Send a copy to your CEO immediately!
Does
Your CEO Really Get Data Security?
… First off, if the company doesn't
have a CSO and the chief executive thinks the "S" has
something to do with sustainability, just fire him. If it does have
a CSO and the CEO chooses to eliminate that position, do the same
thing, because it's the wrong answer. While you're firing him,
inform the CEO that data security is the number one
critical need for U.S. corporations today, and that the
CSO is kind of like the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. You
wouldn't get rid of the chairman of the joint chiefs in wartime.
(Related) Not so sure I would endorse
any of these...
Four
Things the Private Sector Must Demand on Cyber Security
This Facebook App could become the next
be “Piracy” tool.
Facebook
App ‘Pipe’ Bets Big on File Sharing
After more than a year of beta testing,
a Berlin startup’s sophisticated new Facebook app will launch
today. The app, Pipe, melds
peer-to-peer technology with your social graph to enable a
cutting-edge new way to share… files?
Indeed, Pipe will be the only file
transfer utility on Facebook. It allows two friends to send files of
up to 1GB — 40 times the maximum attachment size on Gmail, Yahoo
Mail, and Hotmail — by simply dragging and dropping them into Pipe.
If one of the friends is offline, Pipe can keep the file in an
online locker.
The pendulum of justice swings back...
Declan McCullagh reports:
Jeffrey Feldman
has won a reprieve from a federal court order that had given him
until today to decrypt his hard drives for the FBI — or face
contempt of court.
A federal judge in
Wisconsin today granted an emergency motion filed by Feldman’s
attorney for additional time to establish that her client’s Fifth
Amendment right to self-incrimination would be violated.
Read more on CNET.
[From the article:
Shellow also argued that the decryption
order was improper because the previous proceedings were held before
a magistrate judge with only prosecutors -- not defense counsel --
permitted to attend.
… Banner said agents did find
evidence that suggested Feldman was using a peer-to-peer program
called eMule to exchange files with titles suggestive of child
pornography.
While the U.S. Supreme Court has not
confronted the topic of the Fifth Amendment and encryption, a handful
of lower courts have.
A federal judge in Colorado ruled
last year that a woman accused of being involved in a mortgage scam
would have to decrypt her laptop. A Vermont federal judge reached
the same conclusion in 2009.
But in March 2010, a federal judge in
Michigan ruled that Thomas Kirschner, facing charges of receiving
child pornography, would not have to give up his password. That's
"protecting his invocation of his Fifth Amendment privilege
against compelled self-incrimination," the court ruled (PDF).
What would be the point other than,
“Maybe we can find something we didn't know about!” Do they look
at every student's social media or do they just single some out for
additional review?
Oregon
Senate Bill 344A passed to prevent universities from searching
student’s private social media
Hannah Taylor reports:
Many employers
request various social media sites before hiring a new employee, but
should universities and colleges have those same liberties?
The Oregon House
of representatives passed legislation on June 3 to protect the rights
and privacy of college students. Senate
Bill 344A, a bill that prevents colleges and universities from
accessing private student and faculty social media pages. The House
and Senate in Salem passed the bill with bipartisan support, and is
now ready for a signature from the governor.
Read more on Daily
Emerald.
Would the same argument apply to
fingerprints and mug shots? Was there a similar argument when they
were adopted or was that before we cared about such things? i.e.
pre-Brandeis
There’s already been a lot of
commentary around the Internet on SCOTUS’s ruling in Maryland v.
King on warrantless DNA collection. But if you haven’t seen this,
read this analysis by Hanni Fakhoury and Jennifer Lynch of EFF:
You lost some
important Fourth
Amendment protection when the Supreme Courtruled
yesterday in Maryland
v. King that the police can take a DNA sample from an
arrestee without a search warrant for purposes of general law
enforcement rummaging.
The court was
reviewing the constitutionality of Maryland’s practice of
collecting DNA from all arrestees — without a search warrant or any
individualized suspicion that the DNA will lead to evidence of a
crime.
Read more on EFF.
Missed the notice for this one...
Privacy
Law Scholars Conference
The PLSC aims to assemble a wide array
of privacy law scholars and practitioners from around the world to
discuss current issues and foster greater connections between
academia and practice.
Copyright kills another deal? Perhaps
it is time for 'open source' journals.
"Disagreement between
scientists and publishers has grown on a thorny issue: how to make it
easier for computer programs to extract facts and data from online
research papers. On 22 May, researchers, librarians and others
pulled
out of European Commission talks on how to encourage the techniques,
known as text mining and data mining. The withdrawal has effectively
ended the contentious discussions, although a formal abandonment can
be decided only after a commission review in July. Scientists have
chafed for years at limitations on computer-aided research. They
would like to use computer programs to crawl over thousands or
millions of articles and other online research content, extracting
data to build up databases or to pick out patterns such as
associations between genes and diseases. But in many parts of the
world, including Europe (though perhaps not in the U.S. — the
situation is unclear), this sort of use currently requires permission
from the content's copyright owner. Even if
an institution has paid to access a journal, its academics do not
necessarily have permission to mine the text."
I seem to recall a “museum?” that
keeps copies of old software. Could you access their software for a
fee? Is there a viable business model here somewhere?
"Vinton
Cerf is warning that digital things created today — spreadsheets,
documents, presentations as well as mountains of scientific data —
may
not be readable in the years and centuries ahead. Cerf
illustrates the problem in a simple way. He runs Microsoft Office
2011 on Macintosh, but it cannot read a 1997 PowerPoint file. 'It
doesn't know what it is,' he said. 'I'm not blaming Microsoft,' said
Cerf, who is Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist.
'What I'm saying is that backward compatibility is very hard to
preserve over very long periods of time.' He calls it a 'hard
problem.'"
We're at an interesting spot right now,
where we're worried that the internet won't remember
everything, and also that it won't
forget anything.
For my graduating students...
Today, if you can just motivate
yourself to self-learn, there are many ways to reach the promised
land
of knowledge. Free
education is all around us.
Open
Courseware Consortium is a free and open digital publication of
high quality educational materials for colleges and universities. It
also means free
education from some of the best universities in the world.
Catch the entire
list of
participants.
Skilled
Up is trying to position itself as an educational search engine
as well as a portal to “portals of wisdom” that is accessible on
the web today. Searching for online courses with the help of the
engine gives you free and paid courses and tutorials. Skilled Up
lists nearly 73,000 courses.
Redhoop
You can go through the catalog
of courses or use the educational search engine on the homepage.
Victims students in my Intro to IT
class are getting a crossword puzzle midterm exam today, Maybe I'll
use this for their final?
EQuizShow is a simple and free site
that lets teachers design Jeopardy-type games online. This tool
lives completely in the cloud, letting your create quiz shows and
input your questions and answers within minutes.
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