Ma J.C. DE MARTIN mi manda un video su https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dUgrN9Vqow ? e qualcuno mi aveva sconsigliato... "non si può fare"? :-) Anyway ... Bello! We are trying to implement Novel international... Pluridisciplinary Cultural Event... In Sicily :-) We will let you know... "Si fa quel che si può" Thanks a lot David... http://www.fig.net/organisation/comm// (you are reading in cc.) The Best Ways of Becoming a More Empathetic <https://www.wabisabilearning.com/blog/6-ways-becoming-a-more-empathetic-teacher>Prof.... ??? :-) All the best and take care... Agata Il giorno gio 24 ott 2019 alle ore 08:47 <nexa-request@server-nexa.polito.it> ha scritto:
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1. Re: "Unix 50" (Giacomo Tesio) 2. Facebook must face $35B facial-recognition lawsuit following court ruling | Ars Technica (Alberto Cammozzo) 3. NordVPN, TorGuard, and VikingVPN VPN providers disclose security breaches (Giacomo Tesio) 4. Tribute to the Life of Giovanni Buttarelli - YouTube (J.C. DE MARTIN) 5. The Impact of Machine Learning & AI on Geomatics (Agata Lo Tauro) 6. Inside the Phone Company Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers (Giacomo Tesio) 7. Mind-reading tech: how private companies work to gain access to our brains (Alberto Cammozzo)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:17:27 +0200 From: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> To: "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it> Cc: ego@atrent.it, Nexa <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it> Subject: Re: [nexa] "Unix 50" Message-ID: <CAHL7psGd6WeEUJXhEuiocvqWhO4t_xvDvMg5= jZZJzwW_ZCLoQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
On 23/10/2019, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin@polito.it> wrote:
Preciso solo che - vista l'età - la sua partecipazione sarà da remoto.
Ops... scusate... l'entusiasmo mi ha evidentemente accecato. Sto diventando vecchio... :-)
Rimane comunque una sessione molto interessante.
Giacomo
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:46:29 +0200 From: Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa@zeromx.net> To: Center Nexa <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it> Subject: [nexa] Facebook must face $35B facial-recognition lawsuit following court ruling | Ars Technica Message-ID: <badbff72-caa1-5cf3-70b2-bfd390616847@zeromx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/35-billion-facial-recognition-la...
Facebook's most recent attempt to extricate itself from a potentially landmark lawsuit has come to a dead end, as a federal court declined to hear another appeal to stop the $35 billion class action.
In San Francisco last week, the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit denied Facebook's petition for an en banc hearing in the case. Usually, appeals cases are heard by a panel of three judges out of all the judges who work in a given circuit. An en banc hearing is a kind of appeal in which a much larger group of judges hears a case. In the 9th Circuit, 11 of the 29 judges sit on en banc cases.
Facebook had requested an en banc hearing to appeal the 9th's Circuit's August ruling, in which the court determined that the plaintiffs had standing to sue, even though Facebook's alleged actions did not cause them any quantifiable financial harm. The class-action suit can now move forward. Further Reading Facebook’s new facial recognition feature finds you in untagged photos
Three different Illinois residents filed suit against Facebook back in 2015. The suits, which were eventually rolled together into one single class-action complaint, argue that Facebook's collection of users' faces for tagging purposes violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, a law that requires businesses to gather consent from state residents before their biometric data is collected or used.
The penalty Facebook would face for violating the Illinois law is up to $5,000 for each knowing violation. There are about 7 million Facebook users in Illinois, meaning Facebook could face a maximum fine of around $35 billion if the case goes to trial and the company loses. Facial recognition: Far from flawless
While one tech giant faces a lawsuit over facial recognition that works too well, another is facing criticism over facial recognition that doesn't work well enough.
The Massachusetts branch of the American Civil Liberties Union this week released the results of a test it ran on Amazon's Rekognition software, in which it mistakenly matched many New England professional athletes to mugshots from a database. The ACLU compared images of 188 athletes from the Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, Boston Red Sox, and New England Patriots teams against a database of about 20,000 public arrest photos. The ACLU found that 27 of the athletes, more than 14%, were falsely identified in the mugshots.
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:30:48 +0200 From: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it Subject: [nexa] NordVPN, TorGuard, and VikingVPN VPN providers disclose security breaches Message-ID: < CAHL7psH0DnHo7zeBEMdr5V_2M3_KaKHsLAfnKtvfp7N73mypgQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/92808/hacking/nordvpn-torguard-vikingvp...
NordVPN and TorGuard VPN firms were hacked, threat actors leaked the private keys used to secure their web servers and VPN configuration files.
Hackers have breached the systems used by NordVPN and TorGuard VPN companies and leaked the private keys used to secure their web servers and VPN configuration files.
The information belonging to the NordVPN company that was leaked online were stolen from the server of the VPN provider last year. [...]
A bigger problem was that they weren't practicing secure PKI management because the CA private key was stupidly on the same server. With that private key, an attacker could easily generate their own server cert/key and MiTM any other server. [...]
The keys could be used for a man-in-the-middle attack. In addition, it can be assumed that the attacker was able to access traffic during the hack. [...]
“A few months ago, we became aware that, on March 2018, one of the datacenters in Finland we had been renting our servers from was accessed with no authorization.” reads the statement published by the VPN provider. “The attacker gained access to the server by exploiting an insecure remote management system left by the datacenter provider. We were unaware that such a system existed. [...]
The incident also impacted other VPN providers using the same data center, such as VikingVPN and TorGuard.
TorGuard was the only VPN provider of the three impacted by the incident to be implementing secure PKI management this means that its main CA key was not on the affected VPN server.
Giacomo
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Message: 4 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 19:54:14 +0200 From: "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it> To: Center Nexa <nexa@server-nexa.polito.it> Subject: [nexa] Tribute to the Life of Giovanni Buttarelli - YouTube Message-ID: <3193909C-A6F5-4BDA-8102-B7A4F86A31C9@polito.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dUgrN9Vqow
(Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))
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Message: 5 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:58:52 +0200 From: Agata Lo Tauro <agatalotauro@gmail.com> To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it Subject: [nexa] The Impact of Machine Learning & AI on Geomatics Message-ID: <CAF0XQCSDU6N3OAutTFmiXPp7RLcBJW= Ff6G+5YPOT8TKTYCUsg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
The Impact of Machine Learning & AI on Geomatics
https://gogeomatics.ca/the-impact-of-machine-learning-ai-on-geomatics/
PS_perdonate, spesso scrivo velocemente e non faccio caso agli orrori di spelling... etc, sorry! :-)
Cari saluti a voi tutti, Agata