My students can not understand why I don’t own a smartphone. This
may be part of the reason: Without one, I don’t exist.
Phone
numbers are the new Social Security numbers
Axios:
“Cellphone numbers have become a primary way for tech companies
like Facebook to uniquely identify users and secure accounts, in some
ways becoming a proxy for a national ID.
Why it matters: That
over-reliance on cellphone numbers ironically makes them a less
effective and secure authentication method. And the more valuable
the phone number becomes as an identifier, the less willing people
will be to share it for communication.
Driving the news: Facebook
faced criticism this week for its handling of phone numbers that
users provide for the purpose of two-factor authentication (2FA) —
in which a person’s login is protected by both a password and a
device like their smartphone.
The big picture: American culture
and law are hostile to establishing any sort of national ID, leaving
businesses and organizations to find substitute… Many Americans try
to avoid broadcasting SSNs online. But now people have to share them
with so many institutions and clerks that there’s very little
that’s truly secret about them…”
For my Computer Forensics and Ethical Hacking
students. Just a couple small tweaks and this becomes quite useful!
NSA Makes
Reverse Engineering Tool Freely Available
Initially
announced in January, the release was accompanied by a demonstration
of the tool at the RSA
Conference 2019, which is taking place this week in San
Francisco.
Ghidra,
the NSA explains, is a software reverse engineering (SRE) suite of
tools developed by the agency’s Research Directorate to analyze
malicious code and malware, as well as to provide cyber-security
researchers with information on potential vulnerabilities in their
networks and systems.
The
framework packs various software analysis tools compatible with
multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, and Linux, and provides
capabilities such as disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing
and scripting, and more.
Redefining ‘Jurisdiction’ for the Internet
Age?
BREAKING:
United States Supports Germany’s International Arrest Warrant for
Accused Syrian War Criminal
On Tuesday, the United States government issued a
statement
supporting Germany’s request to Lebanon to extradite a high-ranking
Syrian official accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Former officials from the Obama and Trump administrations spoke to me
about the significance of this development.
By taking this step, the United States placed
itself on the record in support of Germany’s exercise of a form of
“universal jurisdiction,”
a move that marks a significant development in U.S. legal practice.
Under section 1 of the 2002
Code of Crimes Against International Law, German courts are
allowed to exercise criminal jurisdiction over an accused person who
has committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, or
genocide—regardless
of where the crimes were committed, regardless
of whether the accused has any connection to Germany, and regardless
of the nationality of the victims at the time the crimes were
committed.
I found an amusing new term!
Amy Webb’s
‘The Big Nine’ predicts the impact of AI and tech giants over the
next 50 years
… “We stop assuming that the G-MAFIA
(Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Amazon) can serve its
DC and Wall Street masters equally and that the free markets and our
entrepreneurial spirit will produce the best possible outcomes for AI
and humanity,” author Amy Webb writes.
Minutes keep getting busier.
2019: This
Is What Happens In An Internet Minute
For my Excel toolkit.
I do like lists, but “most widely available”
is not the same as “best.”
OCLC
publishes list of top 100 novels
“OCLC,
a leading library technology and research organization, has published
The
Library 100: Top Novels of All Time, a list of the
novels most widely available in libraries today. The list
is based on data in WorldCat,
the world’s most comprehensive database of information about
library collections. Produced and maintained by OCLC and individual
member libraries and library organizations, WorldCat reflects the
collections of more than 18,000 libraries worldwide. It includes
information about more than 2.7 billion copies of more than 447
million titles. This aggregate worldwide library collection is
likely the best view of the global scholarly and published record.
- The full list, and more information about The Library 100 can be found at https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/library100.html.
- …”Of course, the list of top novels emphasizes classics,” Prichard continued, “and so reflects dominant cultural views over the years about the canon and its formation. Librarians are aware of this and are more mindful than ever of the need to think critically about their collections. Librarians are actively seeking out and preserving overlooked, minority and marginalized perspectives.” (Read Prichard’s blog post at https://oc.lc/top-novel-blog.)…
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