Just
a reminder. The Privacy Foundation at DU is hosting a seminar and
lunch on Friday, October 10th. The subject is “The
Internet of Things” Details are at
http://www.law.du.edu/index.php/privacy-foundation
Could
this...
Surprise
talks: North Korea officials arrive to South for highest-level visit
in years
…
After giving a 24-hour notice, North Korean delegates arrived
to South Korea to formally attend the closing ceremony of the Asian
Games on Saturday, according to South Korea’s state news agency and
the Ministry of Unification. The South's ministry was only informed
of the visit late on Friday.
...be
because of this?
Former
North Korean spy believes Kim Jong-un has been overthrown in ‘silent
coup’
…
Jang Jin-sung, once a key element in former leader Kim Jong-il’s
counterintelligence and propaganda machine, says the dictator is
being quietly but firmly sidelined by a powerful group called the
Organisation and Guidance Department (OGD).
The
OGD was set up by Kim Jong-un’s father in the Nineties, and the
group remains loyal to the policies and direction of the former
leader.
…
He said the OGD has taken control of the long-term strategy for
North Korea – not so much in open and aggressive defiance of Kim
Jong-un, rather they simply ignore any of the leader’s orders.
…
Recent reports say that the cheese-loving, heavy-smoking Kim Jong-un
is suffering from gout, diabetes and high blood pressure – so the
need for the OGD to do the day-to-day driving may become more of a
necessity if he dies.
I
suspect there are swarms of lawyers sending their wifi-detecting
minions out to find similar evil doers.
Marriott
blocked guests' personal hotspots, fined by FCC
While
some hotel chains have embraced providing guests with cheap (or free)
connectivity, others continue to charge exorbitant daily rates for
it. The Marriott's Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center was
actively blocking all hotspots in the convention center to force
guests to use its own expensive wi-fi network.
The
FCC
has fined Marriott $600,000 for the practice, determining that
this is in violation of the right for individuals to take advantage
of their own connectivity. While the Marriott hotel didn't jam
signals, a violation of law, it
used its network hardware so that the hotel hotspots were the only
ones that guest devices could see and access.
(Related)
Not worth the effort to route calls through another country? India
cracking down? What's happening here?
Skype
users in India will no longer be able to call India-based phones
Starting
on November 10, you will no longer be able to call landlines or
mobile phones through Skype in India. Microsoft has not issued a
specific reason, but has apologized to users and those affected will
receive full refunds.
To
clarify, Skype users in India will not be able to call phone lines in
India. They will still be able to call phones that are based in
other countries. Users not in India can still call phones in India.
Calls to Skype users are still, of course, available.
The
Indian Government regulates companies with VoIP services and does not
let them make internet-based calls from India. The
companies had to reroute calls from Indian users to other countries
to comply with this law and still deliver the functionality to Indian
users.
While
Skype has apparently decided to stop, there are still companies such
as Viber that still have this functionality.
Cute.
Quote-able. Typical FBI self-promotion.
China
Cybercrime Costing US Billions: FBI Chief
China
is waging an aggressive cyber-war against the United States which
costs American business billions of dollars every year, Federal
Bureau of Investigation director James Comey said Sunday.
The
FBI chief told CBS television's "60 Minutes" program China
topped the list of countries seeking to pilfer secrets from US firms,
suggesting that almost every major company in America had been
targeted. "There are
two kinds of big companies in the United States," Comey said.
"There
are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know
they've been hacked by the Chinese."
Annual
losses from cyber-attacks launched from China were "impossible
to count," Comey said, but measured in "billions."
Is
HP following IBM? Perhaps, like TVs, all personal computers will be
made by non-US companies.
Hewlett-Packard
says to split in two
Hewlett-Packard
Co said it would split into two listed companies, separating its
computer and printer businesses from its faster-growing corporate
hardware and services operations.
HP
said its shareholders would own a stake in both businesses through a
tax-free transaction next year.
Shares
of the company, which has struggled to adapt to the new era of mobile
and online computing, rose 6.3 percent to $37.40 in premarket trading
on Monday.
Each
of the two businesses contribute about half of HP's current revenue
and profit.
I
wonder if MIT will share some of that data for academic “Big Data”
research, or if I need to go directly to Twitter?
MIT
researchers given access by Twitter to all public tweets
Joshua
Brustein – Bloomberg: “Twitter is giving $10 million to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology over the next five years to
study patterns of public discourse on the Internet, and potentially
to build technology that will make online civic action more
effective. The research will happen as part of the MIT Media Lab
under a vaguely ominous moniker—the Laboratory of Social
Machines—and will be headed by Deb Roy, an associate professor at
MIT who already spends one day a week serving as Twitter’s chief
media scientist. The idea of sifting through tweets for patterns and
insights is hardly new. The company made $70 million in 2013
licensing use of its so-called fire hose—the entire, massive flow
of tweets flowing through its servers. Commercial and academic
research comes out regularly, shining light on the six
types of Twitter conversations, the impossibility
of keeping political affiliations hidden on the network,
or which
countries are the saddest. “There are a lot of people
at Twitter who are interesting in leveraging Twitter for social
good,” says Roy. “This serves as kind of an outlet for that.”
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[Why
that might be interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-FbYcyX-Y#t=57
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