Any publicity is good publicity? Nobody died so
it's worth the risk? What (if anything) are they thinking?
Ashley
Madison surges back, says 4.6M have joined infidelity website since
data breach
… The extramarital affair website Ashley
Madison says it has gained nearly 4.6 million members since hackers
posted the names of the website's users in August. A counter on the
site's front page claimed more than 43.4 million “anonymous
members” Tuesday — up from about 38.9 million Aug. 18, the day
hackers posted users' private information online.
I thought Microsoft and others wanted to get out
of the “We can decrypt it” boondoggle?
ONE OF THE EXCELLENT FEATURES of new
Windows devices is that disk
encryption is built-in and turned on by default, protecting your
data in case your device is lost or stolen. But what is less
well-known is that, if you are like most users and login to Windows
10 using your Microsoft account, your computer automatically uploaded
a copy of your recovery key — which can be used to unlock your
encrypted disk — to Microsoft’s servers, probably without your
knowledge and without an option to opt out.
Someone has been collecting useful tips &
tricks.
How to
delete your personal info. from the internet
What did they know that we didn't know? What did
we know that we were worried they might know? Did they have a better
argument than we did? Did they have fact that we didn't? (Should I
believe that Israeli security is so poor their Prime Minister does
not use an encrypted phone?)
US snooping
on Israel also caught talks with lawmakers: report
The U.S. captured communications from Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides and swept up the
content of private conversations with U.S. lawmakers, giving the
Obama administration insight into Israel's lobbying efforts against
the international nuclear deal with Iran, according to a new report.
The
Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the National Security
Agency (NSA) swept up information that White House officials
considered valuable as it sought to counter Netanyahu's vocal
opposition to the nuclear deal between Iran, the U.S. and other world
leaders.
… The Journal also reported that White House
officials were worried about the politics of asking for swept-up
communications between Israeli officials and members of Congress,
allowing the NSA to decide what to share.
"We didn't say, 'Do it,' " a senior U.S.
official told the Journal. "We didn't say, 'Don't do it.' "
[Oh, that makes everything
okay then. Bob]
How much is 'not enough?'
Twitter
cracks down on harassment by rearranging paragraphs in its terms of
service
In the wake of former CEO Dick Costolo admitting
the company "suck[s]
at dealing with abuse," Twitter has devoted many blog
posts to explaining how seriously it takes the issue. It hired
more people to enforce its abuse policies, and added new
tools for reporting harassment. And to cap off the year,
today the company rearranged some paragraphs in its terms of service,
and
celebrated the move in a new blog post.
"The updated language emphasizes that Twitter
will not tolerate behavior intended to harass, intimidate, or use
fear to silence another user's voice," Megan Cristina, the
company's director of trust and safety, wrote in a blog post. "As
always, we embrace and encourage diverse opinions and beliefs — but
we will continue to take action on accounts that cross the line into
abuse." That sounded like a good thing, but when I pulled up
Twitter's new
rules, they looked an awful lot like Twitter's
old rules.
The one significant addition is a new section that
bans "hateful conduct" that targets users on the basis of
their race, nationality, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity,
age, disability, or disease. The rule also bans creating multiple
accounts for the primary purpose of inciting harm toward others based
on those categories. At the same time, the old harassment rules
likely prevented this sort of behavior as well.
The truth is that updated rules are meaningless
unless the company strictly enforces them.
Perspective. Something for my Data Management
class? Interesting points.
At our Enterprise Information and Master Data
Management Summit this year (back in the Spring) we mentioned, as
part of the keynote, the phrase, “from information asset to
information access”. See Information
is the new source of economic value, May 2015. This perhaps
innocuous phrase captures a significant part of the message from the
keynote: the digital, now algorithm economy, will herald significant
economic shifts.
Perspective. You have to ask, “Could this
happen here?”
Amazon is
about to go head-to-head with Britain's struggling supermarkets
… The news that Amazon is to ramp up its
grocery delivery business will come as a blow to the “big four”
supermarket chains – Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons –
which are already under pressure as a result of changing
shopping habits. Large grocers have been battling falling sales
as households abandon the
weekly shop in favour of discount supermarkets, regular local
top-up shopping and online ordering.
For e-tourists.
Google
provides digital walk through of British Museum exhibits
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Dec 29, 2015
National
Geographic – A
New Site Lets You Walk the British Museum From Your Couch – The
world’s oldest national public museum is now the world’s largest
indoor Google Street View.
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“The British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. Over 6 million visitors every year experience the collection, including world-famous objects such as the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, and Egyptian mummies.”
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