For my Computer Security students? What would the parrot have said?
“Polly wanna kettle?”
Sneaky
parrot uses Amazon Alexa to shop while owner is away
A foul-mouthed parrot, who was kicked out of an
animal sanctuary for swearing too much, is using technology to cause
even more trouble.
The
Times of London reports Rocco, an African grey, has been using
Amazon Alexa to shop online while his owner was away.
His owner, Marion Wishnewski told the newspaper
she was shocked to find that her Amazon account suddenly had pending
orders for various snacks, including watermelon and ice cream and
also a kettle.
Sure, blame the poor humans.
Kiwibot
delivery robot catches fire after 'human error'
Kiwibot autonomous delivery robots have been
rolling around the University of California, Berkeley campus for two
years.
On Friday, students found one of the robots in
flames and shared photos on social media.
Kiwi said the cause was a "defective battery"
that had been accidentally installed in the robot.
Suggests a test question: How do you fix this?
Android
phones’ face recognition fooled by 3D printed head, report says
… We’ll cut down to the chase. The iPhone X
was the only one that was not unlocked by a fake head that was
carefully scanned from its owner, manually tweaked, and then printed
in the UK. The ghastly appearance and lifeless eyes may have clued
Face ID in on the hoax.
Awards lists (“Best of” lists) are a good way
to find things I missed.
This Year’s
Must-Read Privacy Papers: The Future of Privacy Forum Announces
Recipients of Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award
Today, the Future
of Privacy Forum announced the winners of the 9th
Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award. The PPPM
Award recognizes leading privacy scholarship that is relevant to
policymakers in the U.S. Congress, at U.S. federal agencies, and for
data protection authorities abroad. The winners of the 2018 PPPM
Award are:
I await the reports…
New report
on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows operation’s
scale and sweep
Washington
Post: “A report prepared for the Senate that provides the most
sweeping analysis yet of Russia’s disinformation campaign around
the 2016 election found the operation used
every major social media platform to deliver words, images
and videos tailored to voters’ interests to help elect President
Trump — and worked even harder to support him while in office. The
report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the
first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology
firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Sen. Richard Burr
(R-N.C.), its chairman, and Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), its ranking
Democrat. The bipartisan panel hasn’t said whether it endorses the
findings. It plans to release it publicly along with another study
later this week.
The research — by Oxford University’s
Computational
Propaganda Project and Graphika,
a network analysis firm — offers new details of how Russians
working at the Internet
Research Agency, which U.S. officials have charged with criminal
offenses for meddling in the 2016 campaign, sliced Americans into
key interest groups for targeted messaging. These efforts shifted
over time, peaking at key political moments, such as presidential
debates or party conventions, the report found. The data sets used
by the researchers were provided by Facebook, Twitter and Google and
covered several years up to mid-2017, when the social media companies
cracked down on the known Russian accounts. The report, which also
analyzed data separately provided to House Intelligence Committee
members, contains no information on more recent political moments,
such
as November’s midterm elections.
“What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party — and specifically Donald Trump,” the report says. “Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting.”
Something to ‘amuse’ my students?
Why You
Don't Own Your Tech
Think they heard us laughing? Perhaps they
noticed voters changing party? No! It was the FCC, doing something
for other (completely political) reasons.
California
abandons plans to tax text messages
… California regulators were hoping to tax
text messages, until a recent ruling from the FCC.
The FCC says text messages are an "information
service" - not a "telecommunications service."
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