How
do I surveil thee?
Let
me count the ways...
Nathan
Freed Wessler writes:
A Florida judge has sided with the ACLU to order release of
information about police use of “stingrays,” which are invasive
surveillance devices that send out powerful signals to trick cell
phones into transmitting their locations and identifying information.
The Tallahassee judge’s pro-transparency decision stands in
contrast to extreme secrecy surrounding stingray records in another
Florida court, which is at the center of an emergency
motion filed by the ACLU today.
Read
more on ACLU.
[From
the article:
Late
yesterday, the judge ordered unsealing of the entire
transcript. The portion that the government had sought to keep
secret is here.
…
Stingrays can track cell phones whenever the phones are turned on,
not just when they are making or receiving calls.
…
In this case, police used two versions of the stingray — one
mounted on a police vehicle, and the other carried by hand. Police
drove through the area using the vehicle-based device until they
found the apartment complex in which the target phone was located,
and then they walked around with the handheld device and stood “at
every door and every window in that complex” until they figured out
which apartment the phone was located in.
“Users
who take appropriate security measures protect their own privacy.”
(Otherwise we read their email to send them appropriate ads.) Or
does Google know how to read Google encrypted emails?
Google
goads users to use encryption
As
much as 50% of e-mail traffic sent from or to Gmail users isn't
really private, and Google thinks it should be.
To
nudge e-mail providers to make use of already existing encryption,
Google on Tuesday published a page telling users which e-mail
services support encryption and which do not, based on what it can
see of e-mails sent by Gmail's 425 million active users worldwide.
The
statistics were posted on Google's Transparency
Report. There, users can search
by region to see whether their e-mail provider has encryption turned
on.
“Information”
increases faster than “data?” Is there a point beyond which
anyone can learn anything (everything?) about anyone because of the
volume of data available on the Internet?
Can computer science and “mosaic theory”– the idea that a
large enough collection of data is vastly more revealing than the
individual points– help reinterpret Fourth Amendment
search and seizure and surveillance protocols?
The answer is yes, according to University of Maryland Francis King
Carey School of Law Professor Renee Hutchins, co-author of a new
paper that examines how advances
in machine learning technology may change the way courts treat
searches, warrants, and privacy issues.
Read
more on Newswise.
Related
Article:
When
Enough is Enough: Location Tracking, Mosaic Theory, and Machine
Learning (pdf) by Steve Bellovin, Renee M. Hutchins, Tony Jebara,
and Sebastian Zimmeck.
Perspective.
Microsoft
Examines Relationship Between Cybersecurity and Socio-Economic
Conditions
In
the report, “Cyberspace
2025: Today’s Decisions, Tomorrow’s Terrain”, Microsoft
predicts that by the year 2025, over 91% of people in developed
countries and 69% in emerging countries will be using the Internet,
and dependence on the Web will become a reality.
…
Earlier
this year, a report
released by the World Economic Forum during its famous annual
meeting, outlined different scenarios for how things could look in
2020 based on the “conceivable value created from innovations in
technology” that could be affected by global organizations’
ability to defend against cyber attacks.
According
to statistics cited by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in its report,
technology trends such as cloud computing and big data have the
potential to create between $9.6 trillion and $21.6 trillion in value
for the global economy. However, the reports notes, if attacker
tactics outpace the capabilities of defenders, more destructive
attacks will result and spark a wave of new regulations and corporate
policies that could slow innovation with a massive economic impact.
A
heads-up for my Ethical Hackers.
Your
car is a giant computer - and it can be hacked
Most
people aren't aware their cars are already high-tech computers. And
now we're networking them by giving them wireless connectivity. Yet
there's a danger to turning your car into a smartphone on wheels: It
makes them a powerful target for hackers.
Interviews
with automakers, suppliers and security advisers reveal a major
problem with the new wave of "connected" cars: The
inside of your car has ancient technology that presents a security
risk.
…
Cars' computers were built safely enough back in the 1990s, when
the car was a closed box. But their architecture won't hold up as we
hook them up to the Internet.
Tools
& Techniques. Isn't this too broad an interpretation of
copyright law? If so, you might want to grab a copy now, before the
injunctions start flying. NOTE: Not free and not cheap!
Save
Videos From Any Site – Even Netflix – With Applian’s Replay
Capture Suite
If
you can watch or listen to something, you can record it. All you
need is the right tool.
…
One Applian program, called Replay
Media Catcher, is a video downloader that grabs videos from
unencrypted sites like YouTube and Vimeo – but not sites like Hulu
and Netflix, which encrypt their files.
Another
program, Replay
Video Capture, isn’t a downloader at all: it actually records
what’s happening on your screen, meaning you can save a copy of any
online media – even Netflix or Hulu – without the need to break
any encryption.
…
“Copyright laws are pretty clear that you’re allowed to record
for your own personal use,” says Bill Dettering, CEO of Applian
Technologies. This means that if you record something, but don’t
share it with others or attempt to sell it, you’re within your
rights.
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