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Hadley Stein

From Facebook to WikiLeaks: Addressing privacy and security | EHR Watch - 0 views

www.ehrwatch.com/...ddressing-privacy-and-security

healthcare privacy security

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  • One can argue whether the privacy provisions were weakened or not. In the case of the WikiLeaks, Twila Brase, president of the Citizens' Council for Health Freedom, got to the heart of the matter when she said, "What WikiLeaks shows you is how security information is all about the integrity of individuals." The bottom line is that someone in the State Dept. leaked the documents. No iron-clad privacy provision in the world can protect against a person leaking information - whether it's paper based or computerized. Brase went on to say, "Once you get information on any kind of electronic format, it is very easy to take it, to access it, to share it, to download it."
  • The silver lining in the WikiLeaks scandal is that it puts a laser focus on privacy and security issues, which are things we need to keep working on to make it right.
  • Hadley Stein on 16 Mar 11
     
    An interesting view of WikiLeaks through the perspective of health care and privacy information. Argues that security information relies on integrity of individuals.
Tyler Sax

Blogs | The Tor Blog - 1 views

blog.torproject.org/blog

tor blogs security

shared by Tyler Sax on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
    • Hadley Stein
      Hadley Stein on 16 Mar 11
       
      This is kind of confusing. Why is it that this more technological discussion on the internet is uncommon. If it is important that we understand these concepts to understand technology, privacy etc., why isn't it always accessible? Do those you understand these concepts purposely make it inaccessible to those who do not?
  • The question he didn't even know to ask is, "What are safe and secure computing and online practices?"
  • how to think about adversaries online, what is ssl, what it means, what are phishing, viruses, botnets, and state-sponsored malware. By the end of the 4th hour, he understood how tor is different than a simple vpn or proxy server, and when to use tor and when it isn't needed. 3.5h of that discussion was basic operational, computer, and online security and safe practices.
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    • Hadley Stein
      Hadley Stein on 16 Mar 11
       
      Is it a problem when even people who you would except (or at least hope) understand how the internet works do not? This really highlights the lack of education surrounding th internet.
  • Look at the infrastructures of google, facebook, yahoo, and microsoft to see the challenges that lie ahead for these tools.
    • Hadley Stein
      Hadley Stein on 16 Mar 11
       
      I had never really thought about the infrastructure, specifically the money, required to develop the internet.
  • who uses and how they use it matters
  • What one should or should not do is policy and law, what one can actually do or not do is technology.
    • Tyler Sax
      Tyler Sax on 16 Mar 11
       
      Good quote
  • technology exists to circumvent internet censorship
  • what a proxy is
  • technology exists to circumvent internet censorship
  • Technology is agnostic, who uses and how they use it matters.
  • Circumvention, anonymity, and privacy tools used in a free world can be a minor annoyance,
  • i.e. wikileaks used wikis, ssl, email, and yes, tor, but in the end, it's an annoyance. We don't have people in the streets rioting trying to overthrow our govt. Wikipedia uses the same technology in wikis, ssl, and email. Everyone loves Wikipedia and considers it a net positive.
  • 1 billion people are online in some way
  • In the 1930s, the feds and police warned of mass chaos if the interstate highway system was built in the US. The ability for criminals to quickly transit between cities was of grave concern.
    • Tyler Sax
      Tyler Sax on 16 Mar 11
       
      I like this analogy about internet security
  • Hadley Stein on 16 Mar 11
     
    What is the line between moral and immoral? Who determines what is moral or "net positive"?
Hadley Stein

Twitter data privacy in dispute in WikiLeaks case - Technology & science - Security - m... - 1 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/...echnology_and_science-security

privacy twitter

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  • The dispute cuts to the core of the question of whether WikiLeaks allies are part of a criminal conspiracy or a political discussion
  • The U.S. is investigating whether WikiLeaks should be held responsible for leaking classified information, even though it was not the original leaker.
  • "The First Amendment guarantees their right to speak up and freely associate with even unpopular people and cause," attorneys wrote.
  • Hadley Stein on 16 Mar 11
     
    How exactly would the U.S. government hold WikiLeaks responsible (i.e. Would they identify a person within the organization, the entire organization etc.) Who determines whether WikiLeaks "are part of a criminal conspiracy or a political discussion"?
Ian Palm

Data Mining - the effects of browsing - 5 views

The following article shows a few methods to block people from mining data. http://www.minousoft.com/2010/12/a-few-notes-on-technology-wikileaks-data-mining-and-privacy/

Data Mining Privacy

started by Ian Palm on 13 Apr 11 1 follow-up, last by Ian Palm on 13 Apr 11
Randall Bass

five minutes to speak | The Tor Blog - 4 views

blog.torproject.org/...five-minutes-speak

Proxies privacy Wiki security

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  • Randall Bass on 02 Mar 11
     
    Interesting brief talk about Internet security and the role of proxy technologies, esp under repressive regimes. Though check out the comments too. Clearly there are downsides and social hazards to proxy technologies too.
Edward Maloney

CNDLS Design Seminar - 2 views

digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/...designseminar

cdseminar

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  • Edward Maloney on 28 Feb 11
     
    The web is no longer just an integral part of our lives; the web significantly defines the way we engage with the world. To be a wholly educated leader, a successful and effective member of an organization or business, and or an engaged citizen, it is now vital to understand web technologies beyond the level of a consumer. Instead of seeing the web as something that "happens behind the computer screen," the liberally educated person must understand how the web works and shapes our lives. This means understanding how data travels, what happens to your personal information on the web, how the definition of privacy is changing, how the web serves as a publishing and authoring platform, how media is shared and remixed, and how an online economy is changing the way we learn. In Spring 2011 we will launch a Design Seminar to begin mapping out integrated academic approaches to the Web, modeling the ways that multiple disciplines and perspectives are necessary to really comprehend the technological and cultural landscape.
Lee Stromberg

Cables released by WikiLeaks reveal U.S. concerns over South America - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010120205288.html

privacy south america

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    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      Not exactly sure how a president being on medication is information of top importance to the US but still an interesting article on progress towards governement transparency that wikileaks has made.
  • A slew of diplomatic messages from South America, where the United States has had testy relations with several leaders, reveal U.S. concerns over issues ranging from terrorism to a spat over oil between Argentina and Britain. But private messages released by WikiLeaks also highlight Washington's focus on the personalities on a continent largely ruled by leftist presidents, some of them European-style technocrats and others virulently anti-American populists.
Lee Stromberg

WikiLeaks documents: five world leaders disparaged by US diplomats - Italy's Silvio Ber... - 0 views

www.csmonitor.com/...Italy-s-Silvio-Berlusconi

privacy

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  • The huge cache of diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks contain frank assessments of many top geopolitical players – and predictions as to how their personalities might affect US politics.
  • Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
     
    Interesting comments and opinions of world leaders.  previously confidential material now seem's like the US's underwear when referring to international relations
Lee Stromberg

U.S. ambassador to Mexico quits amid WikiLeaks furor - Washington Times - 0 views

www.washingtontimes.com/...us-ambassador-mexico

mexico ambassador wikileaks privacy

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    • Lee Stromberg
      Lee Stromberg on 20 Mar 11
       
      This article really shows how leaks can control government relations.  I'm confused as to why this expressed frustration at mexican security of drug cartels could considered serious enough for Pascual's resignation of his post.  It almost seems like he was looking for an excuse to go?
  • Mr. Pascual’s resignation — less than two weeks after President Obama met with Mr. Calderon at the White House — appeared to be the biggest fallout yet from thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables from around the world released by WikiLeaks. It was the first such public departure by a U.S. ambassador during the Obama administration.
Tyler Sax

WikiLeaks Was Launched With Documents Intercepted From Tor | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...wikileaks-documents

shared by Tyler Sax on 17 Mar 11 - Cached
  • WikiLeaks, the controversial whistleblowing site that exposes secrets of governments and corporations, bootstrapped itself with a cache of documents obtained through an internet eavesdropping operation by one of its activists, according to a new profile of the organization’s founder. The activist siphoned more than a million documents as they traveled across the internet through Tor, also known as “The Onion Router,” a sophisticated privacy tool that lets users navigate and send documents through the internet anonymously.
    • Tyler Sax
      Tyler Sax on 17 Mar 11
       
      This is an interesting note about something that isn't taled about very often -- where did Wikileaks come from in the first place?
  • The siphoned documents, supposedly stolen by Chinese hackers or spies who were using the Tor network to transmit the data, were the basis for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s assertion in 2006 that his organization had already “received over one million documents from 13 countries” before his site was launched, according to the article in The New Yorker.
  • Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11
     
    (This article seems to have been debunked by another I bookmarked)
  • Tyler Sax on 17 Mar 11
     
    (This article seems to have been debunked by another I bookmarked)
Tom Zorc

Plaintext over Tor is still plaintext | The Tor Blog - 1 views

blog.torproject.org/...ntext-over-tor-still-plaintext

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  • I write to remind our users, and people in search of privacy enhancing technology, that good software is just one part of the solution.
  • We hear from the Wikileaks folks that the premise behind these news articles is actually false -- they didn't bootstrap Wikileaks by monitoring the Tor network.
Tom Zorc

WikiLeaks and Tor: Moral use of an amoral system? | Invisible Inkling - 0 views

ryansholin.com/...-moral-use-of-an-amoral-system

tor privacy Proxies

shared by Tom Zorc on 17 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Reading the New Yorker’s piece on WikiLeaks, it’s hard to decide whether I’m reading about freedom fighters, skilled propagandists, or as is often the case, both.
  • The Tor Project blog responds, pointing out that Tor doesn't magically encrypt text, it simply allows for the anonymous transfer of files. So if you use unsecure connections and send data in plain text, it's just as safe as writing down the information on a piece of paper, folding it into an airplane, and throwing it across the street.
Adam Rosenfeld

WikiLeaks Archive - A Selection From the Cache of Diplomatic Dispatches - Interactive F... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...20101128-cables-viewer.html

shared by Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • A small number of names and passages in some of the cables have been removed (———) by The New York Times to protect diplomats’ confidential sources, to keep from compromising American intelligence efforts or to protect the privacy of ordinary citizens.
    • Adam Rosenfeld
      Adam Rosenfeld on 20 Mar 11
       
      In the "About" section, wikileaks says "from time to time we may remove or significantly delay the publication of some identifying details from original documents to protect life and limb of innocent people." While it doesn't appear the cable wires put anyone's life in immediate danger, it it interesting to note that the Times additionally censors the documents... Why didn't wikileaks censor these documents already, or why did the Times feel the need to censor them when wikileaks didn't?
  • Below are a selection of the documents from a cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. A small number of names and passages in some of the cables have been removed (———) by The New York Times to protect diplomats’ confidential sources, to ke
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