How
could they not do this? If you have the ability to disrupt an
enemy's ability to wage war you are morally required to use that
ability. (Kill treasure not people)
‘Degrade,
Disrupt, Deceive’: U.S. Talks Openly About Hacking Foes
There was a time, not all that long
ago, when the U.S. military wouldn’t even whisper about its plans
to hack into opponents’ networks. Now America’s armed forces
can’t stop talking about it.
The latest example comes from the U.S.
Air Force, which last week announced its interest in methods “to
destroy, deny, degrade, disrupt, deceive, corrupt, or usurp the
adversaries [sic] ability to use the cyberspace domain for his
advantage.” But that’s only one item in a long list of
“Cyberspace Warfare Operations Capabilities” that the Air Force
would like to possess. The service, in its request for proposals,
also asked for the “ability to control cyberspace effects at
specified times and places,” as well as the “denial of service on
cyberspace resources, current/future operating systems, and network
devices.”
My
God! Someone is reading my Blog! (Or maybe they are fans of
Treasure of the Sierra Madre too)
We
Don’t Need No Stinking Warrant: The Disturbing, Unchecked
Rise of the Administrative Subpoena
… Meet the administrative
subpoena (.pdf): With a federal official’s signature, banks,
hospitals, bookstores, telecommunications companies and even
utilities and internet service providers — virtually all businesses
— are required to hand over sensitive data on individuals or
corporations, as long as a government agent declares the information
is relevant to an investigation. Via a wide range of laws, Congress
has authorized the government to bypass the Fourth Amendment — the
constitutional guard against unreasonable searches and seizures that
requires a probable-cause warrant signed by a judge.
In fact, there are roughly 335
federal statutes on the books (.pdf) passed by Congress giving
dozens upon dozens of federal agencies the power of the
administrative subpoena, according to interviews and government
reports. (.pdf)
Surveil yourself! If the average
citizen can do this, what can a government do?
Wireless
Sensor Tags Help You Keep Track of Your Stuff
Stuff goes missing. Maybe you misplaced
something, or maybe one of the uninvited guests at your last shindig
is “borrowing” it. Regardless, now you need it, and you can’t
find it. But what if you could tag your possessions and keep tabs on
them, like a researcher tracking so many wildebeests in the
Serengeti?
You can, to a degree. CAO Gadget’s
descriptively named Wireless Sensor Tags monitor
movement, angle and temperature and send alerts to your iOS or
Android device when things go awry — something moving that
shouldn’t be (indicating theft or maybe an impending mauling by a
puppy); the inside of an ice chest getting too warm, or the door to
your liquor cabinet opening when only the kids are at home.
You set the parameters of what sort of
notifications you want and how sensitive you want the system to be
via app or web client. And while the two-inch-square circuit boards
wrapped in an elastic theromplastic elastomer aren’t pretty, the
system works.
The $15 tags ($12 if you purchase three
or more at once) contain a 3-D digital magnetic sensor that tracks
angle and motion, plus a temperature sensors. The tags include red a
LED and an alarm that can be remotely triggered — perfect for
finding misplaced stuff.
Somehow, this doesn't ring true...
"UK police are sad that despite
having the most comprehensive driver surveillance system of any
developed country, there are still gaps in their coverage. From the
article: 'The cameras automatically record plate/time/location
information and send it to a central data store, which has complete
nationwide records for 6 years.' Also
interesting is that an unspecified
'particular driving style' can be used to evade detection by the
cameras. It appears, however, that criminals
are well aware of the cameras and take other routes. Big Brother
technology, coming soon to a country near you!"
Do
they really need Twitter evidence to prove “conspiracy to occupy?”
Twitter
Appeals Ruling in Battle Over Occupy Wall Street Protester’s
Information
August 27, 2012 by Dissent
Aden Fine of the ACLU writes:
Twitter just filed
its brief appealing a June
decision by a New York criminal court judge requiring the company
to give the Manhattan District Attorney detailed information on the
communications of Twitter user Malcolm Harris, an Occupy Wall Street
protester charged with disorderly conduct in connection with a march
on the Brooklyn Bridge.
As we did before,
the ACLU will file a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Twitter.
You can find Twitter’s brief from today here;
the ACLU’s brief will be available here
later today. Last week, Harris
filed his own appeal as well.
Read more from the ACLU
and a big thumbs up to both Twitter and the ACLU for their forceful
advocacy to get the courts to recognize that we have standing to
challenge subpoenas to providers about our communications.
Of course, if Congress got off its
dysfunctional ass and updated ECPA as it should have done and needs
to do, some of this might not be necessary. [In
an election year, Congress is all talk and no potentially
controversial actions Bob]
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts
of Apps? Clueful does!
After
Removal By Apple, Privacy App Clueful Returns Via The Web
… Today, Clueful
has relaunched … but not on iOS. Instead, it’s now a website
where users can search for different apps and get basic facts like
which ones are accessing your location, tracking your in-app usage,
and reading your address book.
Add a
Class Action suit to the governments concern about the facial
recognition database and Facebook may need to hire more lawyers.
German
consumer protection group threatens lawsuit if Facebook doesn’t
stop sharing users’ info with apps without express consent
August 27, 2012 by Dissent
Associated Press reports:
A consumer
protection group [in] Germany has sent Facebook a ‘cease and
desist’ letter that claims the social-networking website breaches
German privacy law.
The Federation of
German Consumer Organizations says Facebook has one week to stop
automatically giving third party applications information about its
users without their explicit consent.
The group said in
a statement Monday that if Facebook fails to comply by Sept. 4 it
will sue the California company.
Read more on The
News Tribune
Getting sued by a consumer protection
group isn’t great, but it doesn’t sound as serious as if the
government itself goes after them.
Or is that next?
Will
amazon be seen as targeting Walmart or the remaining mom & pop
stores? How the spin is controlled might make this interesting...
With
Prime Service, Amazon Is Set to Crush Offline Retail
“Free” two-day shipping. Streaming
video. An e-book lending library. All for $79 per year. Spelled
out like that, Amazon Prime sounds like a weird ad hoc chimera of a
product. Why those three things? And why that price?
Though the value proposition may come
across as clunky, plenty of people are apparently sold. Amazon said
Monday that it now ships more items via Prime’s two-day shipping
than its free “Super Saver Shipping,” which gets you slower
shipping but for no charge when you order at least $25 of stuff.
My
Website class uses Notepad++ sometimes...
For my students, even though my
mustache is older than most of them...
For the Ethical Hacker toolkit
Free
is good, useful is better, good and useful is best. Tools for
geeks.
Do you own a website or a blog? If so,
do you have any idea how many visitors you get each day? And even if
you’ve installed a counter and you’ve figured out how to gauge
your traffic, do you have any idea where your visitors are coming
from, what browsers most of them use, what search engines they use,
or which of your pages is the most popular?
These are the things that Google
Analytics can do for you.
… Google Analytics is not at all
that complicated once you start digging into how it is organized, and
where to find the information you’re looking for.
No comments:
Post a Comment