Information Security & Occasional Forays Into Adjacent Realms
Municipalities just as private corporations, engage in seemingly mad, long dashes for revenue; to what end? In this case, speeding and red light traffic infraction generated income is the goal, whilst minimizing law enforcement hands on in the process. Unfortunately, the corporate entity that facilitates that revenue stream with traffic recording devices and cameras apparently possess clear-cut, if you will, evidence of proverbial feet of clay...
Maybe, just maybe, there is scientific hope for the Right to Privacy. At once, ruminating upon the Declaration of Universal Human Rights*** and the United State's 4th Amendment to the Constitution** , hope doth, truly spring eternal...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the second co-sponsored Privacy Engineering Workshop, slated for the 15th and 16th of September, 2014 in San Jose, California. Co-sponsored with the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Workshops mandate is a focus on engineering objectives (in draft) and the necessitated Risk Model (that model was a key output of the first Privacy Workshop).
Constitution of the United States, Amendment IV**
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 12***
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Art credit: Bio Engineering
via the inimitable Kim Zetter, Senior Staff Writer at Wired, comes this staggeringly well crafted piece on the United States National Security Agency / Central Security Service's work to create a tool known as MonsterMind. The natural progeny of encompassing surveillance, is the capability to detect and mitigate malware in the wild.
Fascinating screed, via ArsTechnica, by the inimitable Dan Goodin. In which, the well-lettered Mr. Goodin details the discovery of the paucity of BitCoin security. Surprised? Read more at Ars.
via the superb editorial cartoonery of Mark Streeter, at Cagle Post
Well wrought opinion piece eyeballing the narcissism of one Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden. Today's' Must Read.
via John Little's estimable Blogs of War, comes an apt dissection of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) latest governmental agency member:The United States Central Intelligence Agency.
Thomas Ricks' erudite take on the astonishing lack of Computer Science universities for the uniformed services here in the United States [and, interestingly, his advice on how to remediate the paucity of computer science educational opportunities for the uniformed services]. After all, there is a DoD Medical College, War Colleges, Officers Schools, Academies and the like, yet no focused computer science institutions...
In today's MustRead, we focus or attention on a fundamentally well-wrought thought piece targeting the notion of leverage and power, encapsulated within the cyber-security realm.
If you read anything today, read Billy Pope's tremendous screed and think on it, just a tad...