Sunday, February 10, 2013

Your Computer Security Manager should already have a plan to deal with this. If not, fire him and hire a real manager.
"Slate provides the first-person account of a CEO who received an e-mail with several business documents attached threatening to distribute them to competitors and business partners unless the CEO paid $150,000. 'Experts I consulted told me that the hacking probably came from government monitors who wanted extra cash,' writes the CEO, who successfully ended the extortion with an e-mail from the law firm from the bank of his financial partner, refusing payment and adding that the authorities had been notified. According to the article, IT providers routinely receive phone calls from their service providers if they detect any downtime on the monitors of network traffic installed by the Chinese government, similar to the alerts provided to telecom providers about VoIP fraud on their IP-PBX switches. 'Hundreds of millions of Chinese operate on the Internet without any real sense of privacy, fully aware that a massive eavesdropping apparatus tracks their every communication and move...' writes the CEO. 'With China's world and ours intersecting online, I expect we'll eventually wonder how we could have been so naive to have assumed that privacy was normal- or that breaches of it were news.'" [Over my your dead body! Bob]


I'm not sure the article matches the headline. For example, I don't recall UAV's in any of the Terminator or Toy Story movies. But some interesting ideas are tossed up for review.
From Terminator to Toy Story: drones for a better tomorrow
… Drone technology is highly dependent on the kind of future imagined by those that develop it. And the way it is governed will depend on which stories regulators pick up on.
… Liam Young from think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today has developed an alternative story about drones in the future. He argues that the physical environment is dissolving, leaving a mainly mobile, nomadic infrastructure. Personal drones will become like cheap, flying smart phones.
… Today's legislation requires a contract for every drone flight. [In the UK Bob] Keeping this framework makes the pigeon-drone future impossible.
… The European Commission will produce a roadmap for integration of unmanned aerial vehicles into national aviation policy in the spring. I worry that the consultation for this has not reached all the corners of the community, who are mostly joined together by online forums and unused to engaging with Brussels. Websites like DIYDrones.org have blogs and online shops. Perhaps they could become centres of governance as well. This worked well for the DIY biology community, who created their own codes of practice.


Repeating Security tips is never redundant...
… Privacyfix is a free to use web service that analyzes privacy settings of your Facebook and Google accounts. The application installs an add-on onto your browser which scans your privacy settings. After a scan has been conducted, you are displayed the vulnerable areas and what their settings are. Issues that need fixing can be fixed by the use of a helpful Fix button. The website also reveals how much Facebook is making off internet ads from your level of activity on the social network.


Brilliant marketing move. (Get 'em while they're snowed in and bored!)
February 09, 2013
WSJ opens entire website to readers - no fee, until Sunday night
WSJ - Blizzard Sweeps Through Northeast - this site is free to all readers until midnight on Sunday, February 10, 2013.

(Related) Really anti-brilliant marketing move... (My MBA professors would have said this is the time to raise prices as become a true luxury good...)
… The bourbon brand, known for its bottles sealed with red wax, told customers today that it’s reducing the amount of alcohol in the beverage in order to meet rising global demand.


Something for my Intro to Computers course...
Teaching Tree - Video Explanations of Computer Science Concepts
Teaching Tree is a free resource for anyone who is interested in learning about computer science on his or her own. Teaching Tree offers videos organized into five categories with dozens of topics inside each category. The videos that you will find in Teaching Tree are a mix of short tutorials and longer lectures from university professors. The longer lectures are tagged with the key concepts that they contain. Clicking on a tag jumps you to the spot in the lecture that addresses the concept you want to learn about.
Registered Teaching Tree users can add videos and tag videos.
… You may also consider having your students search for or create videos to share on Teaching Tree and then tag them to help other people learn from their work. [Might be a good way for my students to demonstrate what they know... Bob]

(Related) The more effort I put into stealing someone else's work, the less work I have to do. Right?
… Teachem is a free to use web service that lets you hold online classes. Your classes can comprise of YouTube videos which you specify. You can select which parts of the video are included in the lectures and flashcards can be tied to specific parts of the video that display comments and ask questions. The built-in SmartNote system lets student store notes as they view the videos.
Your classes can be set as private or public, depending on the type of class you want, and it can be of any subject.

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