NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve
"...the agency did not preserve the content of internet communications intercepted between 2001 and 2007... To make matters worse, backup tapes ... were erased in 2009, 2011 and 2016, the NSA said."
The agency tells a federal judge that it is investigating and 'sincerely regrets its failure.'
* in Firefox, open about:config * set network.cookie.lifetimePolicy to 3 * set network.cookie.lifetime.days to a number greater than 0 * cookies will now be purged after that many days
* in Firefox, open about:config * set network.cookie.lifetimePolicy to 3 * set network.cookie.lifetime.days to a number greater than 1 * cookies will now be purged after that many days
A restaurant asked for a feedback from me and I among the usual personal details (name, phone no, email), they asked my date of birth and outrageously my marriage date! :-o I wrote 'why do you need this?' in the two spaces and then I wrote 'Do not ask for personal details, ask for an anonymous feedback instead'. (I did give them positive ratings as the food was good). #privacy
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2018 18:56:00 EST
hoshFor the last couple of days I've been using Tor for general browsing again. It seems to have gotten a little easier. My work email is on Google Apps, and it was previously almost impractical to use Tor with Gmail. I think some people object that it defeats the purpose of Tor to use it for sites like Gmail, but I'm not aiming for total anonymity, just better privacy than I ordinarily have. Now the Gmail issue has gone away, it's no longer necessary to divide my time between it and another browser.
While updating a website today the exit node I was connecting through was blacklisted, but it was enough to change the Tor circuit in order to overcome that.
Tor has also proved to be fast enough for my needs. Something about it may eventually iritate me; but for now good.
The title of this year's talk is The Ethics Void. Here's a rough abstract:
Medicine, legal, finance, journalism, scientific research—each of these fields and many others have widely adopted codes of ethics governing the lives of their professionals. Some of these codes may even be enshrined in law. And this is for good reason: these are fields that have enormous consequences.
Software and technology pervade not only through these fields, but through virtually every aspect of our lives. Yet, when compared to other fields, our community leaders and educators have produced an ethics void. Last year, I introduced numerous topics concerning #privacy, #security, and #freedom that raise serious ethical concerns. Join me this year as we consider some of those examples and others in an attempt to derive a code of ethics that compares to each of these other fields, and to consider how leaders and educators should approach ethics within education and guidance.
For this talk, I want to solicit the community at various points. I know what _I_ want to talk about, but what are some of the most important ethical issues to _you_? Unfortunately there's far too much to fit into a 40m talk! Also feel free to e-mail me at mtg@gnu.org.
I've been working in development for many years. I've worked as a web developer creating websites for advertising campaigns (both front-end and back-end) and as a software engineer creating internal software for a relatively large company.