We can, therefore we must!
FBI
said to be taking a hacker approach to spying
… According to a report by the Wall
Street Journal, the FBI has been allegedly developing
surveillance tools that work much like what hackers use to collect
information on suspects -- including Trojans, spyware, and malware.
Supposedly, the FBI created some of these tools internally, while
others were purchased.
… The most alarming technology
mentioned by the Wall Street Journal is a tool that allegedly lets
the FBI remotely activate the microphones in Android
devices. Once activated, the bureau can record conversations without
the device's owner knowing. Apparently this tool can do the same
thing with laptop microphones. [Similar to the
“harmonica bug” used on landlines Bob]
[From the WSJ article:
Earlier this year, a federal warrant
application in a Texas identity-theft case sought to use software to
extract files and covertly take photos using a computer's camera,
according to court documents. The judge denied the application,
saying, among other things, that he wanted more information on how
data collected from the computer would be minimized to remove
information on innocent people.
At least it's something...
FTC
Advises Consumers on Preventing, Identifying, and Dealing With Hacked
Email or Social Networking Accounts
“The Federal Trade Commission has new
tips to help people deal with email and social networking hacks,
whether it’s lessening the chances of a hack in the first place, or
recovering from a hack once it happens. Hacked
Email, new guidance from the FTC, identifies signs an account may
have been hacked such as friends and family members receiving
messages the user didn’t send, a sent folder emptied, social media
posts the user didn’t create, or email or other accounts the user
can’t open.”
My Math students will be thrilled!
(Insert sarcastic emoticon here.)
50,000
new words added to Wolfram|Alpha’s dictionary
“We just added
over 50,000 new words to Wolfram|Alpha’s dictionary, including
archaic words such as pythonist
(a conjurer or diviner) and technical terms like cosmochronometer,
which refers to processes that are used to determine the age of stars
(like
radioactive decay). Wolfram|Alpha provides word definitions and,
when available, other features such as etymologies and
anagrams—pythonist, appropriately enough, is an anagram of
hypnotist.
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I used a crossword puzzle as a quiz in
one of my “Intro to” classes. Results were mixed.
Read
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crossword puzzles, take a look at Read
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Read
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your own crossword puzzles. To create your puzzle
simply enter a list of words, a set of clues for your words, and then
let the generator make a puzzle for you. You can test the
puzzle before printing it. You can print blank puzzles and answer
sheets from the puzzle generator.
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