Perhaps you could start with Grover's
Mill, NJ?
Hackers
can easily breach Emergency Alert Systems
Hackers broke into several television
stations' Emergency Alert Systems this week and broadcast
that zombies were "rising from their graves" and "attacking
the living."
While a comical hoax, security
consultancy firm IOActive
warns that this type of behavior is dangerous and not that hard for
hackers to do, according to Computerworld.
This week it's zombies, but next time it could be something that
might make people really panic, such as an anthrax or terrorist
attack.
For my Ethical Hackers...
Some sleight of
hand will allow iOS 6.1 hackers to access your phone application,
listen to your voice mails, and place calls.
A
YouTube video showing users how to “bypass iPhone
5 passcode” on Apple’s latest iOS releases, including iOS
6.1, has been published. The person who uploaded the video shows
how anyone can access the phone application on a passcode-protected
iPhone.
Read more on CNET.
What are the odds in Vegas?
California
County Inching Toward Drone Deployment?
Will Alameda County become California’s
first local government to deploy a drone?
If the decision were up to dozens of
angry residents and several civil rights groups, the answer would be
a resounding “No.” They urged the Bay Area county’s leaders,
in a public hearing sometimes filled with acrimony Thursday, to
squash a plan by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department to deploy
up to two small, lightweight drones.
“We oppose the use of public
resources to buy machines to surveil its citizens,” Michael Seigel,
a member of Alameda County Against Drones, said to rousing applause
by many of the 150 people in attendance before the Alameda County
Board of Supervisors’ Public Protection Committee.
Moments later, Sheriff Gregory Ahern
said: “We object to the term surveil. We have no intention of
doing that.”
Outbursts from the audience suggested
they did not believe that the drones would be used for more than the
stated goals of search-and-rescue, firefighting, bomb-detection and,
among other things, crime-scene preservation.
At one point during the hours-long
hearing, an Alameda County sheriff’s official said the drones,
which the department labeled ”small unmanned aircraft systems,”
would only focus on nothing smaller than felony investigations.
Later on, however, Sheriff Ahern said:
“I don’t want to lock myself into just felonies.”
For my f.. f.. forensics
students.
"Researchers at the University
of Erlangen demonstrate how to recover an Android phone's
confidential content, with
the help of a freezer and FROST, a specially-crafted Android ROM.
Quite an interesting set of pictures, starting with wrapping your
Android phone in a freezer bag."
[From the paper:
We present FROST, a tool set that
supports the forensic recovery of scrambled telephones. To
this end we perform cold boot attacks against Android smartphones and
retrieve disk encryption keys from RAM.
Something for professors who don't want
to be in the same room as lawyers?
February 14, 2013
Distance
Learning in Legal Education: A Summary of Delivery Models, Regulatory
Issues, and Recommended Practices
"The Working Group for Distance
Learning in Legal Education is pleased to have the opportunity to
present this Blue Paper - Distance
Learning in Legal Education: A Summary of Delivery Models, Regulatory
Issues, and Recommended Practices - A Summary of Delivery Models,
Regulatory Issues, and Recommended Practices. This Blue Paper is
intended to provide law schools and interested parties a summation of
distance learning opportunities, tools, and considerations. Unlike
other sectors in higher education, law schools have little experience
with distance learning or online education. Recent technological
advances, as well as economic exigencies, have lead several law
schools to contemplate launching one or more online programs. To
date, a handful of schools have distance learning LLM programs and a
few offer non-JD masters programs. As the American Bar Association
considers loosening distance learning restrictions, and traditional
law schools consider diversifying beyond their JD program, distance
learning becomes one intriguing option. This Blue Paper attempts to
guide those schools beginning to explore distance learning
opportunities. We recognize three fundamental questions, and attempt
to provide a discussion—if not answers—to each." [April M.
Barton]
Sometimes you are handed the straight
line and the punch line and all you need to do is shut up!
Chubby
Checker sues Hewlett-Packard over app to measure penis size
Rock'n'roll
pioneer Chubby Checker is suing two computer companies for
allowing his name to be used as the title of an app that guesses the
size of a man's penis.
Checker's lawyers are seeking half a
billion dollars for the "irreparable damage and harm"
caused by the Chubby
Checker, an app for Hewlett-Packard's
Palm OS platform. "This lawsuit is about preserving the
integrity and legacy of a man who has spent years working hard at his
musical craft and has earned the position of one of the greatest
musical entertainers of all time," explained lawyer Willie Gary.
Perhaps my students would find it
amusing? Or antiquated.
Adobe
releases source code for 1990 version of Photoshop
… All the code is here with the
exception of the MacApp applications library that was licensed from
Apple. There are 179 files in the zipped folder, comprising about
128,000 lines of mostly uncommented but well-structured code. By
line count, about 75% of the code is in Pascal, about 15% is in 68000
assembler language, and the rest is data of various sorts.
There might be something here for
textbooks or professional journals.
We are seeing a big push into
interactive publishing. From iPads to Chromebooks to mobile devices
… the future of books is a hot topic right now. There are places
like Boundless
offering free customized open source textbooks and even textbook
publishers building entire iTunes
U for classes. The book of the future is being written right
now, it seems.
In the above video, design consultancy
IDEO shares their vision for the future of the book. It’s an
interesting take on what the new experience of reading might entail.
Read more about the book over at
IDEO’s official website.
I often ask my students what Apps they
use...
With classrooms growing
increasingly more technology-oriented, it makes sense that developers
latch onto the education sector when creating inspired new
applications. The past year (roughly speaking) saw many different
launches aiming to keep students (and, in some cases, teachers)
better prepared and informed for whatever academia hurls their way.
For my amusement...
… A proposed bill in Oregon
would require
that high school students take college credits in order to
graduate.
… Textbook app-maker Kno
unveiled “Advance,” its new publishing platform that promises to
turn any PDF into “an interactive e-book in minutes at no cost.”
… “The
Most Thorough Description (to date) of University Experience with
MOOC.” The report (PDF)
addresses Duke’s creation of a course on the Coursera platform.
Among the findings: “Over 600 hours of effort were required to
build and deliver the course, including more than 420 hours of effort
by the instructor.” “At the time of enrollment, one-third of
enrolled students held less than a four year degree, one third held a
Bachelors or equivalent, and one-third held an advanced degree.”
Read the whole thing.
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