So is the court saying
they should have been doing this all along or just “Now that the
cat is out of the bag?”
Spencer Ackerman
reports:
The
court that oversees US surveillance has ordered
the government to review for declassification a set of secret
rulings about the National Security Agency’s bulk trawls of
Americans’ phone records, acknowledging that disclosures by the
whistleblower Edward Snowden had triggered an important public
debate.
The
Fisa court ordered the Justice Department to identify the court’s
own rulings after May 2011 that concern a section of the Patriot Act
used by the NSA to justify its mass database of American phone data.
The ruling was a significant step towards their publication.
Read more on The
Guardian. See also emptywheel’s
coverage.
Do the crooks know
this? For my Ethical hackers. What can we get for a guillotine
that's still in the box?
Don't
worry, your severed fingers won't unlock your iPhone 5S
… It explains that
Apple's
scanner doesn't work by optics. Rather, Apple's new system
probes beneath the layer of you skin to see the real live action
beneath.
I consider myself a
clipping service (with commentary)
Much has been tweeted
and written about the media shield law that made it out of the Senate
Judiciary Committee yesterday. The bill gave me cause for concern as
I listened to the debate about it and read the coverage on Politico,
because I got the sense that bloggers/citizen journalists like myself
would not be covered, even though I engage in a lot of the same
behaviors that paid journalists working for big outlets like the NYT
do.
It turns out that at
least one prominent media lawyer thinks I definitely would be
covered, and I’ve asked him to write up his analysis of the
language of the bill to explain under what conditions folks like me
could claim the shield privilege. I’ll post a link to his analysis
once it’s online.
In the meantime, you
may want to read David Savage’s coverage in the Los
Angeles Times (via Joe Cadillic).
Still not on this
list...
Bloomberg
Visual Charts of Billionaires
Today’s
rankings of the world’s richest people – Index is a daily
ranking of the world’s richest – Visual charts provide bios.
Provides the ability to: Explore – Rank – Plot – Map specific
individuals and groups. Includes key data points: citizenships,
genders, ages, sources of wealth.
Very useful tools.
Pick one.
Tools
for Creating Creating Screen Capture Images and Videos
This evening I received
a question from a reader who was wondering what I use to create
the annotated screen capture images that you see in the
guides that I produce. I create those images by using Jing which I
have installed on my Mac and Windows computers. There are other
services that I have tried from time to time. Those services along
with Jing are described below.
Every week...
… From
the press release: the California
Community Colleges
Board of Governors has voted to require that any works created
under contracts or grants funded by the California Community Colleges
Chancellor’s Office carry the Creative
Commons Attribution license that gives permission to
the public to reproduce, distribute, perform, display or adapt the
licensed materials for any purpose so long as the user gives
attribution to the author." [Potential
resource? Bob]
… The
Open University has
released a report on “Innovating
Pedagogy,” which offers a look at 10 education theories, tools,
and practices which it says “have the potential to provoke major
shifts in educational practice, particularly in post-school
education.” Among the 10: gaming, MOOCs, and badges.
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