From the
“We gotta do
something!” department. “What? The terrorists didn't use
encrypted phones? They used burner phones huh? Okay, lets make up
some laws to cover that – because that will stop them from using
phones!
New bill
targets prepaid ‘burner’ phones with ID requirement
Burner
phones are still as easily accessible as ever — you just head to
your nearest convenience or big-box store, pick up a cheap prepaid
phone and a phone card, and like magic you have a completely useable
phone sans any identification records. It's a great thing if you're
in a bind and in need of a last-minute phone, but not so great if
you're law enforcement trying to hunt down potential criminals.
A newly proposed bill
sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier of California, if it passes, will
require purchasers to show ID when buying a prepaid phone or similar
mobile device, as well as when purchasing a SIM card. Under the law,
retailers would be required to get a buyer's personal information,
including name, address and Social Security number. Essentially,
buying a prepaid phone would become as burdensome as signing up for a
new mobile contract.
No doubt this will become an “insider trading”
defense.
Linn Foster Freedman of Robinson & Cole
writes:
The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification to law firms indicating that a cyber crime insider trading ring is targeting “international law firm information used to facilitate business ventures.” According to the FBI “[T]he scheme involves a hacker compromising the law firm’s computer networks and monitoring them for material, non-public information... This information, gained prior to a public announcement, is then used by a criminal with international stock market expertise to strategically place bids and generate a monetary profit.”
Read more on Robinson & Cole Data
Privacy & Security Insider.
We have been talking about this (not just DNA) for
years.
From the is-anyone-really-shocked-by-this
dept.
Paul Elias reports:
Investigators are broadening their DNA searches beyond government databases and demanding genetic information from companies that do ancestry research for customers.
Two major companies that research family lineage for fees around $200 say that over the last two years, they have received law enforcement demands for genetic information stored in their DNA databases.
Ancestry.com and competitor 23andme report a total of five requests from law agencies for the genetic material of six individuals in their growing databases of hundreds of thousands.
Read more on ABC.
(Related) See?
Growing
personal impact of large-scale government and corporate data
collection
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Mar 26, 2016
Via Fast CoExit – Your
Data Footprint Is Affecting Your Life In Ways You Can’t Even
Imagine – Job decisions, college admissions, health care decisions:
All are now being fundamentally altered by your big data, and you
might not even know. “…Predictions about you (and millions
of other strangers) are starting to deeply shape your life. Your
career, your love life, major decisions about your health and
well-being, and even if you end up in jail, are now being governed in
no small part by the digital bread crumbs you’ve left behind—many
of which you don’t even know you’ve dropped in the first place.”
It never occurred to me that this was a “Black
thing.”
Black
caucus treads carefully into Apple-FBI fight
… “In the context of white supremacy and
police violence, Black people need encryption,” tweeted Malkia
Cyril, director of the Center for Media Justice. The racial justice
group that signed on to a letter defending Apple sent to Magistrate
Judge Sheri Pym, who is overseeing the case.
Interesting.
How are the hackers getting past the firewall? I can see them using
“network connected printer and fax machines” to print the flyers,
but I don't see how they could “distribute” them.
ABC reports that remote print capabilities have
enabled hackers to print and distribute anti-semitic flyers:
DePaul University is searching for the hacker behind a white supremacist, anti-Semitic flyer that appeared on campus.
The university president says someone hacked into several printers and the flyer printed simultaneously. Officials say the source was not a DePaul account.
Read more on ABC.
DePaul wasn’t the only university hit this way,
it seems. Yesterday, CBS
reported the rash of anti-semitic flyers also affected Princeton
University; Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island; the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles.
Perspective.
Millions
More Drones Will Be Flying Above Your Head by 2020
The number of drones circulating overhead is
expected to triple in the next four years, according to the Federal
Aviation Administration’s aerospace
forecast for 2016 to 2036. The FAA estimates hobbyist and
commercial drones in the U.S. will increase from 2.5 million to 7
million by 2020.
Recreational drones alone are expected to hit 4.3
million by 2020
We're looking for a few easily implemented Apps
for student projects. Perhaps we could break this into simple steps
and program it? Free, public key Apps?
The Dream
Of Usable Email Encryption Is Still A Work In Progress
Tech-savvy people have had a way to send secure
email since the mid 1990s, when legendary cryptographer Phil
Zimmermann created the encryption software known as Pretty Good
Privacy, or PGP.
But despite more than 20 years of existence, PGP,
as well as its free replacement GPG,
has never been mainstream. That’s because it’s a relatively
hard-to-use tool for the few who would bother to use the command
line, clunky email clients’ extensions, and bootstrapped
software.
… Both Google and Yahoo are working on an
implementation of the open source standard OpenPGP
that works entirely within the browser. The two projects are a work
in progress, so some details might change, but the idea is to create
a browser extension that will deal with all the pains of using PGP,
making it as easy as possible to use, and allowing users to send
emails that nobody—including Google and Yahoo—can read, other
than the sender and the recipient.
Perspective.
Snapchat
users now spend 25 to 30 minutes every day on the app, and it's
trying to attract the TV money because of it
Snapchat's photos and videos are famous for
disappearing after a few seconds, but its users are spending as much
as a half-hour every day playing with its app.
… Snapchat is telling potential advertisers
that its worldwide daily active users, which at last count stood at
more than 100 million, now spend an average of 25-30 minutes a day on
Snapchat, a source with knowledge of the pitch told Business Insider.
Of those using it every day, 60% are also creating
new content, whether it's a photo or chatting friends, so it's not
just people passively watching, Snapchat is telling advertisers.
Pretend you
built the Internet and know all its secrets.
10 Internet
Easter Eggs to Hunt for This Sunday (Infographic)
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