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Volume 32 : Issue 189 : "text" Format
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 23:50:40 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Judge Sets Restrictions for Apple on E-Books
Message-ID: <p0624083cce5050b564d5@[10.0.1.11]>
Judge Sets Restrictions for Apple on E-Books
By JULIE BOSMAN
September 6, 2013
As punishment for engaging in an e-book price-fixing conspiracy,
Apple will be forced to abide by new restrictions on its agreements
with publishers and be evaluated by an external "compliance officer"
for two years, a federal judge has ruled.
But the judge, Denise L. Cote of Federal District Court in Manhattan,
rejected some of the measures sought by the Justice Department,
including extensive government oversight over Apple's App Store.
In a filing this week, Judge Cote issued her final ruling on the
penalties to be imposed on Apple after the long-running lawsuit
against the technology giant filed by the Justice Department in April
2012.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/07/business/media/judge-sets-final-restrictions-for-apple-on-e-books.html
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 23:50:40 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Legislation Seeks to Bar N.S.A. Tactic in Encryption
Message-ID: <p06240836ce504c8d6b84@[10.0.1.11]>
Legislation Seeks to Bar N.S.A. Tactic in Encryption
By SCOTT SHANE and NICOLE PERLROTH
September 6, 2013
After disclosures about the National Security Agency's stealth
campaign to counter Internet privacy protections, a congressman has
proposed legislation that would prohibit the agency from installing
"back doors" into encryption, the electronic scrambling that protects
e-mail, online transactions and other communications.
Representative Rush D. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat who is also a
physicist, said Friday that he believed the N.S.A. was overreaching
and could hurt American interests, including the reputations of
American companies whose products the agency may have altered or
influenced.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/07/us/politics/legislation-seeks-to-bar-nsa-tactic-in-encryption.html
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 23:50:40 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: F.T.C. Says Webcam's Flaw Put Users' Lives on Display
Message-ID: <p0624083ece50518a96da@[10.0.1.11]>
F.T.C. Says Webcam's Flaw Put Users' Lives on Display
By EDWARD WYATT
September 4, 2013
WASHINGTON - The so-called Internet of Things - digitally connected
devices like appliances, cars and medical equipment - promises to
make life easier for consumers. But regulators are worried that some
products may be magnets for hackers.
On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission took its first action to
protect consumers from reckless invasions of privacy, penalizing a
company that sells Web-enabled video cameras for lax security
practices.
According to the F.T.C., the company, TRENDnet, told customers that
its products were "secure," marketing its cameras for home security
and baby monitoring. In fact, the devices were compromised. The
commission said a hacker in January 2012 exploited a security flaw
and posted links to the live feeds, which "displayed babies asleep in
their cribs, young children playing and adults going about their
daily lives."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/technology/ftc-says-webcams-flaw-put-users-lives-on-display.html
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 23:50:40 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web
Message-ID: <p0624083dce505100765b@[10.0.1.11]>
N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web
By NICOLE PERLROTH, JEFF LARSON and SCOTT SHANE
September 5, 2013
The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war
on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders
and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools
protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet
age, according to newly disclosed documents.
The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or
digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems,
protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and
automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and
phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents
show.
Many users assume - or have been assured by Internet companies - that
their data is safe from prying eyes, including those of the
government, and the N.S.A. wants to keep it that way. The agency
treats its recent successes in deciphering protected information as
among its most closely guarded secrets, restricted to those cleared
for a highly classified program code-named Bullrun, according to the
documents, provided by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A.
contractor.
Beginning in 2000, as encryption tools were gradually blanketing the
Web, the N.S.A. invested billions of dollars in a clandestine
campaign to preserve its ability to eavesdrop. Having lost a public
battle in the 1990s to insert its own "back door" in all encryption,
it set out to accomplish the same goal by stealth.
The agency, according to the documents and interviews with industry
officials, deployed custom-built, superfast computers to break codes,
and began collaborating with technology companies in the United
States and abroad to build entry points into their products. The
documents do not identify which companies have participated.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html
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