New Tricks Make ISIS, Once Easily Tracked, a Sophisticated
Opponent
… Drawing from a
growing bag of tricks, Islamic State accomplices located in Syria likely used
phones and WhatsApp accounts belonging to Abaaoud and other attackers to mask
the group’s travel to Europe, said a Western security official: “We relied too
much on technology. And we lost track.”
… Islamic State is
a militant group of the internet age, its followers steeped in Facebook, smartphones and text messaging. These tools, which helped spread the terror
group’s message around the world, also helped authorities foil plots, capture
suspects and win convictions in the group’s early years.
So, you have to be there?
Could I send the search software to a local computer?
From FourthAmendment.com:
There is no reasonable
expectation of privacy in IP addresses, but planting software on a computer to
cause it to transmit its address is “unquestionably a search.” Recognizing the split of authority, Rule 41
was violated, but the court declines to suppress because of the good faith
exception. United
States v. Torres\, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 122086 (W.D.Tex. Sept. 9, 2016)
Read more on FourthAmendment.com.
[From
ForthAmaedment:
This Court disagrees with the
reasoning in Darby and Matish, and instead finds persuasive the reasoning in
Michaud, a case from the Western District of Washington, addressing the NIT
Warrant. 2016 WL 337263. The court in
Michaud reasoned that the installation of the NIT “occurred on the
government-controlled computer, located in the Eastern District of Virginia,”
because the activating computer in Michaud, like the “activating computer” at
issue in the instant case, never physically entered the Eastern District of
Virginia. Id. at *6. The Michaud court
concluded that “even applying flexibility to Rule 41(b) … the NIT Warrant
technically violates the letter, but not the spirit, of Rule 41(b).” Id. at *6.
Likewise, this Court finds that the
“activating computer” was never physically present within the Eastern District
of Virginia, and that any digital presence of the “activating computer” was
insufficient to convey jurisdiction under Rule 41(b)(4).
My IT Architecture students will be debating this.
5 ways artificial intelligence will change enterprise IT
… you might have
heard of Apple spending $200 million to acquire machine learning and A.I.
startup Turi. A smart drone defeated an experienced Air Force pilot in flight
simulation tests. IBM’s Watson diagnosed a
60-year-old woman’s rare form of leukemia within 10 minutes, after doctors had
been stumped for months.
But believe it or not, enterprise IT is also a fertile
ground for A.I. In fact, some of the
most immediate and profound use cases for A.I. will come as companies
increasingly integrate it into their data centers and development organizations
to automate processes that have been done manually for decades.
Here are five examples:
(Related) Artificially intelligent lawyers?
New on LLRX – Mecha Justice: When Machines Think Like Lawyers
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Sep 11, 2016
Via LLRX.com – Mecha Justice: When Machines Think Like
Lawyers – Most workplaces, whether public, private, academic – within the
government, legal, education, news, or advocacy sectors – are increasingly
focused on how to define, implement and position the use of ‘Big Data,’ data
analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and even robotics, into respective
organizational missions that are under increasing pressure to innovate faster. Ken Strutin’s comprehensive, insightful and
expertly documented article is a critical read to assist all of us in the legal
environment, regardless of our role, in understanding key cases, issues,
science, technology and applications, and potential as well as actual outcomes.
As Strutin writes, the term “Mecha”
envisions a futuristic artificial intelligence wrapped in human likeness and
seamlessly woven into the activities of society. It represents a time when the aggrandizement
of our species will depend on technology that looks and thinks like us. Today, the prototype of attorney mechas are
emerging from advances in computer reasoning and big data. The demands of increasingly complex legal
transactions, sophisticated consumers, and the momentum of technology are
putting pressures on the practice of law that only computer assistance can
relieve. This compilation of notable
news articles, scientific studies and legal scholarship highlights the progress
of rights, responsibilities and roles of legal professionals and thinking
machines.
Incentive pay with no disincentive downside. What could possibly go wrong? (Is this a deal to keep the blame from going
higher?)
Wells Fargo Exec Who Headed Phony Accounts Unit Collected
$125 Million
Wells Fargo & Co’s “sandbagger”-in-chief
is leaving the giant bank with an enormous pay day—$124.6 million.
In fact, despite beefed-up “clawback” provisions
instituted by the bank shortly after the financial crisis, and the recent
revelations of massive misconduct, it does not
appear that Wells Fargo is requiring Carrie Tolstedt, the
Wells Fargo executive who was in charge of the unit where employees opened more
than 2 million largely unauthorized customer accounts—a seemingly routine
practice that employees internally referred to as “sandbagging”—to give back any of her nine-figure pay.
(Related) Most
places don’t even ask this question.
For my Trekkies.
Star Trek ComBadge Replica Gives One-Touch Access To Cortana,
Siri, Google Now
ThinkGeek’s website states, “We've had a screen-accurate
prop replica ST:TNG badge in our closet for a while. The only thing it was missing was the ability
to emit the classic communicator chirp sound effect when we pressed it. And then we found out an audio company is
making a fully-functioning officially-licensed communicator badge.”
The Star Trek TNG ComBadge hooks up to smartphones
through Bluetooth. It has a built-in
microphone for hands-free calling and users can touch it once to answer or
finish calls; play or pause audio; or access Siri, Google Now, or Cortana. One touch also plays the classic Star Trek
communicator sound effect. Users can
also sign-off “[Their name] out,” like a Starfleet captain.
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thanks
funny wifi names
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