Bad choice, if they even considered security before they designed it this way...
Android Password Data Stored In Plain Text
"The Hacker News is reporting that Android password data is being stored as plain text in its SQlite database. Hackers News says that 'The password for email accounts is stored into the SQLite DB which in turn stores it on the phone's file system in plain text. Encrypting or at least transforming the password would be desirable.' I'm sure most would agree encrypted password data in at least SHA or MD5 would be kind of a good idea!"
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http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=23821
New privacy guidelines would give FBI leeway to abuse privacy
Frank Askin, who is a professor of law and director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers Law School-Newark, writes:
Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed and President Gerald Ford signed the Federal Privacy Act. In an effort to end the abuses committed by the FBI against anti-war and civil rights activists that director J. Edgar Hoover disliked, Section (e)(7) of that Act prohibited any agency of the federal government from “maintaining records describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment . . . unless pursuant to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity.”
The FBI and the federal courts have spent the last 25 years honoring that statute in the breach; and Congress seems perfectly satisfied to let them do so. And as reported in the New York Times on June 13, the FBI is again about to amend its Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide to further thumb its nose at the privacy act.
Read more on NJ.com
(Related) Even citizens want to surveil... “We should do this...” But does anyone want to me the Online Emily Post?
Clive Thompson on Establishing Rules in the Videocam Age
… Sousveillance is the monitoring of events not by those above (surveiller in French) but by citizens, from below (sous-). The neologism was coined by Steve Mann, a pioneer in wearable computing at the University of Toronto. In the ’90s, Mann rigged a head-mounted camera to broadcast images online and found that it was great for documenting everyday malfeasance, like electrical-code violations. He also discovered that it made security guards uneasy. They’d ask him to remove the camera—and when he wouldn’t, they’d escort him away or even tackle him.
“I realized, this is the inverse of surveillance,” he said.
… Right now, sousveillance requires an act of will; you have to pull out your phone when you see something fishy. But always-on videocams are spreading. Many new cars, for example, have cameras for backing up, and forward-looking ones are gaining popularity. And wearable video devices like the Looxcie are already hitting the market: Pop one over your ear like a Bluetooth headset and it’ll capture a rolling five-hour buffer of everything you see and do, publishable to Facebook with a single click.
… As citizens turn their videocams on the authorities, we need some new rules of engagement.
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http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/027847.html
July 24, 2011
Looks Too Good To Be True.com webstie
"While the Internet can be a safe and convenient place to do business, scammers are out there in "cyber world" targeting unsuspecting consumers. The Looks Too Good To Be True.com website was built to educate you, the consumer, and help prevent you from becoming a victim of an Internet fraud scheme. The website was developed and is maintained by a joint federal law enforcement and industry task force. Funding for the site has been provided by the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Key partners include the National White Collar Crime Center, Monster.com, Target and members of the Merchants Risk Council."
Beware of ePolitics. There is no reason why an eParty couldn't run an eCandidate and when eLected we find he/she is a virus...
Internet-Based Political Party Opens Doors
"New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Thomas L. Friedman writes (edited for brevity): 'If [...] idiocy by elected officials [...] leaves you wishing that we had more options today [...] not only are you not alone, but help may be on the way. Thanks to a quiet political start-up that is now ready to show its hand, a viable, centrist, third presidential ticket,elected by an Internet convention, is going to emerge in 2012.' Currently it looks like more liberal-inclined individuals are registering, but it would make for a healthier system if more viewpoints were represented."
Oh great. Now all my students will want me to design learning games...
Can AI Games Create Super-Intelligent Humans?
"A technology CEO sees game artificial intelligence as the key to a revolution in education, predicting a synergy where games create smarter humans who then create smarter games. Citing lessons drawn from Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, Alex Peake, founder of Primer Labs, sees the possibility of a self-fueling feedback loop which creates 'a Moore's law for artificial intelligence,' with accelerating returns ultimately generating the best possible education outcomes. ' What the computer taught me was that there was real muggle magic ...' writes Peake, adding 'Once we begin relying on AI mentors for our children and we get those mentors increasing in sophistication at an exponential rate, we're dipping our toe into symbiosis between humans and the AI that shape them.'"
For my Intro to IT students...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20082175-94/a-beginners-guide-to-more-telecom-jargon/
A beginner's guide to more telecom jargon
Another tool to torture my students!
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/spiderscribe-free-form-mind-mapping/
Spiderscribe: Free-Form Mind Mapping & Brainstorming Tool
A lot of online mind mapping tools today are usually limited by their very structured form. While they are very useful for basic brainstorming sessions, their capabilities are quite limited. SpiderScribe offers a unique online mind mapping and brainstorming tool that provides more flexibility with the structure and the kind of items that you can put on it. With SpiderScribe, you may create free-style, multi-directional maps, as well as combine various elements such as text, images, files, calendar events, and geographic locations in your mind map.
Similar Tools: Diagramly, Sneffel, and Think.
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