My friend/colleague had her phone stolen while she was napping in the hospital room of her terminally ill husband. Fortunately it had MDM. Called Palo Alto PD, I sat with them and tracked it from the hotel and it was already in San Jose. They worked with SJPD live and walked them into the guy who happened to be in a parking garage peering into cars. Caught him with a backpack full of stolen phones.
The stereotype of US cops not caring isn't always true.
Unfortunate fact for the perp was the ill husband was a US Attorney and stealing his phone made it a big boy federal felony that was not looked kindly upon by the colleagues of a dying AUSA in the Northern District. I wonder if he's still in FCI Lompoc.
Gmail is an Electronic Communication Service as defined in 18 U.S.C § 2510, meaning its contents are protected under the Stored Communications Act (18 U.S.C. Chapter 121 §§ 2701–2713).
Communications with an AI system do not involve a human so are not protected by ECPA or the SCA and get less protection. This is controversial and some people have called on ECPA/SCA to be extended to cover AI services. That means a warrant would be necessary to get your OpenAI history, not just a subpoena.
Um, Windows 11 still hasn’t moved all the necessary utilities and administrative panels over to the windowing toolkit Microsoft introduced in 2012, and MacOS 26(??) is… hideous.
IANAL and this is not legal advice, but you probably fine reverse engineering a mobile app and intercepting your own network traffic. He was doing ok until he started enumerating IDs in their database, at which point he started venturing into the territory that got weev 3.5 yrs.
Agreed. I've been doing this for 25+ years and personally know a dozen people who have been threatened and several who have been sued or faced potential prosecution for legitimate security research. I've experienced both situations!
That doesn't make it right, and the treatment of the researcher here was completely inappropriate, but telling young researchers to just go full disclosure without being careful about documentation, legal advice and staying within the various legal lines is itself irresponsible.
They aren't talking about general purposed datacenters, but satellite uplink stations. These new constellations of low-Earth orbit (LEO) internet satellites (like Starlink) can network with each other but eventually need to downlink into a big terrestrial dish where the traffic meets a fiber backbone. It's position in the southern hemisphere, middle of the Atlantic and political stability (still part of keeping the sun from setting on the British Empire) would make this an interesting place for downlink stations.
Not a ton of jobs, but some CapEx for construction and probably a couple dozen people year-round.
A regression means that PhotoDNA scanning was working, and then stopped working correctly. This happened in the last several months, well after Mr. Musk's takeover.
I think it is good that they fixed it. That is why we directly reached out to them to help address the issue before we published. I think it is bad that they cut off our API access and are threatening academic researchers with lawsuits.
We use Microsoft's PhotoDNA scanning service on all images we intake for research, which has access to hash banks collected by NCMEC, a government-sponsored clearinghouse on child exploitation, and the Tech Coalition, the private group coordinating child safety work between major platforms.
This is an incorrect reading of our report. Twitter has scanned for CSAM using PhotoDNA for years, and is an early member of the Tech Coalition of companies working on this issue.
What we discovered is that, since Musk's takeover, that Twitter's CSAM scanning failed and was not noticed by Twitter. They fixed it several weeks after we notified them, and then shut off our API access to prevent further research.
Hi, I'm one of the authors of the report. You have pretty significantly misread it.
> You might as well say, "Private unmonitored housing and properties implicitly allow the trading of CSAM."
The issue with Telegram is that they explicitly disallow the posting of "illegal pornography" on public channels, but not privately. We are not calling for any additional monitoring, but private Telegram groups (which are not E2EE, btw) turn out to be a centerpiece of the commercialization of online child sexual abuse.
> Going to ban cash then too?
Nope. The paper makes no recommendations around banning gift card platforms, but we do think they might want to take steps when teenagers are publicly linking to their payment wallets next to a price list that includes bestiality videos or content created when the child was pre-pubescent.
> This article is shallow, ignorant self promotion of their dept. to get more funding. It's almost offensive how they're exploiting chldren's safety for this purpose.
To nitpick the nitpick, Stanford actually is held to some Constitutional standards, thanks to California's Leonard Law, which requires private universities to provide the same free speech protections as public universities. It does not incorporate the 6th Amendment, but to the extent that this system can be used to suppress constitutionally protected speech acts it could run afoul of California's specific requirements.
The advertising ASN does not share any upstream peers. So it might not be a hijack, but it is an interesting event and could be related to the conflict.
Untangling ISPs that have operated in both countries or with subsidiaries is going to get messy while infrastructure is also getting destroyed.