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FTC Appoints EFF Board Member Lorrie Cranor As Chief Technologist (ftc.gov)
itwbennett writes: The US Federal Trade Commission has appointed Lorrie Faith Cranor as Chief Technologist. Cranor is the director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory and a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Board of Directors. She was previously a researcher at AT&T Labs Research and has also taught at the Stern School of Business at New York University. She will succeed Ashkan Soltani at the FTC. "Cranor has authored over 150 research papers on online privacy and usable security, and has played a central role in establishing the usable privacy and security research community."
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I went to college with her (well, I was undergrad and she was a grad student, but we were in an honor society together). It's always a bit odd to see an old friend's name in the subject line on Slashdot.
Whoa! Sudden outbreak of common sense! Sounds like a person with the right qualifications for the post. Will the pols listen to educated input? With the way things are going, doubt it...
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As much as I want an EFF supporter on the inside of the FTC I think what is happening at the FCC is more critical and detrimental to our future security, privacy, and civil rights. All our devices are being locked down and infected with digital restrictions and spyware that we're not even able to detect (easily) via particular critical components (firmware). The Save Wifi campaign is trying to fix this- but nobody is listening.
And the fact of the matter is we're seeing everything getting locked down. Besides many popular routers including those from Netgear, Linksys, Rosewill, and others which have been mentioned in the recent past during the FCC comment period we've got other popular manufacturers to add to the list of those locking things down: Ubiquity. But the issue doesn't just apply to routers so we're going to have a nightmare security situation very soon. Or I should say a worsening situation. It's already really bad with companies like Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and others embedding proprietary signed bits that we can't replace with free versions and we have no idea what the code is doing.
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I rarely ever hear about the people on Slashdot articles. Been in this industry over 20 years, too.
How else? Like that CIA 'appointment', though he bought his position. Anyone who read his 'resume' would know that guy has no business being CIA's top.
I mean, a former researcher from AT&T Labs AND Carnegie Melon, working as Chief Technologist for the FTC! I know for sure now that someone with a real understanding of modern technology, security, and privacy issues we'll finally have someone working hard to protect the rights of the consumer!
Stop laughing! I'm serious!
I mean, just because Carnegie Mellon was accused of breaking TOR for the Feds doesn't mean SHE had anything to do with it. Right?
And AT&T Labs. I mean, no idea what scandals happened while she was in their employ, so she probably wasn't part of things like deep packet inspection or anything. Right?
If the US Gov is now a P2W platform, where do I sign up to start swiping?
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Lorrie Cranor was my PhD advisor at Carnegie Mellon. Lorrie is absolutely brilliant. She is energetic to the point of being tireless. Lorrie is a world-leading expert in both computer security and privacy. She will do an amazing job in her new role. The US is fortunate to have her.
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" Cranor is also a self-described "bad-ass cyberfeminist" who features in CMU's #ILookLikeAnEngineer Facebook promotion for female engineers."
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Won't someone think of the companies?! How are our young and vulnerable multi-billion multi-nationals going to cope with the tyranny of an ethical appointee?! It's class warfare, I tell you! *sigh*
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"Carnegie Mellon University includes the Software Engineering Institute, which is a federally funded research and development center. One of the missions of the SEIâ(TM)s CERT division is to research and identify vulnerabilities in software and computing networks so that they may be sold to the FBI and used to bypass the 4th Amendment restrictions against unreasonable search."
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A bunch of good people from the electronic privacy community have been at the FTC (and seem to keep recommending their friends as successors :-) Besides Lorrie and Ashkan, Ed Felten and Steve Bellovin (one of the authors of the original Usenet and the Firewall book), and probably other people we know have been there. Occasionally we also get people into the FCC (like Dave Farber some years ago.)
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