A week ago, my yahoo.com account was hacked and used to send spam (phishing URLs) to every address known to my account.
The key element for the hack seemed to be an initial access via the "Yahoo! Mobile" interface. Then a web browser was used to access my email. The IP address for these accesses resolved to India.
I reported this to Yahoo customer support, but never heard back from them.
My annoyance level is increased because I never asked or authorized for the Yahoo! Mobile interface to be enabled. Hidden many levels down is an option to disable that interface.
What if the information was sitting on a public web server waiting for its official release 3 days later.
Then our intrepid day trader finds that, due to a scripting error, that information is viewable with just a little manipulation of a URL.
Is that stealing the information? Is it a crime or just good fortune?
Darundal, we now have a new administration, the Rudd government referred to the the article.
The new government is making a big noise about listening to the people on a wide range of topics. Of course, the bureaucrats at the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy are still the same ones who promoted the previous attempts at censorship. Perhaps this is the right time to contact the new minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, with a balanced view on the issue?
What would Slashdot readers recommend as a good starting point for information to educate a government official on the problems with Internet censorship?
The author takes a look at how the use of IT can change our understanding of privacy and even create new ways of infringing personal privacy.
He suggests a taxonomy of privacy to enable a more sensible application of existing laws and the development of new legislation: Information Collection, including Surveillance and Interrogation Information Processing, including Aggregation, Identification, Insecurity, Secondary uses, and Exclusion Information Dissemination, including Breach of Confidentiality, Disclosure, Exposure, Increased accessibility, Blackmail, Appropriation and Distortion Invasion, including Intrusion and Decisional Interference
I'm interested to hear a Slashdot perspective on whether you feel that these categories would be sufficient to plan future legislation to protect privacy?
I came across this paper while researching the question of privacy of personal health records.
An elderly person that we interviewed commented, "You could post my information on the Internet, if that's what it takes to get me well". I have heard more concerns about health information privacy from healthy people, than from those who are ill.
Which raises the question of whether privacy is only important when our more basic needs are already satisfied?
Etanercept is not a "new" drug, in the sense that it has already been trialed and approved for use in various inflamatory conditions such as Rheumatoid Arthritis.
What concerns me is use of the perispinal injection and what trials have been conducted for this method of delivery.
It looks like there is a link between this study and other research by Dr Edward Tobinick.
I found a reference to a 6 month trial of this treatment involving 15 patients:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/529176 (registration required)
I also found a Medline reference to an article on "Efficacy of etanercept delivered by perispinal administration for chronic back and/or neck disc-related pain: a study of clinical observations in 143 patients" Current Medical Research & Opinion 20(7):1075-85, 2004 Jul
Is this another case of science and technology striving to achieve a vision that was dreamed of by a Sci Fi author?
Which reminds me, has anyone yet created the photoanalysis device that Dekkard uses in Bladerunner?
My take on this was that the software was using some sort of super-resolution image processing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution/
I was interested to see an article a while ago where a developer from Linden Labs said that Snowcrash, another Neal Stephenson book, was a major inspiration for Second Life. (Was either here on Slashdot, or over on BoingBoing, or both)
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A week ago, my yahoo.com account was hacked and used to send spam (phishing URLs) to every address known to my account. The key element for the hack seemed to be an initial access via the "Yahoo! Mobile" interface. Then a web browser was used to access my email. The IP address for these accesses resolved to India. I reported this to Yahoo customer support, but never heard back from them. My annoyance level is increased because I never asked or authorized for the Yahoo! Mobile interface to be enabled. Hidden many levels down is an option to disable that interface.
As someone who has worked for several hardware vendors, including Sun, I am still amused by the truth in the following joke that was once told to me:
Q: How do you tell the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman?
A: A used car salesman knows when he is lying.
( My apologies to those computer salesmen who do really understand the technology they sell. Unfortunately there are too many who do not. )
This must be annual "Review Secure USB Flashdrives" day.
Check out this review of 12 Secure USB Flashdrive products from InformationWeek (via http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20080302/tc_cmp/206900256/).
I'm sorry, but the term "second-generation virgins" is an oxymoron; at least until we have human cloning.
There can be only one! Perhaps this explains the decapitated cables in the Mediterranean?
What if the information was sitting on a public web server waiting for its official release 3 days later.
Then our intrepid day trader finds that, due to a scripting error, that information is viewable with just a little manipulation of a URL.
Is that stealing the information? Is it a crime or just good fortune?
Darundal, we now have a new administration, the Rudd government referred to the the article.
The new government is making a big noise about listening to the people on a wide range of topics. Of course, the bureaucrats at the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy are still the same ones who promoted the previous attempts at censorship. Perhaps this is the right time to contact the new minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, with a balanced view on the issue?
What would Slashdot readers recommend as a good starting point for information to educate a government official on the problems with Internet censorship?
I found this interesting paper which attempts to define the concept of privacy from a legal perspective:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=667622#PaperDownload
The author takes a look at how the use of IT can change our understanding of privacy and even create new ways of infringing personal privacy.
He suggests a taxonomy of privacy to enable a more sensible application of existing laws and the development of new legislation:
Information Collection, including Surveillance and Interrogation
Information Processing, including Aggregation, Identification, Insecurity, Secondary uses, and Exclusion
Information Dissemination, including Breach of Confidentiality, Disclosure, Exposure, Increased accessibility, Blackmail, Appropriation and Distortion
Invasion, including Intrusion and Decisional Interference
I'm interested to hear a Slashdot perspective on whether you feel that these categories would be sufficient to plan future legislation to protect privacy?
I came across this paper while researching the question of privacy of personal health records.
An elderly person that we interviewed commented, "You could post my information on the Internet, if that's what it takes to get me well".
I have heard more concerns about health information privacy from healthy people, than from those who are ill.
Which raises the question of whether privacy is only important when our more basic needs are already satisfied?
And I thought that America was the "Land of the Fee". Sorry, I must have misheard those lyrics :) http://www.kissthisguy.com/
Etanercept is not a "new" drug, in the sense that it has already been trialed and approved for use in various inflamatory conditions such as Rheumatoid Arthritis. What concerns me is use of the perispinal injection and what trials have been conducted for this method of delivery. It looks like there is a link between this study and other research by Dr Edward Tobinick. I found a reference to a 6 month trial of this treatment involving 15 patients: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/529176 (registration required) I also found a Medline reference to an article on "Efficacy of etanercept delivered by perispinal administration for chronic back and/or neck disc-related pain: a study of clinical observations in 143 patients" Current Medical Research & Opinion 20(7):1075-85, 2004 Jul
Is this another case of science and technology striving to achieve a vision that was dreamed of by a Sci Fi author?
Which reminds me, has anyone yet created the photoanalysis device that Dekkard uses in Bladerunner? My take on this was that the software was using some sort of super-resolution image processing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution/
I was interested to see an article a while ago where a developer from Linden Labs said that Snowcrash, another Neal Stephenson book, was a major inspiration for Second Life. (Was either here on Slashdot, or over on BoingBoing, or both)