I'd flunk my Computer Security students for doing
this.
Kelly Jackson Higgins reports:
Midsized companies do a better job protecting their customer information than that of their own employees or their internal intellectual property, a new study found.
Nearly one-third of companies and organizations with 100- to 2,000 employees in the US, Canada, India, Australia, Japan, and Malaysia, say they don’t regularly encrypt their employees’ bank information, and 43% don’t always encrypt human resources files. Nearly half say they don’t routinely encrypt employee health information, according to the Vanson Bourne survey conducted on behalf of security vendor Sophos.
Read more on Dark
Reading.
It never hurts to ask. Signing documents you
don't understand could be a bit of a problem. Of course, no
signature, no probation.
Dana Littlefield reports:
When San Diego defense lawyers returned to court after the start of the new year, many were shocked to learn that their clients were being asked to sign a newly-drafted waiver, allowing police to search cellphones, computers and other types of electronics without first obtaining a warrant.
The one-page document spells out the types of items that would be subject to search: call logs, emails, text messages and social media accounts accessed through a variety of devices — everything from an iPhone to an Xbox.
By signing the waiver, criminal court defendants would also agree to disclose any and all passwords used to access those devices or accounts. Even a fingerprint that unlocks an electronic device would be fair game.
San Diego Superior Court judges began using the waivers just days after a new law took effect in California, requiring police and probation officers to get a search warrant before examining a person’s emails and other forms of “electronic communication.”
Read more on San
Diego Union-Tribune.
Do we call this “Law in the Internet Age” or
simply e-Law?
Judge says
Facebook tagging violates protective orders
You don't have to physically get close to a person
or to call and text them to end up violating a protection order.
According to Acting Westchester County Supreme Court Justice Susan
Capeci, tagging the victim, which sends them a notification, is
enough to breach the order and ultimately land the perpetrator in
jail. Capeci made
the ruling for a case filed against a woman named Maria Gonzalez
who was prohibited by law from contacting her sister-in-law. While
she didn't blow up the sister-in-law's phone or show up uninvited to
her house, she reportedly created a Facebook account and tagged her
on some status updates.
… Gonzalez has been charged with second-degree
criminal contempt for the status updates, which could land her in
prison. Her side tried to argue that she wasn't explicitly banned
from contacting Calderon via Facebook. The judge, however, pointed
out that Gonzalez was ordered not to contact Calderon via "electronic
or any other means."
So what if that's not what they intended, it's
still the law!
Privacy
Laws Pose New Threat to Free Speech
It was a powerful tool while it lasted. For
years, wealthy people the world over could drag critics – including
authors, publishers and media outlets – into London courtrooms and
browbeat them with libel lawsuits. No matter if the defendants had
no connection to England: the courts opened their doors all the same,
and granted often dubious defamation awards to “libel tourists”
from Europe, Russia and the Middle East. The winners would then
collect by presenting the English judgment in foreign courtrooms,
including American ones.
Today, the worst of libel tourism is over.
Lawmakers moved to stop it after outcries over free expression. But
now a new type of muzzling may be on the march in the form of
aggressive privacy rulings, which some fear are breeding a new type
of censorship tourist.
… Now every
letter of action [threatening a lawsuit] comes with a privacy and
data claim,” said Stephens, during a recent lecture
on free speech at Columbia University. He added that those figures
are “the tip of the iceberg” since defendants, in the vast
majority of cases, will settle in order to avoid enormous legal fees.
We're not going to admit this is impossible until
we spend a lot more taxpayer money.
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/266354-lawmakers-set-to-introduce-encryption-commission-bill
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is set to introduce
legislation that would establish a national commission to figure out
how police can get at encrypted data without endangering Americans’
privacy.
Of course they did, how could they not? And will
someone ask if any State Department emails are ever marked
“Classified?” I never marked my telex conversations. They
probably don't “Mark” their phone calls either.
The secret information on former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s personal email was more highly classified
than previously understood, according to the intelligence community’s
internal watchdog.
In a letter to Capitol Hill obtained by The Hill,
Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III
wrote that Clinton had highly classified information known as
“special access programs” (SAP) on her private server.
Will the addition of Social Media ratings change
the rules for TV?
Nielsen
Wants to Watch You Talk to Your Facebook Friends About What You Watch
on TV
It is a little hard to remember now, but not very
long ago, smart people spent a lot of time talking about “social
TV” — TV shows that people talked about on Twitter, Facebook and
other networks.
More on Twitter, really, because it was relatively
easy for Twitter and other companies to see what people were talking
about on Twitter, since Twitter is (nearly) completely public. But
on Facebook, outsiders can’t see what you’re talking about unless
you decide to let them see what you’re talking about.
So the TV industry has spent less time trying to
track TV on Facebook, even though it’s much bigger than Twitter.
Now that’s going to change: Nielsen is going to
start tracking discussions that people have about TV on Facebook with
their family and friends, even if that discussion isn’t marked as
“public.” Nielsen still won’t be able to peer into Facebook
messages you send directly to your friends, but it will see if you
post a message on someone’s feed declaring your love for “The
Real Housewives of Atlanta” or “Jessica Jones.”
… At one point a few years ago, the theory was
that social media chatter could actually boost TV ratings. And even
if it couldn’t, the argument went/evolved, it would be valuable for
programmers and advertisers to know which shows generated a lot of
online conversation, because … engagement.
Learn to love the machine. Unfortunately, that
includes automated lawyers… (Worth reading)
The
Automation Paradox
When computers start doing the work of people, the
need for people often increases.
I'm showing my ignorance. I've never heard of
these guys.
Deezer
Raises Big Funding After Icing IPO Plans
Pulling the plug rather quickly on its initial
public offering a few months ago doesn’t mean Paris-based music
streaming service Deezer has given up raising new cash.
On Wednesday, the company said it has closed a
$109 million (€100 million) round led by Access Industries, with
additional participation from French telecom Orange.
… Founded in 2007, Deezer has been competing
with Swedish rival Spotify for years
… While the latter recently revealed it has
more than 20 million paying customers, Deezer only has about 6
million, according to its website and IPO prospectus. Moreover,
because of some of Deezer’s bundling deals with telecom carriers,
only 3.8 million
of them are generating recurring revenue—the rest prepaid
upfront but might not have actually used the service.
… Still, in the U.S. at least, it seems the
race it narrowing down to two main competitors, with Apple Music and
Spotify duking it out following the shutdown of Rdio (Pandora
bought its assets) and Tidal’s
instability. Just three months after its debut, Apple Music
already had 15 million users with 6.5 million of them paying for the
service (the others were still in their free trial). Now, six months
later, it has
10 million paying subscribers—something Spotify took six years
to achieve.
'Tis the season. (Maybe I just like to point out
that all politicians preach nonsense.)
Economic
Myths
Hillary Clinton: “Of course we want to raise the
minimum wage!”
Donald Trump: If we trade with China, “they suck
us dry … take everything. We get nothing!”
Bernie Sanders: “Ordinary Americans are working
longer hours for lower wages.”
Is this as bad an idea as I think it is?
Read
Shakespeare Side-by-Side in a Modern Translation
… No Fear
Shakespeare (NFS) comes from SparkNotes, a site that offers
summaries of classic books (often used
by busy high school students). NFS is not a summary, though —
it’s a complete re-writing of Shakespeare’s plays in modern
language.
These updated versions run side-by-side with the
original plays, allowing you to easily switch back and forth and see
what an old work translates to modern times.
Shouldn't you be able to do this yourself? (Or
have we stopped teaching people how to write?)
Plugin
Detects “Weak” Language in Emails – Avoid These Words
… a new Gmail
plugin called “Just Not Sorry” identifies the words in your
emails before you send them so you can remove them before you send
that next communication to a colleague, partner or customer.
Free and useful? (I selected some for my
students)
15
Excellent No-Sign Up Websites for Everyday Use
This might help my ESL students.
Quill -
Packs of Interactive Writing Lessons
Quill
is a free service that puts a new spin on the old writing worksheets
that most of us used in middle school. The service offers more than
just the writing practice activities, but that is its core feature.
There are three activity categories within Quill. Those activities
are Quill Proofreader, Quill Grammar, and Quill Writer.
In Quill
Proofreader students are shown students passages that have
grammatical errors placed in them. Students have to identify and
correct the errors in the passages that they read.
Quill
Grammar requires students to complete short exercises in which
they finish the construction of sentences by inserting the correct
words and or punctuation marks.
In Quill
Writer activities students work together to construct sentences
from a shared word bank.
Applications
for Education
You can assign Quill activities to your students
through your teacher dashboard. Once you create an account on Quill
you can create a class and distribute assignments. Your class will
have a code that your students enter when they sign in to use Quill.
After creating your class you can start to browse through the
pre-made Activity Packs. Each Activity Pack is labeled according to
skill type, grade level, and Common Core standards.
Another resource for my website students.
Learn HTML
& CSS Through a Free 12 Part Guide
Learn
to Code HTML & CSS is a free resource developed by Shay Howe
whose resume reveals that he has worked on the user interface for
Groupon among other projects. There are twelve text-based lessons for
beginners in Learn
to Code HTML & CSS. Once you've mastered the beginner
lessons you can try your hand at the advanced lessons. The lessons
cover everything from building your first web page to building forms
and organizing data in tables.
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