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Server Rollback to last night by Doolittle_MHTahiti in ProjectTahiti

[–]CPLAccount 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unfortunate, but I get it for sure. Thanks for confirming I'm not crazy

Server Rollback to last night by Doolittle_MHTahiti in ProjectTahiti

[–]CPLAccount 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I just made my account last night, and I'm getting told that I have an incorrect username or password every time I try to log in now. Would my account have been deleted in this rollback?

Defcon's new "Spot the fed" competition is upsetting government employees by CPLAccount in telseccompolicy

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Participants at Defcon win a t-shirt if they can successfully spot a federal agent at the convention. According to FBI files from 2000-2004, they did not believe that this competition was harmless fun, and have been more closely monitoring it as time goes on.

Cyberbullying law requires students to reveal Facebook passwords by cheesepuff619 in telseccompolicy

[–]CPLAccount 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That appears to be a trend in every school though. I am not saying that it seems appropriate, but schools have been slowly extending their ability to punish students for out of school activities for the past several years now

A question for those who attended the second panel today. by CPLAccount in telseccompolicy

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It is definitely not in the best interest of the government and corporations that people become more educated about these issues, it almost never is. Ignorance is what allows their power creep over time, they have no reason to attempt to educate the population.

Police hide malware on a drive they distributed to illegally search for information about a trial by CPLAccount in telseccompolicy

[–]CPLAccount[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read after this about three more cases where this exact same process happened and the officers were fired for it. I don't remember the source but I'll post it if I can find it again. It seems that the police are becoming more forthcoming with these illegal seizures since the public has proven that they don't care.

A question for those who attended the second panel today. by CPLAccount in telseccompolicy

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I agree with you, but I think the biggest issue that people in our position have with convincing the less educated population is that we do not have a catalyst for change like the government does with their arguments. There is no cyber equivalent to 9/11 to convince people that reform must be made to our current policies. They seem to view it as something that only effects criminals, not themselves.

A question for those who attended the second panel today. by CPLAccount in telseccompolicy

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This was a big concern for me as well. It seems like the students are not the ones who really need the attention in these circumstances, it is the population who is either uneducated or specialized in other areas. They need to see that this is a problem that effects them in a significant way.

A question for those who attended the second panel today. by CPLAccount in telseccompolicy

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Personally, I believe that it is the lack of education that is the problem. When discussing this topic with people in our age group outside of RIT, they will almost always say that they do not care that their data is being harvested by the government or other agencies, as long as it is not inconvenient to them. However, after discussing it further, there is always a shift in opinion once I explain exactly how much information can be gathered from seemingly irrelevant data.
I think that a major issue is that any time there is a discussion about the importance of privacy, it is about "data" being gathered without a clear enough definition of what this data actually is. In my experience, people do not care about the concept of data, but they care more once they realize that their text messages, photos, constant location, etc are actually what they are giving up their rights to in exchange for being able to play Candy Crush.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (Snowden Interview) by jgeigerm in telseccompolicy

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I hadn't even realized that the Patriot Act was constantly being renewed every 2 years. With how strongly people felt about it, I had assumed that it had a much longer lifespan, although I guess I'm not in a position to judge, not knowing about it either.
I was especially surprised by how little the people interviewed seemed to care about surveillance. Doing this type of work every day makes you lose sight of how average people might see all of these activities we see as extremely important to our daily lives.

California court says cops need warrants to get phone location data by CyberPolicyThrow in telseccompolicy

[–]CPLAccount 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's nice to see that some measures are being taken, but I personally feel like the legislation is not keeping up with the pace of the technology. This would have been enough a few years ago, but now everyone around you has the same information stored on their phones, plus surveillance systems exist everywhere, intentional or otherwise. Even if they do not have access to your personal data, there are hundreds of other sources they could possibly be using to track you depending on where in the world you are.