If it’s old but still works it’s not obsolete, it’s a classic.
https://gizmodo.com/hackers-have-been-sending-malware-filled-usb-sticks-to-1848323578
Hackers Have Been Sending Malware-Filled USB Sticks to U.S. Companies Disguised as Presents
The "malicious USB stick" trick is old but apparently it's still wildly popular with the crooks.
On Thursday, the FBI warned that a hacker group has been using the US mail to send malware-laden USB drives to companies in the defense, transportation and insurance industries. The criminals’ hope is that employees will be gullible enough to stick them into their computers, thus creating the opportunity for ransomware attacks or the deployment of other malicious software, The Record reports.
Warrant is another word for workaround?
FOIA Request Reveals Exactly What Law Enforcement Agencies Can Get From Secure Messaging Apps
An FBI training chart that was included in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has made clear exactly how much access American law enforcement agencies have to secure messaging apps. The chart explains what can be had from nine of the biggest messaging services, including iMessage, Signal and Telegram.
In general, law enforcement does not have access to end-to-end encrypted (E22E) messages sent via these services. However, they do have a workaround: messages that are backed up to cloud storage services may have an encryption key attached and may be fair game for agents with a warrant.
Consider using facial recognition to look at everyone ‘accidentally’ captured by google street view cameras.
https://thenextweb.com/news/italian-police-say-google-maps-helped-them-catch-a-mafia-member
Cops claim Google Maps led them to a mafia member, but there’s more to it than that
… The mafioso had been on the run for 20 years when he got a surprise visit from the police.
“How did you manage to find me? I haven’t even called my family for 10 years,” Gammino reportedly told the cops.
According to an anti-mafia investigator, they found him on Google Maps.
… His life on the lam led him to Galapager, a Spanish town near Madrid, where he lived under the assumed name of Manuel Mormino.
Gammino later opened a store bearing his alias: El Huerto de Manu (The Garden of Manu).
The greengrocer’s has a stellar 4.7-star rating on Google.
You can visit it for yourself — but only on Google Maps, The physical store is now labeled “permanently closed.”
While chatting outside the premises one day, Gammino was photographed by a Google Street View vehicle. Years later, Sicilian police said they spotted him on the service.
Is there no value in a google listing?
India hits Google with antitrust investigation over alleged abuse in news aggregation
… The Competition Commission of India said Friday that Google dominates certain online services and its initial view is that Google has broken the local antitrust laws and pointed to new rules in France and Australia, where the firm has been asked to enter into “fair/good faith negotiation” with news publishers for paid licensing of content to address the “bargaining power imbalance between the two and the resultant imposition of unfair conditions by Google.”
“The allegations of the informant, when seen in this vertically integrated ecosystem operated by Google, makes it prima facie appear that news publishers have no choice but to accept the terms and conditions imposed by Google. Google appears to operate as a gateway between various news publishers on the one hand and news readers on the other. Another alternative for the news publisher is to forgo the traffic generated by Google for them, which would be unfavourable to their revenue generation,” the CCI said in its 21-page order.
Copyright trumps privacy? How bad do they want this guy?
Court Orders Twitter Reveal Anonymous Tweeter Over Sketchy Copyright Claim, Because That Tweeter Won't Show Up In Court
Back in November we wrote about a very bizarre attempt to abuse copyright law to uncover who was behind a Twitter account, @CallMeMoneyBags. That account tweeted out various things mocking and shaming various extremely wealthy people, including billionaire Brian Sheth, a private equity bro. Some of the tweets in the fall of 2020 lightly mocked Sheth, including suggesting potential infidelity. The images themselves appeared to be social media-type photos of young women (or possibly just one young woman).
Sometime later, an organization called "Bayside Advisory LLC" showed up, claiming to hold the copyright on those images, and demanding Twitter take down the images -- which the company did. However, Bayside also tried to use the more controversial DMCA 512(h) subpoena process to try to uncover who was behind the MoneyBags account.
Perspective. AI proposes, people dispose?
With more data available than ever, are companies making smarter decisions?
… Baseball is one of the best examples of how data can impact a business. The book and movie “Moneyball” showed how Oakland Athletics’ GM Billy Beane changed the sport by introducing advanced statistical analysis instead of simply relying on reports from human scouts. Today, baseball is ruled by analysts as much as experienced baseball professionals — but could there be too much data?
Alex Spier writing in the Boston Globe’s Sunday Baseball Notes column recently pointed out that Boston Red Sox Manager Alex Cora will have 11 coaches on staff this year for 26 players. Compare that with Terry Francona in 2011, who had six for 25, and you can see the number has nearly doubled.
Spier attributes this in part to the growing amount of data that teams are collecting, which requires more people to observe, interpret, and implement a plan to leverage. As Spier wrote, “The result? Several teams now feature three hitting coaches, and staffs keep growing in an effort to distill the mountains of information into a digestible form for the 26 players on a roster.”
Baseball is like a laboratory for advanced statistical analysis, and businesses could learn a lot from watching how the sport deals with expanding datasets.
To a politician, politics is real. The world around us (reality) is not.
https://www.wired.com/story/will-hurd-tech-regulation-american-reboot/
The Future of Tech Is Here. Congress Isn't Ready for It
In a conversation with WIRED, former representative Will Hurd talked AI, the metaverse, China, and how ill-prepared legislators are to grapple with any of it.
“THERE ARE STILL many senators that don’t even use email—if you don’t even use email how are you going to understand some of these other tools? We need folks that are running for office that understand these things."
Perhaps I am too familiar with AI to consider it god-like...
Beth Singler interview: The dangers of treating AI like a god
Artificial intelligence’s lack of transparency is leading many to fear the technology and others to elevate it to a mysterious god-like figure, but we should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is used, says anthropologist Beth Singler
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