Sounds like just another minor breach, but this
one has clear political overtones. Does the DoL ever release data
like this for non-political purposes?
AP reports:
A Bluefield auto dealership owned by Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Cole has asked Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s office to investigate a state agency’s recent release of the names, salaries and social security numbers of more than 200 employees who work for Cole.
Read more on Bluefield
Daily Telegraph.
[From
the article:
The Charlotte Gazette-Mail reports that the state
Division of Labor’s released the employees’ confidential
information last month, in response to a request from the newspaper
for a story about wage complaints filed against businesses owned by
candidates for governor in West Virginia.
Reacting to TalkTalk, not Paris. (Because
TalkTalk users vote in UK elections.)
UK to
Double Funding to Fight Cyber Attacks
Britain
on Tuesday said it will double its investment in cyber-security to
counter threats including from the Islamic State group, in the wake
of the Paris attacks claimed by IS.
Speaking
at the headquarters of Britain's electronic spy agency GCHQ in
southwest England, finance minister George Osborne said the money
would be used against criminals, rogue states and terror factions.
Osborne
said that, while IS jihadists did not yet have the capability for
attacking Britain's infrastructure through the web, "we know
they want it, and are doing their best to build it".
Encrypted
communications leave law enforcement no choice?
Vice’s Motherboard is puzzling
over a massive leap in the number of Title III wiretap orders served
on Facebook during the first half of 2015: A whopping 201 (targeting
259 users) over the course of just six months, according to the
social networking giant’s latest
transparency report, compared with a mere nine such orders
(targeting 16 users) for the whole of 2014. The experts Motherboard
interviewed were at a loss to explain the jump, but one quite simple
and plausible explanation leaps out at me: WhatsApp, the instant
messaging client whose acquisition
was finalized by Facebook at the very end of last year — and
which law enforcement officials routinely
say is favored by bad actors looking to communicate securely.
Analyzing Zuckerberg? The photo looks so
lifelike!
Inside Mark
Zuckerberg's Bold Plan For The Future Of Facebook
Another instance where the scammers are ahead of
the government.
You don’t
need to pay someone to register your drone
You wouldn’t pay a private company to get your
car registered, and you don’t need to hire one to get your drone
registered either, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday.
At least one private firm has begun offering to
handle drone registration for a fee, helping drone owners to comply
with an FAA mandate that requires registration, the federal agency
said. But the FAA still hasn’t sorted out how registration will be
handled and cautions against paying money prematurely for assistance.
The illogic of politics. No doubt we will see a
lots of statements like this one.
After
Paris, Encryption Will Be a Key Issue in the 2016 Race
… Just yesterday, CIA director John Brennan
said that he hoped the Paris attacks would serve as “a wakeup call”
to those who oppose government surveillance in favor of personal
privacy.
(Related) Never let the facts enter the debate.
American and French officials say there is still
no definitive evidence to back up their presumption that the
terrorists who massacred 129 people in Paris used new,
difficult-to-crack encryption technologies to organize the plot.
It's the future, but is it wise, or even legal?
For example, leaving a running car unattended (a “puffer car”) is
illegal in Denver and Aurora, perhaps state wide?
Ford
Borrows A Play From Tesla, Launches App With Remote Start, Unlocking
And More
Ford just announced a service that allows owners
to control their car from a smartphone app. Called Sync Connect, the
service brings a lot of functionality not traditionally found in gas
automobiles — let alone, inexpensive gas-powered cars. The
functions rival that found on Tesla’s app and will first be
available on the 2017 Ford Escape small SUV.
This app allows owners to lock and unlock their
vehicle from afar as well as remotely start the engine. It even
allows owners to schedule remote starts, so, say if the owner leaves
the house everyday at 7:00 AM, this app can start the car on
designated days at 6:55 so it’s nice and toasty warm by 7:00.
This sounds very “politically incorrect” but
what the author says is that communicating using a global language
makes it easier to see global connections.
… When we think of innovation, we tend to
think of smart, technically trained people sitting in a room coming
up with game-changing ideas. But innovation is just as much a
function of connections—of a person’s or team’s ability to
access global information networks and work alongside others with
relevant skills.
In a global economy, English
facilitates those connections. When a country has strong English
abilities, its innovation sector can better pull from the global pool
of talent and ideas. And we now have data that illustrates the close
relationship between innovation and English proficiency worldwide.
Ha! Take that you posture weenies. I've been
doing it right all along!
Sitting Up
Straight Is Bad: The Right Way to Sit at a Desk
… The
proper angle is somewhere between 120 and 135 degrees,
which looks like this:
Tools & Techniques. Useful USB tips.
Are USB
Flash Drives Still Worth It In 2015?
Look at it this way. A Masters degree will cost
you a bachelors degree and then some. (Infographic)
Is A
Bachelor’s Degree A Financially Viable Choice?
Perspective. Does Seattle really not see the
potential income stream here? I would really like to see their
analysis.
Seattle
city council votes down municipal broadband pilot project
The Seattle City Council voted against a $5
million municipal
broadband pilot program on Monday, delivering a major blow to
groups that want to see the Internet treated like a public utility
akin to electricity.
… The mayor’s office has opposed
the larger municipal broadband initiative, saying the $480
million to $665 million project simply isn’t possible without some
type of outside funding.
Cute, but where do they fall in the alphabet?
For first
time ever, an emoji is crowned Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the
Year
… Oxford Dictionaries has recognized the
influential and complex function of emoji by giving one of the
symbols its highest honor. For the first time in Oxford’s history,
the Word of the Year is a pictograph.
Officially, 2015’s linguistic champion is known
as the “Face with Tears of Joy” emoji. Oxford Dictionaries
announced in a statement
Monday: “There were other strong contenders from a range of
fields…but [Face with Tears of Joy] was chosen as the ‘word’
that best reflected the ethos, mood and preoccupations of 2015.”
I wish more of my students would read.
How These
College Kids Got 150 Top CEOs to Give Them Book Recommendations
There are millions of books that can help you
navigate the business world, but which are the best of the best?
That's what Julia Wittrock and Grant Hensel wanted
to know as they prepared to graduate from Wheaton College this past
May. Like many students, the two were about to start their first
jobs: Wittrock as a strategic sourcing analyst at 3M in Minneapolis
and Hensel as an analyst at Slalom Consulting in Chicago.
Three weeks before graduation, the two friends
sent short letters to all of the CEOs on the Fortune 500 list, asking
them for their favorite business book recommendations.
For the listening
generation. Also, How to make your own podcast.
5 Places to
Discover New Podcasts That You’ll Love
Yeah they're cartoons. You gotta problem wid dat?
Toll & Techniques. Worth knowing about. (A
couple of categories)
10 iPhone
and iPad
Apps That Take Accessibility To The Next Level
Apps for People with Hearing Impairments
Apps for People with Vision Loss
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