A question for my Computer Security students.
Should the US do this? Can we assume that Russia is getting some
value from this effort or do you think it is only done because they
are paranoid?
World Cup:
US Spy Warns Russians Will Hack Phones, Computers
A
top US intelligence official warned football fans traveling to Russia
for the World Cup that their phones and computers could be hacked by
Moscow's cyber spies.
William
Evanina, Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security
Center, said that in Russia, even people who believe they are too
unimportant to be hacked can be targeted.
… "Corporate
and government officials are most at risk, but don’t assume you're
too insignificant to be targeted."
Interesting
talk (in English) on Complexity.
[and his
slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17bKudNDduvN-7hWv7S84MiHUj2AnOPNbwjTM8euDC8w/edit#slide=id.p1
What should Apple do, leave all their customers
vulnerable?
Apple is
reportedly closing a security loophole that will prevent police from
accessing iPhones
Apple is reportedly changing the default settings
on iPhones to close a loophole which can be used to access locked
phones via the charging and data port.
The software update, reported
by The New York Times, will disable the iPhone's Lightning port
an hour after the phone is locked. After that, a user will be able
to charge the phone, but unable to transfer any data to or from the
device unless the passcode is entered.
The update will block anyone using a GrayKey
device, which costs $15,000 (£11,000) and can be used to hack into
iPhones via the Lightning port. Multiple US law enforcement agencies
have purchased such devices, including the Drug
Enforcement Administration.
… "We're constantly strengthening the
security protections in every Apple product to help customers defend
against hackers, identity thieves and intrusions into their personal
data," Apple spokesman, Fred Sainz, said in an email quoted by
the New
York Times.
"We have the greatest respect for law
enforcement, and we don't
design our security improvements to frustrate their efforts to do
their jobs."
No unexpected.
Mozilla
Asked People How They Feel About Facebook. Here’s What They Said
Medium:
“47,000 people responded to our survey asking how they feel about
Facebook. The data is interesting and open
for your exploration. Facebook has been in the news a
lot lately. It started with the announcement that over 87 million
Facebook users had their personal information shared with the private
firm Cambridge Analytica without their knowledge. Since then,
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has testified twice in front of the US
Congress and people all around the world have been talking about
Facebook’s data practices. We took this opportunity to survey
people on how they felt about Facebook these days. The results are
in and they
are interesting. The top takeaways? Most people (76%)
say they are very concerned about the safety of their personal
information online. Yet few people (24%)
reported making changes to their Facebook accounts
following the recent news of privacy concerns around Facebook. The
majority of people who responded to our survey (65%)
see themselves — rather than companies or the government — as
being most responsible for protecting their personal information
online. And very few people (only 12%)
said they would consider paying for Facebook, even a version of
Facebook that doesn’t make money by collecting and selling personal
data…”
For my next Data Management class.
A new way
to look at knowledge management
Nick Milton – Knoco: The relationship between knowledge and information has always been problematical. Here is a new way to look at it.
The Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom pyramid is a very common diagram in the KM world, but despite its ubiquity and simplicity it has many problems:
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It implies that each class can be turned into the next by some sort of transformation process, so that information plus something turns into knowledge. However it is not as simple as that. Much or most knowledge comes from experience and insight rather than from information. Knowledge is something you add to information in order to be able to take action; it is not necessarily something you derive from information.
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It implies a hard distinction between each of the four, whereas information and knowledge potentially overlap. Documented knowledge is knowledge, but its also information. Not all knowledge is information, and not all information is knowledge, but some is both information and knowledge.
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It implies wisdom is somehow part of the same family as data and information, and it isn’t. Wisdom is more of a virtue or a spiritual quality, and not amenable to management discipline…”
An over-reactive strategy? Amazon did it, so we
have to jump on it too or Amazon will own the market? Easy to sell
to any company that feels threatened, but what is Amazon determined
that it was a bad idea?
Exclusive:
Microsoft takes aim at Amazon with push for checkout-free retail
Microsoft Corp is working on technology that would
eliminate cashiers and checkout lines from stores, in a nascent
challenge to Amazon.com Inc’s automated grocery shop, six people
familiar with the matter told Reuters.
… Microsoft’s technology aims to help
retailers keep pace with Amazon Go, a highly automated store that
opened to the public in Seattle in January. Amazon customers scan
their smartphones at a turnstile to enter. Cameras and sensors
identify what they remove from the shelves. When customers are
finished shopping, they simply leave the store and Amazon bills their
credit cards on file.
Perspective. Wakanda is real? Perhaps I should
expand my list of tech cultures.
Google will
open an AI center in Ghana later this year, its first in Africa
… Today, Google announced its next AI research
center will be in Accra, Ghana.
“In recent years, we’ve … witnessed an
increasing interest in machine learning research across the
continent,” senior Google AI fellow Jeff Dean and staff research
scientist Moustapha Cisse wrote in a blog
post. “Events like Data Science Africa 2017 in Tanzania, the
2017 Deep Learning
Indaba event in South Africa, and follow-on IndabaX events in
2018 in multiple countries have shown an exciting and continuing
growth of the computer science research community in Africa.”
Google said that employees in the new AI center,
which will open later this year, will work closely with local
universities, other research centers, and policymakers on the
potential uses of AI in Africa. This is Google’s first center
devoted solely to AI research in Africa and, as far as we can tell,
the first from any tech giant (beating Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft
to the punch).
… Google isn’t the only one investing in AI
programs abroad. Early in 2018, Samsung announced
the opening of new research centers in Toronto; Moscow; and
Cambridge, England. Ecommerce company Etsy
said it would open AI R&D offices in Toronto by the end of
this year. And in January, Google
and Facebook pledged to expand their AI investment in France.
Schooling the Justice Department. Definitely
worth reading!
This week’s decision
by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to allow AT&T and Time
Warner to complete their merger will bring to a close a deal that has
been pending for almost two years.
In his blistering, 172-page decision, Judge Leon
did much more than simply reject the government’s claim that
combining
two companies that do not compete with each other would harm
consumers. He also made clear, as a matter of federal law, that the
U.S. Justice Department’s view of a static media landscape is dead
and buried.
“If there ever were an antitrust case where the
parties had a dramatically different assessment of the current state
of the relevant market and a fundamentally different vision of its
future development,” Judge Leon began his decision, “this is the
one.”
A new legal specialty!
… As more and more lawyers specialize in
cannabis law, that means increasing competition among them. As
competition increases, firms ramp up their cannabis-related
marketing. For many, a key piece of that marketing is a cannabis law
blog.
So clearly it’s not the ability to do math.
Where Boys
Outperform Girls in Math: Rich, White and Suburban Districts
In much of the country, the stereotype that boys
do better than girls at math isn’t true – on average, they
perform about the same, at least through eighth grade. But there’s
a notable exception.
In school districts that are mostly rich, white
and suburban, boys are much more likely to outperform girls in math,
according to a
new study from Stanford researchers, one of the most
comprehensive looks at the gender gap in test scores at the school
district level.
… On English tests, girls test better than
boys regardless of their parents’ socioeconomic status.
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