Strange reporting. Has
Bradley Manning had his sex change and is now Chelsea Manning? If
someone is “wanted for questioning” can they leave the country?
New
details in how the feds take laptops at border
Newly disclosed U.S.
government files provide an inside look at the Homeland Security
Department's practice of seizing and searching electronic devices at
the border without showing reasonable suspicion of a crime or getting
a judge's approval.
The documents published
Monday describe the case of David House, a young computer programmer
in Boston who had befriended Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the soldier
convicted of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks. U.S. agents
quietly waited for months for House to leave the country then seized
his laptop, thumb drive, digital camera and cellphone when he
re-entered the United States. They held his laptop for weeks before
returning it, acknowledging one year later that House had committed
no crime and promising to destroy copies the government made of
House's personal data.
… Border agents
were told that House was "wanted for questioning" regarding
the "leak of classified material." They were given
explicit instructions: If House attempted to cross the U.S. border,
"secure digital media," and "ID all companions."
… Because House had
refused to give the agents his password and
apparently had configured his computer in such a way that appeared to
stump computer forensics experts, [Interesting
claim Bob] it wasn't until June 2011 that investigators
were satisfied that House's computer didn't contain anything illegal.
By then, they had already sent a second image of his hard drive to
Army criminal investigators familiar with the Manning case. In
August 2011, the Army agreed that House's laptop was clean and
promised to destroy any files from House's computer.
Believe what you will.
I doubt the ISPs never noticed.
Phil Muncaster reports:
India’s
authorities are carrying out wide-ranging and indiscriminate internet
surveillance of their citizens thanks to secret intercept systems
located at the international gateways of several large ISPs,
according to The Hindu.
The
Chennai-based paper
claimed after an investigation that Lawful Intercept and
Monitoring (LIM) systems had been deployed by the Centre for
Development of Telematics (C-DoT), in violation of the government’s
own communications and privacy rules.
Read more on The
Register.
Possibly innocent, but
something smells here. Are any other AGs sending similar letters?
AP reports:
A
West Virginia nonprofit has turned down a federal grant it received
to help residents navigate new health insurance options under the
Affordable Care Act after it received an inquiry from Attorney
General Patrick Morrisey about how it would protect consumer
information.
Read more on The
Intelligencer.
[From
the article:
Clarksburg-based West
Virginia Parent Training Inc. did not respond to a letter it received
from Morrisey directing it to answer 26 questions about the group's
personnel and hiring practices, including employee
background checks and employee monitoring programs.
"We've declined
(the grant) because of unforeseen circumstances," WVPTI
Executive Director Pat Haberbosch said.
If the FCC can't do it
by regulation, would Congress risk their campaign contributions from
Google, Amazon, et al?
Federal
judges may be ready to rule against Net neutrality
… The Hill reports
that judges in a federal court seemed unconvinced Monday of the
Federal Communications Commission's arguments regarding the
regulations during a landmark case involving Verizon.
… Two out of three
judges on a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals indicated that
they agree with Verizon's position that the FCC doesn't have the
authority to make the restriction, according to the article.
Perspective. A very
interesting read.
The
data factory revolution
"Today, more
than half of the most valuable Internet companies are not in the US.
It's never been the case for such a huge, abrupt shift in the nature
of human work," Sequoia Capital's Michael Moritz said.
"Between San
Francisco and San Jose something utterly remarkable is going on,
something that has only occurred in one or two other places in the
whole course of human history," said Sequoia Capital's Michael
Mortiz, speaking at TechCrunch
Disrupt conference on Monday.
He is talking about the
shift from Industrial Age, which took root in places such as
northwest England and Detroit and ushered in factories and
centralized tools and distribution channels, to what he calls the
"data factory." In the case of the data factories of
Silicon Valley, increased bandwidth, storage, and computational
power, as well as the explosion in apps, are transforming the nature
of work. "There's never been anything like it in human history
... never before have people been empowered with tools like the
smartphone," Moritz said.
The data factory
doesn't just make tools accessible to the masses, it also does so for
free or close to free
… At the center of
the data factory revolution are the large scale companies, such as
Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, eBay, LinkedIn, and Priceline, who
attract hundreds of million or billions of users.
How the Pros do it!
New
on LLRX – Competitive Intelligence: A Selective Resource Guide –
September 2013
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on September 8, 2013
Via LLRX.com
– Competitive
Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated –
September 2013
Sabrina
I. Pacifici’s comprehensive current awareness guide focuses on
leveraging a selected but wide range of reliable, topical,
predominantly free websites and resources. The goal is to support an
effective research process to search, discover, access, monitor,
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statistics and profiles on companies, markets, countries, people and
issues, from a national and a global perspective. Sabrina’s
guide is a “best of the Web” resource that encompasses search
engines, portals, government sponsored open source databases, alerts,
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All of her recommendations are accompanied by links to trusted
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Serious question girls
& boys: What else should we do this for? Shakespeare’s plays?
Kipling's poems?
The
Complete Works of Chopin, for Everybody, for Free
Frédéric Chopin
passed away more than 160 years ago -- sufficiently long ago that
today all of his compositions belong to the public domain.
Yet, despite this, if
you wanted to make a movie with Chopin's Nocturne in C-Sharp
minor playing in the background, chances are you'd have to pay
royalties to do so. Why is that?
The reason points to a
little wrinkle in the public domain, one that commonly plagues
classical works: While the music is technically in the public domain
(and you are free to play it, perform it, record it however you
like), recordings of these public-domain works tend to be
copyrighted.
… A
Kickstarter project, "Set Chopin Free," aims to do
exactly what its name suggests: Release Chopin recordings from their
copyright cell.
Here's how it works: If
the project successfully meets its fundraising goal ($75,000 by
Sunday, October 20), it will hire musicians (some of the best Chopin
pianists in the world) to record and release to the public under
a CC0 license the entirety of Chopin's life's work, some 245
pieces.
For my bargain hunting
students.
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