For
my Ethical Hackers. It's not just for lawyers communications with
their clients.
From
EFF:
In the face of widespread Internet data collection and surveillance,
we need a secure and practical means of talking to each other from
our phones and computers. Many companies offer “secure messaging”
products – but how can users know if these systems actually secure?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its Secure
Messaging Scorecard today, evaluating dozens of messaging
technologies on a range of security best practices.
Read
more of their press release here.
For
the full Secure Messaging Scorecard:
https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
Also
for my Ethical Hackers and Computer Security students. Why spend
(waste) time hacking when you can steal the whole (unencrypted)
database so easily?
Jasmine
Pennic reports:
68 percent of all healthcare data breaches since 2010 are due to
device theft or loss, according to the 2014 Healthcare Breach Report
from Bitglass.
Despite the recent headlines of hacker attacks to hospitals, only 23
percent of healthcare data breaches were a result of cybercriminals
compromising networks and exfiltrating data. The findings come from
analyzing data on the United States Department of Health and Human
Services’ “The
Wall of Shame,” a database of breach disclosures required as
part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA).
Read
more on HIT
Consultant.
The
government loves Facebook users.
Social
networking giant Facebook on Tuesday released its third Government
Requests Report that are meant to provide greater transparency over
the amount of data authorities try to source from it.
According
to its latest transparency report, the California-based company
received 34,946 data requests during the first six months of this
year.
…
In addition, it also saw a
19 percent rise in the amount of data held back due to the local
laws. [Interesting,
but no details in this article. Bob]
Interesting
roadblock. Will it reinforce the FBI's call for easier access?
Adam
Klasfeld reports:
Just in time for Halloween, a federal magistrate gave the government
a fright by restricting its prodigious power to surveil cellphones.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein’s five-page order
Friday does not identify any information about the manufacturer,
suspect or alleged crime at issue in the case of on his docket. But
his ruling is nonetheless notable for the hoops it will make the
government jump through to crack a cellphone in the post-Edward
Snowden age.
Read
more on Courthouse
News.
Perhaps
the next big privacy kerfuffle?
Taylor
Armerding reports:
Parents expect schools to keep track of their kids. But in the
digital era, keeping track is vastly different than it was a
generation ago, thanks to Big Data analytics.
According to its advocates, this is a very good thing. Gathering
individual information on students can lead to “personalized” and
“adaptive” learning platforms. If technology can help students
become more successful, what’s not to like?
A lot, say privacy advocates, since the collection of information on
students goes well beyond data used to shape individual curriculums.
Read
more on CSO
Online.
[From
the article:
In a
recent blog post
in the New York Times, Barnes said data collection is not
just about attendance, grades, disciplinary records and learning
aptitudes.
“Data
gathering includes health, fitness and sleeping habits, sexual
activity, prescription drug use, alcohol use and disciplinary
matters. Students attitudes, sociability and even ‘enthusiasm’
are quantified, analyzed, recorded and dropped into giant data
systems,” she wrote.
(Related)
“It's for the children!” Clearly, anyone who thinks the
government is wrong is mentally ill and needs to be medicated or
institutionalized.
Using the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre as its
justification, the Obama administration has recently given the
psychiatric business and pharmaceutical industry a major gift by
quietly introducing a behavioral and mental health program in public
schools throughout the United States. The maneuver was initially
laid out on January 16, 2013 in President Obama’s executive policy,
Now is the Time: The President’s Plan to Protect Our Children and
Our Communities by Reducing Gun Violence.
Professor
James F. Tracy writes:
The document is partly devoted to articulating Obama’s proposed gun
control measures that failed to move gain legislative traction in
2013. Yet an under-reported section of Now is the Timeis
applied to “making schools safer” and “improving mental health
services” for students. [1] While presented by the Obama
administration as “commonsense solutions to gun violence,“ one is
left to consider the long range implications of such an initiative,
particularly in light of the Affordable Care Act and the
psychopharmaceutical complex’s never-ending drive to expand its
clientele.
Read
more on Global
Research.
[From
the article:
Introducing
psychiatric explanations and methodologies into school environments
guarantees a growing customer base for the psychiatric profession and
pharmaceutical industry. Alongside government’s increasing control
of healthcare, the technocratic surveillance and management of
everyday thought and behavior is likewise emerging as part of what is
deceptively termed “wellness.”
Perspective.
Technology addiction.
…
A new survey
commissioned by AT&T*
and Dr. David Greenfield, founder of The Center for Internet and
Technology Addiction and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
at The University of Connecticut School of Medicine, found that twice
as many people as self-reported cell phone addiction are showing
compulsive phone behaviors – with three-in-four people admitting to
at least glancing at their phones while behind the wheel.
…
The AT&T
DriveMode** app for iPhone is now available on the App Store –
making it the first free no-texting-while-driving application offered
by a major U.S. wireless carrier that works on the iPhone. The app
is easy to use. It silences incoming text message alerts, turns on
automatically when one drives 15 MPH or more and turns off shortly
after one stops. When activated, it automatically responds to
incoming SMS and MMS text messages so the sender knows the text
recipient is driving. It also allows parents with young drivers to
receive a text message if the app is turned off.
To
learn more about It Can Wait, please visit www.ItCanWait.com.
The
AT&T DriveMode app is available for free on the App Store for
iPhone or at www.AppStore.com.
About
time someone learned to work the new technology! This article
provides a good primer for marketers.
How
Taylor Swift Rocks Social Marketing … And How You Can, Too
It's
Taylor Swift's world, and we're just living in it. Not only is she
taking over the pop charts with her new album "1989," she's
taking the Internet by storm, too.
Celebrities
are already known for their huge social media followings, but Swift's
online presence is more than just a growing collection of fans. The
24-year-old country-turned-pop superstar has truly mastered the art
of social networking, and her album and concert ticket sales aren't
the only thing that will benefit from her online strategies — your
business can, too.
Swift
already has 46 million followers on Twitter, nearly 13 million
Instagram followers and over 71 million Facebook fans. But where the
star truly shines is on her latest social networking conquest:
Tumblr.
Back
in September, Swift joined
Tumblr much to the delight of her fans (also known as #swifties).
But to understand why this is such a big deal, first you need to
understand Tumblr. Here's a breakdown:
(Related)
Maybe. Perhaps in the next election, advertising on Facebook will
determine our next president?
How
Facebook Could Skew an Election
…
To entice you to Vote (or, at least, click that button), Facebook
listed a couple friends’s names and some profile pictures, and told
me that 1.8 million other people had already done the same. (Which
is a little staggering, since polls hadn’t even opened on the West
Coast yet.)
…
Facebook believes that in 2010, its election-day module was
responsible for more than 600,000 additional votes.
In
other words, to
paraphrase Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain, the 2000
presidential election—where George W. Bush won Florida by 537
votes—could have been altered by a Facebook election button.
…
A Facebook vice president told Sifry that the experiments
were conducted primarily to find out if changing the text
of the share button—from “I’m a Voter” to “I Voted” to
something else—affected how many people clicked it. We won’t be
able to confirm anything about those experiments, though, until next
year, when the academic results of the experiment come out. And even
then, it’s likely that Facebook conducted other user tests that it
will never publish in an academic journal.
How
things will populate the Internet of Things?
Nest
announces deal with Irish utility to offer its learning thermostats
for free
Nest announced a partnership
today with Electric
Ireland to provide its smart thermostat
for free to customers who sign a 2-year contract with the utility.
… Details of the partnership
were not immediately available. Fadell said the Nest Learning
Thermostat would be distributed by Electric
Ireland which has 1.5 million customers.
Another
interesting Internet of Things article. Will smart vehicles tell the
driver what's happening, or just the manufacturer?
It’s
happened to all of us. You’re driving down the road and the “check
engine” light appears on your dashboard. It could be something
simple, like time for an oil change, or it could be something bigger.
What do you do? Lose your car for a day while you take it to a
service station? Keep on driving and hope for the best?
If
you’re a commercial truck driver, the stakes are higher. An
unplanned repair visit means losing a day of revenue, and potentially
hurting your delivery schedule, for a condition that might be very
minor. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far
worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood.
Interesting.
Why
Libraries [Still] Matter
…
Librarians apprenticed to degrees in information science to know how
to find things, and they coupled that skill with a professional
commitment to neutrality, or at least absence of
bias…libraries — real ones concerned with guarding and
curating knowledge — remain crucial to free and open societies,
and not simply because their traditional services within academia,
from curation to preservation to research, remain in high demand by
scholars. More broadly, they crucially complement the Web in its
highest aspirations: to provide unfettered access to knowledge, and
to link authors and readers in new ways. Here’s
why….”
Interestinger...
Learn to argue like a lawyer?
FreeLawProject
Rolls Out Oral Argument Audio
Announcing
Oral Arguments on CourtListener “We’re very excited to
announce that CourtListener is currently in the process of rolling
out support for Oral Argument audio. This is a feature that we’ve
wanted for at least four years — our name is CourtListener,
after all — and one that will bring a raft of new features to the
project. We already have about 500 oral arguments on the site, and
we’ve got many more we’ll be adding over the coming weeks. For
now we are getting oral
argument audio in real time from ten
federal appellate courts. As we get this audio, we
are using it to power a number of features:
The
problem is, they gave Surface 3 tablets to users already
trained/addicted to iPads. They should target users who are not
already committed – like adjunct professors of computer security...
Earlier
this year, sports commentators in an NFL game kept
on referring to the Surface as “iPad-like tools”. Now we
have another such mishap happening. During the ongoing election
coverage, the Redmond-based giant provided the CNN commentators with
its Surface Pro 3
tablets, but many of them appeared to be more interested in iPads,
which was concealed behind
the Surface tablet.
Are
we seeing a Putin who does not understand economics (or does not
realize the importance of a strong currency) Or is this an
undeclared economic war? (Dog-pile on Russia?) Reagan out-spent
their military, is this Obama realizing that (with a few favors from
oil producing countries) he can really sanction Russia for disrupting
the Ukraine? (Probably no)
The
Russian Rouble Is Getting Destroyed Again...
Russia's
currency is taking another nosedive in early trading, hitting new
record-lows against the dollar and the euro. Falling oil prices have
compounded fears about the country's economy causing foreign currency
to flood out of the country. The problem now is that the falling
value of the rouble is itself causing problems for Russian companies,
driving up import costs, squeezing profits and making foreign
currency debt repayments hugely more expensive.
In
short, Russia faces a death spiral of a falling rouble feeding fears
of an economic collapse, which drive the rouble down further.
Dilbert
illustrates the power of communication, miscommunication
and ego, all in one cartoon.
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