If it's evidence, shouldn't he already
have access? If not, what crime are we talking about? Another look
at “self-incrimination by password” (Lot's of comments suggest
this is being followed closely...)
"On Wednesday, Kim 'Dotcom'
Schmitz and his legal team visited the High Court in Auckland, New
Zealand, to demand
access to the data stored on his computers and hard drives that
were confiscated during the police raid, and also requested a
judicial review of the general legality of the search warrants police
used to raid his mansion. Dotcom's lawyer, Paul Davison, argued that
his client needs the data for a few reasons: To mount a 'proper
defense' case, to fight
possibly being extradited to the U.S., and also to show that
'excessive police action' was used during the raid. Dotcom could
prove this in court because the entire raid
was recorded by CCTV data, which is stored on Dotcom's confiscated
computers. Even though the FBI demanded Dotcom
turn over the passwords for Megaupload's encrypted data, he refuses
to give up any passwords until he can regain access to his seized
property."
Quick question: If they can't locate
the phone, how can they claim to be “following” someone using
GPS?
"The Oakland Tribune reports
that when Berkeley police Chief Michael Meehan's son's cell phone was
stolen from a school locker in January, ten
police officers were sent to track down the stolen iPhone, with
some working overtime at taxpayer expense. 'If your cell phone was
stolen or my cell phone was stolen, I don't think any officer would
be investigating it,' says Michael Sherman, vice chairman of the
Berkeley Police Review Commission, a city watchdog group. 'They have
more important things to do. We have crime in the streets.' But the
kicker is that even with all those cops swarming around, looking for
an iPhone equipped with the Find My iPhone tracking software, police
were not able to locate the phone. 'If 10 cops who know a
neighborhood can't find an iPhone that's broadcasting its location,
that shouldn't give you a lot of confidence in your own vigilante
recovery of a stolen iProduct,' writes Alexis Madrigal. 'Just
saying. Consider this a PSA: just buy a new phone.'"
Works for websites they have reviewed
and manually determined a grade for... It could automatically score
a privacy policy, but that is no indication of what they actually do
with your data.
The service tracks more than 1,400
websites, including popular websites like Google, Facebook and many
others. Each website gets a rating out of 100, the highest being the
most secure and the lowest being the website most likely to share
your information with their advertisers, marketing partners or any
third party company. The score given to websites is based on how
their policies protect your personal information, and how many
companies track users when they visit any website.
One of the modern joys of parenting?
MN:
Undisclosed Number of Century Middle School Students Suspended
May 23, 2012 by Dissent
Derrick Williams reports:
An unidentified
number of Century Middle School students have been suspended due to a
May 22 incident in which an inappropriate photo was digitally
disseminated around the school’s student community.
Lakeville Area
Public School officials have acknowledged the incident and also said
the Lakeville Police Department and Dakota County Attorneys Office
are investigating the matter.
Read more on Lakeville
Patch and then explain to me why the school
district couldn’t just handle this without police involvement.
(Related) Told ya! Any
self-respecting caveman wanted an iPhone...
The
Urge to Sext Naked Self-Portraits Is Primal
Over the past two years, more
photographs of bare-naked celebrity anatomy have been leaked to the
public eye than over the previous two centuries: Scarlett Johansson
snapping a blurry self-portrait while sprawled on her bed, Vanessa
Hudgens posing for a cellphone in a bracelet and a smile, Congressman
Wiener touting a Blackberry and a mirror in the House Members Gym,
Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera, Miley Cyrus, Ron Artest, Charlize
Theron, Chris Brown, Bret Favre, Rihanna, Pete Wentz, Ke$ha, and
dozens more.
This flood of celebrity skin has
prompted folks to wonder, ‘Why are so many famous people
exhibitionists?’ The source of all this au naturel
flaunting lies not in the culture of fame, but in the design of our
sexual brains. In fact, research has unveiled two distinct
explanations: Female exhibitionism appears to be primarily cortical,
while male exhibitionism is mainly subcortical.
“The desire of the man is for the
woman,” Madame
de Stael famously penned, “The desire of the woman is for the
desire of the man.” Being the center of sexual attention is a
fundamental female turn-on dramatized in women’s fantasies,
female-authored erotica, and in the cross-cultural gush of sultry
self-portraits.
What a shock! (EU-wide numbers are due
soon)
IE:
Invasion of privacy
May 24, 2012 by Dissent
Conor Ryan reports:
Gardaí, the
Defence Forces, and Revenue Commissioners are accessing record levels
of private landline, mobile phone, and internet records.
The
latest available figures show authorities accessed more than 40
private communications each day in 2010 — compared with
31 per day a year earlier.
Read more on Irish
Examiner. The report is replete with statistics from a
government report and will be of interest to privacy advocates.
This is but one of many “ills” that
would be cured if the municipality owned the “cable” and allowed
anyone to use it for a fee.
Digital
Rights Groups Defend Antenna-Based Internet TV Service
Public Knowledge and the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, in a friend-of-the-court brief, said the courts
should not shutter Aereo, as broadcasters are asking, simply because
there is no federal licensing scheme yet for internet streaming of
over-the-air broadcasts (one exists for cable companies).
Aereo’s New York customers basically
rent two tiny antennas, each about the size of a dime. Tens of
thousands of the antennas are housed in a Brooklyn data center. One
antenna — unique to a customer — is used when a customer wants to
watch a program in real time from a computer, tablet or mobile phone.
The other works with a DVR service to record programs for later
online viewing.
Aereo, which offers the service free
but plans to charge about $12 monthly, does not divulge the number of
its customers.
Do I care?
For my students. For example, I carry
a thumb drive with my favorite browser (configured the way I like it)
to every place I access the Internet.
Portable apps have a huge place in my
geeky heart simply because they
are
quite
numerous
(if you don’t believe me, check out the Best
Portable Apps here). They don’t modify the registry, and can
be used in different Windows machines (though there are portable
apps
for Linux as well).
“We don't need no stinking
classrooms!” What is still needed is a way to “certify” that
we have learned something.
… Education
and learning should be a lifelong process and the Internet is your
chance to get a university level education for free, regardless of
where you are in life. This article introduces you to the three best
websites to get started.
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