Krebs gives a full description of the technique used. Sometimes you
have to connect with the right person to get a response, or be like
Krebs who can tell a large audience about your poor security
management.
Brian Krebs reports:
U.S. Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to modify account details on their behalf.
KrebsOnSecurity was contacted last week by a researcher who discovered the problem, but who asked to remain anonymous. The researcher said he informed the USPS about his finding more than a year ago yet never received a response. After confirming his findings, this author contacted the USPS, which promptly addressed the issue.
Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
Is the idea to guide citizens to good behavior,
like a parent rewarding or scolding a child? Or is the idea to
protect the state by identifying non-conformists and limiting their
interactions? How difficult would it be to do this here, but not
make it public? Perhaps controlled by the Citizens Information
Agency (CIA)
Beijing to
Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020
China’s plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion
people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to
reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points program by 2021
that assigns personalized ratings for each resident.
… The Beijing project will improve blacklist
systems so that those deemed untrustworthy will be “unable to move
even a single step,” according to the government’s plan.
… By the end of May, people with bad credit in
China have been blocked from booking more than 11 million flights and
4 million high-speed train trips, according to the National
Development and Reform Commission.
… The tracking of individual behavior in China
has become easier as economic life moves online, with apps such as
Tencent’s WeChat and Ant Financial’s Alipay a central node for
making payments, getting loans and organizing transport. Accounts
are generally linked to mobile phone numbers, which in turn require
government IDs.
The final version of China’s national social
credit system remains uncertain. But as rules forcing social
networks and internet providers to remove anonymity get increasingly
enforced and facial recognition systems become more popular with
policing bodies, authorities are likely to find everyone from
internet dissenters to train-fare skippers easier to catch -- and
punish -- than ever before.
This seems prudent with everyone trying to
redefine monopoly to look just like large tech companies.
Facebook
looks like it's preparing for war with Trump after hiring a top
Department of Justice antitrust lawyer
Facebook has hired one of the top antitrust
lawyers in Silicon Valley, in a sign that the company could be
preparing for war with Donald Trump's administration.
Kate Patchen, the chief of the Department of
Justice's antitrust division in San Francisco, has joined Facebook as
director and associate general counsel of litigation.
Patchen
updated her LinkedIn profile earlier this month with the news,
which was first
spotted by the Financial Times. Business Insider has contacted
Patchen and Facebook for comment.
Potential business models for my students?
European
Privacy Search Engines Aim to Challenge Google
In
the battle for online privacy, U.S. search giant Google is a Goliath
facing a handful of European Davids.
The
backlash over Big Tech's collection of personal data offers new hope
to a number of little-known search engines that promise to protect
user privacy.
Sites
like Britain's Mojeek , France's Qwant , Unbubble in Germany and
Swisscows don't track user data, filter results or show "behavioral"
ads.
… Qwant
is even getting official support. Last month the French army and
parliament both said they would drop Google and use Qwant as their
default search engine, as part of efforts to reclaim European
"digital sovereignty."
… Walshe
likes Startpage's new "anonymous view" feature, which goes
a step further and lets users visit websites anonymously, so they
won't be exposed to tracking by websites even after clicking a search
result.
I guess I’m still a nerd. This is very cool.
Probably not enough to push a 747, but drones for sure, maybe even
sailplanes.
Silent and
Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
… But Barrett and his team figured out three
main things to make Version 2 work. The first was the ionic wind
thruster design. Version 2’s thrusters consist of two rows of long
metal strands draped under its sky blue wings. The front row
conducts some 40,000 volts of electricity—166 times the voltage
delivered to the average house, and enough energy to strip the
electrons off ample nitrogen atoms hanging in the atmosphere.
When that happens, the nitrogen atoms turn into
positively charged ions. Because the back row of metal filaments
carries a negative charge, the ions careen toward it like magnetized
billiard balls. “Along the way, there are millions of collisions
between these ions and neutral air molecules,” Barrett notes. That
shoves the air molecules toward the back of the plane, creating a
wind that pushes the plane forward fast and hard enough to fly.
The really smart ones are in my class.
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