Do
people still use the same password on multiple sites? (Yes, they
do!) Otherwise, this might not be too concerning.
Peter
Burrows reports:
User names and passwords of 20 million visitors to an unidentified
dating site have been hacked and offered for sale on a website,
according to a posting by the thief on an online forum used by
cybercriminals.
[…]
Fifty percent of the credentials were for people based in Russia, and
40 percent came from the European Union.
Read
more on Bloomberg
Businessweek.
Are
there hundreds (thousands) of similar warrants Google might disclose?
Guardian
– WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US
government
Ed
Pilkington and Dominic Rushe: “Google took almost three years
to disclose to the open information group WikiLeaks
that it had handed over emails and other digital data belonging to
three of its staffers to the US government, under a secret search
warrant issued by a federal judge. WikiLeaks has written to Google’s
executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, to protest that the search giant
only revealed the warrants last month, having been served them in
March 2012. In the letter, WikiLeaks says it is “astonished and
disturbed” that Google
waited more than two and a half years to notify its subscribers,
potentially depriving them of their ability to protect their rights
to “privacy, association and freedom from illegal searches”. The
letter, written by WikiLeaks’ New York-based lawyer, Michael
Ratner of the Center
For Constitutional Rights, asks Google to list all the materials
it provided to the FBI. Ratner also asks whether the California-based
company did anything to challenge the warrants and whether it has
received any further data demands it has yet to divulge.”
The
assumption is that you would willingly share your data? No one
questioned this?
Alex
Matthews-King reports:
The NHS’s information centre will have to contact potentially
millions of patients who have opted out of care.data informing them
they will not receive services such as e-prescribing, bowel
screening, e-referrals or e-pathology reporting when the scheme goes
live.
In a letter submitted
to the commons health committee, the Health and Social Care
Information Centre explains that patients
had been unaware that opting out of allowing HSCIC to share data
meant they would not be contacted about screening programmes or be
able to use services that require data sharing, such as
e-prescribing.
As a result, it will have to contact patients to inform they
they must remove their objections to data being shared at that level
if they want to receive these services, but they will
still be able to opt out of allowing their practice to share data.
Read
more on Pulse.
So
you have to be willing to share your data to get services? Is that
extortionist or is it just the reality that if you don’t agree to
share, they’d have no way to figure out to contact you or to
provide info to the service responsible for e-prescribing, etc.??
Not
as interesting as I had hoped. No dark conspiracy. They were
tossing money at anything that looked useful. They still are.
Nafeez
Ahmed writes:
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism
project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States
intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as
part of a drive to dominate the world [How
very “Dr. Evil” of them Bob] through control of
information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the
first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US
intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.
Thanks
to Joe Cadillic for these links. Now if he could just find me the
time to read everything he sends me!
Note
that I am not vouching for the accuracy of anything reported or
alleged in the series, but wanted to make readers aware of it so they
can evaluate it for themselves.
If
my Computer Security students do this, will they auto-magically be
flagged as terrorists?
Avoiding
Internet Surveillance: The Complete Guide
…
This article is meant to be as comprehensive a resource as possible
on avoiding Internet surveillance. We’ll talk about why Internet
surveillance is such a big deal, who’s behind it, whether or not
you can completely
avoid it, and a wide range of tools that will make you harder to
track, identify, and spy on.
An
overview/history for Javascript students.
What
is JavaScript, And Can the Internet Exist Without It?
JavaScript
is one of those things many take for granted.
Everybody
uses it. Everybody. When you use Facebook, you’re using
JavaScript. When you post a tweet, you’re using JavaScript.
Indeed, when you visit MakeUseOf, you’re using JavaScript. There
are very few websites which don’t use it.
But
few people know what it really is, and how it works. Many are
unaware of the long and fascinating history of JavaScript, and what
you can do with it.
Walmart
understands that anyone can cut the cable and many probably will.
Walmart
takes on Chromecast with even cheaper, simpler streaming stick
Walmart’s quietly launched
Vudu Spark is the latest Chromecast
competitor, a device that’s supposed to be about as big as Google’s
streaming dongle, but even cheaper.
However, it appears the stick might have more limited powers than
the Chromecast also, as GigaOm
reports.
I
have my students reading “The Dynamo and the Computer” which
discusses how slowly new technology replaces older technology. The
phone was first demonstrated in 1876 and took almost 40 years to
cross the continent. (The telegraph had reached across the country
in 1861.)
AT&T
ushers in the cross-country call, 100 years ago
On
January 25, 1915, AT&T completed the first transcontinental
telephone call in the US, after completing the challenging stretch
from Denver to San Francisco.
Fortunately,
none of my students have any bad habits. Unfortunately, I lie a lot.
Kill
Your Bad Habits With Exciting Tools From 10 Startups
Bad
habits come in a multitude of forms. From smoking and drinking to
biting your finger nails and needing to be
more productive, most people have some practices that they aren’t
proud of – practices that they would rather leave in their past.
It’s
not easy to break habits – it requires dedication, commitment, and
sometimes painful introspection. Luckily, the digital age is here.
It means that although you’ll still need all those things, there
are now gadgets and programs that can make it just that little bit
easier to get those demons off your back.
Here
are ten start-ups that have the sole aim of helping you kill your bad
habits:
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