Because it's very hard to explain why some
country, organization, type of communication, or topic of
conversation could never be used by terrorists or rogue nations to
enable bad things.
NSA global
surveillance network knows all?
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jul 4, 2015
Two Part Series from The Intercept
“The sheer quantity of communications that
XKEYSCORE [global Internet surveillance network run by NSA]
processes, filters and queries is stunning. Around the world, when a
person gets online to do anything — write an email, post to a
social network, browse the web or play a video game — there’s a
decent chance that the Internet traffic her device sends and receives
is getting collected and processed by one of XKEYSCORE’s hundreds
of servers scattered across the globe.”
Sounds like they are making everything an
“Emergency Request.” Institutionalizing the panicked
overreaction to 9/11.
Glyn Moody reports:
The Netherlands has launched a public consultation (in Dutch) on a draft bill (Google Translate) that updates the country’s existing Intelligence & Security Act of 2002. The proposed bill is wide-ranging, covering things like the use of DNA samples and the opening of letters, but a key part concerns the regulation of bulk surveillance online. As Matthijs R. Koot explains in a blog post, under the new law, mandatory cooperation will be required from “not only providers of public electronic communications networks and services, but also providers to closed user groups, including telcos, access providers, hosting providers and website operators.”
Read more on Ars
Technica.
For my Computer Security students: How the Ethical
Hacking students got all your passwords.
Elicitation
Techniques
This brochure is an introduction to elicitation
and elicitation techniques. Understanding the techniques and the
threat may help you detect and deflect elicitation attempts.
Perspective. My Data Analysis students will be in
Big Demand!
Has Big
Data Era Delivered Better Results?
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jul 4, 2015
Lauren
Browning – Business Insider: “The amount of digital data in
the universe is growing at an exponential rate, doubling every two
years, and changing how we live in the world. “The
rate at which we’re generating data is rapidly outpacing our
ability to analyze it,” Professor Patrick Wolfe,
Executive Director of the University College of London’s Big Data
Institute, tells Business Insider. “The trick here is to turn
these massive data streams from a liability into a strength.” Just
about 0.5%
of all data is currently analyzed, and Wolfe says that percentage
is shrinking as more data is collected. At the same time, big data
has almost limitless potential. Already, big data is doing
everything from decoding DNA strands to predicting disease patterns,
to suggesting what movies we might want to watch online. Big data
helps cut energy costs in buildings, potentially eliminating $200
billion in waste annually. New York City and Chicago are
becoming
smart cities using big data and sensors to not only save money
but run as efficiently as possible.”
Concerning. Is this enough to cause companies to
exit Chicago? (Think “camel's back” and “last straw.”)
Chicago’s
'cloud tax' makes Netflix and other streaming services more expensive
… Today, a new "cloud tax" takes
effect in the city of Chicago, targeting online databases and
streaming entertainment services. It's a puzzling tax, cutting
against many of the basic assumptions of the web, but the broader
implications could be even more unsettling.
… Chicago's new tax is actually composed of
two recent rulings made by the city's Department of Finance: one
covering "electronically delivered amusements" and another
covering "nonpossessory computer leases." Each one takes
an existing tax law and extends it to levy an extra 9 percent tax on
certain types of online services. The first ruling presumably covers
streaming media services like Netflix and Spotify, while the second
would cover remote database or computing platforms like Amazon Web
Services or Lexis Nexis. Under the new law, what passes as $100 of
server time in Springfield would cost $109 if you're conducting it
from an office in Chicago.
… Some lawyers have already taken issue with
the city's move. After the rulings were announced, Reed
Smith partner Michael Wynne argued the taxes violate both
the Federal Telecommunications Act and, in the case of the second
ruling, 1998's Internet Tax Freedom Act, intended to prevent
discrimination against services delivered over the internet. "I
could do that same activity of research using books or periodicals
without being taxed," Wynne says. "So it does seem like
I'm being picked on because I chose to do it online."
Could this change how we do business? The tools
are there.
http://www.belljarnews.com/skype-for-business-technical-previews-go-live-the-times-of-india/8517240/
Skype for
Business technical previews go live
… The software giant announced that Office 365
enterprise customers could register for the previews of Skype Meeting
Broadcast, which will be capable of broadcasting a Skype for Business
meeting for up to 10,000 people.
PTSN conferencing allows Skype for Business users
to invite people in on meetings or conference sessions through
landlines or mobile phones.
Skype for Business is Microsoft’s unified
communications product, offering a combination of instant messaging,
videoconferencing, presence and voice-over-IP (VoIP) communications
for organizations, although the “enterprise voice” component has
tended to lag.
For serious players only.
Semi-public
TSCM repository by James M. Atkinson (US citizenship + static IPv6
address required)
TSCM expert James
M. Atkinson made a large TSCM repository available via a
restricted directory. To obtain access, US citizenship and a static
IPv6 address are required; the former might be explained by Atkinson
having
been a spy for the US government.
'cause wine
is important! (Another Big Data App) Tracking winos in real time?
… Alex Fishman, a former software engineer for
Apple and an investment strategist for Goldman Sachs, wondered
whether it would be possible to use big data to sort out the
dizzying, often intimidating world of wine. In 2012, he founded
Delectable,
which has become one of the leading apps for identifying and sharing
information on what you drink, used both by amateurs and some of the
most influential voices in wine, including critics like the writer
Jay McInerney and musicians-turned-wine bar owners like James
Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. This week, the San Francisco-based
company is releasing statistics showing how drinking patterns among
its users are changing, based on more than 1 million unique
submissions since the first quarter of 2013.
… wines from the Loire Valley in France and
Piedmont in Italy — again already favored among the wine pros —
have become slightly more popular among regular users, while interest
in the typically bolder wines of Tuscany and especially Bordeaux has
fallen. Ms. Weinberg said that does not necessarily mean that
drinkers are souring on Tuscany and Bordeaux but rather that they are
consuming a broader array of wines.
No comments:
Post a Comment