Small, but local. Was
someone stealing office supplies and selling them at a yard sale?
Student
records from Pueblo Community College, including
Social Security numbers, were found by a Pueblo woman in a box of
office supplies purchased at a South Side yard sale last summer in
Pueblo.
Read more on Pueblo
Chieftain (sub. req. for full access).
For my Ethical Hackers.
This is NOT how you do it. When researching, always have a document
in process that starts, “Once upon a time, there was a bank
robber.” Interesting that the narcs were looking at bank robbery
video...
Alleged
bank robbers' Google search: 'What happens if you rob bank?'
[From
the Boston.com article:
Narcotics detectives
who viewed surveillance footage believed they recognized McLoud, a
suspect in the ongoing investigation of a heroin ring based at 51
Torrey St., just around the corner from the bank,
police said.
When you look up
“naiveté” in the dictionary, guess whose picture you find. If
indeed he was “uniquely qualified” why did he give the files to
journalists.
Edward
Snowden: Zero chance Russia, China nabbed files
NSA leaker Edward
Snowden says he didn't take top-secret agency files with him when he
fled to Moscow and that he was also able to protect the documents
from Chinese spies.
… "As part of
Snowden's flight from American justice, he went to two of the most
repressive and technologically sophisticated countries on Earth.
(Hong Kong is, of course, part of China)," Toobin wrote,
continuing later with: "An American citizen walks into their
countries bearing the keys to our most secret programs, and both --
both! -- China and Russia decline to take even a peek. That
is a preposterous proposition."
In the interview with
Risen, however, Snowden claims he was uniquely qualified to foil any
attempts by China to access his cache of documents. As an NSA
contractor, he says, he was well-versed in Chinese cyberspying
programs and even taught a course on Chinese
cybercounterintelligence.
As for Russia, Snowden
said he gave his entire cache of classified materials
to journalists before he left Hong Kong -- and kept no
copies for himself -- "because it wouldn't serve the public
interest" for him to hang onto the files.
And then there are the
merely delusional... Too bad he didn't realize it wasn't 1955 until
after the election.
Anthony
Weiner: I'd probably be mayor if it wasn't for the Web
The
still disappointed candidate says that if this was still 1955, he
would have been elected mayor.
A TED talk for my
students who don't have time to read... (and how Big
Data defeats privacy)
The line between public
and private has blurred in the past decade, both online and in real
life, and Alessandro Acquisti is here to explain what this means and
why it matters. In this thought-provoking, slightly chilling talk,
he shares details of recent and ongoing research -- including a
project that shows how easy it is to match a photograph of a stranger
with their sensitive personal information.
Of course they can.
Perhaps reporters should read at least a summary of how instant
messaging and email systems work.
Dan Goodin reports:
Contrary
to public claims, Apple employees can read communications
sent with its iMessage service, according to researchers who have
reverse engineered it.
The
finding, delivered Thursday at a Hack in the Box presentation titled
How
Apple Can Read Your iMessages and How You Can Prevent It, largely
echoes the conclusion
Ars reached in June.
Read more on Ars
Technica.
What's in it for
Facebook? Does this give them more ammunition for the advertising?
“Hey teenage guys! Need a beer? Here's a picture of Tony Teenager
drinking Budweiser! You should drink Budweiser too!”
Vindu Goel reports:
Facebook
has loosened its privacy rules for teenagers as a debate swirls over
online threats to children from bullies and sexual predators.
The
move, announced
on Wednesday, allows teenagers to post status updates, videos and
images that can be seen by anyone, not just their friends or people
who know their friends.
Read more on New
York Times.
Right, because letting
teens increase their digital footprints that can come back to bite
them is such a great marketing strategy. Gah….
These websites must be
rather profitable if you can pay out $110 million and still smile...
Isohunt
to permanently shutter after settlement with MPAA
… After years of
court battles over copyright infringement with the Motion Picture
Association of America, Isohunt has agreed to settle.
Under the terms of the
settlement (PDF),
which was issued on Thursday, Isohunt's founder Gary Fung has seven
days to shut down the site, as well as close three other sites that
redirect to Isohunt -- Podtropolis, TorrentBox, and Edtk-it.com.
Fung has also agreed to pay $110 million in damages.
For my students. I'll
use this next 'Constitution Day'
Constitution
Annotated – Online and Searchable
“The Constitution
of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation
(popularly known as the Constitution Annotated) contains legal
analysis and interpretation of the United States Constitution, based
primarily on Supreme Court case law. This regularly updated resource
is especially useful when researching the constitutional implications
of a specific issue or topic. The Featured
Topics and Cases page highlights recent U.S. Supreme Court
decisions that demonstrate pivotal interpretations of the
Constitution’s provisions.” The complete PDF version, which is
large and loads slowly, is here.
The Index and Tables
From the Constitution Annotated
Interesting in an “I
wonder what's going on” kind of way.
Indonesia
tops China as source of Internet attacks
… Akamai noted in
the report that its "methodology captures the source IP address
of an observed attack and cannot determine attribution of an
attacker." Which basically means, the actual attackers aren't
always in the country where their attack traffic is originating.
For my students, who
need to write persuasively.
The
Supreme Court Has Solved the Angry-Email Problem: Justices Only Send
Each Other Memos on Paper
Speaking during an
interview at the Fortune
Most Powerful Women Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in
Washington, D.C., Wednesday night, Supreme Court Associate Justice
Kagan elaborated on remarks
she'd made in August about how Supreme Court
justices don't use email.
"We don't to each
other. I obviously do to my clerks," said Kagan about the
decades-old communications technology. "But the justices
themselves do not communicate by email."
"So how do you
communicate?" senior editor at large Pattie Sellers of Fortune
asked.
"Well, we either
talk to each other, which is not a bad thing," said Kagan, to
applause from the well-heeled audience of female CEOs and business
leaders.
"Or we write memos
to each other," she continued.
"And you know, you
have to remember that the Court is an institution where...we're not
horse trading. We're not bargaining. We're reasoning. And we're
trying to persuade people. And often the best way to do that is by
putting things down on paper in a kind of careful and deliberate way
and saying this is what I think and, and giving people an opportunity
to read a memo and to think about it and to reflect on it," she
said.
I tell my students that
reading Dilbert every day is like taking MBA classes... (Scott has
an MBA)
The Dilbert creator
talks with HBR senior editor Dan McGinn. For more, read his book How
to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of
My Life.
TRANSCRIPT
A written
transcript will be available by October 25.
For all my Math
students, but mostly my Statistics students. (Some nifty graphics)
Math
Proves Bacon Is a Miracle Food
… Everything is
always better with bacon, right? But if so, how much? And are any
foods actually worse with bacon?
We calculated the
answer, following a simple methodology that made the most of the
906,539 ratings on foodnetwork.com. First, we searched out all the
recipes that fit a certain description-—sandwiches, for example.
Then, we calculated the average rating for those foods if they did
not include the word “bacon.” We ran the numbers again using
only recipes that did include bacon. The results were pretty great.
Of all the foods we analyzed, bacon lends the most improvement to
sandwiches. Many other foods also benefitted. In fact, we found
that when you crunch the data for all recipes, those with bacon do in
fact rate higher.
For my students (none
of whom live in Australia)
Australian
textbook delivery, care of drones
… Zookal
has partnered with aerial-technology startup Flirtey
(a joint venture between Zookal and Vimbra)
to start delivering its packages to customers via unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) as of next year.
… As of March 2014,
customers within 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) of Sydney's central
business district will be able to arrange free delivery by air from
one of six hexacopters. They will have to order delivery to an
outdoor area, and the drone will find the customer based on GPS
coordinates sent from an Android
app (an iOS app will be built after the program is launched). The
UAV will hover over the location and lower the textbooks on a
retractable cable, [Too complicated. They must be worrying
that students will steal the 'copters Bob] allowing the customer
to detach the parcel and the drone to be on its way. The entire
process could take as little as two or three minutes.
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