Redundantly defining
“Everything” Perhaps it would be quicker to list the bits NSA
doesn't bother with. Oh wait, they collect “Everything!!”
Barton Gellman and
Ashkan Soltani report:
The
National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of
contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts
around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to
senior intelligence officials and top secret documents provided by
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The
collection program, which has not been disclosed before, intercepts
e-mail address books and “buddy lists” from instant messaging
services as they move across global data links. Online services
often transmit those contacts when a user logs on, composes a
message, or synchronizes a computer or mobile device with information
stored on remote servers.
Read more on Washington
Post.
(Related) We actually
did mean “Everything” but if it will cost us votes, we'll pretend
we didn't.
Government
Responds to EPIC’s Supreme Court Challenge of NSA Telephone Record
Program
“The Solicitor
General has filed a response
to EPIC’s challenge to the NSA’s telephone record collection
program. In July, EPIC petitioned
the Supreme Court to vacate the order
of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that requires Verizon
to turn over all telephone records to the NSA. EPIC argued that the
Intelligence Court exceeded its legal authority and could not compel
a telephone company to disclose so much personal information
unrelated to a foreign intelligence investigation. Legal scholars
and former Members of Congress filed briefs in support of EPIC’s
petition, including privacy
and national security scholars, constitutional
scholars, federal
courts scholars, and members
of the Church Committee. Congressman James
Sensenbrenner, the primary author of the Patriot Act, has said
that the telephone records collection program was never
authorized by Section 215. For more information, see In
re EPIC.”
Some background for the
Big Data Privacy: Business & Government seminar on Friday,
October 25, 2013 (shameless plug, I know) This article includes
Abstracts.
Some recent articles on
privacy and surveillance, available on SSRN, that you may want to add
to your to-read list:
With DNA and a 3D
Printer I can print a copy of the Playmate of the Month!
New
on LLRX – DNA Evidence: Brave New World, Same Old Problems
Criminal law expert Ken
Strutin guides us through the critical facets that comprise the
backbone of investigative forensics in the 21st Century – the
database. Ken states that of all information gathering techniques,
genetic databanking has become the holy grail of prosecutions and the
last resort for exonerations. It is both the cause of and solution
to many problems in the administration of justice. Thus, DNA
forensics highlights the longstanding tension between scientific
understanding and legal reasoning. While DNA’s scientific
reputation is very near to magic, its forensic applications are
subject to the faults and limitations of every kind of evidence
offered as proof in a court of law. Ken’s article collects
research on the law and science of genetic evidence at the
pre-conviction stage. It focuses on the role of DNA in
identification, investigation and prosecution of crime, social and
privacy issues, and to some degree exculpation or evidence of third
party culpability.
Important when we're
talking history but in most computer fields, a few months is as good
as “Never.”
New
university consortium service allows users to create citation links
that will never break
“Perma.cc
is a service [Built and Run by Libraries], currently in beta, that
allows users to create citation links that will never
break. When a user creates a Perma.cc link, Perma.cc
archives a copy of the referenced content, and generates a link to an
unalterable hosted instance of the site. Regardless of
what may happen to the original source, if the link is later
published by a journal using the Perma.cc service, the archived
version will always be available through the Perma.cc link. Readers
who click on a Perma.cc link are taken to a page that lets them
choose to go to the original site (which may have changed since the
link was created) or see the archived copy of the site in its
original state. Perma.cc is an online preservation service developed
by the Harvard Law School Library in conjunction with university
law libraries across the country and other organizations
in the “forever” business. Why use Perma.cc: In
a sample of several legal journals, approximately 70% of all
links in citations published between 1999 and 2011 no longer point to
the same material. Broken links in journal articles undermine the
citation-based system of legal scholarship by obscuring the evidence
underlying authors’ ideas. As Internet usage becomes more
widespread and web citations in legal scholarship become more common,
the problem of link rot will become increasingly important. Using
Perma.cc ensures that material cited by authors will always be
accessible to readers, preserving the foundation of legal scholarship
online.”
When Mr. Zillman
creates a list, he creates a VERY BIG list. And usually very useful.
New
on LLRX – Education and Academic Resources on the Internet
Marcus
P. Zillman’s guide links researchers to a wide range of
reliable resources for all professions and skill levels. Marcus
covers topics including: education, chemistry, economics,
mathematics, philosophy, engineering, MBA and
PhD/Dissertation/Thesis/Academic Writing resources, as well as
increasingly popular MOOCS/Open Courseware (OCW) resources.
For my student minions
in my Website class...
– when designing
websites, it helps the designer to have placeholder texts which can
be placed where the real text is going to go. Normally this text is
called Lorum Ipsum. But now you can have Minions Ipsum, based on the
upcoming movie, with the text coming from what the characters say.
It’s Lorum Ipsum with a twist.
Something for the
student Bike Club?
How
to Make Your Own Dashcam For Your Car or Bike
I was thinking “Ethical
Hacker Blog” but maybe we want to toss in a few Tweets before the
data gets stale.
How
to Write Tweets That Your Followers Will Want To Retweet
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