IOT SECURITY
CMU’s Mary Shaw: Software engineering must go beyond ‘frontier mentality’ https://www.qatar.cmu.edu/news/mary-shaw/
Hackers Could Steal a Tesla Model S by Cloning Its Key Fob—Again
https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-steal-tesla-model-s-key-fob-encryption/
Five vendors accounted for 24.1% of vulnerabilities in 2019 so far – Help Net Security
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2019/08/26/vulnerabilities-first-half-2019/
Cyber-ITL IoT data dump and analysis is posted! 15 years of data: no positive trends from any one vendor Security hygiene got worse more often than better 22 Vendors 1,294 Products 4,956 Versions 3,333,411 Binaries Dates: 2003 to 2019
https://cyber-itl.org/2019/08/26/iot-data-writeup.html https://twitter.com/dotMudge/status/1166025453347528705
Sex Rings
Android co-founder Andy Rubin accused of cheating wife out of fortune while running a sex ring – Complaint filed in San Mateo County CA
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/2/20680145/android-andy-rubin-accused-cheating-fortune-sex-ring
Trump-Epstein Rape Of 13 Year Old Girl Allegations (Court Filings)
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/trump-epstein-rape-of-13-year-old-girl-allegations-court-filings/
Katie Johnson vs. Trump and Epstein: Case 5:16-cv-00797-DMG-KS
http://poli-anthro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/trump-rape-pedofile-court-doc.pdf
Music
Federal Register :: Public Inspection: Designation of Music Licensing Collective and Digital Licensee Coordinator
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/07/08/2019-14376/designation-of-music-licensing-collective-and-digital-licensee-coordinator
A New Experience for Artists and Fans – fanmix
https://medium.com/fanmix/a-new-experience-for-artists-and-fans-c7d3e42b5787
Working towards a universal music database: Alan Cross
https://globalnews.ca/news/5460317/universal-music-database-alan-cross/
EDUCATION
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) annual report, compares education systems in 36 member countries and a number of partner countries using a range of indicators, such as student participation and achievement, public and private spending, conditions for students and educators, and the state of lifelong learning. http://www.oecd.org/education/education-at-a-glance/EAG2019_CN_USA.pdf
Key Facts for the United States in Education at a Glance 2019 page 8
- Gender gaps in education and employment persist
- Enrolment in early childhood education and care in the U.S. is lower than the OECD despite increasing awareness of its importance.
- Teachers’ salaries are relatively low in comparison to salaries of tertiary-educated workers, but there are stronger financial incentives for school heads.
Fewer 25- to 34-year-olds in the United States pursue education beyond the bachelor’s degree than in many other OECD countries. Only 11% of young adults have attained a master’s or doctorate compared to 15% on average across OECD countries (Figure 1). Although tuition fees for master programmes in public institutions in the United States are the highest across OECD countries with data, the relative earnings advantage of a higher degree is larger in the United States than in most other countries. On
average, adults with a master’s or doctoral qualification earn 131% more than those with upper secondary education (OECD average: 91%).
OECD (2019), Education at a Glance Database, http://stats.oecd.org.
Annex 3 for notes
https://doi.org/10.1787/f8d7880d-en
OECD (2019), Education at a Glance 2019: OECD indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris,
https://doi.org/10.1787/f8d7880d-en
OECD (2019), OECD Regional Statistics (database)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/region-data-en. [2]
For more information on Education at a Glance 2019 and to access the full set of Indicators, visit
https://www.oecd.org/education/education-at-a-glance-19991487.htm
Updated data can be found on line at http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/eag-data-en and by following the under the tables and charts in the publication.
How Predatory Capitalism Made America the World’s Dumbest Country (Why) The Best Way Exploit a Society is to Get it to Exploit Itself https://eand.co/how-capitalism-made-america-the-worlds-dumbest-country-ed33f15d1100
So. How did it happen? How did we become the dumbest country in the world? I think the reason is hidden in plain sight. The incentives for knowledge and thoughtfulness and reason and and decency have been corroded and corrupted — so much so that they’ve turned upside down. Hence, what “dumb” means precisely is that capitalism has made societies that don’t even need to exploited anymore — they are too busy exploiting themselves.
Let me explain all that.
How much does a teacher make? Barely enough to earn a decent middle class living. I read the other day that teachers are paying an average of about $500 from their own pockets…because our educational system is so impoverished. But that’s money they can scarcely afford to begin with. How much does a professor make? The ugly truth is that our higher education system is full of “adjunct” professors — aka intelligent people who’ve studied long and hard to earn PhDs…but are something like the Uber drivers of academia…earning minimum wage or less for piecework. Do you see the theme yet? We undervalue knowledge as a society profoundly, systemically, chronically, catastrophically.
But that’s hardly all. If we undervalue knowledge, how can there be any accountability or responsibility for truth versus falsehood, wrong versus right, reason versus folly, wisdom over sheer idiocy? When we undervalue knowledge — the real thing — we must also be overvaluing puffery, folly, stupidity, and superficiality, to put it bluntly.
Hello and welcome to the nightly news! //snip
Stanislav Petrov, ‘The Man Who Saved The World,’ Dies At 77
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/18/551792129/stanislav-petrov-the-man-who-saved-the-world-dies-at-77
“There was no rule about how long we were allowed to think before we reported a strike,” Petrov told the BBC. “But we knew that every second of procrastination took away valuable time, that the Soviet Union’s military and political leadership needed to be informed without delay. All I had to do was to reach for the phone; to raise the direct line to our top commanders — but I couldn’t move. I felt like I was sitting on a hot frying pan.”
Petrov sensed something wasn’t adding up.
He had been trained to expect an all-out nuclear assault from the U.S., so it seemed strange that the satellite system was detecting only a few missiles being launched. And the system itself was fairly new. He didn’t completely trust it.
Arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis recalled the episode in an interview last December on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2016/12/31/507670065/in-renewed-focus-on-nuclear-deterrence-nonproliferation-expert-recalls-a-close-c
“[Petrov] just had this feeling in his gut that it wasn’t right. It was five missiles. It didn’t seem like enough. So even though by all of the protocols he had been trained to follow, he should absolutely have reported that up the chain of command and, you know, we should be talking about the great nuclear war of 1983 if any of us survived.”
After several nerve-jangling minutes, Petrov didn’t send the computer warning to his superiors. He checked to see if there had been a computer malfunction.
He had guessed correctly.