Local The file in question is named
something.Ramona,
which makes it difficult to deny ownership. I name my files
“Correspondence with my Attorney.”
Colorado
woman must turn over computer hard drive
On Tuesday, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals refused to get involved, saying Ramona Fricosu's
criminal case must first be resolved in District Court before her
attorney can appeal.
… Federal prosecutors argue that
not allowing the government access to encrypted computers would make
it impossible to prosecute crimes such as terrorism, child
exploitation and drug trafficking.
… The San Francisco-based
Electronic Freedom Foundation has opposed the government's actions in
the case because it believes easy-to-use encryption software should
be used by everybody to prevent computer crimes and fraud, said Hanni
Meena Fakhoury, an attorney for the foundation. The case could
render those privacy protections useless, he said.
… In Fricosu's case, "the
government has no idea what's on that computer," DuBois said.
That element makes it different from other cases, he said.
… "It is possible that Ms.
Fricosu has no ability to decrypt the computer, because she probably
did not set up the encryption on that computer and may not know or
remember the password or passphrase," DuBois said in a statement
Tuesday.
No doubt this will come as a great
relief to politicians everywhere...
Company
says YouPorn chat service has been taken offline after user data was
compromised
February 22, 2012 by admin
Raphael Satter of Associated Press
reports:
Users of a chat
service linked to the heavily-trafficked YouPorn website have had
their personal information compromised after a
third-party service provider failed to secure its data,
YouPorn’s owners said Wednesday.
Luxembourg-based
Manwin Holding SARL
said the chat site had been disabled and would remain offline until
an investigation was carried out. Manwin spokeswoman Kate Miller
stressed that the site was run by an outside company on separate
servers and that there was no breach at YouPorn itself.
Read more on Washington
Post. And yes, this is the same firm that owns Brazzers,
which was hacked
earlier this month.
[From the article:
Manwin runs some of the world’s
most-visited pornography websites, and its YouPorn offering is one
of the 100 most-popular sites on the planet, according to
Web information company Alexa.
What were they thinking? (Why weren't
they thinking?)
By Dissent,
February 23, 2012
From the what-were-they-thinking dept.:
The VU
university’s teaching hospital has been accused of breaking patient
confidentiality by allowing a television production company to record
patients being treated at its accident and emergency department.
Medical law
professor Johan Legemaate and medical ethics expert Erwin Kompanje
told television show Nieuwsuur on Wednesday night the hospital had
broken the rules by allowing Eyeworks to install 35
remote-controlled cameras to record activity in the department over a
two-week period.
In total 1,500
people visited the A&E department while filming was taking place,
and some 150 gave permission for Eyeworks to film them.
Read more on DutchNews.nl
Retroactive immunity. Think about it.
How is that different from a Presidential Pardon?
DOJ
Urges Supreme Court to Halt Challenge to Warrantless Eavesdropping
The Obama administration is urging the
Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the
constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program
targeting Americans’ communications that Congress eventually
legalized in 2008.
The FISA
Amendments Act (.pdf), the subject of the lawsuit brought by the
American Civil Liberties Union and others, allows the government to
electronically eavesdrop on Americans’ phone calls and e-mails
without a probable-cause warrant so long as one of the parties to the
communication is outside the United States. The communications may
be intercepted “to acquire foreign intelligence information.”
Why jam? Because it's a fun
electronics project? It could keep an on-board anti-theft system
from reporting the location of the Bentley you just stole. But if
they can triangulate the jamming signal, it's becomes almost like
confessing to being a terrorist. (Perhaps a “home on jamming
signal” Maverick missile launched from a police “surveillance”
drone?)
"A secret network of 20
roadside listening stations across the UK has confirmed that
criminals
are attempting to jam GPS signals on a regular basis. From the
article: 'Government-funded trials involving the police have revealed
more than a hundred incidents of GPS jammer use in the UK. The
Sentinel project, which has been running since January 2011, was
designed to measure GPS jamming on UK roads. The project, run by
GPS-tracking company Chronos Technology, picked up the illegal
jamming incidents via four GPS sensors in trials lasting from two to
six months per location.'"
[From the article:
"The idea behind Sentinel is to
detect and locate interference," Chronos Technology's divisional
manager Andy Proctor told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. "Until you
physically get a jammer in your hands you can't claim 100 percent
it's a jammer, because you don't know what's been causing the
interference."
(Related) Sounds like there is so much
uncontrolled radiation in the UK the citizens will start to glow...
"As the UK nears the end of a
lengthy digital TV switch-over, the sale of the analogue TV spectrum
for 4G mobile
phones will disrupt digital TV in almost a million homes.
Affected homes will be issued with a filter or required to upgrade to
satellite or cable, and in extreme cases may be granted funding to
find their own solution."
It's snowing like an Al Gore nightmare
today – maybe I'll stave off boredom by creating an eBook.
And the number of platforms for
creating and publishing books digitally keeps on growing and growing.
We have already covered PressBooks
and Pandamian
on KillerStartups (see here
and here),
and now a site like Hyperink comes along to help those who for any
reason or the other found Pandamian and PressBooks too difficult or
complex to use.
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