Re: [nexa] nexa Digest, Vol 126, Issue 39

Oct. 24, 2019

      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"
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On 23/10/2019, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin@polito.it> wrote:
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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
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<
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/35-billion-facial-recognition-la...
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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
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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>
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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
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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

Agata Lo Tauro

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