Site http://blauw-misbruik.nl/ founded by citizen who had a friend who was beaten by a police officer for urinating in public
Dutch language news article:
http://www.powned.tv/nieuws/binnenland/2011/10/politie_niet_blij_met_blauwmis.html
Archive for 2011/10/13
Dutch police not happy with website collecting videos of law enforcement officers abusing their power
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / Awareness, EnforcementSenior IMF representative to Turkey Mr. Mark Lewis attacked during lecture at Turkish University (Video)
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / AwarenessDutch language news article, English language video
http://www.powned.tv/nieuws/raar/2011/10/imfman_bekogeld_met_eieren.html
Dennis Ritchie, Creator Of C Programming Language & UNIX Dies
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / AwarenessIt’s being reported that Dennis Ritchie, one of the greatest computer engineers of our times who created the C programming language (that got many of you your first ever programming job) and co-creator of UNIX died on October 8, 2011. Mr. Ritchie died after a long illness; the details are unknown yet. He was a researcher at Lucent and retired from his position as the Head Researcher in 2007; but remained active as a consultant. Mr. Ritchie is widely known among the geek community as the creator of C programming language and co-author of the famous book on C; titled The C Programming Language. He also had a very important role in the development of UNIX which is now widely used in various applications. Most of his career was spent at Bell Labs. He was awarded the prestigious Turing Award in 1983 and The National Medal Of Technology in 1999. RIP, Mr. Ritchie.
http://www.crazyengineers.com/dennis-ritchie-creator-of-c-programming-language-unix-dies-1129/
Does Amazon Want to Monopolize The Entire Publishing Chain?
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsVerizon Wireless To Mine Your Usage Data For Marketing And Ads
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Online advertisingThe new privacy policy will gather a long list of information including URLs, search terms, location information, app usage and feature usage. And if that isn’t enough, Verizon will monitor how you use your calling plan and what mobile phones you buy. It’ll also compile your demographic information. The only stuff it won’t plunder is your identifying information which is off-limits and will not be shared.
http://gizmodo.com/5849334/verizon-wireless-to-mine-your-usage-data-for-marketing-and-targeted-ads
See also:
In the language of computer science, clickstreams – browsing histories that companies collect – are not anonymous at all; rather, they are pseudonymous
http://vrritti.com/2011/10/13/in-the-language-of-computer-science-clickstreams/
ISPs Report Internet Traffic Surge as Apple iPhone Owners Rush for iOS5 Update
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsISP Vispa Internet last night reported that “almost 17% of [our] network is being consumed by customers downloading apple ios5“. Meanwhile the London Access Point (LONAP), a neutral not-for-profit Internet Exchange Point based in London, noted a “massive amount of extra traffic” in its graph for Wednesday (below).
Raytheon’s cyberchief describes ‘Come to Jesus’ moment
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyA rash of attacks following missile sales to Taiwan prompted a major cybersecurity review
https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220762/Raytheon_s_cyberchief_describes_Come_to_Jesus_moment
In the language of computer science, clickstreams – browsing histories that companies collect – are not anonymous at all; rather, they are pseudonymous
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Online advertising, Privacy / Data ProtectionThe latter term is not only more technically appropriate, it is much more reflective of the fact that at any point after the data has been collected, the tracking company might try to attach an identity to the pseudonym (unique ID) that your data is labeled with. Thus, identification of a user affects not only future tracking, but also retroactively affects the data that’s already been collected. Identification needs to happen only once, ever, per user.
Arvind noted five ways in which a user’s identity may be associated with third-party web tracking data.
- A third party is also a first party, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.
- A first party hands off (“leaks”) identifying information to a third party.
- A third party buys identifying information from a “matching service.”
- A third party exploits a security vulnerability to learn a user’s identity.
- A third party “deanonymizes” its data by matching it against identified data.
Much more:
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6740
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6740
See also:
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6701
How Certain Judges Let The Feds Hide Questionable Spying Activity
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / AwarenessOne in 10 Brits leaves web passwords in their will
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionNew EU laws on net neutrality may be necessary to stop internet service providers (ISPs) from infringing individuals’ data protection and privacy rights, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has said
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Bandwidth Management, Education / Awareness, Net Neutrality, Public PolicyPeter Hustinx said that EU telecoms regulators should monitor whether ISPs are complying with EU data protection and privacy laws when managing communications across their networks.
Undercover Cops and Politicians Escape BitTorrent Lawsuits
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / AwarenessFacebook: Releasing your personal data reveals our trade secrets
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / AwarenessSamsung Apps TV Store surpasses 10m downloads
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reportsF-Secure: Likely that Iranian citizens must have been killed as a result of the DigiNotar hack
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyIt has been made very easy for the Iranian government to go and locate dissidents and this is simply what they’ll do to them…
Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2640667/doden-gevallen-in-iran-diginotarhack.html
Former DigiNotar employee Remko de Graaf discloses DigiNotar’s practices
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessHe had no choice but to connect his unsecured private laptop to the business network of the Certificate Authority. DigiNotar would also require its employees to use their private mobile phone for business purposes.
De Graaf also feels that the responsible Minister Piet Hein Donner has demonstrated that he is incompetent to deal with these issues by:
1. Not providing all relevant DigiNotar information to Members of Parliament and IT experts (parts of the investigation were classified);
2. Arguing that victims of the DigiNotar hack would notice that their connections had been compromised because in those cases, the intercepted data would not reach its final destination. The trademark of man-in-the-middle attacks however is that the cybercriminal would simply copy the original data and allow the original data to reach its destination.
De Graaf believes that as a result of the DigiNotar hack, the lives of 300,000 people and their families had been endangered.
Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/opinie/108215/diginotar-dwong-tot-gebruik-priv–laptop–opinie-.html
Previously:
http://vrritti.com/?s=diginotar
FBI Arrests Man Who Allegedly Hacked Celebrities to Steal Nude Photos
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessTop 10 Most Pirated Movies of All Time
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing, Stats / reports
Dutch Telecom Operators Want RIM To Compensate Users for BlackBerry Outage
Posted: 2011/10/13 in Education / AwarenessDutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/gadgets/2640318/providers-willen-compensatie-van-blackberry.html
