Leaking data by default.
Over Half of Fortune 500 Companies Are Leaving Sensitive Information Open to Reconnaissance via Document Metadata
PDF files hosted by many organizations, including more than half of the companies listed on the Fortune 500, are leaking sensitive information. PDF document metadata can contain a variety of information that provides attackers with the reconnaissance details they need to execute a more targeted and sophisticated attack: employee names and positions, the software used to author the PDF file, web server version, physical location, and in some cases even employee ID numbers meant for internal use.
While most of the major PDF authoring tools allow one to turn off the recording of document metadata, it is generally on by default and most users do not manually disable it.
Try not to fight the last war.
https://www.govtech.com/news/Opinion-Artificial-Intelligences-Military-Risks-Potential.html
Opinion: Artificial Intelligence’s Military Risks, Potential
In the future, all combat decisions — including targets, how much to fire to minimize collateral damage — could be made by robots, with humans just monitoring the battlefield situation from a central command.
Former Secretary of the Navy J. William Middendorf II, of Little Compton, lays out the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party in his recent book, "The Great Nightfall."
With the emerging priority of artificial intelligence (AI), China is shifting away from a strategy of neutralizing or destroying an enemy’s conventional military assets — its planes, ships and army units. AI strategy is now evolving into dominating what are termed adversaries’ “systems-of-systems” — the combinations of all their intelligence and conventional military assets.
What China would attempt first is to disable all of its adversaries’ information networks that bind their military systems and assets.
I seem to remember proposing this many years ago. “Trusted custodians”
https://www.bespacific.com/how-data-trusts-can-protect-privacy/
How data trusts can protect privacy
MIT Technology Review – “…Data trusts are a relatively new concept, but their popularity has grown quickly. In 2017, the UK government first proposed them as a way to make larger data sets available for training artificial intelligence. A European Commission proposal in early 2020 floated data trusts as a way to make more data available for research and innovation. And in July 2020, India’s government came out with a plan that prominently featured them as a mechanism to give communities greater control over their data. In a legal setting, trusts are entities in which some people (trustees) look after an asset on behalf of other people (beneficiaries) who own it. In a data trust, trustees would look after the data or data rights of groups of individuals. And just as doctors have a duty to act in the interest of their patients, data trustees would have a legal duty to act in the interest of the beneficiaries…”
‘cause I know lawyers who teach.
https://www.bespacific.com/teaching-technology-to-future-lawyers/
Teaching Technology to (Future) Lawyers
Barczentewicz, Mikolaj, Teaching Technology to (Future) Lawyers (February 23, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3791608 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3791608
“The paper offers a reflection on how applications of computer technology (including data analytics) are and may be taught to (future) lawyers and what are the benefits and limitations of the different approaches. There is a growing sense among legal professionals and law teachers that the technological changes in the practice of law are likely to promote the kind of knowledge and skills that law graduates often do not possess today. Teaching computer technology can be done in various ways and at various levels of depth and that those different ways and levels have different cost and benefit considerations. The paper discusses four models of teaching technology: (1) teaching basic technological literacy, (2) more advanced but general technology teaching, (3) teaching computer programming and quantitative methods and (4) teaching a particular aspect of technology – other than programming (e.g. cybersecurity). I suggest that there are strong reasons for all current and future lawyers to acquire proficiency in effective uses of office and legal research software and standard means of online communication and basic cybersecurity. This can be combined with teaching of numerical and informational literacy. I also claim that advanced technology topics, like computer programming, should only be taught to the extent this is justified by the direct need for such skills and knowledge in students’ future careers, which I predict to be true for only a minority of current lawyers and law students.”
Has being shut-in reduced our entertainment options to this?
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-make-alexa-swear/
How to Make Alexa Swear
Want to have a bit of fun with Amazon’s Alexa? We’ll show you how to make the personal assistant swear.
An article for geeks.
https://www.notboring.co/p/excel-never-dies
Excel Never Dies
🎧 To get this essay straight in your ears: listen here or on Spotify or Apple Podcast
… We love Excel, everyone reading this probably loves Excel, and still, its impact is deeply underappreciated. Today, we’re going to fully appreciate it by covering:
The History of Excel
Excel as a Language
The Lindy Effect
Excel’s Limitations
No-Code and the Unbundling of Excel
Why Excel Will Never Die
Tools.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/13-windows-diagnostics-tools-check-pcs-health/
15 Windows Diagnostics Tools to Check Your PC's Health
Too big to boycott? They must make a real effort to get this policy so screwed up. Should the manufacturers pull their products? Can they afford to?
https://kdvr.com/news/local/i-wont-go-back-new-walmart-checkout-policy-called-racially-biased/
‘Honestly, I was shocked’: New Walmart checkout policy called racially biased
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (KDVR) — A security policy at the Walmart in Centennial is under scrutiny after complaints of racial bias.
The allegations of racial bias come almost a year after Walmart changed its practice on locking up beauty products for people of color at its stores.
… Rachel was purchasing shampoo in the beauty products for people of color aisle when she was allegedly stopped by a clerk who told her she needed to pay for the bottle at a special register near the back of the store before she could continue shopping in other parts of the Walmart store.
“I asked the sales associate, if I am purchasing Caucasian products do I need to do the same thing? She said no you can walk around the store with those products,” Rachel told the Problem Solvers. “I told her I had more shopping to do, she said it didn’t matter I still needed to pay for it back there.”
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