I got the General Petraeus story a bit wrong. He and his friend weren't using Google docs to communicate, they used a shared Gmail account. They would sometimes draft, but not send emails, as an extra measure of security, but, as this article points out, that doesn't work.

Here's an example of surveillance vs. privacy that doesn't involve security. Instead, the goal is student learning.

"Alice is the attacker, not me." - Eve

And here's the collection of tweets from me, @maddagaska, and Cory Doctor about the choice of terms "security" and "surveillance."

Here's Cory Doctorow's blog post about my blog post about our debate mapping activity.

"Cryptocat allows you to instantly set up secure conversations. It's an open source encrypted, private alternative to invasive services such as Facebook chat."

"Cryptocat allows you to instantly set up secure conversations. It's an open source encrypted, private alternative to invasive services such as Facebook chat."

"More worrisome, Cory now had the ability to view all future flights tied to that frequent flyer account, change seats for the ticketed passengers, and even cancel any future flights."

"More worrisome, Cory now had the ability to view all future flights tied to that frequent flyer account, change seats for the ticketed passengers, and even cancel any future flights."

No mention of data mining in this piece from 2012, but still a useful follow-up to the Michael Morris essay on keeping college campuses safe.

"A factory refurbished Thinkpad shipped with Windows 7 and a scheduler app that ran once a day, collecting usage data about what you do with your computer and exfiltrating it to an analytics company. "

Quote: What you are looking at is one of the many undersea cables that carries inside it, to put it simply, the magic of the Internet. This particular cable, which runs aground on the coast of Florida, has been tapped by the NSA according to Paglen's research. Paglen, an artist who has been documenting the physical footprint of surveillance for years, got scuba-certified in order to go diving "at several locations off the coast of Florida," he says, to find and photograph the cables.

The US Copyright Office has issued a statement saying that it would only issue copyrights to humans. PETA objects to this, having just filed a suit to grant that macaque monkey the copyright for the selfies it took back in 2011. The struggle is real.

Andy Greenberg covers cybersecurity and hacking for Wired magazine.

Nicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity for the New York Times.

Kashmir Hill is a journalist who covers digital privacy, among other topics.

About the same time we talked about the Ahmed Mohamed story during class yesterday, this happened.