Sunday, January 29, 2012


Yesterday, actually...
January 28, 2012
International Privacy Day: Top Concerns of Activists and Data Protection Authorities
EFF: "This January 28 marks International Privacy Day. Different countries around the world are celebrating this day with their own events. This year, we are honoring the day by calling attention to recent international privacy threats and interviewing data protection authorities, government officials, and activists to gain insight into various aspects of privacy rights and related legislation in their own respective countries. As part of International Privacy Day, the EFF asked data protection authorities, politicians, and activists about privacy related issues and concerns for 2012. In addition to the individuals highlighted in our previous posts, EFF heard back from the Council of Europe, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), and activists from Canada, France and Spain. In various ways, all of the responses focused on government surveillance or data protection laws. For the Council of Europe and European Data Protection Supervisor, the focus was on data protection agreements, while the activists were mindful of the ever-increasing power of government authorities to surveil their citizens."

(Related) FREE IS GOOD! Interesting, but note that they fail to provide a link… Which sends me on a Google search...
January 28, 2012
In honor of Data Privacy Day, the full ebook of lol...OMG!
"In honor of Data Privacy Day, the full ebook of lol...OMG! (regularly $9.99) is being made available for FREE!"
  • "What if every mistake you ever made in college was captured and shared with everyone you know, and then with thousands of strangers every day for the rest of your life? Matt Ivester, creator of the most controversial website to ever hit college campuses, has taken his intimate knowledge of online behavior and documented the dangers of this new reality in his book, lol…OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbullying."
[From the Intel Blogs page:
The promotion is available from 12:01AM Jan. 27th to 11:59PM Jan 30th . Click here for information on how to get the free download from Amazon.


If a student runs for 200 yards in a football game, coaches from the big football schools want to offer him a scholarship. We want to do the same thing to ensure that these scholars are able to continue their education in our Ethical Hacker program. The alternative is to leave them (gasp!) unethical... So send your donations care of the “Bob-is-gonna-retire-soon-Fund” NOTE: If you have already contributed in order to stop receiving 800 emails per day, Thanks!
NE: Student Allegedly Admits Hacking School’s Computer Network
January 28, 2012 by admin
Channel 6 News has obtained a copy of a search warrant that was issued for a Millard High School. The document details how a student used an application on his cell phone to hack into the school’s computer network.
According to court documents, the Horizon High School student was then able have official, private school business directed to his cell phone. Investigators say the hacking went on for three days before the school computer expert traced the activity to the student, who allegedly admitted to what was going on.
Horizon High is an alternative high school in Millard, located in the area of 204th and F Streets.
Read more on WOWT.com


I think it's the “In thing”
Congress wants to know more about Google’s privacy and data-sharing changes
January 28, 2012 by Dissent
Eight members of Congress have sent a letter to Google about their announced changes affecting privacy policy and terms of service. For me, one of the key questions concerns whether users will be able to opt-out of the new sharing as I have definite concerns about the amount of information Google can already amass on individuals. See what you think.


Global Warming! Global Warming! Al Gore did not a Gospel write...
"According to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, there's 'no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy'. From the article: 'The lack of warming for more than a decade—indeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projections—suggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. [A lot of the animosity in the arguments would have been avoided if someone had actually checked that CO2 graph Al used in his movie... Bob] Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2. The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle.'"


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