China
acts. The FBI makes speeches.
The
Chinese government could be behind a hack on Apple’s cloud storage
service, just as the company launches its newest phone in China.
Over
the weekend, many users in the country inadvertently began giving
passwords and sensitive data to hackers that may be working for the
Chinese government, security analysts said.
Analysts
at GreatFire, a website that monitors blocked websites in China,
reported
that “Chinese authorities are now staging a man-in-the-middle
(MITM) attack on Apple’s iCloud,” referring to a type of
cyberattack in which a hacker jumps in between a person and the
website they are visiting, relaying messages back and forth but also
picking up their data.
Responding
to the attacks on Tuesday, Apple acknowledged the intrusions and
unveiled a new guide for people to verify that they are securely
connected to the iCloud storage service.
“How
dare they study political misinformation! Why next they'll be
calling us liars!”
House
Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith
(R-Texas) on Tuesday blasted a research project funded by the
National Science Foundation to study political messages on Twitter.
According
to reports, the project, which is led by researchers at Indiana
University, has received about $1 million in federal dollars to
analyze "subversive propaganda" that leads to
misinformation.
Apparently
I'm more naïve about strip clubs than I thought. This “business”
license looks suspiciously like a “license to strip.” I don'
think the state needs to know your weight and eye color to license
you to run a hot dog stand... Or am I wrong?
Melissa
Santos reports:
A court hearing Thursday will pit Washington state’s Public Records
Act against the free speech and privacy protections laid out in the
U.S. Constitution.
U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton could decide whether to
allow Pierce County to release the
business licenses of workers at a Parkland strip club —
an action the employees say would violate their privacy and threaten
their ability to continue working.
Read
more on The
News Tribune,
[From
the article:
…
Leighton granted a two-week temporary restraining order preventing
the county from releasing the employees’ business licenses —
which contain personal information such as their stage and legal
names, birth dates, photos, weight and eye color — until after a
court hearing Thursday.
For
my Ethical Hackers (Who should have come up with this on their own!)
–
generates a random fake name, address, username, password, and
(usable) email address for use with online message boards, social
media, or whatever else. fakena.me lets you save the random profile
generated for 30 days so you can bookmark it and return. After 30
days, the profile is deleted. The idea is that, to improve online
privacy, you should change your username and email address
frequently.
Does
this have implications for the music and movie industries? (Or do
they view their products as “low end?”) I keep referring back to
Baen Publishing (baen.com) which found that every book they make
available for free increases their sales. Perhaps all it
takes for a site to remove itself from “low end” is to specialize
(in this case, SciFi) After all, it's your customers who classify
you as “low end.”
In a
study of a 1995 surge in counterfeiting in the Chinese shoe market,
Yi Qian of the University of British Columbia found that the entry of
fakes had the effect of increasing sales of high-end
authentic shoes by 63%. The arrival of counterfeits
on the market affirmed the value of the brands in consumers’ minds
and in many cases introduced the brands to new customers. At the low
end, however, counterfeits merely ate into the brands’ sales.
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