“We can, therefore we must!” Besides, who is
going to stop them?
China Tries
Its Hand at Pre-Crime
China’s effort to flush out threats to stability
is expanding into an area that used to exist only in dystopian
sci-fi: pre-crime. The Communist Party has directed one of the
country’s largest state-run defense contractors, China Electronics
Technology Group, to develop software to collate data on jobs,
hobbies, consumption habits, and other behavior of ordinary citizens
to predict terrorist acts before they occur.
… “We don’t call it a big data platform,”
he said, “but a united
information environment.” [Another
name for “Total Information Awareness?” Bob]
Granted they want the precedent, but didn't the
judge ask them if they could do it without Apple?
Who Needs
Apple When the FBI Could Hack Terrorist iPhone Itself
… Security experts say there are many ways the
FBI could hack the iPhone now at the center of a standoff between
Apple and the U.S. government. They argue that doing so would be
faster than waiting for the courts to decide whether Apple should be
forced to create software that would let investigators try multiple
passcodes without erasing the device. No one is saying a government
hack would be easy, but the experts interviewed for this story have
concluded the Feds aren’t even trying because they’d rather win a
legal precedent that gives agents the power to access phone data with
a warrant.
My Ethical Hacking students should love this.
These
engineers are developing artificially intelligent hackers
Could you invent an autonomous hacking system that
could find and fix vulnerabilities in computer systems before
criminals could exploit them, and without any human being involved?
That’s the challenge faced by seven teams
competing in Darpa’s
Cyber Grand Challenge in August.
Each of the teams has already won $750,000 for
qualifying and must now put their hacking systems up against six
others in a game of “capture
the flag”. The software must be able to attack the other
team’s vulnerabilities as well as find and fix weaknesses in their
own software – all while protecting its performance and
functionality. The winning team will walk away with $2m.
Anyone can send you classified email, that's why
you should use a secure system. You should be able to avoid sending
classified data over unsecured channels if you stop and think about
it. (Does the timing of DoJ releases suggest they are trying to
undermine Hillary? What did she ever do to them?)
Clinton, on
her private server, wrote 104 emails the government says are
classified
Hillary Clinton wrote 104 emails that she sent
using her private server while secretary of state that the government
has since said contain classified information, according to a new
Washington Post analysis of Clinton’s publicly released
correspondence.
The finding is the first accounting of the
Democratic presidential front-runner’s personal role in placing
information now considered sensitive into insecure email during her
State Department tenure. Clinton’s authorship of dozens of emails
now considered classified could
complicate her efforts to argue that she never put government secrets
at risk.
… The analysis also showed that the practice
of using non-secure email systems to send sensitive information was
widespread at the
department and elsewhere in government. [Perhaps
some good will come of this after all. Bob]
Modern tech support?
Apple
Geniuses Flock to Twitter
Apple on Thursday launched a Twitter channel to
field support questions from users of its products, as well as to
offer them tricks and tips.
By Friday, the @AppleSupport
account had 134,000 followers and had sent more than 3,000 tweets.
… Providing support through Twitter will be a
valuable service for Apple, as many companies have already
discovered, noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
"There are hundreds of companies by this time
that maintain a watch on social media to monitor comments about their
brands and their products," he told CRM Buyer.
Perspective. How did we meet people before
smartphone Apps? Imagine wearing virtual reality glasses and walking
down the street. Each person you see would be color coded (Possible
mates in Pink, friend-worthy in Green, etc.) with numeric scores to
rank them from most to least desirable.
Bumble Now
Lets You Switch To BFF Mode To Find Real Friends, Not Just Friends
With Benefits
Dating app Bumble from Whitney Wolfe, who was one
of the Tinder co-founders, is now launching a new service designed to
help users find BFFs.
Bumble became a popular dating app due to its
model, which banks on women being the ones who make the first move.
A new app called The Catch follows a similar model, encouraging women
to pick
their bachelors based on their personality, but Bumble still has
its loyal fan base.
While Bumble is still primarily oriented toward
dating,
it now allows users to do more. In addition to finding romantic
matches or friends with benefits, Bumble now enables users to find
trustworthy BFFs.
Aptly called BFF, the new Bumble feature basically
takes the same swiping and matching algorithms as for dating and
applies them to friendship.
Is Dilbert suggesting that this guy now works for
the FBI?
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