Première #photographie représentant des êtres humains, 1838. A cause du temps d’exposition, on ne voit que deux hommes, dont l’un cire les chaussures de l’autre. Triste symbole...
Première #photographie représentant des êtres humains, 1838. A cause du temps d’exposition, on ne voit que deux hommes, dont l’un cire les chaussures de l’autre. Triste symbole...
Those GIFs on #Twitter Aren’t Actually GIFs
▻http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/twitter-gifs-mp4/#p43BG5mKzaqu
As it turns out, Twitter’s support for GIFs may be slightly more advanced than originally thought. Once uploaded to Twitter, those GIFs are no longer GIFs: they are #mp4 Files. Tags: Twitter #GIF #vidéo mp4
1907-1915. Russia Before the Revolution, in Color
The Deadly Mediterranean Crossing That Migrants Risk Every Day
The number of people who have drowned in the Mediterranean has increased exponentially this year, with as many as 3,000 migrants dying in search of a better life.
In two separate shipwrecks last week, an estimated 700 people perished, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Monday. The death toll since January is nearly four times that of all of 2013.
Frequently Asked Questions about DDoS indident in North Korea
Was it a DDoS attack? — probably
What kind of DDoS attack was it? — volumetric network layer attack
Was it a large attack? — not really as their backbone is 2.5 Gbps, according to public records
Who is responsible for the attack?
– Speculation is that the U.S. government ?
– Hacktivist group Lizard Squad ?
▻http://www.networkworld.com/article/2863172/network-security/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-north-korean-internet-incident.ht
While only investigation of logs and network traffic can prove a DDoS attack, we can say from our experience observing and stopping hundreds of attacks that this attack fits the pattern of DDoS.
The picture below shows North Korea’s ISP - STAR-KP - slowly losing connection to the world (BGP routers dropping connections):
Attack victims often reroute, or “null route,” traffic when under attack, trying to thwart the attacker. We can speculate that this is why you see a slow failure, one router at a time, in the replay. With STAR-KP being North Korea’s single point of failure, and not a strong one, all it took was for STAR-KP to crash for everything to tumble.
BGPMon.net:
Amazon Echo
▻http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOCeAtKHIc
a connected speaker called Echo that’s always-on, listening for commands that its virtual assistant can then respond to with information or by triggering a task.
The cylindrical device has room-filling sound, and seven microphones on top, which use beam-forming tech to pinpoint your voice and ensure it can hear you no matter where you’re speaking to it in a room. It can filter out background noise, including playing music, in order to better understand requests, and it processes voice input via Amazon’s cloud-based web servers, meaning that
see also, Isaac Asimov’s 1956 “Someday” :
The story is set in a future where computers play a central role in organizing society. It aims to provide people more information about the evolution of computers. Humans are employed as computer operators, but they leave most of the thinking to machines. Indeed, whilst binary programming is taught at school, reading and writing have become obsolete.
"Amazon is in the business of selling you things — and that is why Echo exists."
▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/06/lets-call-the-amazon-echo-what-it-is
"Corporate America is looking to use the Internet of Things as a trojan horse to penetrate our remaining private moments."
Oh no, with Alexa hearing everything you say, there is already some reductio ad NSAeam ongoing...
But then again, it might not be so far fetched after all
The Details About the CIA’s Deal With Amazon
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632
Global groundwater crisis may get worse as the world warms - Nasa - Mashable
▻http://mashable.com/2014/10/29/global-groundwater-crisis-climate-change
Sur le piratage d’#iCloud et la fuite de nombreuses photos de célébrités dans le plus simple appareil :
En français :
▻http://www.numerama.com/magazine/30399-des-photos-de-femmes-celebres-nues-piratees-sur-icloud.html
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2014/09/01/97001-20140901FILWWW00022-des-photos-piratees-de-stars-sur-internet.php
In english :
▻http://mashable.com/2014/08/31/celebrity-nude-photo-hack (le plus détaillé)
▻http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-click-on-the-naked-photos-of-jennifer-lawrenc (appel à ne pas distribuer ces photos « Sending a photograph of your breasts to one person isn’t consenting to having the whole world see those breasts » et analyse de l’incident)
@Fil Tu exagères : c’est l’occasion de sensibiliser aux dangers du cloud, et aux risques des méta-données sur les photos ▻https://mat.boum.org
l’un n’empêche pas l’autre ; en tout cas cette page aussi répondra désormais à la requête « jennifer lawrence nue », parce qu’il y a pas de raison !
et super-#merci pour ton lien, où je trouve cet autre lien :
every format can be watermarked, even plain text! (e.g. the SNOW project)
The SNOW Home Page
▻http://www.darkside.com.au/snow
Whitespace steganography
The program SNOW is used to conceal messages in ASCII text by appending whitespace to the end of lines. Because spaces and tabs are generally not visible in text viewers, the message is effectively hidden from casual observers. And if the built-in encryption is used, the message cannot be read even if it is detected.
#metadonnées #privacy #surveillance #exif #outil #steganographie
Le plus effrayant (enfin, selon moi) dans cette histoire, ce sont tous les commentaires sous diverses publications façon « fallait pas les faire ces photos elles auraient pas fuité (variante : faut faire que des versions papier des photos ») ou bien « ça leur fera les pieds, à force de s’exhiber tout le temps ça devait bien leur arriver » ...
@matthrog Un exemple (danger : déprimant) de ce que tu dis : ▻https://twitter.com/peultier/status/506387364928036864/photo/1
Sur le même thème que l’article de Clementine Ford : ▻http://www.slate.fr/story/91631/internautes-photos-privees-nues-celebrites (« Les internautes qui regardent des photos volées de célébrités dénudées valent-ils mieux que la NSA ? ») et ▻http://pixellibre.net/2014/09/photos-piratees-et-distribution-de-claques (« Photos piratées et distribution de claques »)
Un bon article de démystification, faisant le tour des techniques possibles pour ce genre d’attaques ▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/01/nude-celebrity-pictures-hack-jennifer-lawrence-rihanna
Les conseils de la CNIL, pas mauvais (le point 9 est directement applicable ici) ▻http://www.cnil.fr/documentation/fiches-pratiques/fiche/article/les-conseils-de-la-cnil-pour-mieux-maitriser-la-publication-de-photos
Très bonne réflexions sur l’éducation à la sécurité « This is the “sext abstinence education” approach to scandalous selfies: ‘If you don’t take them, they can’t get out into the world and embarrass you.’ This is true, but much like telling people not to have sex until marriage to protect themselves against STDs, pregnancy, and heartbreak, it’s not practical advice for most people. » ►http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/09/01/sext-abstinence-education-doesnt-work
Et ici, par contre, les déclarations pontifiantes du crétin du jour, allant de la culpabilisation des victimes aux conseils techniques ridicules. À ne pas lire si vous êtes déprimé(e) : ▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2014/09/01/03004-20140901ARTFIG00288-photos-de-stars-nues-piratees-tant-pis-pour-elles
Avec une excellente réponse : ▻http://www.slate.fr/story/91669/internet-factchecke-analyse-serge-tisseron-celebgate-photos-fuite
Ukraine Shows Off Military Might With Parade in Kiev, as Rebels March POWs in Donetsk
▻http://mashable.com/2014/08/24/ukraine-shows-off-military-might-with-parade-in-kiev-as-rebels-march-pows-
via @cdb_77
Nothing says ’police’ like body armor, ballistic helmet, extra magazines and taking aim at civilians through a telescopic rifle sight on top of an armored truck:
No, really - the guy on the right has ’POLICE’ written on his chest. Someone please explain those guys the difference between law enforcement and war.
Sending raw infantry conscripts for crowd control in Ferguson is a recipe for disaster. Oh wait, nevermind - those guys are actually the trained police officers !
Police is now about protecting the governement from the public : therefore crowd control.
There’s a police coup going on right now in Ferguson, Mo.
►http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Theres-a-police-coup-right-now-n-Ferguson-Mo-.html
Mashable a publié une série de montages qui mettent, côte à côte, des clichés des heurts dans le Missouri et de la guerre en Irak. Le résultat est d’autant plus troublant que le matériel militaire utilisé dans les conflits internationaux est ensuite recyclé dans les services de police.
▻http://mashable.com/2014/08/13/ferguson-police-protests-vs-iraq/#:eyJzIjoidCIsImkiOiJfeTR6cXEzZG84MXFnYXdxbSJ9
Elon Musk Says Artificial Intelligence Could Be ’More Dangerous Than Nukes’
▻http://mashable.com/2014/08/03/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence
Posting his thoughts to Twitter on Saturday, after recommending a book about A.I., Musk made what might be the most controversial technology statement of his career:
Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
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Later, doubling down on his initial tweet, Musk wrote, “Hope we’re not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable.”
#silicon_valley #disruption #intelligence_artificielle #robotisation #singularité etc.
l’épisode rappelle Bill Joy (en 2000): “Why the future doesn’t need us” - ▻http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
Elon Musk Compares Building Artificial Intelligence To “Summoning The Demon” | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/26/elon-musk-compares-building-artificial-intelligence-to-summoning-the-dem
Musk: I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.
I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon. You know those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and he’s like — Yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out. [audience laughs]
The Group of Bloggers Unearthing MH17 Intel Quicker Than U.S. Spies
▻http://mashable.com/2014/07/23/citizen-journalists-mh17-spies
Higgins, with the help of some of his Twitter followers, was able to pinpoint the location of a Buk launcher while it was being transported through Snizhne, a pro-Russian rebel-held town in Ukraine near the Russian border, based on a video circulating on YouTube.
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The next day, Aric Toler, a longtime follower of Higgins, identified the exact location of a photograph of the Buk launcher in Torez, another town in Eastern Ukraine, using only open source information like the name of a store shown in the picture, and other unrelated YouTube videos filmed in the area.
Toler and Higgins were able to establish that the photograph was shot around 11:40 a.m. local time, using an online tool called Suncalc, which lets you calculate the position of the sun based of the time of day and location. That would prove that the launcher was in the area before the MH17 crash. (Higgins told Mashable that he checked the tool’s accuracy by taking pictures of his garden at different times of the day to see if the shadows matched the ones on the site.)
Another crowdsourced analysis that Higgins assembled on Tuesday offers strong proof that a video published by the Ukrainian government shows the Buk launcher being moved from Ukraine to Russia through rebel-held towns. In the video, the launcher seems to be missing a missile.
The Russian government rebuffed the video, claiming it had actually been filmed in the town of Krasnoarmeisk, which under the control of the Ukrainian military. However, thanks to other open source intelligence analysis, it turns out the town is not actually Krasnoarmeisk but the rebel-held Luhansk, just 30 miles from the Russian border.
“The Russians lied,” Higgins wrote in his post on Bellingcat, his new website to promote the work of other investigative citizen journalists and to teach others about the tools they use. The site is currently raising money on Kickstarter.
These findings certainly don’t prove that Russia was responsible for the downing of MH17, as Higgins himself admits, but rather provide strong evidence that pro-Russian rebels possess (or possessed, until very recently) a Buk missile launcher, and that it was close to the crash site before and after the plane was shot down.
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For Higgins, this work is simple intelligence-gathering, which can help those on the ground investigate further. After he and Toler established the location and time of the picture of the Buk in Torez, journalists traveled to the spot and found witnesses that confirmed the analysis, Higgins said.
That would suggest Higgins and the dozen or so people who have helped him over the past few days know just as much as professional American spies.
“[The Americans] clearly only rely on open source information, or mostly on open source, yet they are not releasing what they’re relying on," Higgins said. “It’s like they’re ashamed.”
La porte parole du Département d’Etat, c’était pas elle qui expliquait qu’il fallait aller chercher la vérité sur Internet ? :-D
Le blog en question n’est plus visible. Le temps de la campagne de financement ? C’est ballot.
Intéressant mais j’ai du mal a comprendre comment il a utilisé l’outil pour dater la photo, si c’est celui là ▻http://www.suncalc.net
@nicolasm Ayant repéré l’endroit, tu peux orienter la photo et en déduire la direction de l’ombre qui te donnes la direction du soleil.
Sur cette photo, on peut voir que cette direction est pratiquement parallèle au côté du parking en regardant la droite qui relie le coin du bout de toit à son ombre.
En gros, c’est le sud, puisque d’après SunCalc, le midi solaire a lieu vers 11h30 locales.
@biggrizzly apparemment, il faut en effet verser son écot sur kickstarter…
U.S. Officials : Russia Not Directly Involved in Downing MH17
▻http://mashable.com/2014/07/22/us-russia-link-to-mh17-plane
Senior U.S. intelligence officials said Russia is responsible for “creating the conditions” that led to the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but there’s no evidence that the Russian government was directly involved in the shooting.
The unnamed intelligence officials said Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine likely shot down the plane with an SA-11 surface-to-air missile. While they confirmed that Russia has been arming the separatists for months, the officials didn’t provide proof that the missile used to shoot down the Boeing 777 actually came from Russia.
The most likely explanation, according to a senior official, is that the plane was shot down by mistake. The most likely explanation, according to a senior official, is that the plane was shot down by mistake.
According to the Associated Press, the officials briefed reporters on Tuesday with the stipulation that their names not be used in discussing intelligence related to MH17. They said they didn’t know if any Russians were present at the missile launch, and they wouldn’t say that the missile crew was trained in Russia.
The Obama administration, however, has been pointing the finger at Russia for backing the separatists, who have been fighting with Ukrainian forces for months. On Monday, President Obama said Russia had gone beyond just arming the separatists — it had trained them to use the heavy-duty artillery.
“Russia has extraordinary influence over these separatists. No one denies that. Russia has urged them on. Russia has trained them,” Obama said. “We know that Russia has armed them with military equipment and weapons, including anti-aircraft weapons. Key separatist leaders are Russian citizens.”
The intelligence officials who spoke with reporters on Monday were tight-lipped in terms of who fired the missile.
“We don’t know a name, we don’t know a rank and we’re not even 100% sure of a nationality,” one official said, adding at another point, “There is not going to be a Perry Mason moment here.”
Ce qui n’empêche pas les politiques de reprendre la position ukrainienne…
Meanwhile, Russia presented its own evidence on Monday, reiterating that it wasn’t involved in the shooting down of MH17 and focused on reasons why the world should be looking into the Ukrainian government instead. Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko called the accusation an irresponsible and false statement.
The White House on Monday said Russia’s counter-narrative was an attempt to thwart attention away from the nation’s involvement.
“What’s clear is that there is a picture that’s coming into focus,” said White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. “Russian claims to the contrary are getting both more desperate and much harder to believe.”
… puisqu’on vous dit que c’est pas vrai !
White House to Lay Out U.S. Intelligence on MH17 - NBC News.com
▻http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-plane-crash/white-house-lay-out-u-s-intelligence-mh17-n162236
The Obama administration will reveal U.S. intelligence later Tuesday outlining what information has been gathered on the Malaysia Airlines jet that was shot down in Ukraine. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the intelligence community would present additional data later in the day, but did not provide any more details. White House’s deputy national security adviser of strategic communications Ben Rhodes told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Tuesday he expected the information will confirm suspicions that it was an SA-11 missile originating from a Russian separatist-controlled area that downed the plane. “There’s going to be further declassification. The intelligence community is working through the information it has,” he said.
Les « fuites » sont nettement en retrait sur les affirmations péremptoires.
Quant à répondre aux questions russes…
Et comme on souhaite accréditer que les zones de guerre, c’est dangereux, on demande aux avions de ne plus aller en Israël.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the intelligence community would present additional data later in the day, but did not provide any more details.
Plus de 24 heures plus tard, on ne dispose pas des informations supplémentaires promises. Un article de ce matin ne fait que reprendre les éléments de la conférence de presse ci-dessus (en version dialogue)
▻http://www.npr.org/2014/07/23/334275964/u-s-intelligence-tracking-what-happened-to-flight-mh17
Il y a un assessment reprenant l’ensemble des éléments déjà exposés publié, daté du 19/07, sur le site de l’ambassade états-unienne en Ukraine.
U.S. Intelligence Tracking What Happened To Flight MH17
▻http://ukraine.usembassy.gov/statements/asmt-07192014.html
Il a été illustré par cette image (Gg:images indique que l’image est présente sur cette page, ce qui n’est pas le cas) venant du compte Twitter de l’ambassade
avec une version sans les marges sur le site de l’ambassade des É.-U. en Slovaquie
Il ne s’agit de rien d’autre qu’un dessin reconstituant la version é.-u. sur fond d’assemblage de photos satellite.
Par ailleurs, il se confirme que les impacts sont compatibles avec l’explosion d’un missile (cf. billet de @reka)
Enfin, à la déception plus ou moins apparente de certains médias, l’enregistreur de vol de la voix (VCR) n’a pas été trafiqué. Celui des données (FDR) ne semble pas non plus, mais sera examiné demain.
Valid data downloaded from flight MH17 black box · TheJournal.ie
▻http://www.thejournal.ie/valid-data-downloaded-from-mh17-black-box-1586527-Jul2014
DUTCH LEAD INVESTIGATORS into the shooting down over Ukraine of flight MH17 have said that data from the cockpit voice recorder was intact and had not been tampered with.
“The cockpit voice recorder was damaged but the memory module was intact. Furthermore no evidence or indications of manipulation of the cockpit voice recorder was found,” the Dutch Safety Board (OVV) said as the black boxes were being analysed in Britain.
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter Blocked in Iraq Amid Crisis - Mashable
▻http://mashable.com/2014/06/13/facebook-youtube-twitter-blocked-iraq
"Lee, 28, is the technologist hired in November to make sure Greenwald and fellow First Look Media employees use state-of-the-art security measures when handling the NSA documents, or when exchanging emails and online chats with sensitive information.
[...]
Timm believes the Snowden leaks have underscored digital security as a press freedom issue: If you’re a journalist, especially reporting on government and national security, you can’t do journalism and not worry about cybersecurity.
“News organizations can no longer afford to ignore that they have to protect their journalists, their sources and even their readers,” Timm says."
Ah, tiens, il y a des nazis de « notre » côté ? Oui, mais, si peu… (faut quand même pas se laisser contaminer par la propagande russe).
En Ukraine, combats et tensions précèdent la présidentielle
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2014/05/23/tension-persistante-dans-l-est-de-l-ukraine-avant-l-election_4424389_3214.ht
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Les prorusses ont emporté avec eux quatre morts, et exhibé le corps d’un milicien pro-ukrainien, les lettres « SS » et une croix gammée tatouées sur son ventre, selon France Inter.
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C’est également la première fois que des miliciens de Pravyi Sektor s’identifient à visage découvert comme combattants dans le Donbass. Depuis la révolution de Kiev, ce groupe marginal, mais qui a joué un rôle sur les barricades de Maïdan, sert d’épouvantail pour désigner l’ennemi armé de l’ouest du pays, supposé prêt à exterminer les populations russophones. Son chef, candidat à la présidentielle, traîne en bas des sondages. La propagande russe en use à loisir.
Et pour Thorez, aucune précision sur le fait que O. Lyashko est candidat à la présidentielle et n’a pas seulement « confirmé » l’attaque, mais s’en glorifie… ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/259967
Par ailleurs, selon Mashable, des miliciens affiliés au leader du Parti radical ukrainien Oleh Liashko ont attaqué un bâtiment administratif tenu par les séparatistes dans la ville de Torez, faisant au moins deux morts. Liashko a confirmé l’attaque sur Facebook.
L’info de Mashable (mise en lien par Le Monde) est pourtant parfaitement explicite et reprend les rodomontades de Lyashko.
Countdown to Ukraine’s Election
▻http://mashable.com/2014/05/23/live-updates-ukraine-election-countdown
Lyashko confirmed the attack on his Facebook page (translation by Mashable):
“Soldiers from the Lyashko Battalion ’Ukraine’ have cleared and liberated the city government building from the ’Colorados’ [separatists wearing orange and black ribbons of St. George] in Torez, Donetsk region. Two terrorists were killed, among our men were no injuries. Glory to Ukraine!”
Et illustre la nouvelle par cette photo du candidat, vendredi 23, pas vraiment pour un meeting électoral…
Article tout frais du jour, on en remet une couche…
Entre séparatistes et miliciens, les Ukrainiens de Donetsk ne sont pas sûrs de pouvoir voter
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2014/05/24/entre-separatistes-et-miliciens-les-ukrainiens-de-donetsk-ne-sont-pas-surs-d
Les prorusses ont exhibé le corps d’un combattant ennemi tatoué au ventre d’une croix gammée et des lettres « SS ».
Dans l’esprit de certains villageois, Igor est l’un de ces fameux miliciens de Pravyi Sektor, petit agrégat d’organisations nationalistes et néonazies dont la propagande russe clame depuis des mois qu’ils exterminent la population russophone du Donbass. Un mythe, un fantôme. A force de l’invoquer, le voilà : à 20 km à l’ouest, le vice-chef de sa section locale à Dnipropetrovsk, Denis Gordeev, juriste dans le civil, parade sur un point de contrôle entre deux blindés dont seule l’armée ukrainienne dispose, en théorie, aux côtés d’un responsable de la garde nationale originaire de Crimée et de membres du bataillon Donbass. Etrange mélange de forces officielles et de « patriotes ».
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A Karlivka, quelques heures après les combats, on a croisé un électeur qui comptait les douilles au sol. Iouri, 35 ans, affirme qu’il ira voter à la présidentielle dimanche. Malgré les prorusses qui tiennent son village, qu’il soupçonne d’être des « bandits sous drogue ». Malgré ces nouveaux miliciens pro-ukrainiens qui, selon lui, ne valent pas mieux. Il n’a qu’un doute : « Il faudra que je trouve un bureau de vote ouvert. »
nouveaux ? Apparemment, l’auteur L. Imbert a fait son premier article sur la région pour Le Monde en février (sujet sur Maïdan) et y est envoyé spécial depuis mars.
Marrant qu’on ne nous ait pas encore fait le coup du « en fait les nazis bossent pour Poutine pour décrédibiliser le soulèvement ukrainien » ! Ou alors c’est moi qui n’ai pas été assez attentif ?
How One Woman Hid Her Pregnancy From Big Data
▻http://mashable.com/2014/04/26/big-data-pregnancy
For the past nine months, Janet Vertesi, assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, tried to hide from the Internet the fact that she’s pregnant — and it wasn’t easy.
Vertesi said that by dodging advertising and traditional forms of consumerism, her activity raised a lot of red flags. When her husband tried to buy $500 worth of Amazon gift cards with cash in order to get a stroller, a notice at the Rite Aid counter said the company had a legal obligation to report excessive transactions to the authorities.
Vertesi said we need to be more aware of the information we give our servers voluntarily, and wondered if a time will ever come when we can opt out of giving personal information to the Internet.
Winter Mason, fellow panelist and data scientist at Facebook, said that he doesn’t think that’s possible anymore.
En Europe nous ne somme pas encore arrivés au même point, le combat n’est pas encore perdu, mais il sera rude ...
▻http://www.heise.de/tp/news/Gerichtsvollzieher-treibt-Forderung-in-Schufa-Zentrale-ein-2108660.html
Gerichtsvollzieher treibt Forderung in Schufa-Zentrale ein
Peter Mühlbauer 04.02.2014
Ein 69-jähriger Friedrichsfehner zeigt, dass sich Klagen gegen die Kreditauskunft lohnen können
Am 28. Januar entschied der Bundesgerichtshof, dass die Kreditauskunft Schufa das genaue Zustandekommen der „Scores“, mit denen Banken und andere Unternehmen die Kreditwürdigkeit von Verbrauchern beurteilen, nach § des 34 Bundesdatenschutzgesetzes auch dann nicht offenlegen muss, wenn es zu einer offensichtlichen Fehleinschätzung kam. Dieses Urteil heißt jedoch nicht, dass sich eine Klage gegen die Schufa nicht lohnen würde, wie der Fall des Friedrichsfehner Kaufmanns Rolf Bartels zeigt.
Der 69-Jährige hatte vor zwei Jahren beim Kauf einer Wohnung zufällig festgestellt, dass die Schufa Banken und Telekommunikationsdienstleistern die falsche Auskunft erteilte, er sei mit einem Bonitätswert von 36 Prozent nicht sehr kreditwürdig. Auf Anfrage erfuhr Bartels, dass dies an Insolvenzen lag, mit denen er gar nichts zu tun hatte. Er ging deshalb von einer Namensverwechslung aus, was sich als zutreffend herausstellte. Damit die Kreditauskunft das zur Kenntnis nahm, beauftragte er den Oldenburger Rechtsanwalt Heinrich Enneking, der erreichte, dass die Auskunftei ihren Eintrag abänderte und alle Personen und Unternehmen, die Bartels Kreditwürdigkeit abgefragt hatten, über die Richtigstellung informierte.
Allerdings wollte die Schufa Bartels das Rechtsanwaltshonorar nicht erstatten. Deshalb musste der Kaufmann vor die Amtsgerichte Westerstede und Wiesbaden ziehen und die 718,40 Euro über einen Gerichtsvollzieher in der Unternehmenszentrale eintreiben lassen.
Microsoft Web Browser Security Bug Could Impact Millions of Users
▻http://mashable.com/2014/04/27/microsoft-web-browser-security-bug-could-impact-millions-of-users
Open-Source Seed Initiative Plants Resistance to Patented Crops
▻http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/open-source-seed-initiative
For Earth Day, gardeners can help ensure vegetable, fruit and grain seeds remain available to everyone by ordering a set of open-source seeds from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Gardeners and farmers can save open-source seeds after harvest and pass the plants on for generations. Breeders can use the open-source crops to develop new varieties.