http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090426085231625
Social Software and National Security: An Initial ‘Net Assessment’
Sunday, April 26 2009 @ 08:52 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
From the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University. From the Executive Summary:
.... The proliferation of social software has ramifications for U.S. national security, spanning future operating challenges of a traditional, irregular, catastrophic, or disruptive nature. Failure to adopt these tools may reduce an organization’s relative capabilities over time. Globally, social software is being used effectively by businesses, individuals, activists, criminals, and terrorists. Governments that harness its potential power can interact better with citizens and anticipate emerging issues. Security, accountability, privacy, and other concerns often drive national security institutions to limit the use of open tools such as social software, whether on the open web or behind government information system firewalls. Information security concerns are very serious and must be addressed, but to the extent that our adversaries make effective use of such innovations, our restrictions may diminish our national security.
We have approached this research paper as an initial net assessment of how social software interacts with government and security in the broadest sense.1 The analysis looks at both sides of what once might have been called a “blue-red” balance to investigate how social software is being used (or could be used) by not only the United States and its allies, but also by adversaries and other counterparties....
Source - Full paper (pdf)
Kind'a what my students concluded...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090426133813589
The Sorry State Of Online Privacy
Sunday, April 26 2009 @ 01:38 PM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
The Cloud is looming large, offering us ways to store and share our data in ways that were never before possible. We can effortlessly share our documents and photos with our families and friends, while maintaining control over their spread using powerful granular privacy controls. But it's quickly becoming clear that the cloud isn't ready for us. Because the services we rely on are letting us down with a frequency that is simply unacceptable.
Source - TechCrunch, Washington Post
Pirate Bay has a good sense of the absurd.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-ips-assigned-to-prosecution-lawyers-090426/
Pirate Bay IP Addresses Assigned to Prosecution Lawyers
Written by Ernesto on April 26, 2009
The Pirate Bay recently got a new range of IPs and to everyone’s surprise they are now linked to several movie and music industry lawyers involved in the TPB trial. According to the Pirate Bay’s Wikipedia entry the change was due to a hostile takeover, but most people know better.
… So why is this info in there, some might wonder. One explanation might be that during the Pirate Bay trial the prosecution used (incorrect) data from the RIPE database claiming that this was the absolute truth. The Pirate Bay team probably put the lawyers’ info in there themselves to show that this is not the case. Indeed, there is no doubt that they will have a hard time selling this ‘truth’ to the public now, with their own names being featured in the recent entry.
… One of the other advantages of the new RIPE WHOIS is that the Pirate Bay team doesn’t have to deal with any of the takedown requests anymore, as it states that all abuse email should be directed to the earlier mentioned law firms.
Related Since this case has clear political implications, this becomes an act of “hack-tivism,” not simple vandalism.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-prosecution-law-firm-under-attack-090426/
Pirate Bay Prosecution Law Firm Under Attack
Written by Ernesto on April 26, 2009
During the Pirate Bay trial Monique Wadsted represented several major movie studios and called for a “very significant” prison sentence for the defendants. This didn’t go down particularly well with some Pirate Bay supporters and now, in a retaliatory move, a few of them have now taken down her law firm’s website.
Would there be a market for a free content provider? I think so, and if the cable monopolies don't provide it, we could go around them...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10227487-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Channeling TV shows to the Web
by Marguerite Reardon April 27, 2009 4:00 AM PDT
Cable operators and media companies are cautiously dabbling in on-demand online video, but this is one case where caution could be as dangerous as recklessness.
Recently, the nation's two largest cable operators have been talking about offering their cable lineup to subscribers online so they can view their favorite shows on their computers. And now, YouTube, the site Viacom sued for more than a $1 billion in 2007 and threatened to have shut down, is signing deals with big studios like Sony Pictures and Lionsgate, as well as TV network CBS. (CNET News is published by CBS Interactive, a unit of CBS.)
All this recent activity seems to suggest that cable companies and big media companies finally understand that the Web is their future. [Let's not leap to hasty conclusions... Bob]
Interesting, but I don't recommend the CAN-SPAM opt out...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/26/2131246&from=rss
World Privacy Forum's Top Ten Opt-Outs
Posted by kdawson on Sunday April 26, @10:50PM from the do-not-want dept.
Ant writes in to mention the World Privacy Forum's top ten information collector/user list, which shows opt-out instructions (or at least a starting point):
"As privacy experts, we are frequently asked about 'opting out,' and which opt outs we think are the most important. This list is a distillation of ideas for opting out that the World Privacy Forum has developed over the years from responding to those questions. ... Many people have told us that they think opting out is confusing. We agree. Opting out can range from the not-too-difficult (the FTC's Do Not Call list is a fairly simple opt out) to the challenging (the National Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt out can be tricky). Our hope is that this list will clarify which opt out does what, and how to go about opting out. In this list, some opt outs can be done by phone, some have to be sent in a letter via postal mail, and some can be accomplished online. Some opt outs last forever, some have time limits, and others can be changed at will. If an opt out is on this list, it is because we thought it might be important enough to be worth whatever annoyance it may pose. "
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