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Biennale Tecnologia
by Antonio Iacono Nov. 16, 2020

Nov. 16, 2020

Complimenti a Juan Carlos De Martin, a Luca De Biase e a quanti hanno permesso l'ottima riuscita della manifestazione. La formula del "virtuale" funziona e, forse, sarà l'unica cosa buona che questa pandemia ci lascerà (perché sullo smart-working ho seri dubbi che possa diventare il modo di lavorare del futuro). Ho assistito a diversi interventi, a volte, quando erano in contemporanea, facendo zapping come sul televisore, talmente tanto era l'interesse verso gli argomenti trattati e la qualità dei relatori. Eviterò, per non bloccare la lista su commenti personali, di prenderli in esame (ma mi auguro che nei prossimi giorni se ne continui a parlare), permettetemi solo due parole sulla lezione magistrale di apertura di Bruce Sterling. Immagino la reazione del pubblico alla sua "proposta", nel finale dell'intervento, di ricostruire la torre civica medioevale ("con tutti i problemi che abbiamo"). E inutile dire (da appassionato di Storia) che a me la proposta è piaciuta. E non poteva che venire da un "visionario", da uno scrittore di fantascienza. Perché il visionario non è solo colui che immagina un mondo fatto di dischi volanti e cyborg ma chi pensa un futuro diverso dagli altri. E, in questo momento particolare, Bruce nel futuro ci vede il passato, il passato glorioso, il passato che, all'Italia, tutto il mondo invidia. E ad un futuro diverso guarda pure Enrico Giovannini, ci vede un futuro sostenibile. Già, bella parola sostenibilità, peccato che, così come per Bruce Sterling, a molti, pressati dal presente, schiacciati dall'emergenza, non provoca nessuna riflessione. Giovannini è stato anche ministro ma credo che anche lì non l'abbiano capito in tanti. La frase di De Gasperi: "I politici guardando alle prossime elezioni, gli statisti guardano alle future generazioni" ormai la citano tutti ma ... Eppure, quello di concentrarci sul presente è un errore che facciamo anche noi. Non passa giorno senza una news sui GAFAM, oggi Apple, ieri Google, domani Amazon o Facebook, per non parlare della sempreverde Microsoft. E, se per un attimo, facessimo finta che non esistano? Antonio Iacono

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Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn't Yours
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 16, 2020

Nov. 16, 2020

<https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/> Your Computer Isn't Yours 12 November 2020 It’s here. It happened. Did you notice? I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman predicted in 1997. The one Cory Doctorow also warned us about. On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored. It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it. Lots of people didn’t realize this, because it’s silent and invisible and it fails instantly and gracefully when you’re offline, but today the server got really slow and it didn’t hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone’s apps failed to open if they were connected to the internet. Because it does this using the internet, the server sees your IP, of course, and knows what time the request came in. An IP address allows for coarse, city-level and ISP-level geolocation, and allows for a table that has the following headings: Date, Time, Computer, ISP, City, State, Application Hash Apple (or anyone else) can, of course, calculate these hashes for common programs: everything in the App Store, the Creative Cloud, Tor Browser, cracking or reverse engineering tools, whatever. This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel on a trip to another city. “Who cares?” I hear you asking. [...]

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Re: [nexa] a quando gmail e il search? Come June 1, 2021, all of your new photos will count against your free Google storage | TechCrunch
by Giuseppe Attardi Nov. 15, 2020

Nov. 15, 2020

> On 13 Nov 2020, at 20:05, nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it wrote: > >> On 13/11/2020 18:54, gabriele elia wrote: >> Uu segnale che i GAFAM [...] incominciano a passare da un modello in perdita, con >> piccoli ricavi da pubblicità > > PICCOLI RICAVI DA PUBBLICITÀ? > > Ehm... boh... non so da dove cominciare… Le entrate di Google sono $161 miliardi, di cui il 71% dalla pubblicità. 99% dei ricavi di Facebook, $71 miliardi, sono dalla pubblicità. — Beppe

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Re: [nexa] Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn't Yours
by Giuseppe Attardi Nov. 15, 2020

Nov. 15, 2020

Ogni volta che iOS si aggiorna, il setup chiede se voglio mandare informazioni d’uso, diagnostiche a Apple. Io rispondo sempre no. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202100 — Beppe > On 15 Nov 2020, at 09:44, nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it wrote: > > Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:53:31 +0100 > From: Stefano Quintarelli <stefano(a)quintarelli.it <mailto:stefano@quintarelli.it>> > To: Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa(a)zeromx.net <mailto:ac+nexa@zeromx.net>>, Nexa > <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it <mailto:nexa@server-nexa.polito.it>> > Subject: Re: [nexa] Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn't Yours > Message-ID: <1199381c-9974-86ea-42e3-30b73132805d(a)quintarelli.it <mailto:1199381c-9974-86ea-42e3-30b73132805d@quintarelli.it>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > ciao, > non c'e' un setting nel sistema operativo per dire "non mandare info a > apple" ? > ciao, s. > > On 14/11/2020 22:31, Alberto Cammozzo via nexa wrote: >> <https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/ <https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/> >> <https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/ <https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/>>> >> >> Your Computer Isn't Yours >> 12 November 2020 >> >> >> It?s here. It happened. Did you notice? >>

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"How Digitalization Is Preparing a Fight for World Market Supremacy"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 15, 2020

Nov. 15, 2020

*How Digitalization Is Preparing a Fight for World Market Supremacy** * By Peter Schadt Hans Zobel /With US hegemony in decline, China and the European Union are each vying to impose their own leadership over the next wave of digitalization. Donald Trump's talk of "America First" expressed this rivalry in especially crude terms — but even after his departure, the contest among the main world powers is only intensifying./ […] Continua qui: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/digitalization-european-union-market-us-chin…

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a quando gmail e il search? Come June 1, 2021, all of your new photos will count against your free Google storage | TechCrunch
by gabriele elia Nov. 13, 2020

Nov. 13, 2020

Uu segnale che i GAFAM dopo aver fatto terra bruciata della concorrenza incominciano a passare da un modello in perdita, con piccoli ricavi da pubblicità, potrebbero passare a un modello classico di payment da parte dell’utilizzatore finale? Chi ha le foto fatte sul cellulare e automaticamente archiviate su google rinuncierà alla comodità del servizio solo per pochi euro al mese? Secondo me è un esperimento, il prossimo passo sarà farci pagare gmail (dopo aver distrutto il mercsto dell’email privato a pagamento) e poi e poi e poi … Ciao! g https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/11/google-cuts-back-on-its-free-storage-get-…. Come June 1, 2021, all of your new photos will count against your free Google storage Frederic Lardinois<https://techcrunch.com/author/frederic-lardinois/>@fredericl<https://twitter.com/fredericl> / 7:00 PM GMT+1•November 11, 2020 Comment Image Credits: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Come June 1, 2021, Google <https://crunchbase.com/organization/google> will change its storage policies for free accounts — and not for the better. Basically, if you’re on a free account and a semi-regular Google Photos user, get ready to pay up next year and subscribe to Google One<https://one.google.com/>. Currently, every free Google account comes with 15 GB of online storage for all your Gmail, Drive and Photos needs. Email and the files you store in Drive already counted against those 15 GB, but come June 1, all Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms or Jamboard files will count against the free storage as well. Those tend to be small files, but what’s maybe most important here, virtually all of your Photos uploads will now count against those 15 GB as well. That’s a big deal because today, Google Photos lets you store unlimited images<https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroi…> (and unlimited video, if it’s in HD) for free as long as they are under 16MP in resolution or you opt to have Google degrade the quality. Come June of 2021, any new photo or video uploaded in high quality, which currently wouldn’t count against your allocation, will count against those free 15 GB. #end TIM - Uso Interno - Tutti i diritti riservati.

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Moscow’s facial recognition system can be hijacked for just $200, report shows - The Verge
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 13, 2020

Nov. 13, 2020

<https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/11/21561018/moscows-facial-recognition-sys…> A digital rights activist in Moscow was able to purchase access to the city’s extensive facial recognition system for just 16,000 rubles (approximately $200), as reported by the Thomson Reuters Foundation <https://news.trust.org/item/20201109090922-3k4a5/>. After seeing ads for the service on Telegram, Anna Kuznetsova transferred the money along with a picture of herself to a seller. Two days later, she received an extensive report of her movements over the previous month, apparently pulled directly from the police system. Spanning more than 100,000 cameras across the city, Moscow’s facial recognition system is meant to be restricted to law enforcement. It’s unclear how the seller was able to secure access, whether through bribery or a digital intrusion. Two officers were placed under investigation in the wake of the incident, but Kuznetsova has filed a lawsuit aimed at pausing the program until clearer procedures are set. As Kuznetsova sees it, the system poses a clear danger to the public as long as it’s available. “Any crazy guy can stalk you using this; criminals can check when and where you go and steal from your apartment or hurt you,” she told /Reuters/. “Anything can happen.” Moscow police rolled out facial recognition in January <https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/30/21115119/moscow-live-facial-recognition-…>, and while their system is one of the more extensive city-level efforts, it’s far from the only one. In July, Rite Aid was revealed to have used facial recognition across a network of hundreds of stores <https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21345185/rite-aid-facial-recognition-sur…> for more than eight years, intended as a deterrent against theft and violent crime. A number of US cities have banned facial recognition by public agencies in response to those concerns, including San Francisco, Boston, and (most recently) Portland, Maine <https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/4/21536892/portland-maine-facial-recogniti…>.

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HOW COVID-19-RELATED CRIME INFECTED EUROPE DURING 2020
by don Luca Peyron Nov. 12, 2020

Nov. 12, 2020

Il report di Europol molto interessante, molti crimini legati agli interessi di questa lista. Buona lettura dl https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-documents/how-covid-19-related-c… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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italiche buone nuove
by don Luca Peyron Nov. 12, 2020

Nov. 12, 2020

La società automatizzata: la diffusione degli ADM in Italia Buona lettura dl https://privacy-network.it/la-societa-automatizzata-la-diffusione-degli-adm… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
by Giacomo Tesio Nov. 12, 2020

Nov. 12, 2020

"[S]ince at least 2016, Zoom misled users by touting that it offered 'end-to-end, 256-bit encryption' to secure users' communications, when in fact it provided a lower level of security," the FTC said today in the announcement of its complaint against Zoom and the tentative settlement. Despite promising end-to-end encryption, the FTC said that "Zoom maintained the cryptographic keys that could allow Zoom to access the content of its customers' meetings, and secured its Zoom Meetings, in part, with a lower level of encryption than promised." The FTC complaint says that Zoom claimed it offers end-to-end encryption in its June 2016 and July 2017 HIPAA compliance guides, which were intended for health-care industry users of the video conferencing service. Zoom also claimed it offered end-to-end encryption in a January 2019 white paper, in an April 2017 blog post, and in direct responses to inquiries from customers and potential customers, the complaint said. "In fact, Zoom did not provide end-to-end encryption for any Zoom Meeting that was conducted outside of Zoom's 'Connecter' product (which are hosted on a customer's own servers), because Zoom's servers—including some located in China—maintain the cryptographic keys that would allow Zoom to access the content of its customers' Zoom Meetings," the FTC complaint said. [...] The settlement is supported by the FTC's Republican majority, but Democrats on the commission objected because the agreement doesn't provide compensation to users. "Today, the Federal Trade Commission has voted to propose a settlement with Zoom that follows an unfortunate FTC formula," FTC Democratic Commissioner Rohit Chopra said. "The settlement provides no help for affected users. It does nothing for small businesses that relied on Zoom's data protection claims. And it does not require Zoom to pay a dime. The Commission must change course." [...] "The ZoomOpener Web server allowed Zoom to automatically launch and join a user to a meeting by bypassing an Apple Safari browser safeguard that protected users from a common type of malware," the FTC said. "Without the ZoomOpener Web server, the Safari browser would have provided users with a warning box, prior to launching the Zoom app, that asked users if they wanted to launch the app." The software "increased users' risk of remote video surveillance by strangers" and "remained on users' computers even after they deleted the Zoom app, and would automatically reinstall the Zoom app—without any user action—in certain circumstances," Continua su: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/zoom-lied-to-users-about-end-to… Giacomo

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