auto-crop the image to exactly what you wish to keep.
The CamScanner application is available
on Android,
iPhone,
Windows Mobile and Blackberry. It’s free to test an ad-supported,
limited version and $4.99 to buy the fully functional Android
application.
… With a touch of a button any
image or collection of images in CamScanner can be converted into a
PDF.
Email Or Upload To Cloud
From viewing any CamScanner document,
the file can be emailed or uploaded to the cloud. Cloud options
include Dropbox, Box.net and Google Docs, so it’s easy to make use
of these CamScanner files elsewhere.
Busted! No more “Accounting
homework” in my class!
HardlyworkIn:
Disguise Facebook As Excel Spreadsheet
HardlyworkIn is a free to use web
application that lets you check your Facebook account by masking it
as a spreadsheet. All you have to do is visit the website and
authorize it to access your Facebook account. After that, you can
browse your Facebook account from a spreadsheet-like interface.
Similar tool: MoDazzle.
This might be a useful way to gather
all of the resources I point to for my classes.
Searcheeze allows you to collect
different web content in the same place, and have it
published as a magazine that everybody else can read and
share with all of his pals. This platform is in beta
right now, but it already comes with all of the features
you could ever need to have content curated and contextualized. You
can collect everything from text and images to video and audio
streams, and mix that in all the ways you could possibly fancy. The
idea is to let you take your time to figure out the one combination
that would work for you.
You'll be able to create an individual
magazine for each and every topic that you'd like to curate, and then
create a magazine based on that. You can add content webpage by
webpage, and also by getting the provided bookmarklet and having it
added to your magazine without having to leave the page you're on.
This content curation
platform can be tried for free. You can create an account
just by supplying some pretty basic details such as your name and
your email address. And you can also sign in using your Facebook
account, and have all your friends closer than ever when your content
is ready and you want to have it shared.
(Related) Another collection &
sharing tool
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/2epub-com-create-ebooks-for-free?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+killerstartups%2FBkQV+%28KillerStartups.com%29
2ePub.com
- Create Ebooks For Free
This new site
turns creating an ebook into something that anybody can do, as it's
not only really simple to use but it's also available at no cost.
…
And the site's not only usable for free, it can also be used
without having to sign up for an account first.
Input
formats: doc, docx, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf,
prc, rtf, txt.
Output
formats: epub, fb2, lit, lrf, mobi
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