September 2011 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Eye-catching accessories and watches here
by Mallory Sams 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

Strictly speaking, why pay so much when you know you can get the same product. http://cbs.so/3f9

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МСФО - трансформация российской отчетности
by Все о МСФО 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

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Re: [tor-talk] Tor banned in Pakistan.
by Eugen Leitl 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

----- Forwarded message from "Anthony G. Basile" <basile(a)opensource.dyc.edu> -----

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Fwd: Re: Goodbye, Hotmail, MSN, Live.com...
by Benjamin 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Thoughts on the double quoted post? I tend to concur; But perhaps we can create a little list discussion; It seems somewhat up our alley, eh? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Goodbye, Hotmail, MSN, Live.com... Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:14:28 -0500 From: Digital Ebola <digiebola(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: digi(a)legions.org To: Lynda <shrdlu(a)deaddrop.org> CC: Defcon Stuff <DC-Stuff(a)dc-stuff.org> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Lynda <shrdlu(a)deaddrop.org> wrote: > > > One of us trusts Google more than the other. I also have a Yahoo account > (I've had it since before there was a Yahoo, and it's actually a rocketmail > account, from one of the first free email services), which is necessary to > access Flickr. Yep, more loss of privacy. > > Not a matter of trust but a matter of risk acceptance. I feel the same way about banks but the entire 1st world seems to have accepted the risk of banking. Internet services are developing the same way. Everyone uses email now and it's hard to get through the world without it. A very large population uses a free email service. When the entire world accepts this risk, you lose the ability to reject the risk. This does not make things right. My prediction: in 20 years or less, you will need special authorization or license to operate your own MTA. It will start out small, such as "registering a legitimate server to be placed on whitelists" then made mandatory by whatever acting government is ruling at the time. Webservers may take the same route. Unauthorized servers will be eliminated. Your privacy is a commodity. Do your economic duty and let people have access to your life. What do you have to hide, Citizen?

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P2P lawyer: IP address not enough, let me search all PCs in the house (arstechnica)
by Benjamin 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/p2p-lawyer-ip-address-not-e… P2P lawyer: IP address not enough, let me search all PCs in the house By Nate Anderson | Published a day ago A file-sharing lawyer admitted this week that IP addresses dont by themselves identify someone accused of sharing copyrighted material online. While an IP address can identify Internet subscribers, this does not tell Plaintiff who illegally downloaded Plaintiff's works, or, therefore, who Plaintiff will name is the Defendant in this case, lawyer Brett Gibbs told a California federal magistrate judge. It could be the Subscriber, or another member of his household, or any number of other individuals who had direct access to Subscribers network. To figure out who actually shared the pornographic movie at the center of the case, lawyer Brett Gibbs of Steele Hansmeier LLC told the judge (PDF) he would need to search every computer in the subscriber's household. The subscriber in question, a grandfather who is not named in court documents, didnt take this suggestion well. He is representing himself, and when Gibbs called him on the phone to discuss the matter, the grandfather told Plaintiff's attorney that he felt like destroying and/or disposing of his computer. When told by Plaintiff's counsel that such actions would violate the explicit instructions of Plaintiff's counsel and his ISP, and may even result in Court sanctions for spoliation, Subscriber indicated that he did not care Plaintiff is concerned that he may in fact do something rash to attempt to escape liability in this case in the near future. Boy Racer Mass filesharing lawsuits have been predicated on the idea that an IP address is all the information required to find out who shared a copyrighted file online (or, at least, that it is all the information required to find someone legally accountable for copyright infringement occurring over their Internet connection). In the last two years, tens of thousands of settlement letters have been sent to Internet subscribers across the country, demanding a few thousand dollars from them to make federal lawsuits go away. That happened in this case, Boy Racer v. Doe, in Californias Northern District. A judge refused to allow lawyers to investigate the initial set of 52 IP address in a single case; instead, they could investigate just one. After contacting the ISP in question, Gibbs had his subscriber, but a one-hour phone call with the man on August 18 apparently convinced him that the subscriber knew nothing about it. So Gibbs went back to court to tell Judge Paul Singh Grewal that he needed to search every computer in the home. California lawyer Stewart Kellar was at this hearing, and he noted that Grewal was plainly irritated at the request. Grewal asks, if the ISP subpoena info is insufficient, why did Boy Racer only ask for that? Judge Grewal thought it was made clear from the expedited discovery that the ISP info would be sufficient to allow this case to succeed and now Im hearing that is not true Grewal is getting stern, says: now Im hearing the early discovery is insufficient, now Im hearing you need doc requests and interrogatories, thats a whole lot more discovery than I was lead to believe, isnt it? You cant get this discovery without a court order correct? Gibbs admits that is correct Gibbs is asking to inspect the subscribers hardware and any systems in the household. Grewal asks: what if there are 5 computers in the residence that accessed the IPs? What if there are half a dozen smart phones? Grewal notes that in his house there are at least a dozen connective devices Grewal says if we allow this type of discovery in a case that hasnt been severed, were looking at the search of potentially hundreds or thousands of devices without anyone yet being named. Looking through a defendant's hard drive is hardly unusual; Jammie Thomas-Rasset had to turn hers over to an RIAA investigator as part of her file-sharing lawsuit years ago. But the Boy Racer case is becoming yet another example of the limits of IP addressesand an example of how all the parties involved increasingly recognize these limits.

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Advertisers start using facial recognition to tailor pitches
by Eugen Leitl 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

(getting my Guy Fawkes mask, brb) http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-facial-recognition-20110821,0,3322937… Advertisers start using facial recognition to tailor pitches Once the stuff of science fiction and high-tech crime fighting, facial recognition technology has become one of the newest tools in marketing, even though privacy concerns abound. Facial recognition NEC employee Olga Foster demonstrates a facial recognition system's ability to estimate her age, gender and race. NEC makes display screens used for facial recognition-driven ads. (NEC Corp. / August 3, 2011) By Shan Li and David Sarno, Los Angeles Times August 21, 2011 Picture this: You stop in front of a digital advertising display at a mall and suddenly an ad pops up touting makeup, followed by one for shoes and then one for butter pecan ice cream. It seems to know you're a woman in your late 20s and, in fact, it does. When you looked at the display, it scanned your facial features and tailored its messages to you. Once the stuff of science fiction and high-tech crime fighting, facial recognition technology has become one of the newest tools in marketing, even though privacy concerns abound. The Venetian resort, hotel and casino in Las Vegas has started using it on digital displays to tailor suggestions for restaurants, clubs and entertainment to passersby. Kraft Foods Inc. and Adidas say they are planning to experiment with it as early as this year to push their products. A group of U.S. bar owners in Chicago last month started using facial recognition, in conjunction with mounted cameras, to keep tabs on the male/female ratio and age mixes of their crowds. Patrons planning a night out can use mobile apps to get a real-time check of a venue's vibe. "This helps people avoid those hit-or-miss nights," said Cole Harper, 27, co-founder of the SceneTap company that makes the app. The commercial applications of facial recognition are in contrast to those being used by law enforcement to identify specific individuals. Companies, at least at this point, mostly just want to pinpoint a demographic based on age and gender to tailor their ads. But even this facial recognition-lite alarms privacy advocates, given that it could greatly popularize and expand use of the technology. Intel Corp., which makes such software, said it's widely adaptable. "You can put this technology into kiosks, vending machines, digital signs," said Christopher O'Malley, director of retail marketing for Intel's embedded and communications group. "It's going to become a much more common thing in the next few years." So far, the technology is in most use commercially in Japan, where a variety of businesses use it to customize ads. "It's not just clothing stores or restaurant chains," said Joseph Jasper, spokesman for NEC Corp., which makes display screens used for facial recognition-driven ads. Banks, for example, use it to target customers based on their ages, separating out older customers from young people who are more likely to be opening their first account. The technology works by digitally measuring the distance between the eyes, the width of the nose, the length of a jawline and other data points. Law enforcement agencies that use facial recognition b as was done during the recent London riots b compare the measurements against photos in databases. But for most marketing uses, the measurements are compared to standardized codes that represent features typical of males and females in various age brackets. Adidas is working with Intel to install and test digital walls with facial recognition in a handful of stores either in the U.S. or Britain. If a woman in her 50s walks by and stops, 60% of the shoes displayed will be for females in her age bracket, while the other 40% will be a random sprinkling of other goods. "If a retailer can offer the right products quickly, people are more likely to buy something," said Chris Aubrey, vice president of global retail marketing for Adidas. Kraft said it's in talks with a supermarket chain, which it would not identify, to test face-scanning kiosks. "If it recognizes that there is a female between 25 to 29 standing there, it may surmise that you are more likely to have minor children at home and give suggestions on how to spice up Kraft Macaroni & Cheese for the kids," said Donald King, the company's vice president of retail experience. Privacy advocates worry the technology is one more way for companies to quietly gather data about people without their permission or even knowledge. In June, Facebook Inc. rolled out a facial recognition feature worldwide that could pinpoint individuals. It was used to automatically identify friends when you uploaded photos of them onto the social network. When members realized this was happening, many loudly objected, calling it creepy and invasive. The feature still exists, but the company apologized and made it more clear how users can opt out. Earlier this year, Google Inc. said privacy concerns drove the company to abandon a project for mobile phones that would have enabled users to snap photos of someone and then run a search online for other photos of the person. "We built that technology and we withheld it," Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said at the D: All Things Digital conference in May. He said the decision was made because "of the fact that people could use this stuff in a very, very bad way as well as in a good way." The nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center said such uses of facial recognition have the potential to violate civil liberties and give governments too much power. "What if the government starts compiling a database of everyone who shows up to protests?" asked Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the group. "There are so many 1st Amendment and human rights concerns. It's a slippery slope. "When you think about facial recognition, you have to ask the questions, 'Why is it being done?' 'Who is it being done to?' 'How is that information used?' and 'What is it linked to?'" David C. Thompson, an attorney at Munger, Tolles & Olson who specializes in privacy law, said the use of facial recognition can catch and expose people during very sensitive moments of their lives, such as going to an abortion clinic or a cancer treatment center. "The problem is that there are things we do that we don't need a permanent record of," Thompson said. "I don't need other people to know where I've been and what I'm doing." Ed Warm, co-owner of Joe's Bar in Chicago, said many customers were excited about the SceneTap app that gave them the demographics of the crowd in the bar on any given night, but were clueless that facial recognition technology made it possible. "Frankly, almost no one seemed to care how it worked," Warm said. Sami Ari, a 27-year-old social media marketer, is one of about 8,000 people who have downloaded the app. He knew it was facial recognition at work and didn't mind it. "I use it at least once a week to find a cool place for me and my friends to hang out," said Ari, who describes himself as "hyper social." "It's not that scary," he added. "I always get upset at new Facebook privacy settings, and then I get over it." shan.li(a)latimes.com david.sarno(a)latimes.com

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Security update for banking accounts.
by cypherpunks＠gmail.com 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Dear clients, Your ACH and Wire transactions have been temporarily suspended for your settings, due to the expiration of your security version. Please open the attached document for more information. Best regards, Online security department Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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AxcessPoint by Iridium, global WLAN AP with 2.4 kBit/s for 200 USD coming this year
by Eugen Leitl 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

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by Eugen Leitl 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

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С чего начать инвестиционный проект
by Об инвестициях 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

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