Greenwald's Bezos' Protests Invasion of Privacy And Builds A New Surveillance State
Whilst two wrongs do not make the third right, Glenn Greenwald's superb screed at The Intercept - details the latest outrage perpetrated by the National Enquirer, my go-to-choice for picking up droppings, as it were. In this case the recepient of same is none-other-than Jeffrey Preston Bezos, of which,in a similar vein (so to speak) also happens to bring to public scrutiny the enormous surviellance apparatus Amazon Web Services is building.
Something of a Evil Equation, when both sides of same are nearly equal (hence the term equation...) in their cumulative evilness (arguably a surveillance state is logarithmically to the power of 2 on the evil power gradient a greater threat than a single individuals' privacy breach). Bottom Line: No one should be subject to the invasion of her/his privacy, nor should anyone be forced to live in a surveillance state managed by any governement, NGO or commercial entity such as Amazon Web Services.
"On Thursday, Bezos published emails in which the Enquirer’s parent company explicitly threatened to publish intimate photographs of Bezos and his mistress, which were apparently exchanged between the two through their iPhones, unless Bezos agreed to a series of demands involving silence about the company’s conduct." - via the inimitable Glenn Greenwald from his superlative piece at The Intercept
The Many Splendored Delusions of Mark Zuckerberg
via Timothy B. Lee, writing at Ars Technica, comes this outstanding, on-target examination of the apparent delusional world Mark Zuckerberg works and lives in... Key Point: The conflation of Facebook (NYSE: FB) and the Internet. Read it and weep my friends, it's the show that never ends...
"Zuckerberg employed one of his favorite rhetorical tricks for defending Facebook: conflating Facebook with the Internet as a whole. It's true, as Zuckerberg writes, that the Internet has made the world more connected and that this has had a lot of positive consequences (as well as some negative ones)." - via Timothy B. Lee, writing at Ars Technica, comes this outstanding story of delusional Facebook leadership.
The GoDaddy Hole or Exploiting The Insecurity Event Horizon
Via the inimitable Brian Krebs, writing at Krebs On Security, comes further reportage detailing the continued authentication-flaw-exploitation of the GoDaddy, Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) Hole - a seemingly irrepairable flaw in their Registrar Line of Business systems, with a never-ending Exploitable Event Horizon.
City and County of San Francisco Set To Ban Facial Recognition By Government Agencies
Smartest move in years by the CCSF. via Gregory Barber, writing at Wired, comes a proposed ban of facial recognition surveillance on part of the City and County of San Francisco, California.
"Aaron Peskin, a member of the city’s Board of Supervisors, proposed the ban Tuesday as part of a suite of rules to enhance surveillance oversight. In addition to the ban on facial recognition technology, the ordinance would require city agencies to gain the board’s approval before buying new surveillance technology, putting the burden on city agencies to publicly explain why they want the tools as well as the potential harms." - via Gregory Barber, writing at Wired regarding the proposed *ban
Newly Discovered Security SNAFU 3G, 4G, 5G Networks Impacted: Here We Go!
Catalin Cimpanu reporting at Zero Day, provides us with the Litany of Telephony Flaws: 2019 Edition (also known as just another day in Security Dreamland)... In which, the claim is proffered: 'fixes should be deployed by the end of 2019'; whilst I pontificate - definitavely - 'Dream On' Me Bucko! In an effort to be clear, this is not a condemnation of either the messenger or researchers, et al., but rather, when examining security prohylaxis or full remediation at the carrier level of this tripartite game, the carriers are rather recalcitrant conglomeration, don't you know...