Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess * https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize-attackers-cant-guess/ Encrypting your laptop demystified * http://boingboing.net/2015/04/27/encrypting-your-laptop-demysti.html#more-382920 drones: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/ramstein/ a wage and hour lawyers who is suing uber over worker misclassification http://fusion.net/story/118401/meet-the-lawyer-taking-on-uber-and-the-on-demand-economy/ the internet is a public place: http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20150417/1021043337.html well done website helping people figure out if their student loans could […]

Machinations and Manipulations: Bots, Big Data, and the Internet of Things an event that happened today at the the Open Society Foundation Philip N. Howard is a professor of technology and international affairs at Central European University and the University of Washington. A discussion of his latest book, Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things […]

GOP bill would invalidate FCC’s net neutrality rules – http://www.computerworld.com/article/2909220/gop-bill-would-invalidate-fccs-net-neutrality-rules.html June 2014 report from the ACLU on stingrays: https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/StingRays_The_Most_Common_Surveillance_Tool_the_Govt_Won%27t_Tell_You_About_0.pdf anti-patriot act coalition website: https://fight215.org/ imsi catcher detector put up on github: https://prism-break.org/en/projects/android-imsi-catcher-detector-aimsicd/ other links: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/crypto-privacy-village-heading-tribeca-film-festival funding of nypd surveilance: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/13/documents-suggest-uae-funding-nypd-intelligence-operations/ recent eff case on imsi catchers: https://www.eff.org/cases/us-marshals-airborne-imsi-catchers eff’s 2014 round up on stingrays: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/2014-review-stingrays-go-mainstream podcast patent win: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-busts-podcasting-patent-invalidating-key-claims-patent-office   Florida 8th-grader’s prank […]

  xkcd.com   Operating Systems Gizmodo 200+ Your Keyboard Could Tell If You Have Parkinson’s An everyday technology is becoming the central figure in how scientists understand and diagnose Parkinson’s—the keyboard. Researchers at MIT are working on a method that would create keyboards that could actually tell whether you have this unfortunately common neuron impairment.It’s all […]

Two feds who investigated Silk Road accused of stealing from it, too http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/two-feds-who-investigated-silk-road-accused-of-stealing-from-it-too/ “Copyright troll” Perfect 10 hit with $5.6M in fees after failed Usenet assault http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/copyright-troll-perfect-10-hit-with-5-6m-in-fees-after-failed-usenet-assault/ UN Human Rights Council Appoints Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/un-human-rights-council-appoints-special-rapporteur-right-privacy Court Sides With Google, Shuts Down Mississippi AG’s Abuse of Authority https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/court-sides-google-shuts-down-mississippi-ags-abuse-authority * * TechSpot […]

http://gothamist.com/2015/03/13/wikipedia_edits_on_eric_garner_sean.php http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/nypd-edited-police-brutality-wikipedia-entries-20150313?print=true http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/nypd-caught-red-handed-sanitizing-police-brutality-wikipedia-entries/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zoombinisgame/zoombinis https://tech.safehubcollective.org/cybersecurity/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/anti-doxing-strategy-or-how-to-avoid-50-qurans-and-287-of-chick-fil-a/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/online-privacy-nihilism-runs-rampant-in-us-survey-says/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/cryptolocker-look-alike-searches-for-and-encrypts-pc-game-files/     9min Gizmodo The anti-robot protest at SXSW was almost certainly a hoax. The anti-robot protest at SXSW was almost certainly a hoax. But was it some kind of viral marketing scam, or just a bunch of well-organized, well-funded trolls? [io9] 7min TechSpot This is Sirius, […]

We were joined by guest – Jonathan Stribling-Uss an Attorney, technologist and co-director of the cybersecurity legal organization “constitutional communications”. I’m doing a Continuing Legal Education class on cybersecurity for lawyers at CUNY law on March 17th at 6pm. https://publicsquare.law.cuny.edu/events/cle/emerging-legal-issues-in-cybersecurity – The Ambassador who worked from a Nairobi bathroom to avoid State Dept. IT http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/the-ambassador-who-worked-from-nairobi-bathroom-to-avoid-state-dept-it/ […]

http://www.fcc.gov/openinternet    Check out the FCC Fact Sheet! https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-327105A1.pdf Engadget 78 Lyft rewards its drivers for picking you up more often A ridesharing service only helps you out if drivers want to pick you up in the first place, and Lyft clearly knows it — the company just countered Uber’s new perk system with one […]