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Job Advice, Broadband Fiber, Privacy, Security, Health, Bitcoin
JOB ADVICE
Q: This question comes up a lot. How do you respond when a company asks for your previous salary or expected salary when you don’t want to give out a number?
A: @blenster Tell them they don’t need to compete with the company that’s losing you; they need to compete with the other companies trying to gain you.
BROADBAND – FIBER
5/16/2021 This morning, California Governor @GavinNewsom unveiled an audacious budget whose crown jewel is a plan to pump $7B into medium-haul fiber links that will link every community in the state, no matter how remote or rural. The plan uses state money to bring fiber to the town limits, then creates a pool of low- cost, long-term loans – repayable over 30-40 years – that local governments tap to build their local fiber grids, according to their local needs, under local management and ownership.
- California Budget Summary, pg. 165 (p. 169 in pdf page numbering)
- Link to EFF report
- Cory Doctorow summary
Stagg Newman of the FCC Broadband discussion with the Educational CyberPlayground.
I hope you’re proud of yourselves.” BROADBAND GCHQ’s BEYOND
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/Broadband.html
K12 E-rate Education SuperHighway enables high-speed Internet in every classroom. every classroom. EducationSuperHighway.com AFFORDABLE BROADBAND
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/E-rate.html
Educational CyberPlayGround: Digital Divide/Equity Articles, Wireless Networks…
Web pages, photos or video.” Interactive National Broadband Map
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/digitaldividearticles.html
Educational CyberPlayGround: Communal Broadband Neighbors sharing high speed…
Find Communal Broadband Neighbors sharing high speed interet
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/CommunalBroadband.html
Educational CyberPlayGround: WIFI Wireless Wide Area Networks for School…
An 802.16e specification for broadband mobility is also in the
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Crystal_Radio7.html
Universal Telephone Service: telco tricks do not provide telephone or broadband…
This is a critical utility.” Moving to wireless broadband “
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/telephone.html
Educational CyberPlayGround: INTERNET II News Articles
Internet2 and two days over a typical home broadband line.
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/InternetII-NEWS_ARTICLE_ON_INTERNET_1.html
Educational CyberPlayGround: Internet Pioneers Discuss Net Neutrality Issues.
Comcast’s broadband comes with some fine print: data caps.
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/Net-Neutrality.html
Internet Radio Signal Pioneers
As a not-for-profit community-owned broadband provider, our
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Crystal_Radio_kits_online!-Pioneers.html
Educational CyberPlayGround Inc. presents the Future of the Internet.
Internet firms, not just broadband ISPs. We oppose, however,
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/internet_future.html
THE HISTORY OF THE INTERENT: AND THERE IS ALWAYS MUCH MORE CURATED CONTENT THAT HAS BEEN ADDED OVER THE PAST 28 YEARS!
PRIVACY
WhatsApp will gradually stop you calling or messaging contacts if you don’t agree to its new privacy policy. DUMP WhatsApp immediately if you haven’t done this already.
Amazon’s Sidewalk Network Is Turned On by Default. Here’s How to Turn It Off
The company’s Sidewalk mesh network goes live June 8. The good news is that you can turn it off.
Why cybercriminals looking to steal personal info are using text messages as bait. With more people using their smartphones to make payments and many banks and utilities verifying users’ accounts through text messages, the fraud floodgates have opened.
Vizio TV buyers are becoming the product Vizio sells, not just its customers.
There is Nothing Private about Switzerland
Swiss spy chief exits after reports of row over CIA-linked firm
Switzerland’s spy chief will leave his post, the government said on Wednesday, after a newspaper reported he had fallen out with the defence minister over his handling of a scandal involving a cryptography firm linked to the CIA.
For decades, the Swiss company sold encryption devices while being secretly owned by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Germany’s intelligence service, which could freely read what it encrypted.
But new details emerged in early 2020 when Swiss authorities said they were investigating reports that the CIA and the German BND spy service had used Crypto’s encryption technology to crack other nations’ top-secret messages, stirring an outcry in officially neutral Switzerland.
SECURITY
President Signs Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Protect Federal Government Networks. Biden signs executive order designed to strengthen federal digital defenses
Explains
Colonial Pipeline paid $5 million in ransom to get its systems back online.
The company paid the hefty ransom in untraceable cryptocurrency within hours after the attack, underscoring the immense pressure faced by the Georgia-based operator to get gasoline and jet fuel flowing again to major cities.
HEALTH
Everytime the HIPAA lawyers are called upon to correct someone who is wrong
@JulesPolonetsky May 16
https://twitter.com/JulesPolonetsky/status/1393974755255111685
Remember: HIPPA is a health privacy pretend law that exists on Twitter only.
It protects any information about health, like if a business asks your vaccination status. Or if a politician steered fast COVID tests to supporters/family.
‘HIPAA” on the other hand is the actual US law that applies to doctors, health insurance, pharmacies (and other covered entities) restricting who and how they can share or use certain information like your medical record, conversations with a doctor, billing information.
Summary – fake law, HIPPA.
In US “health information” is not protected, unless actually covered by HIPAA.
Caveat: New California law gives an opt-out right for sale (and some inconsistent secondary uses) and VA law has an opt-in) for broad health information. (scope yet unclear)
Sure “HIPPA” is fake but there are literally tens of thousands of government documents that reference “HIPPA” but not “HIPAA” – the confusion around “covered entities” & it being written to encourage electronic transfers notwithstanding, a unique problem!
https://twitter.com/thezedwards/status/1393977689594241025
fake law
https://twitter.com/thezedwards/status/1393985404861239296
https://twitter.com/thezedwards/status/1393985404861239296/photo/3
Insurer AXA hit by ransomware after dropping support for ransom payments
Branches of insurance giant AXA based in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have been struck by a ransomware cyber attack.
As seen by BleepingComputer yesterday, the Avaddon ransomware group claimed on their leak site that they had stolen 3 TB of sensitive data from AXA’s Asian operations.
Additionally, BleepingComputer observed an ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) against AXA’s global websites making them inaccessible for some time yesterday.
The compromised data obtained by Avaddon, according to the group, includes customer medical reports (exposing their sexual health diagnosis), copies of ID cards, bank account statements, claim forms, payment records, contracts, and more.
The announcement from the group comes roughly a week after AXA stated that they would be dropping reimbursement for ransomware extortion payments when underwriting cyber-insurance policies in France.
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BITCOIN
University of Pennsylvania Receives Largest Cryptocurrency Gift in the University’s History to Support Innovation in Finance at the Wharton School
NYDIG @NYDIG_BTC
We’re honored to facilitate the largest gift in the form of #Bitcoin for the University of Pennsylvania. This commitment will support program growth and student leadership opportunities within the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance at @Wharton
I think we will see a lot more of this.
If you think bitcoin uses a lot of energy, wait until you hear that “always-on” devices in America, like the TV you’re not watching right now, use 12x more.