In early August, “Flash Gordon” (@s7nsins on Twitter)
contacted me to say that he discovered a leak involving the House of
Representatives.
… Notifying the
House of their leak was one of those misadventures in notification that I
should probably write a book about one day. Calling the House switchboard and asking to
speak to whomever was responsible for their cybersecurity resulted in me being
bounced from extension to extension for the next hour or so. No one seemed to know what office I should be
connected to.
… In any event,
they locked down the leak and I decided not to report publicly on everything at
the time.
But then last week, yet another researcher (Lee Johnstone,
@Cyber_War_News on Twitter) got in touch with me and told me that the House was
leaking.
… It’s now noon on
Monday, and I received no call back yesterday or today. And as of my last check, the door is still
wide open. So I’ve decided to report on
this now and tweet it to members of Congress. Maybe their staff can get through to the right
person to secure their data.
Update 1:38 pm. One of my followers on Twitter has a contact
in the Chief Administrative Office, it seems, and he alerted the contact, who
said he’ll check into it. That would be
nice.
Update 5:14 pm. More than 24 hours after I called them, the
data now appear to have been secured, although I’m not sure whether it would
have been secured if not for a follower’s contact.
When is a “ban” not a ban?
Alex Jones banned from Facebook? His videos are still there — and so are
his followers
… Infowars is gone
from Facebook after a high-profile
showdown over the summer between Silicon Valley and conspiracy theorist
Alex Jones. But another Facebook page,
NewsWars, has taken its place — and Jones’s many fans have followed.
In the three months since Facebook removed four of Jones’s
pages over allegations of hate speech, the NewsWars page has remained intact
and surged in posts and page views. The
NewsWars Facebook page identifies NewsWars.com,
which Jones said his company operates, as the website associated with the page
and lists it under “Contact Info.” Jones said he doesn’t run the Facebook page.
… “It shows a huge
failure in being able to control this stuff,” said Albright, research director
for Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
We’ve been talking about this for years.
Chinese 'gait recognition' tech IDs people by how they walk
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new
surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's
body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are
hidden from cameras.
Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and
Shanghai, "gait recognition" is part of a push across China to develop
artificial-intelligence and data-driven surveillance that is raising concern
about how far the technology will go.
Huang Yongzhen, the CEO of Watrix, said that its system
can identify people from up to 50 meters (165 feet) away, even with their back
turned or face covered. This can fill a
gap in facial recognition, which needs close-up, high-resolution images of a
person's face to work.
We used to do this manually.
Facebook is looking at how to suggest friends by tracking who you meet in
person
Facebook
has been granted a patent that it could use to detect the people who you spend
time with on a regular basis. The idea
is that the person you sit next to on the bus and flirt with could be suggested
as a Facebook friend
by the social network.
The company wants to use the sensors in your phone to
detect people near you in various situations. That might be data from your phone's
Bluetooth, Near Field Communications or other hardware.
The signal strength can also be measured. So standing very
close and talking is discernible from just being in the same nightclub. Perhaps Facebook will even be able to tell if
you're dancing with each other - thanks to gyroscope data from the phones.
Perspective. Helping
to define our continuing debate about self-driving cars.
Securing Connected Cars: How to Create a Cost-Effective, Secure
In-Vehicle Network Backbone
… Dubbed AV 3.0, the new policy will set federal guidelines for how
autonomous and assisted driving solutions need to work on public roads. A big part of making autonomous driving
accessible will be the ability for car makers and suppliers to secure the
networks that power these increasingly sophisticated vehicles. In fact, that’s what cars today have become:
highly-sophisticated mobile computer networks that just happen to travel at
highway speeds.
I’ll have to ask my students. I stopped my subscription years ago.
Are Newspapers Heading Towards Post-Print Obscurity?
Thurman, Neil J. and Fletcher, Richard, Are Newspapers
Heading Towards Post-Print Obscurity? A
Case Study of the Independent’s Transition to Online-Only (2018). Digital Journalism, doi: 10.1080/21670811.2018.1504625.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3256638
[h/t Joe
Hodnicki]
“With print circulations in decline and the print
advertising market shrinking, newspapers in many countries are under pressure. Some — like Finland’s Taloussanomat and
Canada’s La Presse — have decided to stop printing and go online-only. Others, like the Sydney Morning Herald, are
debating whether to follow. Those
newspapers that have made the switch often paint a rosy picture of a
sustainable and profitable digital future. This study examines the reality behind the
spin via a case study of The Independent, a general-interest UK national
newspaper that went digital-only in March 2016. We estimate that, although its net British
readership did not decline in the year after it stopped printing, the total
time spent with The Independent by its British audiences fell 81%, a disparity
caused by huge differences in the habits of online and print readers. This suggests that when newspapers go
online-only they may move back into the black, but they also forfeit much of
the attention they formerly enjoyed. Furthermore, although The Independent is
serving at least 50% more overseas browsers since going online-only, the
relative influence on that growth of internal organizational change and
external factors — such as the “Trump Bump” in news consumption — is difficult
to determine.”
Slick. I’d enter my
birth year but I’m afraid I see “fire’ listed as a new word.
When was a word first used in print?
Merriam
Webster Time Traveler – “When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Enter a date below to see the words first recorded
on that year. To learn more about First
Known Use dates, click here.”
An extra resource or two can’t hurt.
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