Merry Christmas, ho ho ho! (Old is
relative)
Security
Loophole In Facebook’s Camera App Allowed Hackers To Hijack
Accounts Over WiFi [Confirmed]
PSA to all Facebook Camera users on
iOS: If you haven’t update you app in the past few days, update
it now. The older version of the app, pre-1.1.2 and
released before December 21, has a security loophole. When
used over WiFi networks, malicious hackers can tap the network and
hijack Camera users’ accounts, picking up information like email
addresses and passwords in the process.
… As he puts it, “The problem is
the app accepts any SSL certification from any source, even evil SSL
certifications and this enables any attacker to perform Man in The
Middle Attack against anyone uses Facebook Camera App for IPhone.
This means that the application doesn’t warn the user if someone in
the same [WiFi network] trying to hijack his Facebook account.”
One of the drivers for the BYOD
movement has been the ability to do things on a personal device that
have not yet been added to the organization's toolkit. It has always
been so. The first “personal” computers in corporations were
Apple IIs running VisiCalc spreadsheets in accounting departments.
By Dissent,
December 24, 2012 10:41 am
John Cox reports:
A new study finds
that more than two-thirds of nurses are using their personal
smartphones for clinical communications. Yet 95% of nurses in the
sample say hospital IT departments don’t support
that use for fear of security risks.
The report,
“Healthcare without Bounds: Point of Care Computing for Nursing
2012,” by Spyglass Consulting Group, points to the collision of
healthcare information demands on nurses, and the limits of mobile
and wireless technology, at the point of care — typically the
patient’s bedside. Nurses in the survey decry the
lack of IT support; and IT staff are frustrated by the unsanctioned
and often explicitly banned use of personal devices for clinical
communications.
Read more on Network
World.
This is really cause for concern on so
many levels. If available and IT-sanctioned technology is not meeting
the needs of nurses, their needs must be addressed. But a cowboy
approach of ignoring policies on tech and security is not a solution.
Using smartphones puts patient data at risk, particularly as
we’ve seen so many apps that are not truly secure nor
privacy-protective.
The issue that “meaningful use”
requirements are adding a burden to nursing care that does not
translate into more efficient or better quality nursing also needs to
be addressed, but it’s related if the nurses are under pressure to
enter more data yet don’t have technology that facilitates
productivity and compliance.
[For your e-Stocking:
… The
original VisiCalc program
is
available for download in a zip file. Download the zip file by
clicking
here
(Related) Once prices reach a “certain
point” (unique to each user) it makes sense to buy a device for
each purpose. For instance, I will buy a tablet for teaching,
including Apps and resources that I use in class and keep my laptop
for managing my finances and the desktop for writing my Blog.
"In August 2011, Acer Chairman
JT Wang declared that the consumer affection for tablets had already
begun to cool, basically
labeling it a fad. What a difference a year (and a half) makes.
Acer now plans to introduce a 'category
killer' $99 tablet. 'In the past few months, we've made project
roadmap changes in response to big changes in the tablet market,'
according
to a source at the Wall Street Journal. 'The launch of the Nexus
10 has changed the outlook for what makes competitive pricing.' Acer
is aiming the new tablet at emerging markets, competing with Chinese
'white box' tablets (already
available in Shenzhen at $45 each)."
Law in the Age of the Internet OR
“Stupid is, as hundreds of millions of users say it is”
Instagram
Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Related To Last Week’s Change Of
Service Terms
Instagram just got a lump of coal in
its stocking: a class
action lawsuit, which was filed in response to its change
of service terms last week. Reuters reports that a California
Instagram user has leveled breach of contract and other claims
against Instagram owner Facebook. In response, Facebook told Reuters
“we believe this complaint is without merit and we will fight it
vigorously.”
… Although Instagram almost
immediately changed some of the terms of service, it still kept
language indicating “that we may not always identify paid services,
sponsored content, or commercial communications as such.”
Instagram also kept wording that gives it the ability to place ads
related to user content, as well as a new a new mandatory arbitration
clause that means users waive their rights to participate in class
action lawsuits under almost all circumstances (the lawsuit comes
before the new TOS goes in effect on January 19).
The lawsuit filed by San Diego-based
law firm Finkelstein & Krinsk alleges that even if users delete
their Instagram account, they forfeit rights to photos they have
already uploaded.
“In short, Instagram declares that
‘possession is nine-tenths of the law and if you don’t like it,
you can’t stop us,’” the lawsuit says.
Introducing “To whom it may concern”
tickets! OR “Want your car back buddy? We'll remove the Denver
Boot when you pay the ticket.” OR One of the Commenters asks,
“Can the car hire its own lawyer?”
"New Scientist
asks a Bryant Walker Smith, from the Center for Internet and Society
at Stanford Law School, whether the law is able to keep up with
recent advances in automated vehicles. Even states which have
allowed self-driving cars require the vehicles to have a 'driver,'
who is nominally in control and who must comply with the same
restrictions as any driver such as not being drunk. What's the point
of having a robot car if it
can't drive you home from the pub while you go to sleep in the back?"
From a guy interested in the
authenticity of electronic information. (I was able to find this in
a library in Wyoming)
"When the IBM PC first came out
31 years ago, it supported a maximum of 256KB RAM. You can buy an
equivalent computer today with substantially more CPU power at a
fraction of the price. But in those 31 years, the information
security functionality in which the PC operates has not progressed
accordingly. In Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic
Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents,
author Jean-François Blanchette observes that the move to a
paperless society means that paper-based evidence needs to be
recreated in the digital world. It also requires an underlying
security functionality to flow seamlessly across organizations,
government agencies and the like. While the computing power is
there, the ability to create a seamless cryptographic culture is much
slower in coming."
… The book details the many
challenges that businesses and governments face in moving from a
paper-based record society and the underlying trust mechanisms that
go along with it, to a new digital-based record system, and how a new
framework is needed for such a method. The book details part of that
new framework.
The book opens with an observation on
the authenticity of President Obama's birth certificate. While
Blanchette is not a birther, he does note that if the moral authority
of paper records has diminished, then the electronic documents
replacing them, which are what the Obama administration provided,
appear to be even more malleable. And that is precisely the issue
that he addresses.
Might be fun for my students...
… All work on Tinder happens in the
cloud, so you can get access to your coworkers in real-time. One of
the main hooks for Tinder is how flexible the structure is. It gives
you the ability to tweak it for the needs of your organization. If
the needs of your company change, you can change the structure on the
fly.
Users can use this service to
communicate with co-workers and share files. It saves document
revisions, so if you need to go back in time to a previous version of
a file because one of your people made a mistake, Tinder has you
covered. The layout is very friendly to anyone who has used a social
network, so it should be easy for your team to adopt the program.
Best of all, it’s free for up to five people.
I have been looking for at least ONE
Well worth a peek...
People in general, hold onto beliefs
that are shaped by early experiences, the media, and faulty
influences. The following list is a compilation of research that may
surprise you. Video games, e-books, playtime, and music are all a
part of an educator’s repertoire.
I plan on trying more Apps next year...
Started as an iPad only list, but most run on multiple platforms.
A geeky stocking stuffer – FREE from
Microsoft!
… Even on Windows
8, where it’s much-improved, the task manager can’t come
close to the power of Process
Explorer. It’s part of the Sysinternals set of tools that
Microsoft purchased – and for good reason. They’re among the
most powerful system utilities for Windows.
In addition to its power, Process
Explorer is also flexible. It’s available from Microsoft as a
single .exe file. That makes it a portable app you
can throw on a USB
drive and run on any computer.
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