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Eric Ciaramella, right. He and a colleague, Sean Misko, below -- both now central to impeachment -- were Obama administration holdovers (whitehouse.gov). By Paul Sperry,...
Paul Sperry has been all over the whistleblower story, and the many connections of former Obama staffers serving as NSC advisors in the Trump Whitehouse.
It’s a long piece, but lots of information packed in there. Some I hadn’t previously been aware of.
Eddie Gluskin Logo
I have always been interested in the idea of making logos. They try to sum up an entire idea, business, or person in the least amount of lines. Some may be perfects or some may be idiotic but it is still a fun process.
This is a logo for one of my favorite bad guys in a game, Eddie Gluskin.
Personally, I really like this one, but I would love some feedback or constructive criticism if you have any.
I hope you enjoy!
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Documentary Paints Unflattering Portrait of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
Our Surveillance Society: Why Don’t We Care?
“Snowden’s book is straightforward, admirably so. He has taken the risk of assuming that his reader is interested not only in his “moment of vision” and the brazen act that earned his fame and notoriety, but also in the formation of his personality, and the slow growth of his understanding of technology, espionage, surveillance, and human rights.”
“How does one decide to become the dissident, the scapegoat, the whistleblower? Snowden seems as mystified as we are. It is as if one day the question simply appears, fully formed: Why am I the one who cares? Why am I haunted by the eyes of the boy in his father’s lap while other operatives with access to XKEYSCORE are busy collecting nudes and stalking ex-girlfriends? (Alas, yes. They even have a nickname for it: LOVEINT, a satirical variation on HUMINT and SIGINT—human and signals intelligence.) “To whom could I turn?” he writes. “Who could I talk to? Even to whisper the truth, even to a lawyer or a judge or to Congress, had been made so severe a felony that just a basic outlining of the broadest facts would invite a lifetime sentence in a federal cell.”
“As for the constants of surveillance and self-surveillance, these end in stalemate. Or perhaps it is a form of Stockholm Syndrome, of learned helplessness. In my own half-assed survey, nearly anyone, reminded of the facts of either corporate or NSA command of their data and metadata, tends to exhibit a throb of outrage, swiftly followed by a shrug of resigned, ironized acceptance: Sure, that happened, but me, I’ve got nothing to hide. Or: I was on their watch-list anyway. Or: It often recommends bands I wouldn’t have known about! Snowden’s implicit question, throughout his book, is: Why can’t I make people care?”
New York Review of Books, October 19, 2019: “Snowden in the Labyrinth,” by Jonathan Lethem
Our Surveillance Society
“In 2015, two of the school’s [University of Washington] computer science professors — Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman and Steve Seitz — and their graduate students used the Flickr data to create MegaFace. Containing more than four million photos of some 672,000 people, it held deep promise for testing and perfecting face-recognition algorithms.”
“In 2015 and 2016, the University of Washington ran the ‘MegaFace Challenge,’ inviting groups working on face-recognition technology to use the data set to test how well their algorithms were working. The school asked people downloading the data to agree to use it only for ‘noncommercial research and educational purposes.’ More than 100 organizations participated, including Google, Tencent, SenseTime and NtechLab. In all, according to a 2016 university news release, ‘more than 300 research groups’ have worked with the database. It has been publicly cited by researchers from Amazon and, according to Mr. Harvey, Mitsubishi Electric and Philips.“
“MegaFace remains publicly available for download. When The New York Times recently requested access, it was granted within a minute.”
The New York Times, October 13, 2019: “How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology,” by By Kashmir Hill and Aaron Krolik
The Guardian, October 5, 2019: “'We are hurtling towards a surveillance state’: the rise of facial recognition technology,” by Hannah Devlin
Cybersecurity industry short of skilled workers hasn't fully explored one solution: Women
“The cybersecurity industry desperately needs more skilled workers to help protect our data, yet experts in the field say it has only just begun to explore one obvious solution: recruit more women. Recent high-profile data breaches at three Ontario hospitals, credit-monitoring agencies TransUnion and Equifax … compromised the sensitive information of millions of Canadians. These serve as powerful examples of a growing problem. ‘National and economic security depends on strong cybersecurity defences, and most nations are lacking,’ said industry veteran Lisa Kearney. Yet in the 24 years she's been in the field … she has only worked with ‘a handful’ of other women, raising questions about why nearly half of the potential workforce is giving the industry a pass when so much rides on filling those empty positions. … In Canada, women make up only about 10 per cent of the cybersecurity workforce, she said.”
CBC News, October 16, 2019: “To keep data safe, companies must recruit more women in cybersecurity, experts say,” by Brandie Weikle
The Guardian, October 15, 2019: “Without encryption, we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground,” by Edward Snowden
Women CyberSecurity Society
China: life in the surveillance state
"’In China, you never know exactly what is forbidden,’” says a Chinese rapper in David Verbeek’s short documentary Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains. ‘That’s actually a very clever tactic. It makes everyone more careful. Without a clear boundary, people will be more prone to self-censor.’"
“The atmospheric film follows a group of Chinese rappers through the streets of Chongqing, one of China’s largest cities, as they discuss life in the surveillance state as marginalized musicians.”
The Atlantic, October 11, 2019: “Chinese Rappers Will Not Be Silenced,” by Journeyman Pictures (YouTube Video 22 min. : 31 sec.)
Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he had never met a...
