Someone
is not amused.
Sony
PlayStation Network and other game services attacked
Sony's
PlayStation Network was forced offline for much of Sunday by a
cyber-attack in what appears to be a campaign against several online
gaming services.
Microsoft's
XBox Live, Blizzard's Battle.net, and Grinding Gear Games are among
others to have reported being disrupted over the weekend.
The
attacks coincided with a bomb scare involving a flight carrying a
Sony executive.
An
American Airlines jet was diverted after a threat was made online.
A
warning that the flight - from Dallas-Fort Worth to San Diego - was
carrying explosives was subsequently repeated by a Twitter account
that had been used to claim responsibility for the online attacks.
John
Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, had been tweeting
about his firm's efforts to combat a "large scale DDoS"
before posting a message saying he was about to board the plane.
Not
sure when these were originally published.
New
on LLRX – Four Part Series on Privacy and Data Security Violations
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Aug 24, 2014
Via
LLRX.com
– fours new articles by law professor Daniel J. Solove on privacy,
data protection and the harm caused by breaches.
- Privacy and Data Security Violations: What’s the Harm? - Daniel J. Solove is a Law professor at George Washington University Law School, an expert in information privacy law, and founder of TeachPrivacy, a privacy and security training company. In the first of a four part series, Prof. Solove’s article focuses on the ramifications of increasingly common instances of personal data theft or improper data disclosure, and the subsequent ramifications for those compromised.
- Why the Law Often Doesn’t Recognize Privacy and Data Security Harms - In the second article of a four part series, Daniel J. Solove explains how the law is struggling to deal with privacy and data security harms.
- Do Privacy Violations and Data Breaches Cause Harm? - In his third article in a four part series, Daniel J. Solove explores two issues that frequently emerge in privacy and data security cases: (a) the future risk of harm; and (b) individual vs. social harm.
- How Should the Law Handle Privacy and Data Security Harms? In his fourth article in a four part series, Daniel J. Solove discusses how the law should handle privacy and security harms.
Interstate,
intrastate... No one can tell them apart.
Orin
Kerr writes:
Last week, a district court considered whether the federal computer
hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, applies to a
laptop computer not connected to the Internet. The court concluded
in Pine
Environmental Services v. Carson (D.Mass. August 20, 2014)
(Talwani, J.), that the
Act does not apply in such circumstances because the
alleged crime is not interstate in nature. As much as I favor narrow
readings of the CFAA, I think the court was incorrect.
Unfortunately, the CFAA is so broad it includes pretty much every
computer, connected to the Internet or not. In this post I’ll
explain why.
Read
more on WaPo The
Volokh Conspiracy.
Another
example of “teachers know best?”
United
States: Boy held for 'killing pet dinosaur'
A high-school student in the US state of South Carolina has been
arrested and suspended from school over a writing assignment in which
he claimed to have killed his neighbour's pet dinosaur, it's been
reported.
Alex
Stone, 16, says he was told to write something in the style of a
Facebook status update for a project at Summerville High School. But
when he allegedly wrote: "I killed my neighbor's pet dinosaur.
I bought the gun to take care of the business," worried teachers
called the police, local
news station WCSC reports. Officials questioned Stone and
searched his schoolbag and locker but didn't find any weapons. But
police say the boy was
difficult during questioning, and he was arrested and
charged with disturbing the school, the
SF Gate website says. Stone was also suspended for a week.
The
boy's mother, Karen Gray, says she thinks the school overreacted. "I
could understand if they made him rewrite it," she says
in an interview with NY Daily News, adding the school didn't call
her to explain what was happening.
Some
interesting statistics.
US
Wi-Fi Report – July 2014
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Aug 24, 2014
OpenSignal:
“Public Wi-Fi has transformed the way we stay
connected, enabling a whole generation of start-ups to be created in
cafes and other ad-hoc workspaces. Cafes are now seem almost as
likely to publicly advertise their Wi-Fi network as they are the
quality of their coffee. As we grow more demanding of Wi-Fi,
expecting to be able to watch television or skype friends on publicly
accessible connections, knowing that a certain location offers Wi-Fi
is no longer enough. We know which cafes have Wi-Fi, we know which
stores have Wi-Fi, and we know that the hotels we visit have Wi-Fi;
what we don’t know is how fast that Wi-Fi will be.”
Not
all games are computer based.
The
retro cult around Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
In
March 1983, an unconventional series of books held the top three
entries of the Sunday Times bestseller list. These were Fighting
Fantasy books - stories "in which YOU are the Hero". All
that you needed to take part was a pencil, eraser, dice and an active
imagination, writes Peter Ray Allison.
Created
more than 30 years ago by Games Workshop founders Steve Jackson and
Ian Livingstone, Fighting Fantasy continues to remain popular. The
forthcoming Fighting Fantasy Fest in London will see dedicated fans
coming from as far as Taiwan and Australia.
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