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Where did all the IP numbers go? The US Department of Defense has them
by Antonio April 4, 2024

April 4, 2024

No, non è una "notizia", non è un articolo recente. E' di ben 16 anni fa [1]. "IPv6 is on its way which will end this discussion for good (or at least for a looong time), but with a bit of rearranging IPv4 could probably last us for quite a while yet" Siamo nel 2024, della transizione a IPv6 [2] neanche se ne parla più, o almeno non si danno scadenze (chi diceva 2022, 2025, 2030 ...) In quell'articolo erano elencati alcuni "proprietari" degli /8 IP block. 12 blocchi, per un totale di 201 milioni di indirizzi IP, appartenevano al Dipartimento della Difesa statunitense. Poi c'erano le grandi aziende AT&T, Apple, Ford, Mercedes, ecc. Ma oggi, sarà ancora così? Incuriosito, qualche giorno fa ho fatto partire uno script per tirarmi giù i dati e ho scoperto che: L'US Army & DoD hanno sempre 200M di indirizzi [3][4]. AT&T, Apple, Ford, Cogent, Mercedes un blocco /8 a testa, (circa 17M) e le altre "big"? Comcast si è portata a 70M, in mezzo ai provider cinesi, Chinanet con 100M, China169 62M. Microsoft che negli anni novanta snobbava Internet, ora è in possesso di 55M di indirizzi. Amazon ne ha 64M, Alibaba 24M, Google 22M. I giapponesi di SoftBank sono a 45M, poco più di Korea Telecom 44M. Gli europei? La tedesca DTAG ne ha 34M, France Telecom e Telecom Italia, appaiati a 20M. A. [1] https://www.pingdom.com/blog/where-did-all-the-ip-numbers-go-the-us-departm… [2] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transizione_IPv4/IPv6 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks [4] https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml

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Algorithmic Attention Rents: A theory of digital platform market power | UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose - UCL – University College London
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 4, 2024

April 4, 2024

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2023/nov/algorit… (messaggio spedito in movimento - scusate brevità ed eventuali refusi)

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E' disponibile il programma completo di e-privacy XXXIV @ Firenze
by Marco A. Calamari April 3, 2024

April 3, 2024

e-privacy XXXIV @ Firenze Il Programma Il Progetto Winston Smith è lieto di invitarti alla edizione primaverile di e- privacy, che si terrà in presenza ed in videoconferenza il 16 e 17 maggio a Firenze. «Moneta elettronica e altri traccianti» Il contante, i documenti fisici, le auto disconnesse come strumenti di libertà Il programma, gli abstract delle relazioni e le short bio dei relatori sono già disponibili sul sito del Convegno https://e-privacy.winstonsmith.org/ Ringraziamo i relatori per la qualità degli interventi proposti, particolarmente in linea col tema di questa edizione, e che promettono di essere veramente interessanti. Vi aspettiamo. Contatti: per contatti generali e per la stampa:eprivacy@winstonsmith.org per contatti dai relatori: cfp-eprivacy(a)winstonsmith.org, Maggiori informazioni sul sito del Convegno http://e-privacy.winstonsmith.org.

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Facebook let Netflix (et al?, n.d.r.) see user DMs [...]
by 380° April 3, 2024

April 3, 2024

Buongiorno Daniela, mi hai anticipato :-) scusa(te) ma per questioni "archivistiche" preferisco un nuovo thread in lista nexa e per questo ho tolto i riferimenti al thread precedente [1] entrambe le notizie (questa e [1]) sono "vecchie" ma ora sono sostanziate e "rinverdite" dal fatto che alcuni documenti sono stati (ri)pubblicati completamente in chiaro per completezza, ecco la pagina CourtListener di «Klein v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (3:20-cv-08570)»: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18714274/klein-v-facebook-inc dove sono elencati tutti i documenti, molti dei quali sono liberamente disponibili. il documento relativo alle accuse a Netflix è questo: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscour… Daniela Tafani <daniela.tafani(a)unipi.it> writes: > Grazie, 380°. Oggi c'è anche questo: > > META WATCH OUT Netflix had ‘access to people’s private Facebook messages’ as part of secret ‘special relationship’ lawsuit claims > Meta has rejected the claims [...] > https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/27077170/meta-facebook-netflix-special-relati… Riporto quello di Ars Technica che mi sembra riassumere meglio i termini della questione. «Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit» https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm… --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [Scharon Harding] - Mar 28, 2024 8:40 pm UTC [...] The streaming business' demise has seemed related to cost cuts at Meta that have also included layoffs. However, recently unsealed court documents in an antitrust suit against Meta [ [PDF]] claim that Meta has squashed its streaming dreams in order to appease one of its biggest ad customers: Netflix. [PDF] <https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Klein-v.-Meta-Platfo…> Facebook allegedly gave Netflix creepy privileges ────────────────────────────────────────────────── [...] The letter, made public Saturday, asks a court to have Reed Hastings, Netflix's founder and former CEO, respond to a subpoena for documents that plaintiffs claim are relevant to the case. The original complaint filed in December 2020 [ [PDF]] doesn't mention Netflix beyond stating that Facebook “secretly signed Whitelist and Data sharing agreements” with Netflix, along with “dozens” of other third-party app developers. The case is still ongoing. [...] The litigation claims the companies formed a lucrative business relationship that included Facebook allegedly giving Netflix access to Facebook users' private messages: By 2013, Netflix had begun entering into a series of “Facebook Extended API” agreements, including a so-called “Inbox API” agreement that allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook's users' private message inboxes, in exchange for which Netflix would “provide to FB a written report every two weeks that shows daily counts of recommendation sends and recipient clicks by interface, initiation surface, and/or implementation variant (e.g., Facebook vs. non-Facebook recommendation recipients). … In August 2013, Facebook provided Netflix with access to its so-called “Titan API,” a private API that allowed a whitelisted partner to access, among other things, Facebook users' “messaging app and non-app friends." Meta [said] it rolled out end-to-end encryption "for all personal chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook" in December. And in 2018, Facebook [told Vox] that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," [reported that] Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users' private messages." Facebook has [denied] that it let third-party companies view its users' private messages When reached for comment, a Meta spokesperson declined to comment on specific questions, including why Meta ended Facebook Watch. However, the company rep again denied claims that Facebook let Netflix read its users' private messages. The spokesperson said Facebook's agreement with Netflix only "allowed people to message their friends on Facebook about what they were watching on Netflix, directly from the Netflix app" and that Meta's "confident the facts will show this complaint is meritless." [PDF] <https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/complaint.pdf> [said] <https://about.fb.com/news/2023/12/default-end-to-end-encryption-on-messenge….> [told Vox] <https://www.vox.com/2018/4/11/17177842/facebook-advertising-ads-explained-m…> [reported that] <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/report-facebook-let-companies-g…> [denied] <https://about.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-messaging-partnerships/> Facebook's streaming ambitions ════════════════════════════════ [...] But Facebook Watch never really took off as a full-fledged TV/movie streaming effort à la Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. And in 2023, efforts essentially ended when Facebook [said] it wasn't renewing any Watch shows [...] it seemed plausible that Facebook simply thought it couldn't compete in streaming. At the time, Meta said it was going to focus on making VR experiences instead. [...] The plaintiffs also claimed that after Facebook was confident about having enough budget to license the likes of /Dawson's Creek/ "in competition with Netflix" in 2018, the Watch budget was mysteriously and suddenly slashed by $750 million that same year. Zuckerberg allegedly said via email in May 2018 that the budget changes were based on "knowing what I know today about our strategy and financial outlook." The letter alleges: Despite… protestations, Zuckerberg's abrupt new Watch strategy became policy—Facebook began dismantling the multi-billion dollar original content business it had built over the past two years… Amidst the sudden pivot in Facebook's video strategy, the data partnership between Netflix and Facebook reached new heights. Those new heights included, per the litigation, a new data-sharing agreement in July 2018 and Netflix reaching $200 million in advertising spend with Meta by 2019. [said] <https://deadline.com/2023/04/red-table-talk-canceled-mina-lefevre-exits-fac…> [...] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > Qualcuno oggi ha osservato che, se accedi a Netflix con il tuo account > Facebook, "acconsenti" alla condivisione dei dati. Vedremo che fine farà questa causa. Intanto è sempre più chiaro in cosa consise il "mercato dei fatti vostri" a cui stiamo assistendo [...] Saluti, 380° [1] https://server-nexa.polito.it/pipermail/nexa/2024-April/052414.html (Message-ID: 033accffc13b4e588aec1769583a99c3(a)unipi.it) -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.

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Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
by 380° April 2, 2024

April 2, 2024

Buongiorno, executive summary: «No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public. The general public just doesn't know how this stuff works.» https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/facebook-secretly-spied-on-snap… «Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say» --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [Ashley Belanger] - Mar 27, 2024 8:25 pm UTC Unsealed court documents have revealed more details about a secret Facebook project initially called "Ghostbusters," designed to sneakily access encrypted Snapchat usage data to give Facebook a leg up on its rival, just when Snapchat was experiencing rapid growth in 2016. The documents were filed in a class-action lawsuit from consumers and advertisers, accusing Meta of anticompetitive behavior that blocks rivals from competing in the social media ads market. "Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted, we have no analytics about them," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who has since rebranded his company as Meta) [wrote] in a 2016 email to Javier Olivan. [...] At the time, Olivan was Facebook's head of growth, but now he's Meta's chief operating officer. He responded to Zuckerberg's email saying that he would have the team from Onavo—a [controversial traffic-analysis app] acquired by Facebook in 2013—look into it. [...] What the Onavo team eventually came up with was a project internally known as "Ghostbusters," an obvious reference to Snapchat's logo featuring a white ghost. Later, as the project grew to include other Facebook rivals, including YouTube and Amazon, the project was called the "In-App Action Panel" (IAAP). [...] In an email to Olivan, the Onavo team described the "technical solution" devised to help Zuckerberg figure out how to get reliable analytics about Snapchat users. It worked by "develop[ing] ‘kits' that can be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific sub-domains, allowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can measure in-app usage,” the Onavo team [said]. Olivan was told that these so-called "kits" used a "man-in-the-middle" attack typically employed by hackers to secretly intercept data passed between two parties. Users were recruited by third parties who distributed the kits "under their own branding" so that they wouldn't connect the kits to Onavo unless they used a specialized tool like Wireshark to analyze the kits. TechCrunch [reported] in 2019 that sometimes teens were paid to install these kits. After that report, Facebook promptly shut down the project. This "man-in-the-middle" tactic, consumers and advertisers suing Meta have alleged, "was not merely anticompetitive, but criminal," seemingly violating the Wiretap Act. It was used to snoop on Snapchat starting in 2016, on YouTube from 2017 to 2018, and on Amazon in 2018, relying on creating "fake digital certificates to impersonate trusted Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon analytics servers to redirect and decrypt secure traffic from those apps for Facebook's strategic analysis." Ars could not reach Snapchat, Google, or Amazon for comment. [wrote] <https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscour…> [controversial traffic-analysis app] <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/facebook-pulls-its-privacy-inva…> [noted] <https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/12/12/instagram-stories-already-generat…> [said] <https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscour…> [reported] <https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/%20history%E2%86%9…> Facebook allegedly sought to confuse advertisers ───────────────────────────────────────────────── Not everyone at Facebook supported the IAAP program. "The company's highest-level engineering executives thought the IAAP Program was a legal, technical, and security nightmare," another [court document] said. Pedro Canahuati, then-head of security engineering, warned that incentivizing users to install the kits did not necessarily mean that users understood what they were consenting to. “I can't think of a good argument for why this is okay," Canahuati said. "No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public. The general public just doesn't know how this stuff works.” Mike Schroepfer, then-chief technology officer, argued that Facebook wouldn't want rivals to employ a similar program analyzing their encrypted user data. "If we ever found out that someone had figured out a way to break encryption on [WhatsApp] we would be really upset," Schroepfer said. [...] [According to Business Insider], advertisers suing said that Meta never disclosed its use of Onavo "kits" to "intercept rivals' analytics traffic." This is seemingly relevant to their case alleging anticompetitive behavior in the social media ads market, because Facebook's conduct, allegedly breaking wiretapping laws, afforded Facebook an opportunity to raise its ad rates "beyond what it could have charged in a competitive market." Since the documents were unsealed, Meta has responded with a [court filing] that said: "Snapchat's own witness on advertising confirmed that Snap cannot 'identify a single ad sale that [it] lost from Meta's use of user research products,' does not know whether other competitors collected similar information, and does not know whether any of Meta's research provided Meta with a competitive advantage." This conflicts with testimony from a Snapchat executive, who alleged that the project “hamper[ed] Snap's ability to sell ads" by [causing] "advertisers to not have a clear narrative differentiating Snapchat from Facebook and Instagram.” Both internally and externally, "the intelligence Meta gleaned from this project was described" as "devastating to Snapchat's ads business," a [court filing] said. [court document] <https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscour…> [According to Business Insider] <https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-execs-decrypt-riva…> [court filing] <https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscour…> [causing] <https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscour…> [court filing] <https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscour…> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Tutti i dettagli qui: https://ia802908.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscou… Saluti, 380° -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.

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Turco meccanico al supermercato
by Daniela Tafani April 2, 2024

April 2, 2024

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether. By Maxwell Zeff Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with. Just over half of Amazon Fresh stores are equipped with Just Walk Out. The technology allows customers to skip checkout altogether by scanning a QR code when they enter the store. Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped. Instead, Amazon is moving towards Dash Carts, a scanner and screen that’s embedded in your shopping cart, allowing you to checkout as you shop. These offer a more reliable solution than Just Walk Out. Amazon Fresh stores will also feature self check out counters from now on, for people who aren’t Amazon members. “We’re rolling out Amazon Dash Cart, our smart-shopping carts,” said an Amazon spokesperson to Gizmodo. Amazon confirmed this feature is replacing its Just Walk Out technology in existing stores. Just Walk Out was first introduced in 2016, presenting Amazon’s biggest and boldest innovation in grocery shopping. The technology seemed incredible, but there were some stumbles. It often took hours for customers to receive receipts after leaving the store, largely because offshore cashiers were rewatching videos and assigning items to different customers. The system of scanners and video cameras in each store is also incredibly expensive. According to The Information, 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022. This widely missed Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales. Amazon called this characterization inaccurate, and disputes how many purchases require reviews. “The primary role of our Machine Learning data associates is to annotate video images, which is necessary for continuously improving the underlying machine learning model powering,” said an Amazon spokesperson to Gizmodo. However, the spokesperson acknowledged these associates validate “a small minority” of shopping visits when AI can’t determine a purchase. Amazon Fresh, the e-commerce giant’s grocery store first launched in 2007, has just over 40 locations around the United States. The company also owns Whole Foods, and many of Amazon Fresh’s experiments are seen as precursors for the large chain. The company is reportedly keeping Just Walk Out technology in a small number of Fresh stores in the United Kingdom, and some of its Amazon Go convenience stores. Amazon has also implemented Just Walk Out technology at several ballparks around the country. These locations will keep the technology going. Amazon is trying to further break into the grocery space to grow into another billion-dollar market. Though it owns Whole Foods, the e-commerce giant still doesn’t compete with food goliaths like Walmart, Costco, and Kroger. Amazon’s push away from expensive tests like Just Walk Out may be a sign the company is looking to further expand its presence as a supermarket. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-…

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Apple wouldn’t let Jon Stewart interview FTC Chair Lina Khan, TV host claims | Ars Technica
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 2, 2024

April 2, 2024

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/apple-wouldnt-let-jon-stewart-inter… (messaggio spedito in movimento - scusate brevità ed eventuali refusi)

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Eliminazione dalla newsletter
by Riccardo Zorgno April 2, 2024

April 2, 2024

Buongiorno, potete gentilmente togliermi dalla newsletter? Grazie, Riccardo

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171° Mercoledì di Nexa | 10 aprile 2024, ore 17.00
by Nexa - Media April 2, 2024

April 2, 2024

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi invitiamo a partecipare al 171° Mercoledì di Nexa, che si terrà mercoledì 10 aprile, alle ore 17.00, con un incontro dal titolo "Insolvent. How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability". Ospite dell'incontro: Christoph Becker (University of Toronto). L'incontro si terrà IN PRESENZA e ONLINE. SEDE FISICA dell'incontro: Centro Nexa su Internet e Società, Politecnico di Torino, Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano). Per accedere alla sala si raccomanda di suonare al citofono Portineria e di seguire le indicazioni segnalate lungo il percorso. QUI<https://nexa.polito.it/contatti> maggiori informazioni su come raggiungerci. STANZA VIRTUALE dell'incontro: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent Di seguito maggiori dettagli: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-171 Cordiali saluti, -- Valeria Bergantino Communication Officer Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 65/A - 10138 Torino web: https://nexa.polito.it/ mail: valeria.bergantino(a)polito.it<mailto:valeria.bergantino@polito.it> tel: 3473443585

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EU Commission's use of Microsoft software breached privacy rules, watchdog says | Reuters
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 2, 2024

April 2, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-commissions-use-microsoft-software-br… (messaggio spedito in movimento - scusate brevità ed eventuali refusi)

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