Eventually the details come out.
Hacker
Stole 26 Million Email And Home Addresses Of Ticketfly Users
Ticketfly’s parent company Eventbrite said it's
still investigating the incident, and hasn’t revealed the extent of
the data breach, nor how much or what kind of data was stolen.
Motherboard downloaded a series of CSV database files posted on a
public server by the hacker last week and shared it with Troy Hunt,
the founder of the “Have
I Been Pwned,” a website dedicated of informing users of data
breaches.
Hunt analyzed the databases and found 26,151,608
unique email addresses. The databases did not include passwords nor
credit card details. But for most users, they did include their home
and billing address and phone numbers.
The hacker told Motherboard that they reached out
to Ticketfly before the breach, alerting the company of a
vulnerability, and demanding a ransom of 1 bitcoin to help them fix
the flaw. After the company did not respond to their emails, the
hacker defaced the site.
… As of Monday, the service is still offline.
It’s now been offline for five days.
Not the right Washington? Is this the start of a
flood?
Washington
state sues Facebook, Google over election ad disclosure
The state of Washington said on Monday it had sued
Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google for allegedly violating
state campaign finance law by failing to maintain information about
who buys election ads.
The state's attorney general, Bob Ferguson, who
posted copies of the lawsuits here
and here
on his website, said he was seeking penalties against the companies
and an injunction for failing to disclose ad spending in state
elections since 2013.
… Unlike most U.S. jurisdictions, both
Washington state and the city of Seattle have laws dating to the
1970s that require companies that sell advertising, such as radio
stations, to disclose who buys political ads. Other states put the
burden of disclosure on the buyers themselves.
Are we protecting “methods and capabilities?”
What If
Police Use ‘Rekognition’ Without Telling Defendants?
At least two US law enforcement departments —
and Motorola, which sells equipment to the government — have
already purchased
access to Amazon’s “Rekognition” system. This technology
combines facial recognition and artificial intelligence to identify
people and track their movements, including in crowds.
Among the many civil-liberties implications of
programs like these is the real possibility that people in the United
States facing imprisonment or deportation will never learn about law
enforcement’s use of such systems during investigations, thanks to
the U.S. government practice known as “parallel construction.”
This means the constitutionality of such activities could go
unchallenged by defendants and unexamined by judges, who are
essential to providing checks on police powers.
… For courts to play their vital role in
ensuring that any government investigative measures—including
sophisticated emerging technologies—are lawful, both judges and the
defense need to know what law enforcement is doing. Congress should
require the government to disclose complete information about the
methods used to obtain evidence—and in the meantime, judges should
strongly consider doing the same. The digital age, with its
unprecedented capabilities to catalogue intimate details about our
lives, is no time to relax our vigilance in defending rights.
When can I video my students? When are they not
students?
William J. Zee of Barley Snyder writes, in part:
…. Prior to the recent issuance of the “FAQs on Photos and Videos under FERPA,” the issue of surveillance video as an education record was addressed in the December 7 “Letter to Wachter.” The new guidance does not deviate substantially from the information provided in the letter, but it does offer a more detailed and comprehensive analysis applicable to determining when a photo or video of a student is deemed an education record under FERPA. It also address what steps schools need to take in handling requests for such information.
Determining when a visual representation of a student is directly, rather than incidentally, related to a particular student is a very context-specific analysis.
Read more on Barley
Snyder.
Conway is not exactly on the boarder with Canada.
Is there something special about that area?
Planning a vacation with Joe Cadillic is probably
not a typical planning experience. 🙂
Joe writes:
Since last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have been conducting immigration checkpoints in Hew Hampshire’s White Mountains.
NH’s motto ‘Live Free or Die’ is fast becoming a joke to all who visit.
Why would I say that?
Because this past Memorial Day weekend, State Police with DHS funding, conducted a DWI ‘saturation patrol’ in Conway from 9 PM-3 AM stopping ninety motorists. Anyone familiar with North Conway knows that most bars and restaurants close at 1AM and stopping ninety Conway residents would have caused a public outcry.
So who were the police targeting?
Read more on MassPrivateI.
It’s not just robots that “take” jobs.
How a
Genetically Modified Soybean Helped Modernize an Economy
As Brazil’s farms
became more efficient, workers shifted to manufacturing.
My students are watching this market.
Waymo, the self-driving car spinoff of Google,
made a big splash last week by announcing it struck a deal with Fiat
Chrysler to add
62,000 Chrysler Pacficia hybrid minivans to its upcoming
fleet of autonomous taxis. Turns out, the move could have a big
impact not only on Waymo’s bottom line but also potential buyers of
electric cars in years to come, too. It appears that nothing’s
stopping the company from seeking as much as $465 million in federal
tax credits as a result of the order, according to experts who spoke
to Jalopnik.
Even if Waymo decides against claiming the
electric vehicle tax credit—worth up to $7,500 per car—on its
annual returns, the Pacifica order will impact the ability of future
car buyers to purchase a FCA electric or hybrid model at a more
affordable price, experts said. The Pacifica order represents more
than 30 percent of the 200,000 vehicle cap set under federal
regulators for the tax credit; once a manufacturer hits that ceiling,
the credit begins to phase out.
Perspective. Some programmers actively hate
Microsoft. Not sure that’s a valid strategy.
13,000
Projects Ditched GitHub for GitLab Monday Morning
On Monday morning, Microsoft announced
that it had acquired the popular collaborative software development
platform Github for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. The
announcement was met with mixed
reactions from the developer community. Some looked at the
acquisition as inevitable and the only way to sustain a free platform
that had grown as large as Github. Others saw it as the death knell
for a neutral, community-driven platform that was the de facto home
of open source software development.
Rumors of the acquisition first began circulating
over the weekend, which led to a mass migration of Github projects to
its competitor’s platform, GitLab. A real-time tracker on GitLab
shows a massive
spike in imported Github projects early on Monday morning, with
over 13,000 projects being imported within a single hour. Yet
GitLab’s CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij said the mass migration
has been going on for nearly a week.
“Within the past seven days, we have imported
nearly 50,000 projects,” Sijbrandij told me in an email. “We’ve
scaled up the servers for GitLab.com three times already.”
… Although 50,000 projects being transferred
to GitLab is nothing to bat an eye at, it’s still a relatively
small portion of the roughly 80 million projects hosted on GitHub.
You can’t make this stuff up. At least, I
can’t.
… The fourth generation (Series 3) of the
Apple Watch was the first to get built-in cellular connectivity,
letting you leave your iPhone at home. To make it easier to reach
out to other Apple Watch users, a new Walkie-Talkie app is being
introduced with watchOS 5.0 that lets users send quick voice memos
back and forth over a cellular connection, or Wi-Fi. It looks like
it’s a faster alternative to placing a call, and may be
considerably lighter on data usage.
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