“Well, everyone else is doing it!”
Apple
Has Quietly Started Tracking iPhone Users Again, And It’s Tricky To
Opt Out (update1)
October 11, 2012 by Dissent
Jim Edwards reports:
Apple’s launch
of the iPhone
5 in September came with a bunch of new commercials to promote
the device.
But Apple didn’t
shout quite so loud about an enhancement to its new mobile operating
system, iOS 6, which also occurred in September: The company has
started tracking users so that advertisers can target them again,
through a
new tracking technology called IFA or IDFA.
Read more on Business
Insider.
Update: Tinfoil
2.0 comments that the preceding article is full of errors.
“It was only twenty eight times!”
Gazette
sues city for records of employee discipline for Internet abuse
October 11, 2012 by Dissent
Do city employees have
any expectation of privacy if using work computers to surf porn
sites? And can the city shield the names of those
employees from freedom of information requests? Those questions are
being addressed in a Billings, Montana court. Ed Kemmick reports:
The Billings
Gazette filed a lawsuit against the city of Billings on Thursday,
asking for the release of public records dealing with city workers
who were disciplined for viewing inappropriate websites on the job.
[If they are “inappropriate” shouldn't the city
block them? Bob]
[...]
In a letter dated
Sept. 10, City Attorney Brent Brooks said the city would supply the
information regarding the Internet searches. It has not yet provided
that data.
As for the other
two requests, Brooks said, “We cannot fulfill these requests
because to do so would violate individual City employee’s right to
privacy.”
Read more on Billings
Gazette.
The sad part is, if the photos had been
taken by Playboy the Copyright Cops would be much more aggressive
than the Privacy Police... (Does plugging your phone into a company
outlet make the contents of the phone subject to “inspection?”)
Boss
Allegedly Downloaded Nude Photos From Employee’s Cell Phone, Showed
Them Around The Office
October 11, 2012 by Dissent
Kashmir Hill writes:
This case could be
filed under “Horrible Bosses” or “Stupid Employees.”
Jonathan Bruns of Texas had a temp job working for Houston-based
Deepwater Corrosion Services, a company which, as you might guess
from the name and location, is involved in the offshore oil industry.
Via Courthouse
News Service:
Bruns claims a
staffing agency assigned him to work for Deepwater and his supervisor
Pete Offenhauser gave him permission to recharge his phone on an
office outlet.
That seems nice
enough, but then Offenhauser allegedly went snooping… and struck
oil:
“Unbeknownst to
Mr. Bruns, and after he had returned to his usual job duties and
responsibilities, Mr. Offenhauser accessed certain private material
on Mr. Bruns’ cell phone and displayed the same on his laptop
computer, specifically pictures of Mr. Bruns’ fiancée … without
any clothing,” the complaint states.
Read more on Forbes.
“Well look at that. Clearly the Ayes
have it!” Typical Politician
"Open source writer Glyn Moody
discusses the Draft Communications Bill (aka Snooper's Charter) in
the UK and how the Joint Parliamentary Committee that had been
considering the bill received
almost 19,000 emails during its consultation period. He notes:
'Out of 19,000 emails received by the Committee on the subject of the
proposed Draft Communications Bill, not a single one was in favor of
it, or even agreed with its premise. Has
there ever been a bill so universally rejected by the public in a
consultation? Clearly, it must be thrown out completely.'"
[Or added to the Official Secrets list Bob]
Absent a declaration of war by an
enemy, what would it take to convince politicians that the public was
behind them if they initiated cyberattacks? Would the average
citizen recognize a “cyber Pearl Harbor” if it didn't directly
impact them? (i.e. Facebook still works?)
Pre-emptive
cyberattack defense possible, Panetta warns
The U.S. military has the ability to
act pre-emptively when it detects an imminent cyberattack threat,
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today.
During his first major policy speech on
cybersecurity, Panetta echoed previous statements that the United
States was facing the possibility of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor"
perpetrated by foreign hackers, painting a grim portrait of the
destructive power wielded by unnamed agents.
"A cyber attack perpetrated by
nation states or violent extremist groups could be as destructive as
the terrorist attack of 9/11," he said in prepared
remarks during a speech at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
in New York. "Such a destructive cyber terrorist attack could
paralyze the nation."
(Related) When someone does attack
Facebook, should we nuke them? Grab them and send them to
Guantanimo? Send them an angry tweet?
If you’re trying to get on Facebook at the moment and the site
isn’t cooperating, you’re definitely not alone. The
Next Web is reporting that throughout the day, Facebook has gone
down in places like Austria, Norway, Germany, Greece, France, Italy,
and Sweden. Making things much more interesting is Twitter user
AnonymousOwn3r,
who is claiming to be the one bringing Facebook to its knees.
(Related) Then when the radiation
cools, we can appologize...
Facebook
runs tests, knocks service off across Europe
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