Oh darn! That email
was from Snowden? I could have been infamous!
Rolling
Stone – Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on December 8, 2013
Snowden
and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets
by Janet Reitman, December 4, 2013. This story is from the
December 19th, 2013 – January 2nd, 2014 issue of Rolling Stone.
“Early one morning
last December, Glenn Greenwald opened his laptop, scanned through his
e-mail, and made a decision that almost cost him the story of his
life. A columnist and blogger with a large and devoted following,
Greenwald receives hundreds of e-mails every day, many from readers
who claim to have “great stuff.” Occasionally these claims
turn out to be credible; most of the time they’re cranks.
There are some that seem promising but also require serious vetting.
This takes time, and Greenwald, who starts each morning deluged with
messages, has almost none. “My inbox is the enemy,” he told me
recently… It would take until May, six months after the anonymous
stranger reached out, before Greenwald would hear from him again,
through a friend, the documentarian Laura Poitras, whom the source
had contacted, suggesting she and Greenwald form a partnership. In
June, the three would meet face to face, in a Hong Kong hotel room,
where Edward Snowden, the mysterious source, would hand over many
thousands of top-secret documents: a mother lode laying bare the
architecture of the national-security state. It was the “most
serious compromise of classified information in the history of the
U.S. intelligence community,” as former CIA deputy director Michael
Morell said, exposing the seemingly limitless reach of the National
Security Agency, and sparking a global debate
on the use of surveillance – ostensibly to fight terrorism –
versus the individual right to privacy. And its disclosure was also
a triumph for Greenwald’s unique brand of journalism.”
Not new, but something
for my Ethical Hackers t build their “targeted surveillance”
folder.
Password
Filters [0] are a way for organizations and governments to
enforce stricter password requirements on Windows Accounts than those
available by default in Active Directory Group Policy. It is also
fairly documented on how to Install
and Register Password Filters [1].
… For National
CCDC earlier this year (2013), I created an installer and "evil
pass filter" that basically installed itself as a password
filter and any time any passwords changed it would store the change
to a log file locally to the victim (in clear text) as well as issue
an HTTP basic auth POST to a server I own with the username and
password.
So I can take my James
Bond Commemorative Model Walther PPK, break it down , scan it, and
print a dozen new ones! “Q” couldn't do it better!
Holiday
Shopping List: For Those Who Live At The Bleeding Edge Of Tech
… MakerBot
Digitizer ($1400)
3D printers are so last
week. Doesn’t everyone have one now? What the avant-garde 3D
modeller is using this week is the MakerBot Digitizer. Put your
hand-sculpted creation, or hard-to-find part on the turntable and
generate a 3D model of it that you can feed to your dusty 3D printer.
Now we’re duplicating!
The resulting file is
ready-to-go for the MakerBot 3D printers, but can also be used in
most 3D modelling software as well. This gives you the opportunity
to improve upon the original and create something no one else has.
Perfect for the DIY enthusiast, engineer, prototyper, industrial
designer; anyone who wants to make cool 3D stuff. Want to learn more
about 3D printing? Joel Lee’s, “What
Is 3D Printing And How Exactly Does It Work?”
article is for you!
For my students...
Many Firefox (and Chrome) tools. I'll list a couple.
Turn
Your Browser Into A Supercharged Workspace With These Simple Steps
… Writing &
Editing
MarkDown
Editor presents a clean and easy-to-use
plain-text writing environment with Markdown
support. You can display the Markdown content and the
corresponding HTML output in adjacent vertical or horizontal panes.
The plugin also has features to hide the HTML panel, apply external
CSS, and export content to HTML.
For Chrome users:
Write
Space, Writer
… Reading Feeds
Bamboo
Feed Reader and NewsFox
are a couple of good extensions for reading and subscribing to RSS
feeds. If you’re a Feedly
user, you can install Feedly’s
Firefox extension instead. There is also a
Chrome
extension for Feedly.
Did you know you could
create
a feed reader right within Google Spreadsheet?
For Chrome users:
Read Saikat’s post on excellent
RSS extensions for Chrome
...and for my
programming students.
10
Web Resources For Learning How To Code
Global Warming! Global
Warming! (Because I haven't tweaked Al Gore in a while.)
Antarctica
Sets Cold Record of -135.8 Degrees
… Feeling chilly?
Here's cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data
says set a record for soul-crushing cold.
Try 135.8 degrees
Fahrenheit below zero; that's 93.2 degrees below zero Celsius, which
sounds only slightly toastier. Better yet, don't try it. That's so
cold scientists say it hurts to breathe.
A new look at NASA
satellite data revealed that Earth set a new record for coldest
temperature recorded. It happened in August 2010 when it hit
-135.8 degrees. Then on July 31 of this year, it came close again:
-135.3 degrees.
I had a huge collection
of these maps as a kid.
National
Geographic Maps Now Online
National Geographic has
put 500 of its 800 maps online thanks to a partnership
with Google. The maps vary in nature, with some featuring
historic data, others being for travelers and adventurers. All are
available on Google’s
Maps Engine platform and can be found through the directory.
Might be something for
my website students...
– is an easy tool for
web designers. With the help of the site, you can present your
projects in a browser for free. It’s all very easy – all you
have to do is to drag and drop your project to the window, then the
Webprojector will do the rest for you. The system will automatically
upload the project onto the server and prepare a link under which you
and your clients will be able to view and comment it.
This is more impressive
than anything my congressmen are doing. Good on ya, Connor!
6-year-old
tries to save NASA
… Connor Johnson
has wanted to be an astronaut since he was three. When he learned
that congress was threatening his future prospects to be a scientist
or astronaut with NASA by cutting NASA's funding, he decided to do
something about it.
… His family helped
him start a petition. Although he did have some guidance, Johnson
constructed the petition ideas on his own.
… If you would
like to help out our little astronaut friend by signing his petition
please visit: http://1.usa.gov/1hFmpNA
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