Can you ever trust "The Cloud"?...


Photo 'memories' storage biz Ever uses family snaps to train facial recognition AI

You mean you didn't read the 2,566-word privacy policy?

Millions of images stored by Ever, a photo album app, are being used to sneakily train facial recognition systems...



IT is what we allow it to be...
Martin

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2021? No way Jose
Hmm...
...A Google update corrupts the robots...
...a multiple pile up occurs...
...will the Fire & Rescue vehicles be driven by humans or robots?

Can't happen? Won't happen?

Ask Boeing that question!

Well. The Swedish company Einride is already driving their lorry T-Pod on public roads.
So far only in a short distance and with slow speed though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einride

On November 5th, 2018, Einride launched the first commercial installation of a T-pod at a DB Schenker facility in Jönköping, Sweden. The T-pod will travel continuously to and from a warehouse, paving the way for a sustainable transition of road freight transportation.[8] In May 2019, a T-pod started daily deliveries on a public road there; it is permitted to go at up to 5 km per hour.[9]

Technically, T-pod builds on Nvidia's Drive platform, which processes all sensor data. The vehicle is equipped with radar, lidar and cameras all around the truck. The T-pod has no cab, which gives more space to the cargo, but can be controlled remotely over 5G connection.
https://youtu.be/-wiXYSHJ6LQ

All good & well from manufacturer to distribution centre. What about door to door deliveries in both cities & rural locations?

I think it will take a very long time until we see autonomous cars and lorries on city roads. If ever. Too much information to process that we humans are much better to handle.
But on highways there is not so much happening really , so I think we will see those vehicles quite soon.

I think it will take a very long time until we see autonomous cars and lorries on city roads.

I've encountered a couple, cars, on my drives here in California. So they are here already.

I think it will take a very long time until we see autonomous cars and lorries on city roads.

I've encountered a couple, cars, on my drives here in California. So they are here already.

But aren't those driven by a human as well ready to take control if something goes wrong with the system?

I think it will take a very long time until we see autonomous cars and lorries on city roads.

I've encountered a couple, cars, on my drives here in California. So they are here already.

But aren't those driven by a human as well ready to take control if something goes wrong with the system?

IIRC they now have a few without a steering wheel. I think the ones I saw had a human in them, but I don't know if they were even paying attention to what the car was doing.

Hypocrisy...
...at work

Another step to defend your web browsing from the Wild West of Marketing and worse:


Mozilla Expands Firefox's Myriad Privacy Features

... Enhanced Tracking Protection that blocks third-party tracking cookies by default. Mozilla said the feature will rely on a list of known trackers ... it should result in Firefox automatically blocking thousands of the technological creeps without user intervention...

... [Another] add-on is made simply to prevent Facebook from tracking people's browsing activity...

... updates to the Firefox Lockwise -- nee Lockbox -- password manager and Firefox Monitor...



IT is what we allow it to be...
Martin

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Another step to defend your web browsing from the Wild West of Marketing and worse:

Yet more: To use this site you must allow ads and tracking.

Another step to defend your web browsing from the Wild West of Marketing and worse:

Yet more: To use this site you must allow ads and tracking.

That's the "Tom's Hardware" site... Works fine for me with a large part of their silliness blocked.

And the s@h site appears to be clean enough...

Or what do you see?...


IT is what we allow it to be...
Martin

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A little something scarily bad for your health:


Hacking these medical pumps is as easy as copying a booby-trapped file over the network

Uncle Sam sounds alarm after Windows CE SMB left wide open on hospital equipment

Two security vulnerabilities in medical workstations can exploited by scumbags to hijack the devices and connected infusion pumps, potentially causing harm to patients...

... provides power and network connectivity to infusion and syringe pumps...

... the intruder crafts a Windows Cabinet file (CAB), an archive format used for storing data related to Microsoft Windows drivers and system files, that is booby-trapped with malicious executables.

Here's the heart of the vulnerability: it is possible to update an AGW's firmware over the network without any special privileges or authentication; you just have to copy across a CAB file using Windows SMB. That means the hacker can upload their malicious .CAB to a vulnerable workstation, powered by Windows CE, and the archive will be unpacked by the AGW on its file system, overriding its executables with the intruder's malware or spyware...

... Elad Luz, Head of Research at CyberMDX, stressed the need of everyone involved with medical devices – device makers, hospitals, and technology companies – to commit to cybersecurity in order to ensure patient safety.


Are we long long overdue for medical equipment to be cyber certified?...


All in a very dangerous "USA Wild West" cyberworld...

IT is what we allow it to be...
Martin

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See new freedom: Mageia Linux
Take a look for yourself: Linux Format
The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3)

Are we long long overdue for medical equipment to be cyber certified?

I think we're long overdue for everything to be certified, if it can connect to the internet and/or receive digital updates in any form. Billions of exploitable "Internet of Things" devices are going to come online soon and who knows what they could be leveraged for.

Otherwise...

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It is past time for routers to check the IoT that wants a DHCP IP for the common open crap and perhaps against a security list before they issue an IP to the device.

Target Stores Report Register Outage Causes #TargetApocalypse2019

https://heavy.com/news/2019/06/target-registers-down-how-long-update/

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Big Blue buying Red Hat for Subscription ModelGuess it was bound to happen, pay monthly.

Are your suppliers secure?

An ambitious group of state-backed hackers has been burrowing into telecommunications companies in order to spy on high-profile targets across the world, a U.S. cybersecurity firm said in a report published Tuesday.

Boston-based Cybereason said the tactic gave hackers sweeping access to VIPs’ call records, location data and device information — effectively turning the targets’ cellular providers against them.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-cloudhopper-companies-exc/exclusive-china-hacked-eight-major-computer-services-firms-in-years-long-attack-idUSKCN1TR1D4

LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers working for China’s Ministry of State Security broke into networks of eight of the world’s biggest technology service providers in an effort to steal commercial secrets from their clients, according to sources familiar with the attacks.

A U.S. indictment in December outlined an elaborate operation to steal Western intellectual property in order to advance China’s economic interests but stopped short of naming victim companies. A Reuters report at the time identified two: Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM.

Now, Reuters has found that at least six other technology service providers were compromised: Fujitsu, Tata Consultancy Services, NTT Data, Dimension Data, Computer Sciences Corporation and DXC Technology, HPE’s spun-off services arm.

Reuters has also identified more than a dozen victims who were clients of the service providers. That list includes Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson, U.S. Navy shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries and travel reservation system Sabre.