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Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.

https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/

#wired #signal #Surveillance #Capitalism #messenger

Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for...

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An AI Cartoon May Interview You for Your Next Job

The cartoon interviewer greets you onscreen. He looks a little young to be asking questions about a job—sort of a cartoon version of Harry Potter, with dark hair and glasses. You can choose other interviewers to speak with instead, representing various genders and races with names like Benjamin, Leslie, and Kristin. Alex, the name given to this AI interviewer, asks about your professional experience, theoretical questions about programming, and then gives out a coding exercise.

Alex is an AI interviewer developed by micro1, a US company that describes itself as an AI recruitment engine for engineers. The tech provides an “enjoyable, gamified, and less-biased interview process,” the company’s founder, Ali Ansari, claims in a demo video of the tech....
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#AI #jobinterview #wired

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FllnUBvhoUc
42 min #video

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30.12.2023 Data Mining auf US Telefondaten

Wozu können Telefondaten genutzt werden?

Nach 15 Jahren in unserem Verein - wir feiern am 18.1.24 den 15 Gründungsgeburtstag - ist das eine unnötige Frage. Jahrelang haben wir bis zum Verbot durch BVerfG und EuGH gegen die Gesetze zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung (VDS) gekämpft. Die Speicherung allein von Metadaten - wer hat wann, wie oft, wie lange mit wem telefoniert - macht uns alle gläsern. Aus solchen Daten können auch leicht falsche Schlüsse gezogen werden und wir müssen dann als sogenannte False Positives "beweisen". dass wir etwas nicht getan haben. Das führt zu einer Umkehr der Unschuldvermutung, die eigentlich ein Grundpfeiler unseres Rechtsstaats sein sollte.

Nun berichtet Heise.de, dass ein geheimes Programm US-Strafverfolgungsbehörden auf Bundes-, Landes- und Kommunalebene ermöglicht auf die Telefondaten Millionen Unverdächtiger zuzugreifen.

  • Erstens: Wie kann es für normale Polizeibehörden überhaupt ein geheimes Programm geben?
  • Zweitens: Warum bringen die Telefonprovider solche Programme nicht sofort an die Öffentlichkeit, wenn sie dazu angefragt werden?

Denn heraus kam das Vorgehen nur durch die Analyse von durchgesickerten Polizeidokumenten durch das US-Magazin Wired. Man hatte mit der Hilfe des Telekommunikationsunternehmens AT&T eine Analyse von Anrufdetails durchgeführt. Solche Kettenanalysen sollten helfen, Kontaktnetzwerke aufzudecken, die über direkte Verbindungen zu Verdächtigen hinausgehen. Das ist weit mehr als nur die Speicherung von VDS-Daten, das ist Data Mining also die bei uns weitgehend verbotene Rasterfahnung.

So hat auch US-Senator Ron Wyden in einem von Wired veröffentlichten Brief an das Justizministerium "ernsthafte Bedenken hinsichtlich der Rechtmäßigkeit", schreibt Heise.de. Dabei ist das DAS genannte Programm (Data Analytical Services) nicht neu, sondern wurde bereits erstmals von der New York Times im Jahr 2013 öffentlich gemacht. In diesem Programm werden täglich vier Milliarden Einträge gespeichert. Skandalös ist, dass dieses Programm seit Jahren verdeckt finanziert wird und auch Präsident Joe Biden dafür erneut eine finanzielle Unterstützung in Höhe von 6 Millionen US-Dollar zur Verfügung gestellt hat.

Mehr dazu bei https://www.heise.de/news/US-Polizei-hatte-Zugriff-auf-Telefondaten-Millionen-Unverdaechtiger-9539654.html
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David

"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

by Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/

As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":\
https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n

I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:\
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WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.\
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Wired didn't take me up on this suggestion.

Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:\
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https://mamot.fr/@q3k@hackerspace.pl/111528162905209453 \
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Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:\
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https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

#drm #playstation #wired #hewlett-packard #printer-ink #ownership #piracy #copying #enshitification #right-to-repair #reverse-engineering #rentiers #ip #intellectual-property

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See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign | WIRED #wired #wiki #wikipedia #virgilgriffith #censor #censorship #diebold #cia #congress #history #usa ">

CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a search tool that traces IP addresses of those who make Wikipedia changes.
On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines....

See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign

CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a search tool that traces IP addresses of those who make Wikipedia changes. Photo: Jake Appelbaum On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting...

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Albania cuts ties with Iran

Back in July, the government websites of #Albania were knocked offline. Last month, security company Mandiant researchers revealed that Iranian hackers, working on behalf of #Tehran, were **likely **to be behind the attacks, which took out public services for hours. “These are disruptive attacks, which affect the lives of everyday Albanians who live within the #NATO alliance,” John Hultquist, Mandiant’s vice president of intelligence, told #WIRED when it published its findings.

This week, the government of Albanian took the unprecedented step to cut diplomatic ties with #Iran, accusing it of launching the #cyberattack. The country also ordered Iranian embassy staff to leave the country. “The deep investigation put at our disposal undeniable evidence that the cyberattack against our country was orchestrated and sponsored by the Islamic Republic of Iran which had involved four groups for the attack on Albania,” prime minister Edi Rama said in a statement. (Microsoft conducted the investigation for the Albanian government.)

While Iran denies the attack, the US National Security Council also said it concluded Iran was behind the attack. In a further response, the #US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security and minister for intelligence. “Iran’s cyberattack against Albania disregards norms of responsible peacetime State behavior in cyberspace, which includes a norm on refraining from damaging critical infrastructure that provides services to the public,” said Brian Nelson, the undersecretary of the Treasury for #Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

https://www.wired.com/story/la-school-district-ransomware-albania-iran-security-roundup

Hackers Target Los Angeles School District With Ransomware

Plus: Albania cuts ties with Iran, claims of a TikTok data breach that didn’t happen, and much more.