I find little new in security as we migrate from mainframes to mini computers to personal computers and to smartphones. I also find that we forget the lessons learned in previous generations.
One-third of enterprises don’t encrypt sensitive data in the cloud
While most organizations list cloud security as one of their top IT priorities, they continue to ignore basic security hygiene when it comes to data in the cloud, according to Orca’s latest public cloud security report. The report revealed that 36% of organizations have unencrypted sensitive data such as company secrets and personally identifiable information in their cloud assets.
Do you trust every text you receive?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/disinformation-text-message-problem-answers-rcna41997
Disinformation via text message is a problem with few answers
While there’s now a cottage industry and federal agencies that target election disinformation when it’s on social media, there’s no comparable effort for texts.
The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out on Twitter or Facebook. It was some text messages.
The night before Kansans were set to vote on a historic statewide referendum last month, voters saw a lie about how to vote pop up on their phone. A blast of old-fashioned text messages falsely told them that a “yes” vote protected abortion access in their state, when the opposite was true — a yes vote would cut abortion protections from the state’s constitution
Makes me wonder how large their budget is for the fines they must know will follow their business models.
S.Korea fines Google, Meta billions of won for privacy violations
A new forensic tool and an aide to stalkers everywhere… You can find anything in a sufficiently large (i.e. comprehensive) database.
AI Searches Public Cameras to Find When Instagram Photos Were Taken
Dries Depoorter has created an artificial intelligence (AI) software that searches public camera feeds against Instagram posts to find the moment that a photo was taken.
The Belgian artist has posted a video of his remarkable project that he calls The Follower [As in stalker? Bob] which he began by recording open cameras that are public and broadcast live on websites such as EarthCam.
After that, he scraped all Instagram photos tagged with the locations of the open cameras and then used AI software to cross-reference the Instagram photos with the recorded footage. He trained the software to scan through the footage and make matches with the Instagram photos he had scraped, and it worked amazingly well.
Only 3?
https://venturebeat.com/ai/3-essential-abilities-ai-is-missing/
3 essential abilities AI is missing
Throughout the past decade, deep learning has come a long way from a promising field of artificial intelligence (AI) research to a mainstay of many applications. However, despite progress in deep learning, some of its problems have not gone away. Among them are three essential abilities:
To understand concepts,
to form abstractions and
to draw analogies
— that’s according to Melanie Mitchell, professor at the Santa Fe Institute and author of “Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans.”
During a recent seminar at the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell explained why abstraction and analogy are the keys to creating robust AI systems. While the notion of abstraction has been around since the term “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1955, this area has largely remained understudied, Mitchell says.
Eventually an AI resource!
Free Law Project Collaborates with vLex to Launch Complete, Updated, and Audited Open Case Law Database
Free Law Project: “In early 2010, we launched CourtListener.com. It wasn’t much, but it was a start. It could scrape decisions off court websites and whenever it found new decisions, it would send alerts by email and make the documents publicly searchable. Pretty soon, our ambition grew. We came to believe that an open database of legal opinions was an important part of the democratic experiment. Wikipedia said it wanted to provide access to “the sum all human knowledge.” We believed we could provide the sum of all case law information. Over the last twelve years, we’ve worked on this problem. We expanded to state courts and set up scrapers so we had more data coming in each day. We added bulk data downloads, the first-ever legal opinion API, and database replication, so people could get the data out. We added historical data from the Library of Congress, Public.Resource.Org, Lawbox, Inc, Justia, Harvard Law Library, and other sources. Recently, we even added a system for courts to add their decisions directly to CourtListener. It’s been a long, expensive and Sisyphean effort, but, like others working to open this data, we’ve never lost sight of how important it is to the country, nor of the impact it would make on the legal sector if we could pull it off. Today, through our collaboration with vLex, we take another big step.
With their financial and technical support, we aim to finish collecting every precedential legal decision from both the federal courts and the state appellate courts. Once collected, we will clean up this data and audit our collection for completion. We will enhance our citation finder and our database of courts so they are complete. Finally, by collaborating with others in this effort, we aim to do the hard work of adding citations to our database as they are published in regional and federal reporters…”
Not unusual. I found the same thing in the equestrian world. There are still a few firms that make saddles and buggy whips, and make a lot of money doing it.
https://www.bespacific.com/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/
We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
Aiga Eye on Design: “Turns out the obsolete floppy is way more in demand than you’d think. Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed “last man standing in the floppy disk business.” He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy disks. Other services include disk transfers, a recycling program, and selling used and/or broken floppy disks to artists around the world. All of this makes floppydisk.com a key player in the small yet profitable contemporary floppy scene. While putting together the manuscript for our new book, Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, we met with Tom to discuss the current state of the floppy disk industry and the perks and challenges of running a business like his in the 2020s. What has changed in this era, and what remains the same?…
In the beginning, I figured we would do floppy disks, but never CDs. Eventually, we got into CDs and I said we’d never do DVDs. A couple of years went by and I started duplicating DVDs. Now I’m also duplicating USB drives. You can see from this conversation that I’m not exactly a person with great vision. I just follow what our customers want us to do. When people ask me: “Why are you into floppy disks today?” the answer is: “Because I forgot to get out of the business.” Everybody else in the world looked at the future and came to the conclusion that this was a dying industry. Because I’d already bought all my equipment and inventory, I thought I’d just keep this revenue stream. I stuck with it and didn’t try to expand. Over time, the total number of floppy users has gone down. However, the number of people who provided the product went down even faster. If you look at those two curves, you see that there is a growing market share for the last man standing in the business, and that man is me…”
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