When will this add up to “too much?”
West
Accuses Russian Spy Agency of Scores of Attacks
The
West unleashed an onslaught of new evidence and indictments Thursday
accusing Russian military spies of hacking so widespread that it
seemed to target anyone, anywhere who investigates Moscow's
involvement in an array of criminal activities — including doping,
poisoning and the downing of a plane.
Russia
defiantly denied the charges, neither humbled nor embarrassed by the
exceptional revelations on one of the most high-tension days in
East-West relations in years. Moscow lashed back with allegations
that the Pentagon runs a clandestine U.S. biological weapons program
involving toxic mosquitoes, ticks and more.
The
nucleus of Thursday's drama was Russia's military intelligence agency
known as the GRU, increasingly the embodiment of Russian meddling
abroad.
In
the last 24 hours: U.S. authorities charged
seven officers from the GRU with hacking international agencies;
British
and Australian authorities accused the GRU of a devastating 2017
cyberattack on Ukraine, the email leaks that rocked the U.S. 2016
election and other damaging hacks; And Dutch officials alleged that
GRU agents tried and failed to hack into the world's chemical weapons
watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
(Related)
Canada Says
it Was Targeted by Russian Cyber Attacks
Canada said Thursday it too was targeted by
Russian cyber attacks, citing breaches at its center for ethics in
sports and at the Montreal-based World Anti-Doping Agency, after
allies blamed Moscow for some of the biggest hacking plots of recent
years.
"The government of Canada assesses with high
confidence that the Russian military's intelligence arm, the GRU, was
responsible" for these cyber attacks, the foreign ministry said
in a statement.
Will this solve everything?
Should American citizens get a new Bill of Rights
for the internet?
… Six months ago, Ms. Pelosi charged Ro Khanna
— the Democratic representative whose California district is home
to Apple, Intel and Yahoo — with the creation of that
list.
Set of Principles for an Internet Bill of Rights
The internet age and digital revolution have
changed Americans’ way of life. As our lives and the U.S. economy
are more tied to the internet, it is essential to provide Americans
with basic protections online.
You should have the right:
(1) to have access to and knowledge of all
collection and uses of personal data by companies;
(2) to opt-in consent to the collection of
personal data by any party and to the sharing of personal data with a
third party;
(3) where context appropriate and with a fair
process, to obtain, correct or delete personal data controlled by any
company and to have those requests honored by third parties;
(4) to have personal data secured and to be
notified in a timely manner when a security breach or unauthorized
access of personal data is discovered;
(5) to move all personal data from one network to
the next;
(6) to access and use the internet without
internet service providers blocking, throttling, engaging in paid
prioritization or otherwise unfairly favoring content, applications,
services or devices;
(7) to internet service without the collection of
data that is unnecessary for providing the requested service absent
opt-in consent;
(8) to have access to multiple viable, affordable
internet platforms, services and providers with clear and transparent
pricing;
(9) not to be unfairly discriminated against or
exploited based on your personal data; and
(10) to have an entity that collects your personal
data have reasonable business practices and accountability to protect
your privacy.
Salesmen can talk school administrators into
anything? Detection is not prevention.
Is School
Surveillance Technology Worth It?
After Parkland, schools are installing
gunshot-detection systems typically used in cities like Oakland and
Chicago. But are they worth the expense?
… In the wake of the Parkland shooting, and
Sandy Hook before that, school districts across the nation are
spending hundreds of thousands to outfit campuses with high-tech
surveillance, crisis response, and police technologies. Playgrounds
are cordoned off by biometric
locks requiring face
and iris
scans, parking lots are scanned and license
plates are recorded, gunshot-detection devices are embedded
in cafeterias, human police wear
body cameras, and autonomous robots patrol
hallways to detect weapons.
Inevitable? Do you need this? Is it likely to
come down to “my body cam vs your body cam?”
iPhone
Shortcut Automatically Records Police
iPhone users have created shortcuts that allow
Apple’s flagship product to automatically record video, text a
location to an emergency contact, and even stop police from entering
the phone—just in case the iPhone owner has an interaction with a
law enforcement officer.
Apple recently introduced “Shortcuts” to iOS
12, an app that allows iPhone owners to design their own automated
commands for their phone.
… According
to Mic, Reddit user Robert Peterson created a trick using the
virtual assistant, Siri, that lowers the phone’s brightness, turns
on Do Not Disturb, texts the iPhone owner’s location to an
emergency contact and lets them know you have been pulled over by
police. The shortcut will also automatically start recording video
and, when finished, the phone will send the video to the contact or
save it to a cloud service.
The
shortcut is available here, while another user created a workflow
that automatically reboots the phone, rendering the fingerprint
or face ID feature useless until a person enters a passcode.
Will they use Stinger or Javelin missiles?
Senate
passes bill that lets the government destroy private drones
The wording comes from another bill, the
Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018, which was strongly
supported by the Department of Homeland Security and absorbed
into the FAA Reauthorization Act. In June, as part of its argument
as to why it needed more leeway when it comes to drones, the agency
said that terrorist groups overseas "use commercially available
[unmanned aircraft systems] to drop explosive payloads, deliver
harmful substances and conduct illicit surveillance," and added
that the devices are also used to transport drugs, interfere with law
enforcement and expolit unsecured networks.
… The bill says that when a "credible
threat" is posed by a drone to a "covered facility or
asset," the federal government can "disrupt control"
of that device, "seize or exercise control" of it,
confiscate it or "use reasonable force, if necessary, to
disable, damage or destroy the unmanned aircraft system." In
the bill, "credible threat" is left undefined.
Because we don’t actually talk any longer?
Instead of “Hello there!” now it’s “Scan my phone!”
Instagram’s
Nametag feature makes it easier to follow people you meet IRL
Instagram is rolling out a
new way to quickly follow people you’ve met in real life. Called
Nametag, the feature works by showing your username on your phone in
a format that allows it to be scanned by your soon-to-be follower.
This tag can also be customized with additional designs, colors, and
stickers.
Similar functionality is
already available across other social media networks. Twitter,
Facebook,
and Snapchat
users can generate QR codes for others to scan and quickly find
accounts, while Spotify
offers the same for music tracks.
… Alongside Nametag,
Instagram is also testing a new bio field at some US universities,
which will allow you to add your school, class year, and society
memberships. Searching for this information will then show you a
directory of everyone at that institution, making it easier to find
and add classmates… and for Facebook to gather more information
about you.
Perspective. The evolution of the scooter
industry.
Bird
unveils custom electric scooters and delivery
… Dubbed Bird Zero, the scooters have 60
percent more battery life, and better ride stability and durability
than the original model. There’s also an integrated digital screen
to display your speed.
… The name of the game, VanderZanden said, is
to be as customer-obsessed as possible. That’s where Bird
Delivery, launching soon, comes in. With Bird Delivery, riders
can request a Bird be delivered to their home or office
by 8 a.m. From there, the rider can use it throughout the day.
(Related) Easier to replace your car.
Google
Assistant now helps you compare ride-hailing prices and summon a car
After announcing some updates
to the Google Assistant user experience yesterday, today Google
is rolling out a new way of booking rides with your voice — or at
least getting most of the way there. Starting this week, you’ll be
able to say “Hey Google, book a ride to” or “Hey Google, get me
a taxi to” your destination.
Assistant will then respond
by listing off price estimates and current wait times for Uber, Lyft,
Ola, Grab, GO-JEK, “and many more” ride-hailing apps, according
to Google.
… This works on Android, iPhone, Google Home,
and all other smart speakers that have Assistant built in.
A tool for collecting the “Wit and Wisdom of
Donald Trump?” Probably not.
Christian Howard · October 1, 2018 – Mining
Twitter Data
“Hello again, everybody! I’m back this
semester as a DH Prototyping Fellow, and together, Alyssa Collins and
I are working on a project titled “Twitterature: Methods and
Metadata.” Specifically, we’re hoping to develop a simple way of
using Twitter data for literary research. The project is still in
its early stages, but we’ve been collecting a lot of data and are
now beginning to visualize it (I’m particularly interested in the
geolocation of tweets, so I’m trying out a few mapping options).
In this post, I want to layout our methods for collecting Twitter
data.
Okay, Alyssa and I have been using a python based
Twitter scraping script, which we modified to search Twitter without
any time limitations (the official Twitter search function is limited
to tweets of the past two weeks). So, to run the Twitter scraping
script, I entered the following in my command line: python3
TwitterScraper.py. This command then prompted for the search term
and the dates within which I wanted to run my search. For this post,
I ran the search term #twitterature (and no, the python scraper has
no problem handling hashtags as part of the search query!). After
entering the necessary information, the command would create both a
txt and a csv file with the results of my search…”
[From
the article:
You can download the python scraper
(TwitterScraper.py) from our GitHub page:
github.com/CHoward345/Twitterature-Methods-and-Metadata.
For the DocNow tools, visit: github.com/DocNow/twarc.
Maybe it’s just me and this has nothing to do
with the White House.
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