Facebook's goal is to "get everyone together" in a database where our faces can be scanned by various government departments both state and federal, done legally or illegally (including police departments in New York City and Vermont), to track use whenever we pass by a digital camera, whether or not they are charged with a crime, just because...
This could have an interesting effect in the book and e-book market. Hopefully a good thing. Lots of books that are basically republished but identical material (especially in math), have been a a financial gouge for students.
If you read the article, you'll notice that Murry has sued a LOT of media companies for critical statements/reporting. The ones mentioned on this article were all dismissed so far.
Ummm..there is a LOT of misinformation. Problem is a lot of people are drinking the Kool-Aid. Trump is know for the very things he accuses anyone who speaks ill against him. It's true that we have a lot of misinformation or incomplete information but if you look CAREFULLY (like Fox News who constantly has to correct their headlines and are used by intelligent comedians for material), is the media with misinformation is often corrupted/coerced/bought out by the very people who accuse the media.Trump has been shown praising Fox news. Because they are basically mouthpieces of Republican party. Their official excuse is as a "balancing force" for the pro-Democrat news media outlets. All of that is basically government propaganda no better than the mainstream in China or Russia. So using Trump as an example of media abuse is a contradiction in terms (sorry but there is proven evidence). To be clear, I don't trust EITHER party (both have been shown corrupt at high levels) and I think we need a fresh 3rd party to keep them honest. But there ARE independent journalists and they are the ones primarily attacked. I'll give a few sources for you to examine:
Hopefully there will be more. Folks, please feel free to add to this list. Of course these people need donations to pay for their work. BTW, The Guardian and The Intercept worked together to expose the unconstitutional behavior of the NSA provided by Snowden. Pretty ballsy. If we want "real news" we need to find it and support it. otherwise the media companies and/or political parties will mute anything we truly need to know to have a real democracy.
True but...when you get these companies they always tell you your answers are treated "confidentially" so they say "trust us" and give you assurances that often get proved incorrect. But of course the phone operators are told the data IS secure. How would they know? Whenever I get calls there types of data I'm always asked and I say "no answer". "how will you vote", "what party are you most likely to support", "what is your income/revenue". Especially the income. People often have trouble saying "no" and that is the danger. Some data should never be given no matter how "confidentially" it will be treated. Hopefully the media will be a good teacher of what data to give to phone survey takes, and what to keep close to the chest.
In relation to giving out private data, people should be using VPNs for all surfing and delete ALL cookies when they stop using a browser (better yet, when you leave a site). Plus, have a javascript blockers in your browsers(NoScript or uMatrix work well) while blocking DoubleClick at all times. (gez, we have so many things out there collection data without your explicit consent). I would be surprised if those amazon echo devices are collecting other "ambient" or "telemetry" data.I know it sounds unrelated, but these companies will collect the data ANY way they can, including what they can get from creative use of javascript, cookies and devices you install in your home. I could go on about Windows 8/10 but that is another topic.
I do agree with you in spirit, but with the amount of data being careless left "in the wild" on Amazon data servers these days it seems to be "common practice" to leave sensitive data in some insecure space. It's almost as if people WANT leave this data for others to get. I mean, even non-techies know the word "encryption" these days but I have seen (and patched in many cases) all sorts of data being left in the wild because some unthinking person said "what are the odds?", or "who is going to care" or " they don't know it's there". I'm not just talking casual users who put stuff on GoogleDrive or Amazon file servers, I'm talking developers as well. Sometimes you get the, "I'll fix it when I have time" excuse. It's crazy how mass storage has made people who have the least skill/judgement able to do so much damage to confidentiality and privacy.What's crazier, is that business owners can't seemed to be bothered to do a periodic audit until there is public exposure.
We seem to be having a world government trend with attacking reporters who expose their nations problems. The US, the UK are also attacking reporters. It's creepy who many nations are using Chinese/Russian style tactics to control the contents of reporters.The question is, when is the public going to take the governments to task for this sort or behaviour.
Okay, we have two companies working together who do not exactly have the more trustworthy reputation.
On one side, we have Microsoft, mass data collector who from Windows 8 started force feeding ads, private data extraction (see list here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...), also force feeding updates, lying about the nature of a number of their updates (categorized "critical" which includes a new ad server?!?) and their trying to force feed upgrades from Windows 7 (now trusting updates to windows 7 is also an issue).
On the other side we have Accenture. Does anyone remember that this is the new name for Author Anderson, who had a scandal with fudging financial records of a number of major corporations (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1023409436545200).
And THESE people are creating legal verification records? Also remember Accenture does a LOT of IT recruiting now. Anybody see a new data fudge coming? A new name and hair dye may change the appearance of a tiger, but it doesn't change it's stripes or it's nature.
"Leak" (not "leaked" as is deliberately published) was use to indicate something like a leaky faucet. There is a relatively formal term in the IT security field called "data leakage" which means sensitive data creeping outside of company/owner boundries without the intent of the owner Whether it be through casual email, carelessly posting files to a public server for at home convenience, or sending out files into a public space without encryption/password. The new buzzword for this rapid growing field of data loss (or leakage) prevention is DLP. (Data Loss Prevention)
What the article is saying is the firm was as careless with their collected data as many people are when posting on facebook. It didn't even have to be "hacked" it was wide open. BTW, the claim that to the best of their knowledge only one person has accessed that data is a pretty lame response. The fact that the data was publicaly exposed for anyone to see at all shows amateur level of negligence.
People with this mass amount of data should have better protocols for data exchange of authorized parties (obviously).
There could well be legal repercussions from this because who you vote for is the most sacred form of privacy in a democracy. This compromises people's ability to vote without possible retaliation from friends, colleagues, employers or even governments. This is a seriously BIG deal. When your voting preferences cannot be kept private, you can't vote freely. I personally believe everyone should vote, but if you voting records are up for grabs in cyberspace, anyone could be pressure you. Hopefully people will stop foolishly giving their voting data or political preferences to marketing firms directly or indirectly. There is being friendly, then there is being careless.
This is what happens when a large amount of something valuable is available from one convenient location. when are people going to stop sending sensitive data to these guys. They send our data to various state police department (and probably federal+ groups as well) who are reportedly using that data for a face recognition system deemed illegal in two states (and the police don't seem to care the state laws make it's use illegal), marketing companies, and probably anyone who will pay Facebook enough. There is no real privacy on Facebook as it was never a priority. When are we all going to learn.
Putin denies any involvement in hacking (which the FBI says is nonsense) while publicly declaring he proposed in essence, a cyberwar treaty that "might have avoided all this". How could what is going with the question of Russian interference with our voting system be avoided if there wasn't any in the first place. This suggests what we all suspect: that we have actions (call it retaliation if you like) on both side. Who started it, well, that question probably goes back to the cold war.
I wonder if there was some other motive for this activity. (Possibly classified). While I guess it's possible this was a project that just went on automatic pilot, it seems more likely there was a side benefit some group in government was using. Time could well prove this is yet another example of how Trump does/says things without understanding them. It's odd that 2 other presidents could miss something like this. Although they perhaps were doing more important things.
Comprende. (My Spanish, much like libreoffice I guess, sucks). That is more of a resource problem than a technical problem. We need volunteers to help with that. Can a Spanish speaker like you throw a line (and possibly a hand?). If I had the skills, I'd contribute a bit. One of the beautiful things about Libre/Open Office is anybody with a great idea has a better chance of getting it in. Perhaps MS has it now, but if Linux proved anything, it's given time and love it can become more powerful/better than a product made by a single for-profit entity.
One thing I like about Vivaldi is it breaths fresh air not only into the browser community but it's approach to user interface and add-on architecture in general. Vivaldi is so far the fastest browser I've used and....not google data mining nonsense like I find with Chrome. Let's hope it's user base increases. We all win when we have more alternatives.
Okay, if one is in the medical profession and you are bound by proprietary drivers (probably outdated), or in some other professional with similar hardware lockins (Construction, Automobile/Farming equipment Computer diagnostics/calibration), or POSSIBLY hearing aid equipment interfaces/drivers (again outdated typically), you don't need MS Windows (feel free to add professional category subject to hardware lock-in). 95% of all tools are web based via Intranet or Internet. Linux does all the word processing, email, messaging, web surfing and even video chat options you need. LibreOffice's only serious weakness is on complex tables. But since MS and Google are pushing web based subscription, that may not even matter a lot unless you work with confidential data requiring local access only use + complex excel tables. I've been seeing/helping people convert to Mint Linux and Debian for years with no complaints. Gamers may complain about not having the full selection of games, but in government that is not a positive factor I think. Also, Windows 10 is NOT immune to WannaCry. you can patch it, but, given MS's recent history with buggy (or misleading) patches you can't really rely on it. Plus you can be sure others are adapting it to new "patched" Windows 10 anyway. Also will Munich get a "special" version of Windows 10 like China did to prevent government secrets going to the USA? (And the government agencies within) https://thenextweb.com/microso... I think most non-USA governments, as well as business/agencies that have confidential information in non-USA location will have to make a hard choice to avoid violating their basic oaths/ethics requirements.
Where Google basically mines your data en masse and gives it out to US government agencies, Proton Mail is in Switzerland and is not subject to involuntary data request from USA government requests. (Of course they could do it voluntarily but it would really hurt their rep if word got out)
https://protonmail.com/
So did I. Unfortunately It seems that Germany wants to join a new world order, where you are guilty until proven innocent. Now you get to be registered into a computer database with full biometric data just like those dystopian novels. Only they aren't fiction anymore. I suppose there is always Japan. don't think they are onboard this sort of thing...yet. These things are never really about evading the law (Law changes all the time anyway, and you can always find evidence after a crime is committed and added to a database or if the evidence isn't found the database makes no difference does it?), but about keeping people registered, monitored, and under government control. Guess they really didn't learn from their East Germany days.
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Facebook's goal is to "get everyone together" in a database where our faces can be scanned by various government departments both state and federal, done legally or illegally (including police departments in New York City and Vermont), to track use whenever we pass by a digital camera, whether or not they are charged with a crime, just because...
This could have an interesting effect in the book and e-book market. Hopefully a good thing. Lots of books that are basically republished but identical material (especially in math), have been a a financial gouge for students.
Makes sense.
If you read the article, you'll notice that Murry has sued a LOT of media companies for critical statements/reporting. The ones mentioned on this article were all dismissed so far.
Of course SnapChat has your location whether you "share" it or not.
Wonder if going solar would help with this idea, or would "they" just try to mic/camera my solar charged battery.
Ummm..there is a LOT of misinformation. Problem is a lot of people are drinking the Kool-Aid. Trump is know for the very things he accuses anyone who speaks ill against him. It's true that we have a lot of misinformation or incomplete information but if you look CAREFULLY (like Fox News who constantly has to correct their headlines and are used by intelligent comedians for material), is the media with misinformation is often corrupted/coerced/bought out by the very people who accuse the media .Trump has been shown praising Fox news. Because they are basically mouthpieces of Republican party. Their official excuse is as a "balancing force" for the pro-Democrat news media outlets. All of that is basically government propaganda no better than the mainstream in China or Russia. So using Trump as an example of media abuse is a contradiction in terms (sorry but there is proven evidence). To be clear, I don't trust EITHER party (both have been shown corrupt at high levels) and I think we need a fresh 3rd party to keep them honest. But there ARE independent journalists and they are the ones primarily attacked. I'll give a few sources for you to examine:
https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/
http://theintercept.com/
http://www.theguardian.com/
http://independent.co.uk/
Hopefully there will be more. Folks, please feel free to add to this list. Of course these people need donations to pay for their work. BTW, The Guardian and The Intercept worked together to expose the unconstitutional behavior of the NSA provided by Snowden. Pretty ballsy. If we want "real news" we need to find it and support it. otherwise the media companies and/or political parties will mute anything we truly need to know to have a real democracy.
True but...when you get these companies they always tell you your answers are treated "confidentially" so they say "trust us" and give you assurances that often get proved incorrect. But of course the phone operators are told the data IS secure. How would they know? Whenever I get calls there types of data I'm always asked and I say "no answer". "how will you vote", "what party are you most likely to support", "what is your income/revenue". Especially the income. People often have trouble saying "no" and that is the danger. Some data should never be given no matter how "confidentially" it will be treated. Hopefully the media will be a good teacher of what data to give to phone survey takes, and what to keep close to the chest.
In relation to giving out private data, people should be using VPNs for all surfing and delete ALL cookies when they stop using a browser (better yet, when you leave a site). Plus, have a javascript blockers in your browsers(NoScript or uMatrix work well) while blocking DoubleClick at all times. (gez, we have so many things out there collection data without your explicit consent). I would be surprised if those amazon echo devices are collecting other "ambient" or "telemetry" data.I know it sounds unrelated, but these companies will collect the data ANY way they can, including what they can get from creative use of javascript, cookies and devices you install in your home. I could go on about Windows 8/10 but that is another topic.
I do agree with you in spirit, but with the amount of data being careless left "in the wild" on Amazon data servers these days it seems to be "common practice" to leave sensitive data in some insecure space. It's almost as if people WANT leave this data for others to get. I mean, even non-techies know the word "encryption" these days but I have seen (and patched in many cases) all sorts of data being left in the wild because some unthinking person said "what are the odds?", or "who is going to care" or " they don't know it's there". I'm not just talking casual users who put stuff on GoogleDrive or Amazon file servers, I'm talking developers as well. Sometimes you get the, "I'll fix it when I have time" excuse. It's crazy how mass storage has made people who have the least skill/judgement able to do so much damage to confidentiality and privacy.What's crazier, is that business owners can't seemed to be bothered to do a periodic audit until there is public exposure.
We seem to be having a world government trend with attacking reporters who expose their nations problems. The US, the UK are also attacking reporters. It's creepy who many nations are using Chinese/Russian style tactics to control the contents of reporters.The question is, when is the public going to take the governments to task for this sort or behaviour.
Okay, we have two companies working together who do not exactly have the more trustworthy reputation.
On one side, we have Microsoft, mass data collector who from Windows 8 started force feeding ads, private data extraction (see list here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...), also force feeding updates, lying about the nature of a number of their updates (categorized "critical" which includes a new ad server?!?) and their trying to force feed upgrades from Windows 7 (now trusting updates to windows 7 is also an issue).
On the other side we have Accenture. Does anyone remember that this is the new name for Author Anderson, who had a scandal with fudging financial records of a number of major corporations (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1023409436545200).
And THESE people are creating legal verification records? Also remember Accenture does a LOT of IT recruiting now. Anybody see a new data fudge coming? A new name and hair dye may change the appearance of a tiger, but it doesn't change it's stripes or it's nature.
"Leak" (not "leaked" as is deliberately published) was use to indicate something like a leaky faucet. There is a relatively formal term in the IT security field called "data leakage" which means sensitive data creeping outside of company/owner boundries without the intent of the owner Whether it be through casual email, carelessly posting files to a public server for at home convenience, or sending out files into a public space without encryption/password. The new buzzword for this rapid growing field of data loss (or leakage) prevention is DLP. (Data Loss Prevention)
What the article is saying is the firm was as careless with their collected data as many people are when posting on facebook. It didn't even have to be "hacked" it was wide open. BTW, the claim that to the best of their knowledge only one person has accessed that data is a pretty lame response. The fact that the data was publicaly exposed for anyone to see at all shows amateur level of negligence.
People with this mass amount of data should have better protocols for data exchange of authorized parties (obviously).
There could well be legal repercussions from this because who you vote for is the most sacred form of privacy in a democracy. This compromises people's ability to vote without possible retaliation from friends, colleagues, employers or even governments. This is a seriously BIG deal. When your voting preferences cannot be kept private, you can't vote freely. I personally believe everyone should vote, but if you voting records are up for grabs in cyberspace, anyone could be pressure you. Hopefully people will stop foolishly giving their voting data or political preferences to marketing firms directly or indirectly. There is being friendly, then there is being careless.
This is what happens when a large amount of something valuable is available from one convenient location. when are people going to stop sending sensitive data to these guys. They send our data to various state police department (and probably federal+ groups as well) who are reportedly using that data for a face recognition system deemed illegal in two states (and the police don't seem to care the state laws make it's use illegal), marketing companies, and probably anyone who will pay Facebook enough. There is no real privacy on Facebook as it was never a priority. When are we all going to learn.
Putin denies any involvement in hacking (which the FBI says is nonsense) while publicly declaring he proposed in essence, a cyberwar treaty that "might have avoided all this". How could what is going with the question of Russian interference with our voting system be avoided if there wasn't any in the first place. This suggests what we all suspect: that we have actions (call it retaliation if you like) on both side. Who started it, well, that question probably goes back to the cold war.
you seem more of an expert than many who claim to be. :D
I wonder if there was some other motive for this activity. (Possibly classified). While I guess it's possible this was a project that just went on automatic pilot, it seems more likely there was a side benefit some group in government was using. Time could well prove this is yet another example of how Trump does/says things without understanding them. It's odd that 2 other presidents could miss something like this. Although they perhaps were doing more important things.
At that point, it's considered further evidence of the practitioner's brilliance.
Comprende. (My Spanish, much like libreoffice I guess, sucks). That is more of a resource problem than a technical problem. We need volunteers to help with that. Can a Spanish speaker like you throw a line (and possibly a hand?). If I had the skills, I'd contribute a bit. One of the beautiful things about Libre/Open Office is anybody with a great idea has a better chance of getting it in. Perhaps MS has it now, but if Linux proved anything, it's given time and love it can become more powerful/better than a product made by a single for-profit entity.
interesting. Let's throw the Document Foundation and Apache Foundation a few lines about that. Maybe some of us can help fix that.
fair enough, but Opera has been purchased by a Chinese company. :-(
One thing I like about Vivaldi is it breaths fresh air not only into the browser community but it's approach to user interface and add-on architecture in general. Vivaldi is so far the fastest browser I've used and....not google data mining nonsense like I find with Chrome. Let's hope it's user base increases. We all win when we have more alternatives.
Okay, if one is in the medical profession and you are bound by proprietary drivers (probably outdated), or in some other professional with similar hardware lockins (Construction, Automobile/Farming equipment Computer diagnostics/calibration), or POSSIBLY hearing aid equipment interfaces/drivers (again outdated typically), you don't need MS Windows (feel free to add professional category subject to hardware lock-in). 95% of all tools are web based via Intranet or Internet. Linux does all the word processing, email, messaging, web surfing and even video chat options you need. LibreOffice's only serious weakness is on complex tables. But since MS and Google are pushing web based subscription, that may not even matter a lot unless you work with confidential data requiring local access only use + complex excel tables. I've been seeing/helping people convert to Mint Linux and Debian for years with no complaints. Gamers may complain about not having the full selection of games, but in government that is not a positive factor I think. Also, Windows 10 is NOT immune to WannaCry. you can patch it, but, given MS's recent history with buggy (or misleading) patches you can't really rely on it. Plus you can be sure others are adapting it to new "patched" Windows 10 anyway. Also will Munich get a "special" version of Windows 10 like China did to prevent government secrets going to the USA? (And the government agencies within) https://thenextweb.com/microso... I think most non-USA governments, as well as business/agencies that have confidential information in non-USA location will have to make a hard choice to avoid violating their basic oaths/ethics requirements.
Fresh from Russia: https://mail.yandex.com/
Where Google basically mines your data en masse and gives it out to US government agencies, Proton Mail is in Switzerland and is not subject to involuntary data request from USA government requests. (Of course they could do it voluntarily but it would really hurt their rep if word got out) https://protonmail.com/
So did I. Unfortunately It seems that Germany wants to join a new world order, where you are guilty until proven innocent. Now you get to be registered into a computer database with full biometric data just like those dystopian novels. Only they aren't fiction anymore. I suppose there is always Japan. don't think they are onboard this sort of thing...yet. These things are never really about evading the law (Law changes all the time anyway, and you can always find evidence after a crime is committed and added to a database or if the evidence isn't found the database makes no difference does it?), but about keeping people registered, monitored, and under government control. Guess they really didn't learn from their East Germany days.