The more it looks like a video game,
the easier this becomes.
Blood
Money, Kill Lists, Favors for Favors: Deep Inside the CIA’s
Targeted Killings
Targeted killing — particularly the
sort carried out by the U.S. fleet of deadly flying robots — is a
transactional business.
That’s a major point of The
Way of The Knife, the informative new book by Mark Mazzetti,
a national-security correspondent for the New York Times.
The U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan kicked off with the 2004 killing
of Nek Mohammed, an extremist in the tribal areas who was not a
senior al-Qaida figure. Mohammed was someone the Pakistanis wanted
dead. The U.S. wanted access to Pakistan’s airspace and, it was
once hoped, western tribal territory, where al-Qaida operated. Over
the years, the U.S. got the former and (rarely)
the latter, giving birth to a quid pro quo that spread to Yemen
and beyond.
Self surveillance will become a fad,
then all the FBI need do is copy it from our phones...
Now
Your iPhone Can Read Fingerprints, Scan Irises and ID Your Face
I'm not sure I'll know it when I see
it. Perhaps we can invite this exhibit here?
Associated Press has this interesting
report on an art exhibit meant to provoke thought:
Image after image
splashes on the wall of the art exhibit — a snapshot of young
people laughing and drinking, a picture of an elephant, an exposed
belly of a woman barely covering her breasts with one arm. The
photos were taken from their computers without their knowledge
through a technological glitch.
Over in a corner,
visitors can sort through Facebook profile photos from unwitting
users through a website that organizes them by gender, country and
adjectives such as “sly,” ”smug” or “easy going.” Think
online dating site, for people who don’t know they are on it.
The works are part
of “The Public Private,” an art exhibit that explores the gray
areas of online privacy, surveillance and data collection in the age
of Facebook and Google. The pieces shift across the boundaries
between what’s public and private, all through the lens of
technology. But lines are never clear, if there are any at all, and
that can be unsettling.
Read more on KVUE.
If you’re in NYC, the exhibit runs
through April 17 at The New School. It’s been running since
February, and I wish I had seen coverage of it before now.
So is this a flop or a flip? Speech is
protected except when you break into a system to speak?
Lillian Shupe reports:
One or more people
who allegedly hacked a hospital computer network may no longer hide
their identities behind the anonymity of their computers, according
to a ruling from The Appellate Division of the New Jersey State
Superior Court.
The court
overturned a decision by the lower court to quash a subpoena issued
by Warren Hospital. The hospital is seeking the identities of one or
more people who spread defamatory messages
by allegedly hacking into the hospital’s computer network.
Read more on NJ.com.
The problem with an Operating System
that finally reaches “good enough” is that there is no great
incentive to upgrade.
Microsoft
Gets Ready to Pull the Life Support on Windows XP
Today marks the first day of the last
year of Windows XP’s long and storied life.
… According to NetMarketShare, just
over 38 percent of PCs
connected to the web are still running Windows XP. Given that
current XP users have already ignored three OS upgrades, it seems
reasonable to assume a significant number of XP diehards still won’t
upgrade even now that Microsoft is no longer issuing security updates
— all of which adds up to a potentially huge number of vulnerable
PCs connected to the web
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