February 2016 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Seminario: "Il web come database giuridico", 2 marzo - ITTIG CNR (Firenze)

by Giuseppe Futia

Gentilissimi, siamo lieti di segnalarvi che il 2 marzo, presso l'Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica del CNR (Firenze), si svolgerà il seminario dal titolo "*Il web come database giuridico. * *Problemi e opportunità di un’informazione giuridica aperta*". Tra gli ospiti dell'incontro ci sarà l'avvocato *Carlo Blengino*, fellow del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://www.ittig.cnr.it/il-web-come-database-giuridico/. Cordiali saluti, -- ------------------------------------------------- Giuseppe Futia Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it tel. +39 011 090 7219

Feb. 22, 2016

Re: [nexa] NYTimes: Justice Department Calls Apple’s Refusal to Unlock iPhone a ‘Marketing Strategy’

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Sull'argomento Apple vs. FBI, mi permetto di consigliarvi vivamente due articoli. Il primo fornisce informazioni contestuali, con relativa analisi dello scrivente, che non ho i mezzi per validare ma che mi sembrano quanto meno verosimili: https://medium.com/@thegrugq/feeble-noise-pollution-627acb5931a2#.gadto2vt6 Il secondo articolo è invece di un esperto di forensics: http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=5645 ciao, juan carlos On 22/02/16 09:46, Marco Ciurcina wrote: > Justice Department Calls Apple’s Refusal to Unlock iPhone a ‘Marketing > Strategy’ http://nyti.ms/1oPZDsI > > In particolare: > “At no point has Apple ever said that it does not have the technical ability > to comply with the order or that the order asks Apple to undertake an > unreasonably challenging software development task,” prosecutors wrote. “On > this point, Apple’s silence speaks volumes.”. > > m.c. > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Feb. 22, 2016

NYTimes: Justice Department Calls Apple’s Refusal to Unlock iPhone a ‘Marketing Strategy’

by Marco Ciurcina

Justice Department Calls Apple’s Refusal to Unlock iPhone a ‘Marketing Strategy’ http://nyti.ms/1oPZDsI In particolare: “At no point has Apple ever said that it does not have the technical ability to comply with the order or that the order asks Apple to undertake an unreasonably challenging software development task,” prosecutors wrote. “On this point, Apple’s silence speaks volumes.”. m.c.

Feb. 22, 2016

"Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta, open to all to try!"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta, open to all to try!* Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2016 Today, we're announcing the beta release of Google Cloud Vision API. Now anyone can submit their images to the Cloud Vision API to understand the contents of those images — from detecting everyday objects (for example, “sports car,” “sushi,” or “eagle”) to reading text within the image or identifying product logos. With the beta release of Cloud Vision API, you can access the API with location of images stored in Google Cloud Storage, along with existing support of embedding an image as part of the API request. We’re also announcing pricing for Cloud Vision API and added additional capabilities to identify the dominant color of an image. For example, you can now apply Label Detection on an image for as little as $2 per 1,000 images or Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for $0.60 for 1,000 images. Pricing will be effective, starting March 1st. […] Continua qui: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.it/2016/02/Google-Cloud-Vision-API-ente…

Feb. 21, 2016

Video: "Will the Internet of Things Enhance Democracy or Empower Autocrats?"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Video di 1 ora e 18 minuti. juan carlos *Will the Internet of Things Enhance Democracy or Empower Autocrats?** * Professor Philip Howard ABSTRACT The “internet of things” is made up of device networks that now watch us and report on our behavior to their manufacturers. What will this omnipresent connectivity mean for the future of democracy? Phil Howard will discuss his new book, Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up. http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/webcasts/?id=773

Feb. 21, 2016

Hayden: "To Keep America Safe, Embrace Drone Warfare"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Il punto di vista dell'ex Direttore della CIA Michael Hayden. juan carlos *To Keep America Safe, Embrace Drone Warfare* By MICHAEL V. HAYDEN FEB. 19, 2016 “ARE you sure they’re there?” the decision maker asks. “They” are Qaeda operatives who have been planning attacks against the United States. “Yes, sir,” the intelligence analyst replies, ticking off the human and electronic sources of information. “We’ve got good Humint. We’ve been tracking with streaming video. Sigint’s checking in now and confirming it’s them. They’re there.” The decision maker asks if there are civilians nearby. “The family is in the main building. The guys we want are in the big guesthouse here.” “They’re not very far apart.” “Far enough.” “Anyone in that little building now?” “Don’t know. Probably not. We haven’t seen anyone since the Pred got capture of the target. But A.Q. uses it when they pass through here, and they pass through here a lot.” He asks the probability of killing the targets if they use a GBU-12, a powerful 500-pound, laser-guided bomb. “These guys are sure dead,” comes the reply. “We think the family’s O.K.” “You think they’re O.K.?” […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/opinion/sunday/drone-warfare-precise-effe…

Feb. 21, 2016

NYT: "Uber Drivers Up Against the App"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Uber Drivers Up Against the App By ALAN FEUER FEB. 19, 2016 On Super Bowl Sunday, a few hundred Uber drivers met in the cold in a public park in Queens, plotting to disrupt the app that thousands of New Yorkers were about to use to get in place to watch the big game. Gathered angrily on rows of wooden benches were Uzbeks, Tajiks, Russians, Kenyans, Serbs and Bangladeshis, many of them waving handmade signs. Their yellow placards attacked the ride-hailing service in the innumerable languages of polyglot New York. “Shame on Uber!” one announced in Spanish. “Uber Broke Our Hearts!” said another in Tibetan. Then in English: “We Made You Billionaires!” and “We Are Not Slaves!” […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/nyregion/uber-drivers-up-against-the-app.…

Feb. 20, 2016

"Why booksellers are more alarmed than ever about Amazon"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

February 8, 2016 *Why booksellers are more alarmed than ever about Amazon* by Bradley Graham & Lissa Muscatine / //Perhaps the most striking thing Melville House attendees noted at the recent Winter Institute conference held by the American Booksellers Association was that—both in formal panel discussions and in hallway chatter—booksellers were regularly saying something they haven’t said in a long, long time: Business is great. Yet there also seemed to be a consensus that there was more reason to be alarmed about Amazon than ever before. How could those two beliefs co-exist? In a guest column that first appeared on the Politics and Prose Bookmark blog, two of the country’s most respected booksellers explain …/ These are good days to be an independent bookseller in the United States. Sales are up for many stores, and in the past few years, indies have reclaimed a greater share of the market for physical books. But these trends don’t tell the whole story. Many of the gains for the independents have come at the expense of big box or chain stores. Meanwhile, online sales of physical books have continued to soar, and the vast majority of this business has gone to a single retailer—Amazon. […] Continua qui: http://www.mhpbooks.com/why-booksellers-are-more-alarmed-than-ever-about-am…

Feb. 19, 2016

Ancora su FBI e Apple

by Marco Bassini

Dal Sole24Ore di oggi Cari saluti, M.

Feb. 19, 2016

Apple’s line in the sand.

by gianluca quaglia

WASHINGTON — Time and again after the introduction of the iPhone nearly a decade ago, the Justice Department asked Apple for help opening a locked phone. And nearly without fail, the company agreed. Then last fall, the company changed its mind. In a routine drug case in a Brooklyn federal court, prosecutors sought a court order demanding that Apple unlock a methamphetamine dealer’s iPhone 5S running old, easy-to-unlock software. The company acknowledged that it could open the phone, as it had before. But this time, it pushed back. “We’re being forced to become an agent of law enforcement,” the company’s lawyer, Marc Zwillinger, protested in court. That stance foreshadowed this week’s showdown between the Obama administration and Apple over the locked iPhone belonging to one of the suspects in the San Bernardino, Calif., shooting rampage. By the time of Mr. Zwillinger’s statement, Apple and the government had been at odds for more than a year, since the debut of Apple’s new encrypted operating system, iOS 8, in late 2014. The new technology repeatedly stymied investigators — the New York authorities said on Thursday that they had been locked out of 175 iPhones in cases they were pursuing. But both sides held out hope for a compromise that would avoid the type of confrontation that occurred this week when a federal magistrate judge ordered Apple to comply with the Justice Department’s request. With last October’s court filing, the confrontation became all but inevitable. The company left no doubt that it would fight any effort to crack its new, encrypted phones. The only real question was what crime the government would use to press its case. Apple’s stance that day in Brooklyn caught the Justice Department off guard. Despite the issue with iOS 8, the company had continued to cooperate. In the first half of 2015 alone, the company provided data in response to more than 3,000 law enforcement requests, Apple said. And company lawyers gave prosecutors no indication that the drug case against Jun Feng would be any different. Mr. Feng, 45, claimed to have forgotten his passcode, making his cooperation a moot point even if he were willing to extend it, according to a government filing. Unlike the phone in the San Bernardino case, Mr. Feng’s ran iOS 7, an older version of Apple’s operating system that does not automatically encrypt its data. The Justice Department figured it would have the information from Mr. Feng’s phone within a day. Mr. Zwillinger said the drug case would be Apple’s line in the sand. “Customer data is under siege from a variety of different directions,” he said. “Never has the privacy and security of customer data been as important as it is now.” It was a delicate period for the Obama administration, which was focused on finding a way to break into the new encrypted iPhones. The F.B.I., in particular, was lobbying hard to win support for that idea in the face of skepticism from Silicon Valley, Congress and the public. Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, described data privacy as a human rights issue. Backed by leading technologists, Mr. Cook argued that if the company designed a way to defeat encryption for the United States government, that tool would be exploited by hackers or foreign governments like China. Under the attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr., the Justice Department was sympathetic to that point of view, even in the face of an aggressive campaign from the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey. Mr. Holder favored meeting with technology executives in the hope of finding common ground, current and former Justice Department officials said. Others in the department strongly disagreed. National security and criminal prosecutors argued that, with the introduction of the encrypted iOS 8, Apple (along with Google, which had started its own encrypted Android phone software) had made thumbing its nose at the government a business strategy. The only hope, these prosecutors argued, was a court fight or an act of Congress requiring companies to provide the government unencrypted data. Local law enforcement officials, too, were sounding alarms. “This has become, ladies and gentlemen, the Wild West in technology,” Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the district attorney in Manhattan, said at a news conference Thursday, echoing complaints he and others have made for many months. “Apple and Google are their own sheriffs. There are no rules.”.... continua qui http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/technology/a-yearlong-road-to-a-standoff-…

Feb. 19, 2016