“Failure
to plan is planning to fail.”
From
the
for-the-love-of-a-free-press-would-someone-PLEASE-teach-these-people-about-the-first-amendment?
dept.
Earlier
this week, this
site noted reporting by
Paterson
Times about
an alleged breach
involving the Paterson Public Schools in
New Jersey. We also picked up a follow-up
report that
covered some… um…unexpected claims by the District as to how many
threat actors might be involved and whether it was a former employee,
and…. a whole bunch of other claims that seemed premature, at best.
Usually, entities shut up and say they are investigating. Paterson
Public Schools seems to have decided to take another approach that is
not adverse to making themselves look inexperienced at handling a
data security incident.
… Today,
the Paterson
Times reports:
After
a news story exposed a massive data breach at the Paterson Public
Schools, superintendent Eileen Shafer threatened to sue the Paterson
Times for purported “serious reputational harm” to the school
district, a lawsuit that
would be prohibited by law. The letter also suggested the
district would use legal means to obtain materials related to the
breach held by the Times, which would be prohibited
by the state’s reporter’s shield law.
… He
asserts the breach, which claimed more than 23,000 account passwords
and was not detected until the Paterson Times brought it to the
district’s attention, has caused the school system to be “unfairly
held out for ridicule in the community.”
Read
more on the Paterson
Times.
The
basis for any ridicule of the district is the district’s response
to the reported or alleged breach. They have repeatedly been
shooting themselves in the foot and need to get a real professional
in there to handle incident response properly. Their claims,
demands, and legal threats are, to put it bluntly, bullshit, and
should be called out as such.
How
sad that those with the responsibility of educating our youth seem to
be totally ignorant about the First Amendment. Hopefully, the
Paterson Times’ lawyers will hand them a clue stick.
Russia
can’t stop rigging elections. It would have been cheaper to bribe
someone to get her into a ‘prestigious American college.’
Russian
bots rigged Voice Kids TV talent show result
The
result of a popular Russian TV talent show - The Voice Kids - has
been cancelled after thousands of fraudulent votes were found to have
handed victory to a millionaire's young daughter.
There
were complaints after singer Mikella Abramova, aged 10, won with
56.5% of the phone-in vote.
… A
cyber security firm, Group-IB, was hired to examine the vote for
Mikella Abramova, after the final of The Voice Kids, which is in its
sixth season on Russian TV.
"The
interim results of the check confirm that there was outside influence
on the voting, which affected the result," a
Channel One statement said (in Russian).
… According
to investigators, more than 8,000 text messages were sent from about
300 phone numbers during the vote.
A
Group-IB statement said that sequential phone numbers had been used
to send automated votes - in other words, "bots were used in
this case".
"More
than 30,000 votes came in for one contestant from those phone
numbers," Group-IB said. Rival singers got no more than 3,000
votes each, Russia's Kommersant daily reported.
Deliberate
bias or helpful coaching?
The
NYPD uses altered images in its facial recognition system, new
documents show
A
new report from
Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology (CPT) has
uncovered widespread abuse of the New York Police Department’s
facial recognition system, including image alteration and the use of
non-suspect images. In one case, officers uploaded a picture of the
actor Woody Harrelson, based on a witness description of a suspect
who looked like Harrelson. The search produced a match, and the
matched suspect was later arrested for petty larceny. [See?
It works! Bob]
I suppose we’ll be calling this ‘voiceal
recognition.’
Selective
hearing: AI-powered listening device picks a voice out of a crowd
A video that justifies my choice to not own a
phone?
How
Smartphones Sabotage Your Brain’s Ability to Focus
WSJ
Podcast [no paywall] – “Our
phones give us instant gratification. But there’s a cost: loss of
attention and productivity.
WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez goes on a quest to understand the science
of distractions and what you can do stay be more focused and
productive.”
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