Seen at InfoSec Europe 2015: Spot your Snowden!John Wallix
If you are IT Operations or CISO, you should heard about Insider Threat and you should have covered already this risk in your organization ... haven't you ? Maybe we can help ... have a look at this presentation.
The document describes slides from a top-secret 2012 GCHQ conference that revealed the British intelligence agency had mounted an online attack on the hacktivist group Anonymous in September 2011. The slides were leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and obtained exclusively by NBC News, who published them with minimal redactions to protect individuals.
This document summarizes cybersecurity policy issues before Congress from 2012-2014 following the Snowden leaks. It discusses key pillars debated in 2012 like critical infrastructure protection and information sharing between government and private sector. In 2013, an executive order focused on voluntary best practices and increased information sharing. The document outlines various cybersecurity bills introduced but not passed. It predicts lame duck issues in the Senate and changes in congressional committee leadership going forward. It also summarizes lessons from a crisis response exercise showing focus on critical infrastructure protection and developing cybersecurity job skills.
This document provides a summary of responses to the Snowden revelations from around the world. It finds that while public perceptions of surveillance have shifted in many countries, tangible reforms have been limited. Two-thirds of experts surveyed reported no significant government measures in response. The UK in particular failed to address issues raised. Media coverage has declined sharply outside the US. Some industry reforms were noted but many experts view them as insufficient. Overall accountability of the global surveillance system remains elusive.
The document discusses various types of automated testing tools that can be used to support software testing. It describes tools for static analysis, test design, test data preparation, test execution, comparison of results, test harnesses, performance testing, debugging, and test management. It also discusses challenges in automating tests, factors that influence the effort required, and considerations for which types of tests should and should not be automated.
The document provides instructions for saving files from a computer to a USB stick in 3 steps: 1) Left click on the file and select "Save As" from the dropdown menu, 2) Double click on the removable disk icon representing the USB stick, and 3) Click "Save" to save the file to the USB stick. It then discusses the portability, storage capacity, durability, and size advantages of USB sticks, as well as some potential downsides like different brands causing problems, risk of loss or damage, and eventual memory degradation.
Seen at InfoSec Europe 2015: Spot your Snowden!John Wallix
If you are IT Operations or CISO, you should heard about Insider Threat and you should have covered already this risk in your organization ... haven't you ? Maybe we can help ... have a look at this presentation.
The document describes slides from a top-secret 2012 GCHQ conference that revealed the British intelligence agency had mounted an online attack on the hacktivist group Anonymous in September 2011. The slides were leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and obtained exclusively by NBC News, who published them with minimal redactions to protect individuals.
This document summarizes cybersecurity policy issues before Congress from 2012-2014 following the Snowden leaks. It discusses key pillars debated in 2012 like critical infrastructure protection and information sharing between government and private sector. In 2013, an executive order focused on voluntary best practices and increased information sharing. The document outlines various cybersecurity bills introduced but not passed. It predicts lame duck issues in the Senate and changes in congressional committee leadership going forward. It also summarizes lessons from a crisis response exercise showing focus on critical infrastructure protection and developing cybersecurity job skills.
This document provides a summary of responses to the Snowden revelations from around the world. It finds that while public perceptions of surveillance have shifted in many countries, tangible reforms have been limited. Two-thirds of experts surveyed reported no significant government measures in response. The UK in particular failed to address issues raised. Media coverage has declined sharply outside the US. Some industry reforms were noted but many experts view them as insufficient. Overall accountability of the global surveillance system remains elusive.
The document discusses various types of automated testing tools that can be used to support software testing. It describes tools for static analysis, test design, test data preparation, test execution, comparison of results, test harnesses, performance testing, debugging, and test management. It also discusses challenges in automating tests, factors that influence the effort required, and considerations for which types of tests should and should not be automated.
The document provides instructions for saving files from a computer to a USB stick in 3 steps: 1) Left click on the file and select "Save As" from the dropdown menu, 2) Double click on the removable disk icon representing the USB stick, and 3) Click "Save" to save the file to the USB stick. It then discusses the portability, storage capacity, durability, and size advantages of USB sticks, as well as some potential downsides like different brands causing problems, risk of loss or damage, and eventual memory degradation.
Database recovery procedures are necessary because failures can occur. There are two options for recovery - restoring from an archived backup and redoing log changes, or using the log to undo unreliable changes if the database is intact. Checkpoints record active transactions and their log positions, allowing recovery to determine which transactions need to be undone or redone after a failure.
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has requested temporary asylum in Russia, creating new challenges for the White House. Snowden said he would continue leaking documents to undermine U.S. interests if allowed to travel freely. While several Latin American countries have offered Snowden asylum, the U.S. is pressuring them in an attempt to prevent Snowden from reaching those countries. The Snowden situation has increased tensions between the U.S. and Russia, as well as other nations supporting Snowden, but most analysts believe it will not cause lasting damage to U.S. foreign policy and relations.
The document discusses John Oliver's interview with Edward Snowden about the upcoming expiration and potential reauthorization of certain Patriot Act provisions related to government surveillance. It provides background on the Patriot Act and Snowden's NSA leaks. Oliver conducted the interview to educate the public on these issues ahead of the June 1 deadline. Snowden revealed that NSA programs collect private citizen photos and data, contrary to their stated terrorism focus. Oliver polled citizens who largely opposed government access to private photos. He also critiqued Snowden for not fully reviewing the NSA documents himself before releasing them.
Snowden & Assange
Right to Privacy vs Collective Security
Edward Snowden leaked classified NSA documents about undisclosed US government surveillance programs. He believes individuals have a right to privacy that was being violated. The US government considers Snowden's actions espionage and wants him extradited. Julian Assange founded Wikileaks to publish classified media and advocates for transparency in journalism. However, the US also wants to prosecute Assange for espionage. There is an ongoing debate around balancing individual privacy rights with governments' pursuit of collective security through surveillance.
The document discusses several topics related to programming and algorithms:
1. It defines what an algorithm is and provides examples like musical scores, knitting patterns, and recipes.
2. It explains the basic steps in designing an algorithm - analyzing the problem, developing the algorithm, converting it to code, and testing it.
3. It provides a detailed example algorithm for making a cup of tea that is refined in steps.
4. It discusses some basic programming concepts like variables, assignment, declaring variables, and control structures like conditional statements.
The document discusses different types of software testing including component testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. It then provides details on various testing techniques such as functional testing, non-functional testing, structural testing, and confirmation and regression testing. The goal of software testing is to identify defects, verify functionality, and ensure quality.
The Post Snowden World One Year Later: What Has Changed?Christian Dawson
Increased awareness about government surveillance practices has changed the way society understands privacy, values and due process of the law, leaving individuals and businesses unsure about who has access to their private information. The trust of our customers is the currency upon which the Internet economy is built. It's foundation, the Internet infrastructure industry, must collaborate with others who have a stake in its success to show the world that the United States takes privacy seriously. We are already seeing an international backlash to the activities of the NSA as individual countries and regions seek to implement policies that will fragment the Internet into localized networks. This would discount all the principles that have led to our industry's massive success. Now more than ever, we must work together to ensure that significant reforms are made to maintain the open and free nature of the Internet as we know it.
The document summarizes testimonials from several students who participated in the Boston University Upward Bound program. The students describe how the program helped them feel independent and prepared for college. It helped them academically with classes and standardized tests. It also provided tutoring, summer programs on a college campus, field trips, and community service. The overall experience built the students' confidence to pursue their dreams of attending college.
Edward Snowden was born in 1983 in North Carolina to parents who worked for the federal government. He dropped out of high school and in 2013 leaked classified documents about U.S. government surveillance programs. He was charged under the Espionage Act with unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence. Snowden currently lives in Russia after the U.S. revoked his passport and filed charges against him in Virginia, to which he says he is willing to return to serve prison time.
This document summarizes international laws and policies regarding privacy and mass surveillance in the post-Snowden era. It discusses obligations under international human rights law, calls by the UN General Assembly to review surveillance practices, and reports by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights criticizing secret interpretations of law and lack of protections for individuals. The document also reviews data privacy regulations in Europe, debates around data localization, encryption technologies, and concludes that strengthening international law and information security is needed to curb mass surveillance by powerful states.
This document describes SXFS, an encrypted distributed filesystem that allows for easy and secure file sharing. Some key points:
- SXFS uses client-side encryption with AES 256 and file deduplication to securely store and transfer files.
- It provides fault tolerance and scalability by backing the encrypted filesystem with the distributed SX object storage. Additional nodes can be added to increase speed and storage capacity.
- Setup involves installing SXFS on clients and servers, creating a user and volume, and mounting the encrypted filesystem on clients for easy access to shared files.
This presentation is part of the Data Management for the Web course of Politecnico di Milano and is a very small journey into privacy and surveillance in the life after Snowden NSA leak
During World War II, Ireland decided to remain neutral despite pressure from both sides. Ireland did not want to support the UK, which still controlled part of Ireland, or Nazi Germany. While Ireland remained publicly neutral, it also secretly provided weather reports and intelligence to help Allied forces. Some Irish citizens still volunteered to fight or work for the UK during the war. Ireland's neutrality allowed it to avoid direct involvement but also attracted some criticism for not more openly supporting the Allies.
Damian Gordon was a Dutch computer scientist born in 1930 in Rotterdam who received the 1972 Turing Award. He developed several programming language principles including that testing shows presence of bugs but not absence, exhaustive testing is impossible, early testing is important, and defects often cluster in small areas of code. He stressed the importance of risk analysis, test objectives, and regularly updating test cases to find new issues rather than relying on the same cases. Testing approaches must also be tailored to contexts like safety-critical systems versus ecommerce.
Denormalization involves deliberately relaxing normalization rules to introduce redundancy into a database design in order to improve performance when a fully normalized system is unable to meet performance requirements. It may involve combining relations so they remain normalized but contain null values, or leaving relations in second normal form instead of moving to third normal form. While denormalization can speed up retrievals, it often sacrifices flexibility and slows down updates, making implementation more complex. Normalization is still important, but denormalization may be used after considering performance needs versus these tradeoffs.
The table ranks 10 features of a traffic light system based on their likelihood of failure and impact of failure, assigning each a priority number. It considers things like the push button, getting the time, turning lights on and off, and sounds. Higher priority numbers indicate features that are more likely to fail or would have a greater impact if they did fail, like correctly sequencing the lights.
Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relation...Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
This document summarizes a research project on digital citizenship and surveillance in the UK after the Snowden leaks. The project has several workstreams analyzing the impact on news media, civil society, policy, and technology. Interviews with civil society groups found that the Snowden leaks confirmed existing suspicions of surveillance and contributed to a sense of "surveillance realism." However, their online behavior and activism was not significantly changed by the leaks. The leaks were seen as contributing to an existing "chilling effect" and spectrum of radicalism within political activism.
The document discusses access control in Python object-oriented programming. It explains that in most languages, attributes and methods can be public, protected, or private, but in Python there is no built-in access control. By convention, prefixing with a single underscore _ indicates internal use only, while double underscore __ makes Python attempt to make it private. The document provides an example SecretString class to demonstrate how attributes prefixed with __ cannot be directly accessed but can still be retrieved by external objects in more complex ways.
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Database recovery procedures are necessary because failures can occur. There are two options for recovery - restoring from an archived backup and redoing log changes, or using the log to undo unreliable changes if the database is intact. Checkpoints record active transactions and their log positions, allowing recovery to determine which transactions need to be undone or redone after a failure.
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has requested temporary asylum in Russia, creating new challenges for the White House. Snowden said he would continue leaking documents to undermine U.S. interests if allowed to travel freely. While several Latin American countries have offered Snowden asylum, the U.S. is pressuring them in an attempt to prevent Snowden from reaching those countries. The Snowden situation has increased tensions between the U.S. and Russia, as well as other nations supporting Snowden, but most analysts believe it will not cause lasting damage to U.S. foreign policy and relations.
The document discusses John Oliver's interview with Edward Snowden about the upcoming expiration and potential reauthorization of certain Patriot Act provisions related to government surveillance. It provides background on the Patriot Act and Snowden's NSA leaks. Oliver conducted the interview to educate the public on these issues ahead of the June 1 deadline. Snowden revealed that NSA programs collect private citizen photos and data, contrary to their stated terrorism focus. Oliver polled citizens who largely opposed government access to private photos. He also critiqued Snowden for not fully reviewing the NSA documents himself before releasing them.
Snowden & Assange
Right to Privacy vs Collective Security
Edward Snowden leaked classified NSA documents about undisclosed US government surveillance programs. He believes individuals have a right to privacy that was being violated. The US government considers Snowden's actions espionage and wants him extradited. Julian Assange founded Wikileaks to publish classified media and advocates for transparency in journalism. However, the US also wants to prosecute Assange for espionage. There is an ongoing debate around balancing individual privacy rights with governments' pursuit of collective security through surveillance.
The document discusses several topics related to programming and algorithms:
1. It defines what an algorithm is and provides examples like musical scores, knitting patterns, and recipes.
2. It explains the basic steps in designing an algorithm - analyzing the problem, developing the algorithm, converting it to code, and testing it.
3. It provides a detailed example algorithm for making a cup of tea that is refined in steps.
4. It discusses some basic programming concepts like variables, assignment, declaring variables, and control structures like conditional statements.
The document discusses different types of software testing including component testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. It then provides details on various testing techniques such as functional testing, non-functional testing, structural testing, and confirmation and regression testing. The goal of software testing is to identify defects, verify functionality, and ensure quality.
The Post Snowden World One Year Later: What Has Changed?Christian Dawson
Increased awareness about government surveillance practices has changed the way society understands privacy, values and due process of the law, leaving individuals and businesses unsure about who has access to their private information. The trust of our customers is the currency upon which the Internet economy is built. It's foundation, the Internet infrastructure industry, must collaborate with others who have a stake in its success to show the world that the United States takes privacy seriously. We are already seeing an international backlash to the activities of the NSA as individual countries and regions seek to implement policies that will fragment the Internet into localized networks. This would discount all the principles that have led to our industry's massive success. Now more than ever, we must work together to ensure that significant reforms are made to maintain the open and free nature of the Internet as we know it.
The document summarizes testimonials from several students who participated in the Boston University Upward Bound program. The students describe how the program helped them feel independent and prepared for college. It helped them academically with classes and standardized tests. It also provided tutoring, summer programs on a college campus, field trips, and community service. The overall experience built the students' confidence to pursue their dreams of attending college.
Edward Snowden was born in 1983 in North Carolina to parents who worked for the federal government. He dropped out of high school and in 2013 leaked classified documents about U.S. government surveillance programs. He was charged under the Espionage Act with unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence. Snowden currently lives in Russia after the U.S. revoked his passport and filed charges against him in Virginia, to which he says he is willing to return to serve prison time.
This document summarizes international laws and policies regarding privacy and mass surveillance in the post-Snowden era. It discusses obligations under international human rights law, calls by the UN General Assembly to review surveillance practices, and reports by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights criticizing secret interpretations of law and lack of protections for individuals. The document also reviews data privacy regulations in Europe, debates around data localization, encryption technologies, and concludes that strengthening international law and information security is needed to curb mass surveillance by powerful states.
This document describes SXFS, an encrypted distributed filesystem that allows for easy and secure file sharing. Some key points:
- SXFS uses client-side encryption with AES 256 and file deduplication to securely store and transfer files.
- It provides fault tolerance and scalability by backing the encrypted filesystem with the distributed SX object storage. Additional nodes can be added to increase speed and storage capacity.
- Setup involves installing SXFS on clients and servers, creating a user and volume, and mounting the encrypted filesystem on clients for easy access to shared files.
This presentation is part of the Data Management for the Web course of Politecnico di Milano and is a very small journey into privacy and surveillance in the life after Snowden NSA leak
During World War II, Ireland decided to remain neutral despite pressure from both sides. Ireland did not want to support the UK, which still controlled part of Ireland, or Nazi Germany. While Ireland remained publicly neutral, it also secretly provided weather reports and intelligence to help Allied forces. Some Irish citizens still volunteered to fight or work for the UK during the war. Ireland's neutrality allowed it to avoid direct involvement but also attracted some criticism for not more openly supporting the Allies.
Damian Gordon was a Dutch computer scientist born in 1930 in Rotterdam who received the 1972 Turing Award. He developed several programming language principles including that testing shows presence of bugs but not absence, exhaustive testing is impossible, early testing is important, and defects often cluster in small areas of code. He stressed the importance of risk analysis, test objectives, and regularly updating test cases to find new issues rather than relying on the same cases. Testing approaches must also be tailored to contexts like safety-critical systems versus ecommerce.
Denormalization involves deliberately relaxing normalization rules to introduce redundancy into a database design in order to improve performance when a fully normalized system is unable to meet performance requirements. It may involve combining relations so they remain normalized but contain null values, or leaving relations in second normal form instead of moving to third normal form. While denormalization can speed up retrievals, it often sacrifices flexibility and slows down updates, making implementation more complex. Normalization is still important, but denormalization may be used after considering performance needs versus these tradeoffs.
The table ranks 10 features of a traffic light system based on their likelihood of failure and impact of failure, assigning each a priority number. It considers things like the push button, getting the time, turning lights on and off, and sounds. Higher priority numbers indicate features that are more likely to fail or would have a greater impact if they did fail, like correctly sequencing the lights.
Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: UK State-Media-Citizen Relation...Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
This document summarizes a research project on digital citizenship and surveillance in the UK after the Snowden leaks. The project has several workstreams analyzing the impact on news media, civil society, policy, and technology. Interviews with civil society groups found that the Snowden leaks confirmed existing suspicions of surveillance and contributed to a sense of "surveillance realism." However, their online behavior and activism was not significantly changed by the leaks. The leaks were seen as contributing to an existing "chilling effect" and spectrum of radicalism within political activism.
The document discusses access control in Python object-oriented programming. It explains that in most languages, attributes and methods can be public, protected, or private, but in Python there is no built-in access control. By convention, prefixing with a single underscore _ indicates internal use only, while double underscore __ makes Python attempt to make it private. The document provides an example SecretString class to demonstrate how attributes prefixed with __ cannot be directly accessed but can still be retrieved by external objects in more complex ways.
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We are not deliberately hiding anything when we
seek out private places for reflection or conversation.
We keep private journals, sing in the privacy of the
shower, and write letters to secret lovers and then
burn them. Privacy is a basic human need.
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Bruce Schneier, Schneier on Security
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