( ) Zoom's security has been hammered since last week. First, Zoom was caught sending user meta-data to Facebook, then deception around end-to-end encryption, and now this: Unfortunately, this is the software that most colleges and K-12 schools are using to provide remote instruction to students.…
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Sunday Paper - Supporting Strong Encryption, Facebook' Political Ad Policy, CES and vegan food, Music Shuffling versus Album Listening
Posted on 12th January 2020There is a disconnect between the USA Congress, FBI, DOJ and industry regulatory bodies on encryption. The minute there is a data breach, Congress wants answers and results. That same congress along with the FBI is scaring people into supporting backdoors in everything while the Defense Department argues that robust encryption is necessary for national security. Which one is it? As the use of mobile devices continues to expand, it is imperative that innovative security techniques, such as advanced encryption…
Sunday Paper - Flawed sea level models, Politically Motivated Violence, Instagram, Gun Control, First Amendment, Private Networks and Rights, Privacy hypocrites
Posted on 10th November 2019The climate may be even more screwed up than we thought. There are a couple of reasons. One of the major reasons is that we are seeing ice sheets pushed to a point where processes are coming into play that we hadn’t seen before. And we’re still struggling to understand these processes. We saw this in the early 2000s with the complete disintegration of sections of the Larsen B ice shelf. Researchers knew that this region was one of the…