No bias here!
Apple
speaks with congress, FBI continues fear-mongering
Apple's Statement
Apple sent Senior Vice President and General
Counsel Bruce Sewell to speak with this United States House of
Representatives Committee of the Judiciary.
… You can see the entire
statement by Bruce Sewell via the House online.
FBI's Statement
The FBI sent its director James Comey to speak
with this same congressional panel. After speaking for several
paragraphs about how the FBI valued electronic privacy and citizen's
right to communicate with one another without unauthorized government
surveillance, Comey began listing how terrible it'd be if "criminals
and terrorists" got ahold of an iPhone.
… You can read the entire FBI
statement if you'd like to go further in-depth via the House.
(Related) There is something a bit “off”
here. The FBI has a pretty good forensics team. They would have
known what happens when you force a password change.
FBI
director admits mistake was made with San Bernardino iCloud reset
FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday conceded it
was a mistake to ask San Bernardino County to reset the password of
an iCloud account that had been used by gunman Syed Farook.
Changing the password to the account prevented the
phone from making a backup to an iCloud account, which Apple could
have accessed without bypassing the encryption and security settings
on the phone.
Apple is not the only company that law
enforcement, the courts or entire governments feel are
“under-cooperating.”
Facebook
Exec Jailed in Brazil as Court Seeks WhatsApp Data
… While details of the case remain murky,
court officials said the judge in Brazil resorted to the arrest after
issuing a fine of 1 million reais ($250,000) to compel Facebook to
help investigators access WhatsApp messages relevant to their
drug-trafficking investigation.
That is likely impossible because WhatsApp began
using end-to-end encryption technology in 2014 that prevents the
company from monitoring messages that travel across its network, said
Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist with the American Civil
Liberties Union.
“They are using technology to try to take
themselves out of the surveillance business,” Soghoian said.
Ah, the French. The very definition of
unpredictable.
David Chazan reports:
French parents are being warned to stop posting pictures of children on social networks in case their offspring later sue them for breaching their right to privacy or jeopardising their security.
Under France’s stringent privacy laws, parents could face penalties as severe as a year in prison and a fine of €45,000 (£35,000) if convicted of publicising intimate details of the private lives of others — including their children – without their consent.
Read more on The
Telegraph.
For my Computer Security students. Infographic
A Visual
Guide to the Deep and Dark Web
The creatively named Dark Web is a
part of the Internet even the almighty Google doesn’t index.
But is the dark web a bad place filled with villainy, or is it just
misunderstood?
Drones are not fully autonomous, yet. Remember,
these are civilian drones. I imagine the military drones are closer
to Terminator smart.
DJI Phantom
Drone 4 Is Smart And You Can't Hide From It
Fly With Tap
DJI is making it easier for users to fly the
Phantom Drone 4 through the iOS or Android apps. All they have to do
is to double tap the screen to fly.
The drone's Obstacle Sensing System keeps the
drone safe while flying. The system makes use of two forward-facing
optical sensors to make sure that the drone will not hit trees, walls
and rooftops while maintaining its flight direction.
Visual Tracking
The ActiveTrack feature allows users to track
their subject automatically. Pilots will simply tap their subject in
the camera's frame. The Phantom 4 will then pick up on the object
and keep it in the center of the image even when it changes
direction.
… The new Phantom costs $1,399
I've been ignoring the broadcast v cable v
satellite war. Perhaps it's time for another look.
Look Ma, No
Dish! AT&T To Launch DirecTV Internet Streaming Service
As more and more people cut the cable cord, cable
companies, media companies and content creators alike are scrambling
to make sure that those who want access to their services have it.
Over the past couple of years, we've seen many examples of companies
dropping their cable TV exclusivity, with Dish
being one of the most notable. Last
February, the Dish released a $20/mo package through Sling TV,
and without much of a delay, AMC
jumped on board, and so
did HBO.
… AT&T
... just announced that it also will be offering premium
content services to those without a cable subscription. You don't
even need a current AT&T product to jump on board.
Perspective. And Uber didn't even have to lobby!
MBTA to end
late-night service by mid-March
Late-night hours on the MBTA will end March 18,
after board members voted unanimously Monday to ax the service.
… Proponents of late-night hours — which
extended MBTA service on all subway lines and some bus lines to 2
a.m. on Fridays and Saturday, from the usual 12:30 — have called it
a safe alternative for students and service industry workers. They
said it was a blow to low-income residents in an increasingly
unaffordable city.
For the political junkies?
The AP
debuts “Election Buzz,” a tool that uses Twitter and Google data
to track the U.S. elections
Just in time for Super Tuesday, the AP has
launched a new tool in partnership with Google and Twitter that helps
voters visualize what people are saying about the current elections,
candidates and issues, as well as how that interest has changed over
time. Effectively, the product, called AP
Election Buzz, is a lot like a political-focused Google
Trends tool mashed up with Twitter data. And while the online
dashboard won’t tell you who to vote for, it does help to display
which candidates are dominating online conversation (ahem,
Trump) and which topics and issues are currently in the forefront of
voters’ minds.
Could be amusing. (This is
turn-of-the-20th-century)
Download
2,000 Turn-of-the-Century Art Posters from NYPL
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Mar 1, 2016
New
York Public Libraries Digital Collections – “Explore 674,208
items digitized from The
New York Public Library‘s collections. This site is a living
database with new materials added every day, featuring prints,
photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.” A
recent addition is a collection of over 2,000
Turn of the Century Posters. The collection offers a
magical tour of diverse styles and periods, and often recognizable
images from magazines, print advertisements, magazine and journals
covers.
I should try this… My International students
might benefit from it as well.
Quickly
Dictate Notes in Multiple Languages on Dictation.io
Dictation.io is
a good tool to add to yesterday's
list of free tools for dictating notes. On Dictation.io you can
simply click "start dictation" then start having your voice
transcribed into a text document. No registration is required in
order to use Dictation.io. More than two dozen languages are support
on Dictation.io. The video embedded below provides a demonstration
of Dictation.io.
Dictation.io
doesn't require students to register in order to use it. It also
supports more than two dozen languages. Those two aspects of
Dictation.io make it accessible to students who don't have Google
Docs accounts and to those who don't speak English as their first
language.
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