An example of poor “design for security?”
Here’s
how Hawaii’s emergency alert design led to a false alarm
… AlertSense CTO Randy
Grohs explained that there are essentially two paths to send
an alert using the system. In one, an alert is created from scratch.
The user of the software fills in information for the alert, like
where it’s being sent, what the message says, and crucially,
whether it’s a test or live alert.
But the company also lets
software users create “templates” — options that fill in all of
the information with one click. Templates can be created for both
test and live alerts. (Hawaii has publicly said that the person who
sent the false alarm chose an incorrect template option.)
Regardless
of what’s selected, the user then has the opportunity to review the
information before submitting the alert.
A pop-up box is the final
step in sending the alert. The box has the same message, whether a
live or test alert is sent: “Are you sure you want to send this
Alert?”
… “If you don’t
follow best practices, the difference between sending live and a demo
can be configured to be a small difference,” Grohs says.
Useful arguments?
Federal
appeals court orders DOJ to disclose surveillance documents
The US
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on
Thursday ordered
[opinion, PDF] the Department of
Justice (DOJ) [official website] to disclose two documents within
an internal DOJ resource manual for federal prosecutors related to
electronic surveillance and tracking devices in criminal
investigations.
… The court ruled that the general methods for
using technology to obtain information from suspects is publicly
known investigative techniques, and thus are not covered
under Exemption 7(E). The court found that the release of the
information would also not
allow wrongdoers to circumvent legitimate surveillance and the law.
The court also found that only the portions of the documents that
"present original legal analyses, not purely descriptive and not
already incorporated in public documents, to guide federal
prosecutors in litigation" can be withheld under Exemption 5.
The court remanded to the district court to determine which portions
of the documents meet the requirements for Exemption 5 and ordered
the remainder of the documents be released.
Perspective. Facebook
guides/leads/influences/rules the world?
https://www.recode.net/2018/1/20/16913052/new-york-times-stock-wall-street-facebook-trust-news-media
The New
York Times’ stock jumped following Facebook’s “trustworthy”
news announcement
Shortly before markets closed
yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted
that the social media company’s News Feed would prioritize news
from sources that are “trustworthy, informative, and local.”
Facebook
users themselves will be responsible for determining what those
are.
Immediately afterward, The
New York Times’ stock shot up, ending the day up nearly 9 percent,
according to data from FactSet. At $21.90, the paper’s stock price
is the highest it’s been since before the recession. The New York
Times has been riding high following the election of Donald Trump,
hitting record
growth in digital news subscriptions last year.
News Corp, which owns The
Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, also saw its stock rise
yesterday, as did FOX News owner 21st Century Fox. Those gains,
however, were small in comparison to The New York Times.
Some ideas for my programming students?
Data mining is known as an interdisciplinary
subfield of computer science and basically is a computing process of
discovering patterns in large data sets. It is considered as an
essential process where intelligent methods are applied in order to
extract data patterns.
The archive of 3D sites is what interests me.
Geometry at
Mount Rushmore - A Math Lesson
CyArk
is an organization building an online library of 3D models of the
world's cultural heritage sites. Mount Rushmore is one of the places
that CyArk features in their galleries of 3D models. You can find
the entire collection of places here.
Why GPS could reduce the murder rate…
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