Could this be the old double think,
written in Chinese?
Man
in Black: All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits
has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out
who is right... and who is dead.
Vizzini:
But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of
you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own
goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into
his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would
reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly
not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was
not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not
choose the wine in front of me.
Man
in Black: You've made your decision then?
Vizzini:
Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone
knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and
criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not
trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
Man
in Black: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Vizzini:
Wait till I get going! Now, where was I?
Cyberattack
aims at government agencies in Asia, Europe
Officials
at agencies across Europe and Asia have been receiving an e-mail
that lists the Chinese Ministry of National Defense
as the source, Trend Micro revealed on Monday. But in
fact, the message seems to comes from a Gmail account and uses no
Chinese name.
The e-mail itself is packed with a
malicious attachment designed to exploit a weakness in all versions
of Microsoft Office
from 2003 through 2010. Microsoft
actually patched this specific hole more than a year ago, so
users with updated security should be safe.
Why do these need to be mobile rather
than at fixed locations in each classroom?
Carroll
ISD is Outfitting Teachers With GPS Tracking Devices
San Antonio's Northside ISD, which
became the focus of national controversy when an intensely
evangelical high school sophomore refused to wear her RFID-equipped
student ID because
it was the Mark of the Beast, is not the first school district to
track students' whereabouts using geolocation technology, nor will it
be the last. Despite the inevitable outcry, it's seen as a
relatively effective way to boost attendance and, as a result, state
funding.
… Southlake's Carroll ISD which, as
CBS 11 reports, is buying 100 wearable tracking devices from a
Dallas company, eTrak, as part of a pilot program aimed at improving
safety.
The idea is that teachers and others
can use the devices -- small black boxes that attach to a lanyard or
key chain -- to call for help in an emergency. [Help!
I've fallen and I can't get up! Bob]
… It does more than that, of
course. It constantly tracks the user's location using GPS and Wi-Fi
signals, whether they're in the classroom or sitting on a toilet.
That Carroll ISD is testing the program on adult teachers, not
students, makes the endeavor a bit less unsettling, but it's still
raises difficult questions about privacy and the relationship between
employer and employee. A position
paper signed by the ACLU, the Electronic Frontiers Foundation,
and more than a dozen other civil liberties groups, worries that
using tracking devices in schools violates civil liberties and
dehumanizes wearers, pointing out that the same technology is used to
track livestock.
NOT for my Ethical Hackers... Learn
the value of the “Dark Side”
Brian Prince reports
on what your health insurance plan numbers are worth when packaged
with other details about you. Medical ID theft is a growing – and
lucrative – market.
I could support metadata as a tripwire,
but it seems this program was designed to be more intrusive.
Orin Kerr writes:
In his recent Wall
Street Journal op-ed, my co-blogger Randy Barnett argues
that massive-scale collection of communications metadata by the NSA
violates the Fourth Amendment because it is an unreasonable seizure.
Randy’s colleague Laura K. Donohue recently argued in the
Washington
Post that such collection violates the Fourth Amendment as
an unreasonable search. Jennifer Granick and Chris Sprigman made a
similar argument in the New
York Times.
Are they right?
Does obtaining all telephony metadata under Section 215 — and then
querying the database — violate the Fourth Amendment?
In this post, I’ll
start with current law, and I’ll explain why current law supports
the conclusion that massive-scale collection of
communications meta-data by the NSA does not violate the Fourth
Amendment rights of its customers. I’ll then consider
alternate views of the Fourth Amendment and explain the prospects and
challenges of using the mosaic theory to get to a contrary result.
Read more on The
Volokh Conspiracy.
“Here's what I should have said, if I
wasn't afraid you'd send me to Guantanimo.”
Microsoft:
U.S. Constitution is 'suffering' from NSA secrecy
Microsoft on Tuesday asked the Obama
administration to allow it to reveal details about how it responds to
orders from the U.S. government for user account data.
Brad Smith, Microsoft's general
counsel, sent a strongly worded letter to Attorney General Eric
Holder this afternoon saying there is "no longer a compelling
government interest" in preventing companies "from sharing
more information" about how they respond. That's especially
true, the letter said, when this information is likely to help "allay
public concerns" about warrantless surveillance.
If I do it myself, no problem. If I
contract with Aereo to do it for me, Aereo is the scum of the earth?
In
another Aereo win, court refuses to rehear New York case
In another victory for Aereo, the
controversial TV-over-the-Web startup, a federal appeals court on
Tuesday refused to rehear an earlier decision allowing the service to
continue in the New York City area.
The result was widely expected, as
success in these kinds of petitions is rare, legal experts and
industry watchers told CNET. Attention now turns to the main trial
in this case to determine whether Aereo's service oversteps copyright
law, as well as other suits elsewhere that the media industry is
pitting against Aereo and Aereo-like services.
Aereo, which is
backed by IAC Chairman Barry Diller, uses antenna/DVR technology
to let consumers watch live, local, over-the-air television
broadcasts on some Internet-connected devices, including the iPad
and iPhone. That capability provoked a lawsuit from TV broadcast
giants including NBC, ABC, Fox, and CBS (the parent of CNET), which
allege that the service violates their copyrights and that Aereo must
pay them retransmission fees.
No more, “I left my homework on my
desktop at home.”
xCloud is an app that lets you sync
your files (docs, music, videos etc) between your home PC and your
mobile device (iPhone, iPad or Android device) and then access them
anywhere anytime. You simply register for an account, install the
app on your mobile device (it is available for iPhone and Android),
install the server version on your PC, and then log in to the app at
the same time.
… It is not necessary to keep your
PC open all the time. You simply log in to xCloud from your
smartphone and activate the “Wake over Internet” function, which
wakes your PC when needed.
The app is available for Windows on the
desktop and for iOS and Android platforms on the mobile.
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