If they had stored
encrypted copies on several Cloud platforms they might have achieved
the same thing, but governments now seem willing to force disclosure
of passwords, encryption keys or access methods.
UK
Guardian to share Snowden NSA documents with New York Times
“The
Guardian has struck a partnership with the New
York Times which will give the US paper access to some of the
sensitive cache of documents leaked by the National Security Agency
whistleblower Edward
Snowden.
The arrangement was
made when the Guardian was faced with demands from the UK government
to hand over the GCHQ
files it had in its possession.
“In a climate of
intense pressure from the UK government, the Guardian decided to
bring in a US partner to work on the GCHQ documents provided by
Edward Snowden. We are working in partnership with the NYT and
others to continue reporting these stories,” the Guardian said in a
statement.
Journalists in America
are protected by the first amendment which guarantees free speech and
in practice prevents the state seeking pre-publication injunctions or
“prior restraint”.
It is intended that
the collaboration with the New York Times will allow the Guardian to
continue exposing mass surveillance by putting the Snowden documents
on GCHQ beyond government reach. Snowden is aware of the
arrangement.
The collaboration
echoes that of the partnership forged in 2010 between the Guardian,
the New York Times and Der Spiegel in relation to WikiLeaks’s
release of US military and diplomatic documents.”
If (when?) the Feds
take over, they can consolidate all this data with little effort.
A new report from
Citizens Council for Health Freedom was released this week. Here’s
their press release on it:
…
CCHF’s report, “Patient Privacy and Public Trust: How
Health Surveillance Systems Are Undermining Both,” includes
details about all of the private patient data that states collect and
maintain. One alarming fact, says patient advocate and co-founder of
CCHF, Twila Brase, is that the information is stored and
identified along with the name of each individual American.
…
“These are long-term tracking systems without the person’s
knowledge or choice. Private data is being analyzed, and if patients
have the option to ‘opt out,’ they leave behind a record making
them vulnerable to being stamped as ‘anti-government.’
For a full copy of the
report, “Patient Privacy and Public Trust: How Health
Surveillance Systems Are Undermining Both,” more information
and to interview Twila Brase, president and co-founder of Citizens’
Council for Health Freedom, contact Deborah Hamilton, Hamilton
Strategies, 215.815.7716, 610.584.1096,
DHamilton@HamiltonStrategies.com.
Something fishy (or
very poorly reported) here. On one hand it seems they took a picture
from the yearbook and altered it, on the other hand it seems the
altered picture was in the yearbook.
Joe Marusak reports:
A
federal judge has ruled that a libel suit by a former Lake Norman
High School student against two Internet media companies can proceed
to trial.
The
former student sued Gawker Media Group and Deep Dive Media in 2012
after she said they posted altered yearbook photos. The websites
claimed the photos show the student lifting her gown and exposing
herself during the school’s 2011 graduation ceremony.
Read more on WCNC.
[From
the article:
The cropped photo makes
it appear as if she is standing and posing with her gown lifted, the
suit says. The original photo shows the woman seated with
fellow graduates and holding a ceremony program on her lap; her hands
are resting on her lap, the lawsuit says.
… “Gawker merely
reported the controversy, never identified the girl, and the only
‘altered’ photo it posted was a smaller version of the original
yearbook photo with a black bar obscuring the girl’s face and
thighs that had already been published by (WSOC-TV).”
Dawn Creason,
spokeswoman for the Iredell-Statesville Schools, said last year that
school system officials met with the student’s parents when the
issue surfaced “and together we developed a plan for correcting
the 2012 Lake Norman High School yearbook.”
A joint decision was
made at the time to send home both a phone message and a letter,
“asking parents and students for their cooperation in both
repairing the yearbook and being sensitive to this extremely hurtful
situation,” Creason said.
Oh goodie. The
government will rate colleges (as soon as they figure out how) and
provide more aid to students attending the ones they like. What
could possibly go wrong.
FACT
SHEET on the President’s Plan to Make College More Affordable
“[August 22, 2013],
President Obama outlined
an ambitious new agenda to combat rising college costs and make
college affordable for American families. His plan will measure
college performance through a new ratings system so students
and families have the information to select schools that provide
the best value. And after this ratings system is well
established, Congress can tie federal student aid to college
performance so that students maximize their federal aid at
institutions providing the best value. The President’s plan will
also take down barriers that stand in the way of competition and
innovation, particularly in the use of new technology, and shine a
light on the most cutting-edge college practices for providing high
value at low costs. And to help student borrowers struggling with
their existing debt, the President is committed to ensuring that all
borrowers who need it can have access to the Pay As You Earn plan
that caps loan payments at 10 percent of income and is directing the
Department of Education to ramp up its efforts to reach out to
students struggling with their loans to make sure they know and
understand all their repayment options. “
“How do I hate thee,
let me count the ways...” The man they love to hate? OR The man
they hate for not being Steve Jobs?
Why
Steve Ballmer Failed
… What has gone
wrong? For starters, Ballmer proved to be the anti-Steve Jobs. He
missed every major trend in technology. His innovations
alienated people. When he tried something new, like Windows Vista,
the public lined up around the block to trade it in. Microsoft
missed social networking. It completely misjudged the iPhone and the
iPad. It embraced complexity in product design just as everyone was
turning toward simplicity. It entered growing markets too late.
When was the last time you used Bing? In 2000, Microsoft made most
of its money selling Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows. Today,
it still makes its money that way. Ballmer’s reign has done more
to defang Microsoft than the Justice Department could ever have hoped
to do.
For my Ethical Hackers.
Perhaps we could improve on that by ensuring that “random” does
not include bomb making or child porn websites...
– Advertisers and
government agencies attempt to build a profile of you based on your
browsing history. Paranoid Browsing confuses that effort by making a
background tab which browses the Internet at random. It
was inspired by fictional software described in Cory Doctorow’s
book “Little Brother”.
For all my students: A
tool to translate my gibberish. (Try “define: gibberish” and
click on the drop down arrow )
If Google Search has
been standing in as your online dictionary of choice, then the search
box will now take you deeper into a word. The latest update gives
you sample sentences, synonyms, origin, and translations to go with
the meaning of the word you put into the query. Google has updated
both desktop and mobile search with the more comprehensive
definitions.
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