D-Day, June 6, 1944, 75 Years On
“… these men came here – British and our Allies, and Americans – to storm these beaches for one purpose only, not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom. . . . Many thousands of men have died for such ideals as these. . . but these young boys. . . were cut off in their prime. . . I devoutly hope that we will never again have to see such scenes as these. I think and hope, and pray, that humanity will have learned. . . we must find some way . . . to gain an eternal peace for this world.”
Lawfare: US Cyber Command Questionable Strategy
via Max Smeets, PhD. a cybersecurity post-doc fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), comes this outstanding (PDF Download) dissection of the issue-ridden US Cyber Command strategic focus. Today's MustRead.
DataEDGE 2019, Alex Stamos' 'Keynote: The Platform Challenge: Balancing Safety, Privacy and Freedom' →
via byline information from the Berkely School of Inmformation
Alex Stamos Alex Stamos, Professor, Freeman-Spogli Institute, Stanford University Alex Stamos is a cybersecurity expert, business leader and entrepreneur working to improve the security and safety of the Internet through his teaching and research at Stanford University. Stamos is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Freeman-Spogli Institute, a William J. Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution.ool of Information
Facebookery: “There Is No Invasion Of Privacy At All, Because There Is No Privacy."
News, originally brought to my attention by the eponymous John Gruber, with further details from Mikael Thalen, writing at The Daily Dot, of Facebookery at it's finest:
"A lawyer for Facebook argued in court Wednesday that the social media site’s users “have no expectation of privacy.” According to Law360, Facebook attorney Orin Snyder made the comment while defending the company against a class-action lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. “There is no invasion of privacy at all, because there is no privacy,” Snyder said." - via Mikael Thalen, writing at The Daily Dot
Time Travel May Be Capable Of Defeating Ransomware...
via the Coordinated Science Laboratory at The Grainger College of Engineering, on the University of Illinois Campus at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois comes news of a tactic utilizing on-board flash memory to outwit ransomware hooligans. But will they make a movie about it? Apparently, they have (download only)...
NolaCon 2019, Nancy Snoke's 'One Random Insecure Web Application Please (ORIWAP)' →
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NolaCon 2019, April C. Wright's 'Social Engineering at Work: How to Use Positive Influence To Gain Management Buy-In For Anything' →
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