Cry hacker and let slip the robot dogs of war!
The Next Cyberattack Is Already Under Way
Amid a global gold rush for digital weapons, the infrastructure of our daily lives has never been more vulnerable.
… “someone should do something,” reads the T-shirt worn by one of Nicole Perlroth’s sources, a hacker from New Zealand, in “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race” (Bloomsbury). Someone should. But who? And do what? And about which of the Biblical plagues facing humankind? Perlroth is a longtime cybersecurity reporter for the Times, and her book makes a kind of Hollywood entrance, arriving when the end of the world is nigh, at least in the nightmare that, every night, gains on the day.
A brief overview. Worry if your organization uses ‘none of the above.’
3 top enterprise file encryption programs compared
Any of these encryption apps can safeguard a file’s contents, but differ in terms of supported platforms, remote capabilities, and features.
The law is what WE say it is.
India warns Twitter over lifting block on accounts and noncompliance of order
India has issued a notice to Twitter, warning the American social firm to comply with New Delhi’s order to block accounts and content related to a protest by farmers and not “assume the role of a court and justify non-compliance.” Failure to comply with the order may prompt penal action against Twitter, the notice warns.
The warning comes days after Twitter blocked dozens of high-profile accounts in India in compliance with New Delhi’s request, but later lifted the restriction.
Twitter “cannot assume the role of a court and justify non-compliance.
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After Fueling A Genocide, Facebook Is Taking A Stand Against A Myanmar Coup
After failing to stem the hate speech and misinformation that fueled a genocide in Myanmar, Facebook now says it plans to take proactive content moderation steps following a military coup taking place in the country.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not tattooing a Copyright notice on my forehead. Not even a ‘®‘
As U.S. Capitol investigators use facial recognition, it begs the question: Who owns our faces?
Via LLRX – As U.S. Capitol investigators use facial recognition, it begs the question: Who owns our faces? – In the age of Big Tech, we need to grapple with what expectations we can and should have about who has access to our faces. The recent riot at the U.S. Capitol has put the question into the spotlight as facial recognition becomes a vital tool in identifying rioters: What is the power of facial recognition technology, and are we ready for it? Professor Wendy H. Wong discusses what are the costs and consequences of losing our faces to data, including the right to privacy and our ability to live our lives free of surveillance.
(Related) Like church and state, we shouldn’t mix health and security.
https://www.pogowasright.org/cdc-orders-air-travelers-to-unmask-for-government-surveillance/
CDC orders air travelers to unmask for government surveillance
Edward Hasbrouck writes:
Putting government surveillance and control of travelers ahead of what is supposed to be their mission of protecting of the public against infectious diseases, the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ordered that, effective today, all air travelers must risk their lives by removing their face masks on demand of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint staff or airline ticketing or gate agents.
Until today, as we have noted previously, many state and local health orders issued in response to the COVID-19 pandemic required everyone in public indoor spaces such as airports to wear face masks, without any exception that would have applied at TSA checkpoints. Although we are not aware of any litigation that ensued, air travelers could have asserted their right — and even their duty — not to remove their face masks, under pain of criminal penalties for violating public health orders.
The CDC order effective today appears to be designed to preempt those state and local health orders, and open the door for the TSA, TSA contractors, and airline staff to endanger the lives of air travelers in the interest of surveillance and control (by the TSA) and “revenue protection” against transfers of nontransferable tickets (by airlines):
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Perspective. Do businesses suffer the same problems?
https://news.usni.org/2021/02/02/berger-marines-need-to-trust-unmanned-ai-tools-for-future-warfare
Berger: Marines Need to Trust Unmanned, AI Tools for Future Warfare
The commandant of the Marine Corps said the service needs to make some big changes in a few short years to stay ahead of China’s growing military capability, but one of the biggest hurdles he sees is a lack of trust in the new unmanned and artificial intelligence systems he wants to invest in.
Gen. David Berger envisions a Marine Corps that leverages AI to shorten the sensor-to-shooter cycle and quickly take out adversaries that could threaten Marine forces. He envisions a self-updating logistics system that knows where the adversary is and can find new ways to route supplies to Marines. He envisions unmanned vehicles moving supplies and even perhaps taking on medevac missions. But all this relies on Marines trusting the unmanned and AI tools he buys them, and Berger said that trust isn’t there just yet.
… “We have programs right now, capabilities right now that allow for fully automatic processing of sensor-to-shooter targeting, but we don’t trust the data. And we still ensure that there’s human intervention at every [step in the process]. And, of course, with each intervention by humans we’re adding more time, more opportunities for mistakes to happen, time we’re not going to have when an adversary’s targeting our network,” he continued.
“We have the ability for a quicker targeting cycle, but we don’t trust the process.”
(Related) How non-Marines do it.
https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/02/case-studies-of-successful-ai-startups/
Case studies of successful AI startups
Last week, technology analysis firm CB Insights published an update on the status of its list of top 100 AI startups of 2020 (in case you don’t know, CB Insight publishes a list of 100 most promising AI startups every year).
… A closer look at these startups provides some good hints at what it takes to create a successful business that makes use of AI. And (un)surprisingly, artificial intelligence is a small part — albeit an important one — of a successful product management strategy. Here are some of the key takeaways from AI startups that have managed to reach a stable status.
I’ve been celebrating birthdays at home, but this works too.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-02-03
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