WHEC reports:
Major League Lacrosse is investigating a
massive data leak that exposed every individual player’s personal information.
According to an email the league sent to all players
Monday evening — that was in turn sent to News10NBC by a player — a link on one of their website pages mistakenly
re-directed browsers to a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet contained every player in the
league’s names, phone numbers, email and mailing addresses, Social Security
numbers and more.
Read more on WHEC.
That “more” in the personal info
sentence was defined in the email sent to players as:
full name, address, telephone
number, email address, Social Security number, citizenship, date of birth,
height, weight, position, college, graduation year, team, and non-MLL
occupation.
According
to the MLL, they have 230 players in 9 teams.
I think they got something wrong. None of this is new. Granted, some was not used by personal
devices, but the technology has been around for years.
Spying on the Smart Home: Privacy Attacks and Defenses on
Encrypted IoT Traffic
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Spying on the Smart Home: Privacy Attacks and Defenses on
Encrypted IoT Traffic, Noah Apthorpe, Dillon Reisman, Srikanth Sundaresan, Arvind Narayanan, Nick Feamster, arXiv:1708.05044 [cs.CR]
“The growing market for smart home IoT devices promises
new conveniences for consumers while presenting
new challenges for preserving privacy within the home. Many smart home devices have always-on sensors
that capture users’ offline activities in their living spaces and transmit
information about these activities on the Internet. In this paper, we demonstrate that an ISP or
other network observer can infer privacy sensitive in-home activities by
analyzing Internet traffic from smart homes containing commercially-available
IoT devices even when the devices use encryption. We evaluate several strategies for mitigating
the privacy risks associated with smart home device traffic, including
blocking, tunneling, and rate-shaping. Our
experiments show that traffic shaping can effectively and practically mitigate
many privacy risks associated with smart home IoT devices. We find that 40KB/s extra bandwidth usage is
enough to protect user activities from a passive network adversary. This bandwidth cost is well within the
Internet speed limits and data caps for many smart homes.”
Interesting. You
can keep on spreading Russian propaganda but we don’t want you to profit from
it? Was that ever their primary
objective? Would kicking them off
Facebook be a better solution?
Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be
able to buy ads
The company has already been working with outside fact-checkers like Snopes and the AP
to flag inaccurate news stories. (These
aren’t supposed to be stories that are disputed for reasons of opinion or
partisanship, but rather outright hoaxes and lies.) It also says that when a story is marked as
disputed, the link can no longer be promoted through Facebook ads.
The next step, which the company is announcing today,
involves stopping Pages that regularly share these stories from buying any
Facebook ads at all, regardless of whether or not the ad includes a disputed
link.
Because we are more intellectual or because we are more
technical?
https://www.bespacific.com/intellectual-property-in-the-new-technological-age-2017-chapters-1-and-2/
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017 –
Chapters 1 and 2
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Menell, Peter S. and Lemley, Mark A. and Merges, Robert
P., Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017 – Chapters 1 and 2
(July 18, 2017). Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age 2017: Vol.
II Copyrights, Trademarks and State IP Protections; ISBN-13: 978-1945555077; UC
Berkeley Public Law Research Paper; Stanford Public Law Working Paper.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2999038
“Rapid advances in digital and life sciences technology
continue to spur the evolution of intellectual property law. As professors and practitioners in this field
know all too well, Congress and the courts continue to develop intellectual
property law and jurisprudence at a rapid pace. For that reason, we have significantly
augmented and revised Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age…”
Cheaper access to research means better student papers?
New studies continue to predict troubled waters ahead for
paywall journals
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Phys.org – “Two independent studies looking at two aspects of
paywalls versus free access to research papers suggest that trouble may lie
ahead for traditional journals that continue to expect payment for access to
peer-reviewed research papers. In the
first study, a small team of researchers from the U.S. and Germany looked at
the number of freely available papers on the internet using a web extension
called Unpaywall—users enter information and the extension lists sources online
for free. In the second study, a team
with members from Canada, the U.S. and Germany looked at the popularity of a
website known as Sci-Hub that collects and freely distributes
research papers. Both groups have
written papers describing their studies and results and have uploaded them to
the PeerJ Preprints server. Free
access to research papers is a hot topic in the research
community, perhaps indicating coming changes to the status quo…”
- Himmelstein DS, Romero AR, McLaughlin SR, Greshake Tzovaras B, Greene CS. (2017) Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3100v1 doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3100v1 , peerj.com/preprints/3100v1/
- Piwowar H, Priem J, Larivière V, Alperin JP, Matthias L, Norlander B, Farley A, West J, Haustein S. (2017) The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3119v1 doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3119v1, peerj.com/preprints/3119/
[Get the
extension for Firefox: http://unpaywall.org/ ]
Will this inspire my students?
Uber's New
CEO May Get at Least $200 Million to Exit Expedia
… Dara
Khosrowshahi, who spent 12 years at the helm of Expedia Inc., held unvested stock
options in that company worth $184.4 million as of Friday’s close in New York,
according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Companies typically grant replacement awards
to executives who must forfeit unvested equity when they leave before their
employment terms have expired.
The ride-hailing company will likely also grant
Khosrowshahi additional compensation, such as an annual salary and stock awards
that vest over several years to ensure he remains on the job for the forseeable
future. That could push his total price
tag north of $200 million.
Something for my students to fiddle with.
Glitch
is a playground for coders of all kinds.
Through it, you can make your own app or remix any of the
existing projects on the site. You can
be creative without the fear of breaking anything — and there are veteran
coders who are standing by to help you do it.
It’s an open and free collaborative coding site that’s
basically a miniature programming school.
Glitch gives you all the tools to instantly create, remix,
edit, and host an app, bot, or site. You
can invite collaborators who can simultaneously edit the code with you. Right now, the programming sandbox only
supports Node.js.
I have to admit, none of these seem appealing, but maybe
someone will like them.
Let’s see how many of my students already know about this.
Amazon Offers Students Music Unlimited for $4.99/Month
To coincide with everyone going back to school, Amazon is
offering students a Music Unlimited subscription for just $4.99/month. That's a saving of $60 per year for non-Prime
members. But it gets even better if you
are a Prime Student member. Amazon is
offering you six months access for just $6. After that, it reverts to the $4.99/month
price as long as you remain a student.
In order to take advantage of this student offer, Amazon
requires customers first validate their status as a student. For that, Amazon uses third-party service SheerID, which apparently
happens without interruption to the customer.
(Related). Take a
look at what SheerID claims to be able to verify.
SheerID
… Our most popular
products are military verification, college student verification, and teacher
verification.
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