The article seems strangely edited, but it does touch on many typical failures in security...

http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/24/hack-pornography-microsoft-technology-cio-network-security.html

Lessons From A Security Breach

The hospital believed it had the standard security systems in place to protect its medical records. But for 16 long days that stretched into August, the hospital struggled to get its systems operational and isolate the problem from its patient care.

… The first thing that happened was people called us saying their printers were printing long jobs gibberish until it would run out of paper. When we asked what they were doing about it, they told us they were adding more paper to the printers. [Typical users Bob]

… Systems began to get slower and slower to the point where they were crawling along. Then it began to download large quantities of pornographic images.

… Did you believe your security was sufficient?

Yes. The hospital is one department in the county. We have about 35 departments in the county and the other 34 departments were not hit. We later traced it to why. It was a very small mistake by an employee. [...and no manager checked? Bob] But we did have antivirus software for the entire county. We also had an e-mail appliance and all the county departments were behind that appliance except the hospital. After the situation was corrected, we've put everything behind the appliance.

… How did the virus come into your organization in the first place?

It came in as an e-mail attachment.

Did you find out when it came in?

We had begun so much of the cleanup process that we lost the specifics of where it came in. [...and we don't log anything? Bob]

(Related) Should the US adopt this policy? Or should we plan to “bail out” anyone who can't secure their data and systems? Think of this as “cyber Darwinism” – survival of the fittest.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/28/0322204/Aussie-Govt-Wont-Help-Fight-Cyber-Attacks?from=rss

Aussie Gov't Won't Help Fight Cyber Attacks

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 28, @02:07AM

"Days after the Pentagon's #2 called for a NATO cyber-shield, the Australian government has announced it won't lift a finger to help the country's businesses to defend themselves against cyber attacks unless it presents a high risk to national security. Instead, Australia's security agencies will forge a response based on the 'pathology of the problem,' incorporating the risk the attack poses to government and the community. A senior security official said the government 'struggles to defend its own systems from the current threats,' let alone that of other industries. He went on to rubbish claims that existing military force strategies can be applied to cyber warfare, noting that the demarcation between civil attacks, such as domestic hacking, and those against nation-states, such as espionage, is blurry. Former US counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke said the US government has taken a similar line."

If you've got nothing to hide... Isn't this how Big Brother started?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14800

Designing an Insecure Internet

September 27, 2010 by Dissent

Julian Sanchez also responds to the morning’s biggest story:

If there were any doubt that the 90s are back in style, witness the Obama administration’s attempt to reignite the Crypto Wars by seeking legislation that would force Internet services to redesign their networks and products to provide a centralized mechanism for decrypting user communications. It cannot be stressed enough what a radical—and terrible—idea this is. I’ll be writing on this at greater length this week, but a few quick points.

[...]

Second, they are basically demanding that providers design their systems for breach. This is massively stupid from a security perspective. In the summer of 2004, still unknown hackers exploited surveillance software built in to one of Greece’s major cell networks to eavesdrop on high government officials, including the prime ministers. The recent hack of Google believed to originate in China may have used a law-enforcement portal to acquire information about dissidents. More recently, we learned of a Google engineer abusing his access to the systemto spy on minors.

Read more on Cato@Liberty.

(Related) Perhaps all communications systems should use this model?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14819

BlackBerry CEO suggests route to eavesdropping

September 27, 2010 by Dissent

Andrew Vanacore of The Associated Press reports:

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. says it has no way of providing government officials with the text of encrypted corporate e-mails its devices serve up. But if the companies that employ BlackBerry phones want to hand over the encryption keys to their e-mail, it won’t object.

Read more on the Denver Post.

I expected no less, but how do we inform the police and everyone with cameras in their cell phones?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14816

Motorcyclist wins taping case against state police

September 27, 2010 by Dissent

Score one for the citizenry! Peter Hermann of the Baltimore Sun reports:

A Harford County Circuit Court judge ruled this afternoon that a motorcyclist who was arrested for videotaping his traffic stop by a Maryland State Trooper was within his rights to record the confrontation.

Judge Emory A Pitt Jr. tossed all the charges filed against Anthony Graber, leaving only speeding and other traffic violations, and most likely sparing him a trial that had been scheduled for Oct. 12. The judge ruled that Maryland’s wire tap law allows recording of both voice and sound in areas where privacy cannot be expected. He ruled that a police officer on a traffic stop has no expectation of privacy.

Read more in the Baltimore Sun. Via @Marshallyoum

What is the opposite of Facebook?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6beea90c-cad5-11df-bf36-00144feab49a.html

N Korea propaganda gears up for younger Kim

Teachers in North Korea had already been telling their pupils that a brilliant young general was waiting in the wings to succeed Kim Jong-il, the country’s dictator.

But few people inside the hermit kingdom actually knew anything about Kim Jong-eun, the third son of the ailing dictator who was unveiled on Tuesday as the heir apparent.

That will change now that the Pyongyang propagandists can broadcast a full mythology for the younger Kim, who was appointed as a general in the first concrete sign that he is being groomed for the top job. North Korean state media has never before mentioned any of Mr Kim’s three known sons.

… If an unravelling state were not challenge enough for Kim Jong-eun, succeeding his father may not be straightforward. Choi Choon-heum, senior research fellow at the Korea institute of National Unification, stressed that loyalty from the million-man army could not be taken for granted.

For this reason, Kim Jong-il gave a four-star generalship to both his son and his sister Kim Kyong-hui who is his closest confidante.

… Very few North Koreans have even seen an image of the heir apparent. Once the official propaganda engines crank into life this week, however, his poster is likely to be on every street corner. At that stage, it would indeed be unthinkable for any rival to challenge the official state mythology.

I know some folks who have a website AND have published books. Perhaps this is useful?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/amazon-debuts-kindle-for-the-web-which-is-pretty-much-what-it-sounds-like/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

Amazon Debuts “Kindle for the Web”, Which Is Pretty Much What It Sounds Like

Amazon.com today introduced the beta version of “Kindle for the Web”, which enables people to read and share digital book samples in their browsers without the need to install or download anything.

The company says it aims to lure bloggers and website publishers who participate in the Amazon Associates Program to embed samples of Kindle books on their websites (here’s how).

It seems like a win: these website owners will earn referral fees from Amazon when customers complete book purchases using the links on their websites.

Website visitors can simply click the “Read first chapter FREE” button on a book product page on Amazon or on other websites, and the first chapter will open within the web page.

For my Business and website students...

http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/headstartup-com-appstools-for-startups

HeadStartup.com - Apps &Tools For Startups

Head Startup is a website wholly devoted to the listing of tools and web applications that startup companies could find interesting. The idea is to let entrepreneurs have access to quality tools that are either inexpensive, or that can be used at a cost that is negligible.

On the site, visitors can look for applications by browsing through the available categories or by launching a search by keyword.

http://www.headstartup.com/

What rules apply if they find nothing?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14754

Use of sneak-and-peak warrants balloons from 87 in ’06 to 1,145 in ’09

September 26, 2010 by Dissent

James Ewinger reports:

A little-known federal law that allows investigators to carry out a search warrant without the suspect’s knowledge contributed to the smashing of a major heroin ring in the area last week.

[...]

The delayed-notice search warrant is designed to keep suspects from knowing they are under surveillance. In this case, investigators used the warrant to go through a suspected drug dealer’s apartment in Cleveland last April. They took more than a pound of heroin and two guns, then trashed the place to make it look like a burglary. [Probably only a marginal impact on crime statistics... Bob]

While the case is interesting in and of itself, or greater interest, perhaps, are some statistics that Ewinger includes about the use of sneak-and-peek warrants, as they’re often called:

The special warrants, like the one used in April, are most commonly utilized in drug cases, and only rarely against suspected terrorists.

Their use has soared, from 87 granted nationwide by federal judges in 2006 to 1,145 last year.

[...]

Federal judges nationwide have rejected requests for the special warrants only eight times between 2006 and 2009.

Read more on Plain Dealer, keeping in mind that use of these warrants ballooned after the USA PATRIOT Act, but not necessarily for terrorism-related cases.

Great thanks to FourthAmendment.com for alerting me to this story and, more importantly, for their additional coverage of these types of warrants and their abuse. Check out their blog entry on this.

Just a simple question: who benefits?

http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/1736224/Stuxnet-Infects-30000-Industrial-Computers-In-Iran?from=rss

Stuxnet Infects 30,000 Industrial Computers In Iran

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @01:50PM

"The BBC and AFP are releasing more juicy details about the now infamous Stuxnet worm that Iranian officials have confirmed infected 30,000 industrial computers inside Iran following those exact fears. The targeted systems that the worm is designed to infect are Siemens SCADA systems. Talking heads are speculating that the worm is too complex for an individual or group, causing blame to be placed on Israel or even the United States — although the US official claims they do not know the origin of the virus. Iran claims it did not infect or place any risk to the new nuclear reactor in Bushehr, which experts are suspecting was the ultimate target of the worm."

“Now lookie here, young fella...”

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/232222/Iris-Scanning-Set-To-Secure-City-In-Mexico?from=rss

Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @08:17PM

"The million-plus citizens of Leon, Mexico are set to become the first example of a city secured through the power of biometric identification. Iris and face scanning technologies from Global Rainmakers, Inc. will allow people to use their eyes to prove their identify, withdraw money from an ATM, get help at a hospital, and even ride the bus. Whether you're jealous or intimidated by Leon's adoption of widespread eye identification you should pay attention to the project – similar biometric checkpoints are coming to locations near you. Some are already in place."

For my IP Lawyers...

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/025323.html

September 26, 2010

WIPO Launches New Database to Profile IP Case Studies

News release: "WIPO has launched IP Advantage, a new database which profiles the intellectual property (IP) experiences of inventors, creators, entrepreneurs, and researchers. This tool aims to promote a better understanding of how IP is created and protected, and how inventors, creators and society at large benefit from the IP system. The IP Advantage database is a fully searchable one-stop gateway to the wealth of case study material available on WIPO’s website. The case studies featured in the database demonstrate how IP works in the real world and how IP rights - such as patents, marks and copyright - can be used to promote innovation in both developed and developing countries. The case studies are presented in a standard format reflecting the various steps of the innovation cycle: innovation – IP protection – exploitation – further innovation. They feature a variety of actors from across the globe and cover a range of topics, including branding, financing, partnerships and research and development (R&D). Various case studies also highlight the different ways in which the IP system can support the development of solutions to the challenges of climate change, food security and public health. IP Advantage is free, user-friendly and currently features over 100 case studies covering 48 different countries – a majority being developing countries. The database offers an intuitive interface that allows for searches to be made according to type of IP, the object of protection (inventions, commercial names, artistic works) and/or the focus of the case study (branding, IP management, R&D, etc.)."

What does this say about the “Core Business” of government?

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/025314.html

September 26, 2010

Private Library Outsourcing Expands - Taking Over Santa Clarita CA System

NYT: A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country’s fifth-largest library system. Now the company, Library Systems & Services, has been hired for the first time to run a system in a relatively healthy city, setting off an intense and often acrimonious debate about the role of outsourcing in a ravaged economy. A $4 million deal to run the three libraries here is a chance for the company to demonstrate that a dose of private management can be good for communities, whatever their financial situation. But in an era when outsourcing is most often an act of budget desperation — with janitors, police forces and even entire city halls farmed out in one town or another — the contract in Santa Clarita has touched a deep nerve and begun a round of second-guessing."

Interesting, but nothing really new?

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/025319.html

September 26, 2010

New on LLRX.com - Google Instant and Legal Search

Via LLRX.com - Google Instant and Legal Search: Steve Matthews enumerates some of the issues that merit attention with respect to Google's recent implementation of this default setting search query application.

One for my Statistics class. (Also Economics..) Should get some 'discussion' started!

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/025316.html

September 26, 2010

New Report Traces Link Between Gun Laws and Interstate Gun Trafficking

"A new report by Mayors Against Illegal Guns reveals a strong connection between weak gun laws and interstate gun trafficking. The report, which examines comprehensive crime gun trace data provided by ATF to Mayors Against Illegal Guns, finds that the states with the weakest gun laws are the top suppliers of the guns recovered in out-of-state crimes and are also the source of a greater proportion of likely trafficked guns.

• Trace the Guns - The Link Between Gun Laws and Interstate Gun Trafficking - Mayors Against Illegal Guns, September 2010.

• TraceTheGuns.org - Interactive Maps of Interstate Gun Trafficking: [This is interesting! Bob] "Every year, tens of thousands of guns make their way into the hands of criminals. This website examines where guns recovered in crimes were originally sold by gun dealers, using 2009 data collected by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). It also demonstrates how state gun laws help curb illegal gun trafficking."

“leet speak” for the office? Perhaps my students will understand me now? (Probably more cute than useful at this point, but it's young...)

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/unsuck-office-jargon-dictionary/

Unsuck It: Office Jargon Dictionary Online

www.unsuck-it.com

• Similar tools: NoSlang and UrbanDictionary.

• Also read related article: Showdown: The Wikipedia Dictionary (Wiktionary) vs Urban Dictionary.

Long time, no news. But when it comes it isn't pretty...

http://mainlinemedianews.com/articles/2010/09/18/main_line_times/news/doc4c9581e8d276c203675222.txt

LM could be facing a new webcam suit

The Lower Merion School District could be facing a third lawsuit related to its on-going battle over the webcam issue, according to documents obtained Thursday by Main Line Media News.

In a letter written in June to district Supt. Christopher McGinley, attorney David Arnold wrote, “I am writing to place Lower Merion School District on notice of a claim that will be asserted by ....” The name of the client has been redacted and is being referred to as Student Doe.

“Student Doe was the subject of improper surveillance on his school issued laptop computer from approximately December 14, 2009, through February 18, 2010,” Arnold wrote in the letter. “The surveillance followed Lower Merion's improper interrogation of Student Doe at Lower Merion High School during the morning of December 4, 2009.” No other details are listed in the letter regarding what Arnold meant when he wrote improper interrogation.

… According to a review of the Ballard Spahr report, only one student had a computer with the security feature turned on and off on the dates listed in Arnold's letter, Dec. 14, 2009 through Feb. 18, 2010. The student with the appropriate activation dates has only been identified in the report only as student number 139. In the report, the forensic team recovered 371 webcam photos and 358 screenshots that were taken from this student's computer. The computer that corresponds with the correct dates was listed under computers that were reported to the district as missing. Sources have told Main Line Media News that the student in this case never reported the computer missing.

I don't understand the logic. (“We've got cameras now, so we have to change to allow the technology to work?”)

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14677

Whittling away at library privacy in Austin

September 25, 2010 by Dissent

Libraries are among the last bastions and heroes of privacy. And yet, as John Kelso comments, at least some libraries have decided to sacrifice privacy for security theater:

Thanks to the Austin Public Library’s new conduct policy, you could get tossed from the library for refusing to take off your ball cap.

You heard that right. Starting next Friday, Austin’s libraries will begin enforcing a dress code that prohibits ball caps, sunglasses and hoodies. You’re asking why. It’s the same reason given for about everything else that goes down these days: keeping you safe.

Hey, I’m kept so safe these days that I’m almost afraid to leave the house.

The city’s library system has put up bumper sticker-style signs at all of its 21 branches, the history center and its Recycled Reads bookstore on Burnet Road. These signs show international “no” signs over illustrations of ball caps, sunglasses and hoodies.

The library came up with the rule so that customers can’t hide their faces, said Toni Grasso, the libraries’ administrative manager in the office of programs and partnerships.

“We have security cameras in place, so like banks and courthouses, we’re asking people to remove sunglasses and anything that hides the face, for the security of staff and customers,” Grasso said.

So if you’re up to something funny, they want to know who you are. Let’s hope something funny never includes taking out the wrong book.

Read John’s complete commentary on Statesman.com (via @SLWorona).

I am really sorry to hear that the library system has taken this step, as surveillance cameras will likely record who is reading what or looking at what bookshelf, etc. And that raises serious privacy concerns. Will people now have to hide their library books inside plain brown wrappers to keep their reading choices private from spying eyes? Will they be afraid to go look up something for fear of being caught on camera?

No, I’m not happy about this at all

Bonjour, Messr. Le Crook!

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14670

French court orders Google Inc to pay libel damages: report

September 25, 2010 by Dissent

A French court has ordered Google Inc to pay 5,000 euros ($6,672) in libel damages to a man who claimed that searches for his name automatically yielded a list of harmful suggestions.

The man, whose name was not given, said the suggested terms that came up when typing his name on Google.fr — including the words “rape,” “rapist” and “prison” — were damaging for his reputation, court documents showed.

Read more on Reuters. A copy of the ruling (in French) can be found on Legalis.net

Via @LawandLit

[From the article:

A Google spokesperson said the firm would appeal the decision.

"It is important to point out that Google Suggest is an aggregate of the most popular searches based on past requests from users. Google does not suggest these terms," the company said in an email.

Procedures are in place for a reason. Ignore them at your peril...

http://cbs11tv.com/health/Medical.City.Medical.2.1928391.html

Woman Sues Dallas Hospital Over ID Mixup

DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―A North Texas woman is suing Medical City Dallasfor ruining her reputation, credit history and medical record following an alleged records mix-up.

The woman asked CBS 11 News to withhold using her name. We will call her "B".

"B" said the trouble began in July 2009. Dallas police escorted a woman, with the same first and last name, to Medical City Dallas for psychiatric evaluation. When the hospital tried to admit her, though, she had no identification.

There were, however, three women in the hospital's computer system who had the same first and last name. "One was African-American, one was older," explained "B".

The third person in their records was "B".

It just so happens "B" and the woman admitted were about the same age. "If they had asked her birth date, middle initial or followed their procedures…they would have known it wasn't her," said "B".

According to the Medical City Dallas website, the hospital requires a social security number, all active insurance cards, picture identification and any paperwork given to a patient by their physician.

Huh... Isn't Facebook intended to be “public” like a phone book? So this revolves around “contacting other” not Facebook, right? I wonder if she had mentioned her medical condition and financial problems on her Facebook page?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14660

Woman sues debt collector for contacting her family via Facebook

September 25, 2010 by Dissent

Curtis Krueger reports:

Melanie Beacham is on Facebook, the social networking site “that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.” Unfortunately for her, those “others” include bill collectors.

Beacham, 34, of St. Petersburg, said she already had called her car finance company last summer to let people know she was on medical leave from her job, and getting a little behind on payments.

The company not only called her repeatedly to get her to pay up, she says, but it also looked at her Facebook page and found her sister and cousin.

Then the company sent Facebook messages to them, which worried the two, which led them to talk to other relatives, who got even more worried, she said.

“It was very stressful, it still is very stressful,” said Beacham. “It was humiliating.”

Beacham is suing Mark One Financial of Jacksonville seeking damages, and also seeking to prevent it from contacting “any friends and family members of the plaintiff, through Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking sites.

Read more in the St. Petersburg Times. The company may find itself in trouble with the regulatory authorities if it violated any laws about contacting others.

And of course, if they violated Facebook’s TOS, that would be a crime, if you believe Facebook.

“We would never do this ourselves, but since we had the hacker on felony jaywalking charges, we negotiated a plea bargain whereby he hacked the bank in exchange for a reduced sentence.”

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/0145215/UK-Pursues-Tax-Evaders-Using-Stolen-Bank-Details?from=rss

UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 26, @01:57AM

"The UK taxman (HM Revenue & Customs) is reportedly using a stolen list of bank details to pursue wealthy individuals with off-shore accounts. The list was stolen by an employee of HSBC, and gave details of the bank's customers with money in Swiss accounts. The bank employee fled to France, and the authorities there passed the details on to the UK tax collection agency."

Statistics for my Computer Security students. If you have a population of 800,000,000,000, can you tell a targeted attack for a random event? (Hint: Yes!)

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/2134232/Google-Warning-Gmail-Users-On-Spying-From-China?from=rss

Google Warning Gmail Users On Spying From China

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @05:35PM

"Google is using automated warnings to alert users of its Gmail messaging service about widespread attempts to access personal mail accounts from Internet addresses in China. The warnings may indicate wholesale spying by the Chinese government a year after the Google Aurora attacks or simply random attacks. Victims include one leading privacy activist. Warnings appeared when users logged onto Gmail, encountering a red banner reading 'Your account was recently accessed from China,' and providing a list of IP addresses used to access the account. Users were then encouraged to change their password immediately. Based on Twitter posts, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the accounts that were accessed, though one target is a prominent privacy rights activist in the UK who has spoken out against the Chinese government's censorship of its citizens. A Google spokesman declined to comment on the latest warnings specifically. The company has been issuing similar warnings since March when it introduced features to identify suspicious account activity."

“Gee Professor, I know I haven't been in class much and I haven't submitted anything online, but do I have enough time to complete everything and still get an “A”?”

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/countdowntimer-simple-countdown-timer/

CountDownTimer: Simple Count Down Timer In Your Browser

For all those times when you need to keep track of time counting down but you don’t have a gadget to do that, CountDownTimer is an excellent tool. It is a simple countdown timer that starts a timer for whatever duration you enter at the end of the URL.

• Keep track of the percentage of time elapsed.

• Screen turns to red once the timer reaches zero.

• No registration required.

www.cd.justinjc.com

Similar tools: EggWatchers, ClockEasy, AlarmTube, OnlineClock, Countdown2Zero and E.ggTimer.

Not exactly Identity Theft, call it Reputation Modification?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/24/1629245/Man-Gets-12-Year-Jail-Sentence-For-Planting-Child-Porn-On-Enemys-Computer?from=rss

Man Gets 12-Year Jail Sentence For Planting Child Porn On Enemy's Computer

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 24, @01:16PM

An anonymous reader writes with an update to a story we discussed in August about Neil Weiner, a man who sought to ruin the life of a school caretaker by planting child pornography on his computer. Weiner has now been convicted on two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of perverting the course of justice. He was sentenced to 12 years in jail.

"The judge told Weiner that his plot to have Mr. Thompson sacked and prosecuted very nearly succeeded. Police had been careful not to make public their arrest of the caretaker and only informed those at the school who needed to know, he said. 'But you gratuitously and spitefully informed the local press so that he and his wife suffered the distress of the unwelcome publicity which followed.' Mr. Thompson's health and that of his wife suffered. The judge said: 'There are still those who believe, and probably always will, that he is a pedophile. I am wholly satisfied that Mr. Thompson is innocent.' ... Weiner had discovered the caretaker's password by looking over his shoulder one day and been caught doing so. When Mr. Thompson was asked why he did not change it, he said he wished he had, adding: 'Who in their worst nightmares would could have thought that anyone could stoop to do what he did?'"

Would you like to opt out of Behavioral Advertising tracking?

http://www.privacychoice.org/

PrivacyChoice

This bookmark will opt you out of tracking by over 100 ad companies. Reconfirm your privacy settings at any time with one click.

“We can do anything we want. We don't need no “due process.” If they operated in Colorado, could I have your service disconnected by filing complaints?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/24/237238/US-ISP-Adopts-Three-Strikes-Policy?from=rss

US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy

Posted by timothy on Friday September 24, @07:09PM

"Suddenlink, a United States ISP that serves nineteen states, has implemented a three-strikes policy. Subscribers who receive three DMCA takedown notices are disconnected without compensation for a period of six months. According to TorrentFreak, the takedown notices do not have to be substantiated in court, which effectively means that subscribers can be disconnected based on mere accusations. In justifying the policy, Suddenlink turns to an obscure provision of their Terms of Service, but also claims that they are required by the DMCA to disconnect repeat offenders."

If “A” medical procedure can be mandated, could “ANY” medical procedure be mandated?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14639

Lawsuit filed over AnMed’s required flu shot policy

September 24, 2010 by Dissent

Mike Ellis reports:

Bertha Hunter has not had a flu shot in her life and she doesn’t intend to get one just because AnMed Health is requiring all its employees to get one.

Hunter, an AnMed Health employee, is suing the Anderson healthcare company on grounds that the hospital’s mandatory shots are a violation of her privacy.

The lawsuit challenges AnMed Health’s policy of requiring employees to get influenza shots, a policy that was announced in a Sept. 15 e-mail sent to employees.

Read more on IndependentMail.com

Thank God for Pirates! (Since this was a copy for private viewing, and no one in baseball thought to do it, what kind of legal battles will it generate if someone wants to sell copies?)

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/0049236/Bing-Crosby-Television-Sports-Preservationist?from=rss

Bing Crosby, Television Sports Preservationist

Posted by timothy on Friday September 24, @11:08PM

Hugh Pickens submits news first gleaned from a now-paywalled article at the New York Times (and, happily, widely reported) that

"The hunt for a copy of the seventh and deciding game of the 1960 World Series, considered one of the greatest games ever played and long believed to be lost forever, has come to an end in the home of Bing Crosby, a canny preservationist of his own legacy, who kept a half-century's worth of records, tapes and films in the wine cellar turned vault in his Hillsborough, California home. Crosby loved baseball, but as a part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates he was too nervous to watch the Series against the Yankees, so he and his wife went to Paris, where they listened by radio. Crosby knew he would want to watch the game later — if his Pirates won — so he hired a company to record Game 7 by kinescope, an early relative of the DVR, filming off a television monitor. The five-reel set, found in December in Crosby's home, is the only known complete copy of the game, in which Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski hit a game-ending home run to beat the Yankees, 10-9."

Speaking of Pirates... Shouldn't you expect some to retaliate?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/25/0413236/UK-Anti-Piracy-Firm-E-mails-Reveal-Cavalier-Attitude-Toward-Legal-Threats?from=rss

UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, @08:17AM

"A recent DDoS attack against a UK-based anti-pirating firm, ACS:Law, has resulted in a large backup archive of the server contents being made available for download, [and this archive] is now being hosted by the Pirate Bay. Within this archive are e-mails from Andrew Crossley basically admitting that he is running a scam job, sending out thousands of frivolous legal threats on the premise that a percentage pay up immediately to avoid legal hassles."

Convienient for you, jackpot for my hackers...

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14631

Apple Leaves Another ‘Autocomplete’ Privacy Bug In Safari Unfixed

September 24, 2010 by Dissent

Andy Greenberg writes:

If you use Apple’s Safari browser and care about your privacy, it may be time to turn off the “autocomplete” function that conveniently fills in your personal details on websites. That, or stop typing the letter “U.”

Web security guru Jeremiah Grossman described on his blog Thursday a technique that a website can use to trick a visitor’s Safari browser’s autocomplete function into giving up his or her name, address, email, phone number and other sensitive contact details.

Read more on Forbes.

[From the article:

Here’s how the privacy exploit would work: When a user is filling out a form in Safari, he or she can type the first letter of just one field–say, name or street address–and the full name will be offered up by Safari’s autocomplete, using the name that the user originally registered in the PC’s operating system. A lesser-known shortcut: Press “tab” after that first entry, and every field on the page will be automatically filled from the user’s registration form.

That means, Grossman says, that if a user can be tricked into typing just a single letter and tab, all of his or her details can be stolen by a hidden form on the site.

...on second thought...

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14642

Va. court reconsiders police GPS use

September 24, 2010 by Dissent

Tom Jackman reports:

Two weeks after the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that it was fine for police to use portable global positioning systems to track criminal suspects, the court has now decided to rehear the case, according to an order entered on Thursday.

The court ruled in the case of David L. Foltz Jr., a convicted sex offender whom Fairfax County police suspected might be assaulting women in the Falls Church area. Detectives placed a global positioning system device inside the bumper of his work van, then reviewed his movements and found he had been in the vicinity of a recent assault.

Update: I got so excited that I forgot to post the link to the full coverage: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/tom-jackman/va-court-reconsiders-police-us.html

Now will you believe me? I recommend Khan Academy to my Math students, but can't convince the other professors to join me. (Hey Google! How about a $2,000,000 award to a blog that serves no useful purposr what-so-ever?)

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/24/1733255/Google-Announces-Project-10100-Winners?from=rss

Google Announces Project 10^100 Winners

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 24, @01:59PM

Kilrah_il writes with news that Google has selected winners for Project 10^100, a contest to find the best ideas to change the world. Among the winners is the Khan Academy, which we've discussed previously. Google is "providing $2 million to support the creation of more courses and to enable the Khan Academy to translate their core library into the world’s most widely spoken languages." The other winning projects are: FIRST, an organization fostering math and science education through team competition; Public.Resource.Org, a government transparency effort focused on online access to public documents; Shweeb, a silly-looking method of human-powered urban transit; and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, a center aimed at promoting graduate-level math and science education in Africa.

A useful tool?

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/organize-pdf-files-collaboratively-research-mendeley/

Organize Your PDF Files and Collaboratively Research With Mendeley

… A while back, I wrote about three useful research tools. Unfortunately, while those solutions cited sources, they don’t deal very well with organizing or sharing files, especially during collaborative research. Jeffry covered some cool techniques to share research files, but that approach is a little difficult to track and manage citations for those files.

Luckily, after quite a bit of digging and trying out a few applications, I’ve discovered a free application and research social network called Mendeley which does it all. With Mendeley, you have a desktop application linked with an online account. Together, they archive and organize your PDF documents, web pages, videos – anything at all that you want to use in your research, complete with full citations. As if that weren’t enough, Mendeley lets you create research groups which you can share your research with. It’s like a researcher’s dream come true.

A site to help my students decypher technical documents? (Claims to adjust to your leel of knowledge...)

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/readeasy-improve-reading-comprehension/

ReadEasy: Make your reading experience & comprehension better

… ReadEasy is a free to use website that aims to make your online reading experience a lot more convenient than it currently is. Before you get started with its service, it is advisable to create an account as you will need it later on. The next step is to upload a document file. Supported formats include PDF, EPUB, DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, HTML, HTM, LIT, PDB, FB2, and RB. If the text is online, simply copy it from your browser and save it in one of those file formats.

After you upload your document, the site analyzes it. A reader friendly interface is shown in which the meanings of infrequently used words are highlighted and described as side-notes. You can zoom in and out of the document, search for a particular word, print it for $0.99, or discard it.

The service attempts to remove all problems faced while reading articles online, and does a good job of it.

www.readeasy.com

Similar tools: PDF-XChange Viewer, Nuance, Skim, FoxIt Reader,

Also read related articles:

4 Really Light Alternatives to Adobe Reader
6 Ways To Convert A PDF To A JPG Image
How To Convert A PDF File Into A Flash Movie.

Are we seeing indications of another Heartland type breach or is this just speculation on the part of the police? Difficult to tell, but where would you go for proof? Perhaps there is already an organized “users group” for stolen cards.

http://www.databreaches.net/?p=14100

(Update) NE: Police Track Credit Card Thefts

September 23, 2010 by admin

More on the rash of credit card and debit card fraud being reported in the Lincoln, Nebraska area that was reported earlier this week. KETV reports:

Lincoln police said someone who hacked into a national database may be responsible for helping identity thieves go on shopping sprees with credit card numbers.

Investigators said more than 100 accounts have been hacked in Lincoln alone.

[...]

Police said some of the victims of the credit card thefts live on the East Coast, Canada and England.

“Possibly, a nationwide database was accessed, allowing these numbers to get out,” said Lincoln police Officer Katie Flood.

Floods said investigators are looking to see if the breach came from a Lincoln business.

Read more on KETV.

[From KETV:

"It's like, somewhere out there, there's a supermarket for thieves," Poley said.

You go to the easiest-to-hack website with the most useful information.

http://www.databreaches.net/?p=14109

Three plead guilty to using Franklin County Court website as part of ID theft conspiracy

September 23, 2010 by admin

In a case that became a cautionary tale for court websites and the need to redact personally identifiable information that could be used for ID theft, three Columbus residents have pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal credit accounts belonging to people whose identities they stole from a government website in 2006.

Katura Mozelle, 23, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Gregory L. Frost to one count of bank fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Kinte Green, 30, pleaded guilty before Judge Frost on September 20, 2010 to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. His sister, Fatima Green, 33, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge Norah McCann King on June 25, 2010 to one count of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

A statement of facts read during the plea hearing said that Ms. Mozelle and Mr. Green executed a scheme to defraud federally insured financial institutions by obtaining and using personal identifiers of individuals to take over existing accounts or to open new credit accounts.

Ms. Mozelle and Mr. Green accessed the Franklin County Municipal Court website between July 2006 and August 2007. They would enter random Social Security numbers until locating an individual who had been through the Franklin County Court system. Once they located an individual on the website, they would obtain a name, address, date of birth and driver’s license number. They used this information to get a credit report of the individual. They then would contact the financial institutions on the credit report and file for a change of address or report a card lost or stolen. New cards were sent to Fatima Green’s residence. [Clearly, these goys were not too bright... Bob] Using the fraudulently obtained cards, Mozelle and Kinte Green would buy merchandise from various stores and online shopping sites. Merchandise was often shipped to Fatima Green’s residence.

“Investigators found that they were able to access the information for as many as 70 individuals and took over up to 14 accounts,” Stewart said. “Law enforcement began investigating after a victim reported unusual activity on one of their accounts to Worthington Police.”

Bank fraud is punishable by up to 30 years imprisonment. Conspiracy to commit bank fraud is punishable by up to five years imprisonment, and aggravated identity theft is punishable by a mandatory two-year prison term consecutive to any other time served. Judge Frost will set a date for sentencing.

Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Ohio

For my Criminal Justice students: The technology of crime... For my Business students: The evils of micro-management...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20017493-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Teller accused of texting robber during bank heist

Technology is such an enabler. Even when it comes, allegedly, to robbing a bank.

… Recently, there was a serious robbery at the Texas Credit Union in Arlington. It happened after closing time, when the robber allegedly emerged from the bathroom in order to relieve the bank of $183,000.

According to NBC Dallas Fort Worth, police happened upon the alleged robber Tyce Von Franklin shortly after the heist, when he was allegedly going 54mph in a 40mph zone. Upon stopping him, police found some incriminating items, including a large amount of cash and a surgical mask.

However, they began to suspect this was an inside job when they surveyed footage from the bank and saw one of its tellers, Kyle Lightner, sending texts shortly before the robbery.

Quite coincidentally, the police say, Lightner was texting Franklin. One text allegedly read: "Don't forget yo sunglasses." Which might, to some, seem slightly odd. Especially as the alleged robber was, indeed, reportedly wearing sunglasses.

Interesting argument.

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14548

Privacy has a price tag of $5,000

September 23, 2010 by Dissent

Bill Morem has an opinion piece about the detailed U.S. census survey that gives the issue a “human face:”

Tom Bolton is in a pickle, a dilemma that may leave his wages garnished by the government to the tune of $5,000. He’s staring down the barrel of such a fine because the Atascadero resident is refusing to give the U.S. Census Bureau about 28 pages of details of his private life.

Read more in the San Luis Obispo Tribune.

Morem doesn’t argue that the survey is illegal, but he does suggest that the rich may have greater privacy because they can afford to just write a check to the government for failure to fill it out. I hadn’t quite thought of the inequity that way before, but he does have a point: those who can afford to pay the fine can have greater privacy than those who can’t.

This should make my wife's blood boil. She's already taken her Doberman into a DU Law School classroom to “discuss” the finer points of Animal Law (and the Doberman doesn't even have a degree)

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14565

UK: Dog-owner prevented from finding microchipped pet under Data Protection Act

September 23, 2010 by Dissent

You can’t make this stuff up.

Laura Roberts reports:

Dave Moorhouse’s Jack Russell terrier, Rocky, was stolen in 2007 and he was informed earlier this year that the microchip provider had discovered details of his dog’s new address.

However, they refused to pass on the animal’s whereabouts claiming it would breach the Data Protection Act.

Last week a court refused Mr Moorhouse’s request for a court order compelling Anibase, the microchipping database, to reveal the name and address of the new owners.

Mr Moorhouse, 56, from Huddersfield, West Yorks, said: “What’s the point of having your pet microchipped if you can’t get him back?”

Indeed.

Read more in the Telegraph.

Wouldn't this be the same as searching your garbage? But do Police look through everyone's garbage searching for some crime to charge them with?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14568

If you sell or discard your own cellphone….

September 23, 2010 by Dissent

Remember that you may have no reasonable expectation of privacy for whatever you leave on the phone, as this news report by Beth Wurtmann out of New York demonstrates.

State Police confirmed that they are actively investigating whether graphic pictures found on used cell phones were uploaded to the Internet improperly.

The cell phones were reportedly sold at a business in the Wilton Mall that pays cash on the spot for used phones and iPods. Police were combing computers and websites to see if pictures left behind by customers were used illegally.

Read more on WNYT

“Yes we want to ensure your Privacy, but we also want to define the Privacy we ensure.”

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14571

Testimony in today’s House hearing on ECPA

The written testimony of today’s witnesses on ECPA reform is available online at http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_100923.html.

(Related)

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/ecpa-reform-why-digital-due-pr.html

ECPA reform: Why digital due process matters

No doubt the French are more efficient... Or maybe they'll just hire more judges?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/24/0942227/In-France-Hadopi-Reporting-Begins-With-Only-10000-IP-Addresses-Per-Day?from=rss

In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day

Posted by timothy on Friday September 24, @08:12AM

mykos writes with an excerpt from TorrentFreak that says the automated enforcement of France's three-strikes law known as Hadopi is now coming into effect:

"The scope of the operation is mind boggling. The copyright holders will start relatively 'slowly' with 10,000 IP-addresses a day, but within weeks this number is expected to go up to 150,000 IP-addresses per day according to official reports. The Internet providers will be tasked with identifying the alleged infringers' names, addresses, emails and phone numbers. If they fail to do so within 8 days they risk a fine of 1,500 euros per day for every unidentified IP-address. To put this into perspective, a United States judge ruled recently that the ISP Time Warner only has to give up 28 IP-addresses a month (1 per day) to copyright holders because of the immense workload the identifications would cause."

[From the article:

Under France’s new Hadopi law, alleged copyright infringers will be hunted down systematically in an attempt to decrease piracy. Alleged offenders have to be identified by their Internet providers and they will be reported to a judge once they have received three warnings.

A judge will then review the case and hand down any one of a range of penalties, from fines through to disconnecting the Internet connection of the infringer.

It's not the facts, it's how you spin the facts...

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/23/2240233/E-Books-Are-Only-6-of-Printed-Book-Sales?from=rss

E-Books Are Only 6% of Printed Book Sales

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 23, @06:53PM

"MIT's technology blog argues that ebook sales represent 'only six pecent of the total market for new books.' It cites a business analysis which calculates that by mid-July, Amazon had sold 15.6 million hardcover books versus 22 million ebooks, but with sales of about 48 million more paperback books. Amazon recently announced they sell 180 ebooks for every 100 hardcover books, but when paperbacks are counted, ebooks represent just 29.3% of all Amazon's book sales. And while Amazon holds about 19% of the book market, they currently represent 90% of all ebook sales — suggesting that ebooks represent a tiny fraction of all print books sold. 'Many tech pundit wants books to die,' argues MIT's Christopher Mims, citing the head of Microsoft's ClearType team, who says 'I'd be glad to ditch thousands of paper- and hard-backed books from my bookshelves. I'd rather have them all on an iPad.' But while Nicholas Negroponte predicts the death of the book within five years, Mims argues that 'it's just as likely that as the ranks of the early adopters get saturated, adoption of ebooks will slow.'"

For my website students (who must embed movies in their websites)

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/imovietube-watch-full-movies-online-legally/

iMovieTube: Watch Full Movies Online, Legally & Free

Movies can be the perfect solution to your boredom. But if boredom strikes unexpectedly and you do not have a DVD handy, you could watch a movie on the internet instead for free. Downloading movies from torrent sites is not advisable because it is illegal; [Let's not generalize guys... Bob] instead, there is a great website called “iMovieTube” that you could visit for online movies.

www.imovietube.com

Similar tools: QuickSilverScreen, DivXOnly, VideoHybrid and Inner-Live.

(Related)

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/cinecatalog-tagged-search-movie-downloads/

CineCatalog: Tagged Search For Trailes & Movie Torrent Downloads

Are you looking for the one place to get movie torrents easily? If you are, you should check out CineCatalog, a simple search engine for finding movie trailers and verified movie torrents. This gallery lets you search a growing collection of movie downloads, organized and tagged so that users can search or browse the database easily.

www.cinecatalog.com/index.php

Similar Tools: Jinni, Mubi, Watch-Movies, and Movski.

The economics of Identity Theft. When prices fall you have to make it up in volume.

http://www.databreaches.net/?p=14055

I’ll Take 2 MasterCards and a Visa, Please

September 22, 2010 by admin

Brian Krebs writes:

When you’re shopping for stolen credit and debit cards online, there are so many choices these days. A glut of stolen data — combined with cutthroat competition and innovation among vendors — is conspiring to keep prices for stolen account numbers exceedingly low. Even so, many readers probably have no idea that their credit card information is worth only about $1.50 on the black market.

Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com

Will we see mandatory encryption standards?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14543

FTC Testifies on Data Security Legislation

September 22, 2010 by Dissent

The Federal Trade Commission today told a Senate Subcommittee that it supports proposed legislation that would require many companies to use reasonable data security policies and procedures and require those companies to notify consumers when there is a security breach.

In testimony before the Committee on Science, Commerce, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance, Maneesha Mithal, Associate Director for Privacy and Identity Protection at the FTC told the Subcommittee that problems with data security and breaches affect a wide array of both businesses and nonprofit organizations. “Requiring reasonable security policies and procedures of this broad array of entities is a goal that the Commission strongly supports.”

“The Commission believes that notification in appropriate circumstances can be beneficial,” the testimony notes. Many states have passed notification laws that have increased public awareness of the harm breaches can cause. “Breach notification at the federal level would extend notification nationwide and accomplish similar goals.”

The testimony states that the agency suggests three additional measures that could be included in the proposed legislation to protect consumers. First, the provision that requires that companies notify consumers in the event of an information security breach should not be limited to entities that possess data in electronic form; second, the proposed requirements should be extended so that they apply to telephone companies; and third, the Commission suggests that the bill grant the agency rulemaking authority to determine circumstances under which providing free credit reports or credit monitoring may not be warranted.

Source: FTC (full press release here)

Related: Text of the Commission Testimony

(Related) Update. Either argument is scary...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/text-message-censorship/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

T-Mobile Claims Right to Censor Text Messages

T-Mobile told a federal judge Wednesday it may pick and choose which text messages to deliver on its network in a case weighing whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as wire-line telephone providers.

The Bellevue, Washington-based wireless service is being sued by a texting service claiming T-Mobile stopped servicing its “short code” clients after it signed up a California medical marijuana dispensary. In a court filing, T-Mobile said it had the right to pre-approve EZ Texting’s clientele, which it said the New York-based texting service failed to submit for approval.

Security failures have long term implications.

http://www.databreaches.net/?p=14068

Victims of ChoicePoint Data Breach to Receive Redress Checks

September 22, 2010 by admin

An administrator working for the Federal Trade Commission is mailing checks to 14,023 consumers who were victims of ChoicePoint’s alleged failure to implement a comprehensive information security program to protect consumers’ personal information, as required by a previous court order. As a result, in the spring of 2008, an unauthorized person accessed its database and conducted unauthorized searches.

In January 2006, ChoicePoint settled FTC charges that its security and record-handling procedures violated consumers’ privacy rights and federal law, an action relating to a 2005 data breach. As part of that settlement, ChoicePoint agreed to maintain procedures to ensure that sensitive consumer reports were provided only to legitimate businesses for lawful purposes, to maintain a comprehensive data security program, and to obtain independent assessments of its data security program every other year until 2026.

In October 2009, the company settled charges that it violated the 2006 settlement order and agreed to a modified court order that expanded its data security assessment and reporting duties and required the company to compensate affected consumers for the time they may have spent monitoring their credit or taking other steps in response.

Checks for $18.17 are being sent to consumers.

These consumer redress checks can be cashed directly by the recipients of the checks. The FTC never requires the payment of money up-front, or the provision of additional information, before consumers cash redress checks issued to them.

Source: FTC

Would it be closer to the mark to say you don't want entities who have your personal data to do things (including sharing that data) that you didn't agree to in the first place?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=14512

Privacy is about control, not anonymity

September 22, 2010 by Dissent

Dave Fleet writes:

Seth Godin says you don’t really care about privacy:

“If you cared about privacy you wouldn’t have a credit card, because, after all, they know everything you spend money on. And you wouldn’t use the phone, because somewhere, there’s a computer scanning what you say.

What most of us care about is being surprised. You don’t want the credit card company to track where you’re staying and whether you’re buying flowers for someone you’re not even married to–and then send you a free coupon for STD testing…”

I think Seth missed the mark with this one.

Read more on DaveFleet.com

http://www.privacysecuritysource.com/soloves-post-regarding-the-role-of-harm-in-privacy-litigation/#more

Solove's Post Regarding the Role of Harm in Privacy Litigation

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Andy Serwin

Dan Solove has written extensively on privacy theory as well as harm in the data breach context and recently posted on harm in the data breach context. Solove’s post discusses the issues plaintiff’s face in privacy litigation and offers alternative theories on harm. Solove raises some interesting points, including regarding the efficacy of litigation in protecting consumers rights, and one of his points raises interesting issues about the role of insurance. Solve notes the following regarding harm:

This is a problem. Danielle Citron’s thoughtful paper, Reservoirs of Danger, argued that those keeping data should be treated similarly to those engaging in hazardous activities. I agree. If you’re going to profit by using people’s data, you should at least be held responsible for compensating people when you fail to keep it secure.

No s@#t! They like do that c#@p 'cause it like makes them like seem like they are like f*&^%$#@#@ smart!

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/09/22/1328250/Todays-Children-Are-Officially-Potty-Mouths?from=rss

Today's Children Are Officially Potty Mouths

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 22, @10:32AM

"When the Sociolinguistics Symposium met earlier this month swearing scholar Timothy Jay revealed that an increase in child swearing is directly related to an increase in adult swearing. It seems that vulgarity is increasing as pop culture continues to popularize vulgarities. The blame lies with media, public figures, politicians, but mostly ourselves. From the article: 'Children as young as two are now dropping f-bombs, with researchers reporting that more kids are using profanity — and at earlier ages — than has been recorded in at least three decades.'"

With schools securing their networks beyond reason, a portable device allows me to demonstrate tools and techniques I can't install on the classroom computers. NOTE: This is not simple or quick.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-groups-portable-applications-cameyo-windows/

How To Create Groups Of Portable Applications Using Cameyo [Windows]

It would be nice if we could pack everything up in one portable app, so those apps will always be available whenever we need them – in any possible scenario. Mac users don’t have any problem with this particular issue because basically all Mac apps are portable. But things work differently in the Windows world. Luckily, there’s a portable applications creator called Cameyo.