Would
any corporate Board of Directors tolerate this? I wonder what will
happen during the shutdown?
Defense
Department Continuously Challenged on Cybersecurity
A recently published report from the United States
Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General shows that, while the
Department has improved its security posture, it still faces
challenges in managing cybersecurity.
… The
report (PDF)
reveals that DoD Components implemented some corrective actions to
improve system weaknesses identified by reports summarized in the
cybersecurity summary report issued at the end of 2017, but also
points out that DoD still faces cybersecurity challenges.
Of
the 159 recommendations made in the summarized unclassified reports,
the DoD has taken action to address only 19. Of the 175
recommendations the DoD oversight community and the GAO made between
July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2018, 151 remained open as of September
30, 2018.
The pendulum swings again.
Feds
forcing mass fingerprint unlocks is an “abuse of power,” judge
rules
"Citizens do
not contemplate waiving their civil rights when using new
technology."
[Now
that’s a quote I can use! Bob]
According to a new ruling
issued last week by a federal magistrate in Oakland, California, the
government can't get a warrant granting permission to turn up at a
local house allegedly connected to a criminal suspect, seize all
digital devices, and force anyone found at the house to use
biometrics to try to unlock those devices.
… US Magistrate Judge Kandis Westmore found
that the government request here "runs afoul of the Fourth and
Fifth Amendments," which protect against unreasonable searches
and self-incrimination, respectively.
She continued, noting that the government request
was "overbroad."
"The Government cannot be permitted to search
and seize a mobile phone or other device that is on a non-suspect's
person simply because they are present during an otherwise lawful
search," the judge wrote.
Blake
Reid, a law professor at the University of Colorado, told
Ars that it was a positive step that another judge was understanding
the possible ramifications of allowing the government to rifle
through someone's phone.
"Accessing people's phones is, in my opinion,
much more like accessing the contents of their brains than it is the
contents of their file cabinets," he emailed.
Multiple times, Judge Westmore cited a 2018
Supreme Court decision known as Carpenter,
which found that law enforcement needs a warrant to obtain more than
120 days of cell-site location information.
"Citizens
do not contemplate waiving their civil rights when using new
technology, and the Supreme Court has concluded that, to find
otherwise, would leave individuals 'at the mercy of advancing
technology,'" she wrote, citing the Carpenter
opinion.
Your phone as their spy device. See Perspective
below.
Location
data is ground zero in privacy wars
Axios:
“Our phones’ GPS and location capabilities are a key part of what
make them magical — enabling them to speed our commutes, hail rides
and find the devices when we lose them. These capabilities are also
ground zero for the looming fight over defining the boundaries of
privacy and acceptable uses of our personal information. The big
picture: Three recent stories show just how common problems with
location data can be — and how thorny they’ve become.
- Cell providers resell location info…
- Tweet locations reveal where you live…
- Slack monitors your itinerary…
- What’s next: Members of the new Congress plan to float a wide range of new privacy legislation this year, with location data at the heart of the debate. New laws will need to thread the needle between protecting personal information and enabling useful innovation.
- The bottom line: Your phone is also a surveillance device. Use it with care unless you want your life to be an open book — or map….”
Something to amuse all my students. (A quick way
to profit from your Ethical Hacking class)
Pwn2Own
contest will pay $900,000 for hacks that exploit this Tesla
Pwn2Own has been the foremost hacking contest for
more than a decade, with cash prizes paid for exploits that
compromise the security of all manner of devices and software.
Browsers, virtual machines, computers, and phones have all been fair
game. Now in its 13th year, the competition is adding a new
category—a Tesla Model 3, with more than $900,000 worth of prizes
available for attacks that subvert a variety of its onboard systems.
The biggest prize will be $250,000 for hacks that
execute code on the car’s gateway, autopilot, or VCSEC.
… Pwn2Own will pay $100,000 for hacks that
attack the Tesla’s key fob or Phone-as-Key either by achieving code
execution, unlocking the vehicle, or starting the engine without
using the key.
A backgrounder for my Software Architecture
students. Look where the money is going! The graphic summaries are
interesting.
Billionaire
Masayoshi Son–not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg–has
the most audacious vision for an AI-powered utopia where machines
control how we live. And he’s spending hundreds of billions of
dollars to realize it. Are you ready to live in Masa World?
A heads-up. Flash was just a flash in the pan.
Firefox 69
to Disable Adobe Flash by Default
… “We
are now scheduled to completely
disable Flash in Firefox 69 which moves to the Stable release on
August 3rd,” Mozilla notes on the browser’s roadmap page.
In
July 2017, Adobe announced plans to completely kill Flash and stop
providing security updates for it by the end of 2020.
… While
Flash continues to be used in numerous applications and websites,
developers and content creators are encouraged to migrate from Flash
to open standards such as HTML5,
WebGL and WebAssembly, which are already supported by all major web
browsers.
Perspective. This theme needs more development.
Many devices vs. one device?
Once-revolutionary
smartphone is losing its power to amaze and maybe its singular hold
on our lives
WSJ [paywall] The
Big Hangup: Why the Future Is Not Just Your Phone The
once-revolutionary smartphone is losing its power to amaze—and
maybe its singular hold on our live: “Steve Jobs took to a
stage a dozen years ago
this week to introduce a revolutionary new product to the
world: the first Apple iPhone. That groundbreaking device, and the
competitors that followed, changed the way people communicated,
ordered dinner and hailed a taxi. The technology world reoriented
around the smartphone, supplanting
[??? Bob]
the personal computer, MP3 players, the digital camera and maps. And
the mobile economy was born. Today, it looks like the era of
smartphone supremacy is starting
to wane. The devices aren’t going away any time soon, but
their grip on the consumer is weakening. A global sales slump and a
lack of hit new advancements has underlined a painful reality for the
matured industry: smartphones don’t look so singularly smart
anymore. While once smartphones were like a centripetal force
sucking up tools from dozens of devices, from flashlights to
calculators to game consoles, functions are now flying out of phones
and onto other products with their own embedded smart connections.
Wristwatches can now text emojis. Televisions can talk and listen.
Voice-activated speakers can order diapers. The number of
“connected” devices in use that can stream music, clock mileage
or download apps has more than doubled to 14.2 billion in the past
three years, according to market researcher Gartner Inc. The total
excludes smartphones.
What’s shifted most is the smartphone’s
monolithic status as the device that software companies and
businesses needed to reach mobile users—and for consumers to access
their services. Now the universe has expanded to voice apps, car
infotainment centers and wearable devices… Twelve years after the
iPhone’s debut, more than half of the world’s population owns a
smartphone. While that leaves billions of potential first-time
buyers in countries from Indonesia to Brazil, they reside in poorer
areas, offering lower profits. Meanwhile, the market in wealthier
countries such as the U.S. has become saturated, as the improvements
in the devices become more incremental and many consumers have
decided they don’t
need to get each new upgrade.
- As recently as 2015, annual smartphone shipments grew at a double-digit clip. Those days are over: The industry saw its first declines at the end of 2017 and remained negative all last year. A major driver was China, the world’s largest smartphone market, where annual shipments sank 16%, according to government data…”
I said much
the same things yesterday.
Investing
in AI will determine future world superpowers
The world is witnessing a "cold technological
war" between major powers that want to control the globe
"digitally". International powers are trying to use their
Artificial Intelligence (AI) capability to profit and accumulate
wealth at the expense of other countries in economic, military and
information fields.
For the reading shelf?
How the
Blockchain Ushers in a New Form of Trust
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