Thursday, December 13, 2012

Were they using Jedi Mind Skills to make this determination? Interesting that the video showing her being tasered also records someone else videoing the same event.
"A woman who said she was asked to leave New Hampshire's Pheasant Lane Mall because she wanted to buy too many iPhones was pinned down by Nashua police and zapped by a Taser (video) as she shrieked in front of crowds of shoppers Tuesday. The Chinese woman from Newton, Mass blamed a language barrier for the confrontation outside the Apple Store in the Pheasant Lane Mall Tuesday afternoon. Police say Li knew exactly what they were telling her and simply refused to comply. Police said Li had $16,000 in cash in her purse at the time of her arrest and may have been purchasing the phones for unauthorized export resale."
[From the first article:
Jay said her mother bought two iPhones last Friday, and was told that was the limit. When she took video of others she claimed were buying more, the store manager asked her to leave.
The confrontation involving the Taser happened when Li went to the store on Monday to pick up two iPhones she ordered online.
"The management of the store asked us to have her removed. The officer approached her, told her she wasn't welcome in the store, and she refused to leave," Nashua Police Capt. Bruce Hansen said.
Police say the store had issued a stay-away order against Li.


I was going to rant against apathy, but then I realized no one cares...
"The voting period for the proposed changes to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy has ended on Monday, and despite the email sent out to the users asking them to review the changes and cast their vote, less than one percent of all users have done so. 'An external auditor has reviewed and confirmed the final results. Of the 668,872 people who voted, 589,141 recommended we keep our existing SRR and Data Use Policy,"'stated Elliot Schrage , Facebook's vice president of communications, public policy, and marketing. Still, that is not nearly enough to prevent the proposed changes — as required by Facebook, at least 30 percent of the users should have voted against them in order to keep the previous versions of the policies. Schrage pointed out that that the whole experience illustrated the clear value of Facebook's notice and comment process."


Useful tool?
Forget ‘Do Not Track’ — Protect Your Privacy Today With ‘DoNotTrackMe’ Add-On
The World Wide Web Consortium is currently working to standardize a “Do Not Track” mechanism to stop advertisers from following your every move around the web. Unfortunately, while the DNT tools are already supported in most web browsers, hardly any advertisers actually honor it. In fact, some advertisers seriously proposed an exception be made to DNT to allow web tracking.
If you’re serious about online privacy you’re going to have to do more than hope that advertisers voluntarily stop tracking you, you’re going to have to actively block them.
There are several tools that make it easy to stop the tracking. One of the best, DoNotTrackPlus, was recently renamed DoNotTrackMe (DNTMe). The new name arrives alongside a major upgrade that blocks more trackers, adds some nice analytics and offers per-site tracking reports.
The DNTMe add-on is available for Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari. You can grab a copy for your browser from Abine’s download page.


“Well, no, he didn't actually click on the link, but he was hovering his mouse over it with intent to click.”
"A new Internet Explorer vulnerability has been discovered that allows an attacker to track your mouse cursor anywhere on the screen, even if the browser isn't being actively used. 'Whilst the Microsoft Security Research Center has acknowledged the vulnerability in Internet Explorer, they have also stated that there are no immediate plans to patch this vulnerability in existing versions of the browser. It is important for users of Internet Explorer to be made aware of this vulnerability and its implications. The vulnerability is already being exploited by at least two display ad analytics companies across billions of page impressions per month.' All supported versions of Microsoft's browser are reportedly affected: IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, and IE10."


I was hoping for guidance on how I might learn to lie “for the right reasons” but asside from the obvious (go to Law School) they never addressed this question.
Spoofing Upheld, If Done for the Right Reasons
December 12, 2012 by Dissent
Cameron Langford reports:
Mississippi cannot outlaw spoofing services that do not try to cause harm by misrepresenting a phone caller’s number to the recipient, the 5th Circuit ruled.
In 2010 Mississippi enacted the Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act (ASA) which makes it illegal for a person to enter false information into a phone caller ID system with the intent to deceive, defraud or mislead the recipient. The law also makes it illegal to knowingly place a call after false info has been entered into the phone caller ID system with intent to deceive, defraud or mislead the recipient.
Read more about the case and the Fifth Circuit’s ruling on Courthouse News.
[From the article:
A federal judge ultimately found that Mississippi's law violated the commerce clause because it regulated commerce outside the state.
… "There is an inherent federal objective in TCIA to protect non-harmful spoofing. ASA's proscription of nonharmful spoofing - spoofing done without 'intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value' - frustrates this federal objective and is, therefore, conflict-preempted."


It's no longer called evidence, now it's called, “Foreverdence”
December 12, 2012
Commentary - The life span of email
Curt Hopkins for The Daily Dot: "When a user “deletes” an email in the normal fashion, it becomes invisible to that user [“Out of sight, out of mind” Bob] and is immediately a candidate to be overwritten. But until it is in fact overwritten, it exists. And it may persist longer on company servers. So, even if it is taken off your computer, it may still be available on the host’s server. Given that email-hosting companies are legally obliged to turn over user information to law enforcement and intelligence authorities with warrants—and these days even without them—the impossibility of being certain of a deletion means you must presume that any email you compose will be available remain accessible forever."


What an interesting business model. Sell shares in your lawsuit! Add in the twist documented in “The Producers” and sell 800% of a “sure looser” and you never even need to go to court!
David v. Goliath: Students turn to crowd-funding for Facebook privacy court case
December 13, 2012 by Dissent
Moritz Jaeger of The German View reports:
A student group planning to take legal action against Facebook has turned to crowd-funding to finance its court case.
The Austrian student group Europe-v-Facebook announced its intention last week to press ahead with a civil case against Facebook, claiming the social network is violating European data protection law.
Europe-v-Facebook is now preparing for court, and estimates that the cost of the case might range between €100,000 and €300,000. With no access to legal aid, the group is hoping to finance its battle using contributions from supporters online.
Read more on ZDNet


Perspective One of the few technologies actually used for the intended purpose?
December 12, 2012
Pew - Social Networking Popular Across Globe
"Social networking has spread around the world with remarkable speed. In countries such as Britain, the United States, Russia, the Czech Republic and Spain, about half of all adults now use Facebook and similar websites. These sites are also popular in many lower-income nations, where, once people have access to the internet, they tend to use it for social networking. Meanwhile, cell phones have become nearly ubiquitous throughout much of the world, and people are using them in a variety of ways, including texting and taking pictures. Smart phones are also increasingly common – roughly half in Britain, the U.S., and Japan have one. Globally, most smart phone users say they visit social networking sites on their phone, while many get job, consumer, and political information."


Interesting conjecture for my Criminal Justice students to kick around.
Lois McMaster Bujold: Crime Scenes Tend to Be Book-Free Zones


The best of 2000 nominations in 20 categories. Worth a look now that the filtering has been done for you.
The Edublog Awards


Worth a read...
  • New collaboration tools for Word.
  • Recommended graph tools in Excel.
  • Slide design improvements for PowerPoint.
  • Using OneNote for improved productivity.
  • Using SkyDrive effectively.
  • Upgrades to Access and Publisher.

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