We’ve all been tempted to use public Wi-Fi: it’s free,
saves on your data allowance, and is always helpful in speeding up loading
times.
You might love public Wi-Fi — but so do hackers.
Here are just a few ways cybercriminals can get access to
your private data and potentially steal your identity and what you can do to
protect yourself.
(Ditto)
… Because your
mailbox is encrypted, the ProtonMail staff have zero access, never mind the NSA. ProtonMail
will ask you for your mailbox decryption key after you have initially logged
in. You won’t be able to access your
mailbox until you have entered both sets of credentials.
At least my Blog has a few readers…
TN Note: The intelligence community keeps saying that
they are not collecting random data on American Citizens and incidents like
this keep popping up proving that they are brazen liars. Remember that DHS is not isolated from the
rest of the intelligence community; rather, it reports directly to the Director
of National Intelligence for everything it does, including line-item budget
approval. Thus, the DHS vacuuming of
social media an intentional policy from the very top.
Neal Ungerleider reports:
At a Congressional hearing this
morning that veered into contentious arguments and cringe-worthy moments, the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spilled the beans on their social media
monitoring project.
DHS Chief Privacy Office Mary
Ellen Callahan and Director of Operations Coordination and Planning Richard
Chavez appeared to be deliberately stonewalling Congress on the depth,
ubiquity, goals, and technical capabilities of the agency’s social media
surveillance. At other times, they
appeared to be themselves unsure about their own project’s ultimate goals and
uses. But one thing is for sure: If
you’re the first person to tweet about a news story, or if you’re a community
activist who makes public Facebook posts—DHS will have your personal
information.
Read more on Technocracy
News.
My students don’t understand what a new “Cloud” datacenter
costs.
Microsoft expands Azure data centers to France, launches
trust offensive vs AWS, Google
… Microsoft announced it would build its first Azure data
center in France this year, as part of a $3 billion investment that it has
made to build its cloud services in Europe.
The arguments continue.
I guess you don’t need to be certain the data is kept by the people who
get the subpoena. Does it impact my
Governance class?
Subpoenas and Gag Orders Show Government Overreach, Tech
Companies Argue
It has been six months since the Justice Department backed
off on demands that Apple help the F.B.I.
break the security of a locked iPhone.
But the
government has not given up the fight with the tech industry. Open Whisper Systems, a maker of a widely used
encryption app called Signal, received a subpoena in the first half of the year
for subscriber information and other details associated with two phone numbers
that came up in a federal grand jury investigation in Virginia.
The subpoena
arrived with a court order that said Open Whisper Systems was not allowed to
tell anyone about the information request for one year.
… The documents
released last week show that the government asked Open Whisper Systems to turn
over data associated with two telephone numbers, including web browsing
histories and data stored in the tracking “cookies” of the web browsers
attached to those accounts. But one of Signal’s biggest draws is that it does not
collect most of that information.
“The Signal
service was designed to minimize the data we retain,” said Moxie Marlinspike,
the founder of Open Whisper Systems. Mr.
Marlinspike said Signal uses a technology called end-to-end encryption that kept the service from gaining
access to the contents of its users’ messages. The company also does not store information on
those with whom its users are communicating.
Amusing.
Census Data Visualization Gallery
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Oct 3, 2016
“Data Visualization Gallery. A weekly exploration of Census data. The Census Bureau is working to increase our
use of visualization in making data available to the public, and this gallery
is an early part of that effort. The
first posted visualizations will pertain largely to historical population data,
building on prior work done to portray historical changes in the growth and
redistribution of the U.S. population. For later visualizations, the topics will
expand beyond decennial census data to include the full breadth of Census
Bureau data sets and subject areas, from household and family dynamics, to
migration and geographic mobility, to economic indicators.”
This also looks like fun.
… Hologram for
Rainmeter renders 3D models — using the OBJ file type — as point clouds. Point clouds are transparent 3D objects
created by placing points at distinct coordinates. The coordinates used are dictated by the face
(underlying shape) vertices in a 3D object.
Apps are out. Bots
are in.
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