Finally,
an intelligent question. Will they listen to the answer?
Senators
demand to know why election vendors still sell voting machines with
‘known vulnerabilities’
TechCrunch:
“Four senior senators have called on the largest U.S. voting
machine makers to explain why they continue to sell devices with
“known vulnerabilities,” ahead of upcoming critical elections.
The letter, sent
Wednesday,
calls on election equipment makers ES&S, Dominion Voting and Hart
InterCivic to explain why they
continue to sell decades-old machines,
which the senators say contain security flaws that could undermine
the results of elections if exploited.
“The
integrity of our elections is directly tied to the machines we vote
on,” said the letter sent by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Mark
Warner (D-VA), Jack Reed (D-RI) and Gary Peters (D-MI), the most
senior Democrats on the Rules, Intelligence, Armed Services and
Homeland Security committees, respectively. “Despite shouldering
such a massive responsibility, there has been a lack of meaningful
innovation in the election vendor industry and our democracy is
paying the price,” the letter adds. Their primary concern is that
the three companies have more than 90 percent of the U.S. election
equipment market share but their
voting machines lack paper ballots or auditability, making it
impossible to know if a vote was accurately counted in the event of a
bug. Yet, these
are the same devices tens of millions of voters will use in the
upcoming 2020 presidential election…”
A not-uncommon result of phishing. How long could
your company live with no email?
Colin
Wood reports:
Oregon state government employees on Tuesday regained the ability to email people with certain email suffixes after a state employee fell victim to a phishing attack that briefly resulted in the state being blacklisted by email services offered by Microsoft.
According to an internal memo sent to agency directors by state Chief Information Officer Terrence Woods last week, state employees had lost the ability to send emails to Microsoft-operated email addresses, including those ending in outlook.com, msn.com, hotmail.com and live.com.
Read
more on StateScoop
As a Security Manager, I’d be more concerned
with why NO ONE NOTICED!
Kevin Collier reports:
A former National Security Agency contractor accused of the largest security breach in US intelligence history is expected to plead guilty on Thursday, his lawyer told CNN.
Harold “Hal” Martin, 54, had worked for 23 years as a contractor for companies that contracted with various intelligence agencies and maintained a government clearance throughout his career.
Prosecutors described him as a hoarder who took home a whopping 50 terabytes of files, including a number of classified ones he stored on drives in his home and car.
Read more on CNN.
Not the full-up embassy wealthier countries would
have. I wonder if they were fully briefed on anything? Probably
not.
AP reports:
Spain has issued at least two international arrest warrants for members of a self-proclaimed human rights group who allegedly led a mysterious raid at the North Korean Embassy in Madrid last month and offered the FBI stolen data from the break-in.
Read more on The Japan News.
Before you get to the gerrymandering,
you need a population shift.
Exclusive -
Fearful of fake news blitz, U.S. Census enlists help of tech giants
The U.S. Census Bureau has asked tech giants
Google, Facebook and Twitter to help it fend off “fake news”
campaigns it fears could disrupt the upcoming 2020 count, according
to Census officials and multiple sources briefed on the matter.
… The census, they said, is a powerful target
because it shapes U.S. election districts and the allocation of more
than $800 billion a year in federal spending.
Towards an APP that will know everything about
everyone with a face.
The
Business of Your Face
While you weren't
looking, tech companies helped themselves to your photos to power a
facial recognition boom. Here's how.
Oh Ethics, where have you been?
Ethical
question takes center stage at Silicon Valley summit on artificial
intelligence
Technology executives were put on the spot at an
artificial intelligence summit this week, each faced with a simple
question growing out of increased public scrutiny of Silicon Valley:
‘When have you put ethics before your business interests?’
A Microsoft Corp executive pointed to how the
company considered whether it ought to sell nascent facial
recognition technology to certain customers, while a Google executive
spoke about the company’s decision not to market a face ID service
at all.
… Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice
president for global affairs, said the internet giant debated whether
to publish research on automated lip-reading. While beneficial to
people with disabilities, it risked helping authoritarian governments
surveil people, he said.
Ultimately, the company found the research was
“more suited for person to person lip-reading than surveillance so
on that basis decided to publish” the research, Walker said. The
study was published last July.
Perspective. I told you AI had potential.
Artificial Intelligence is better than Pretend Intelligence?
A quarter
of Europeans want AI to replace politicians. That’s a terrible
idea.
One
in four Europeans want artificial
intelligence —
not politicians — to be making important decisions about how their
country is run. In the UK and Germany, the proportion is even
higher: one in three. In the Netherlands, fully 43 percent want AI
to decide policy.
These
striking findings come from a
new survey
conducted by the Center for the Governance of Change at IE University
in Spain, which polled people in eight European countries. The
questions explored how citizens feel about the way technology is
transforming the world, from the workplace (40 percent think their
company will disappear in a decade if it doesn’t make big changes)
to the public square (68 percent fear that people will socialize more
digitally than in person).
Interesting. Yesterday it was announced that Mr
Pichai would meet with
General
Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should
this be considered a promotion or an escalation?
Sundar
Pichai met with President Trump about Google’s ‘commitment to
working with the US government’
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