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| Execute Rule 41 | |
| Number | 2748 |
| Broadcast Date | APRIL 29, 2016 |
| Episode Length | 41:59 |
| Hosts | Tom Merritt |
| Guests | Darren Kitchen, Len Peralta |
The Supreme Court amends court procedures to make it easier to get a warrant to search remote servers. A boon to legitimate law enforcement investigations or open door to trampling privacy? Tom Merritt and Darren Kitchen discuss.
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Headlines
- Twitter user h0x0d discovered that flow.Microsoft.com has gone live providing a preview that connects 35 cloud services together similar to IFTTT. Twitter, Slack, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Office 365 are among the launch services, along with SMS, email, etc. Flow will integrate with Microsoft PowerApps which went into Public Preview. PowerApps lets users in an organization deploy an app without writing code. In a related note, Google enabled IFTT support for its OnHub router Friday.
- Androidworld reports Google is testing a travel assistant app called Trips with members of its Google Maps Local Guides program who’ve reached level 2 or higher. According to 9to5 Google the app can pull travel info from a user’s Gmail messages and store travel data offline. It organizes all aspects of a planned trip while offering suggestions for food, local transit and sight-seeing.
- IBM announced a new set of blockchain services running on IBM Cloud and Docker with standards to meet regulatory compliance in various industries like health and shipping. IBM has invested in startups and contributed to the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger project but Friday’s announcement appeals to large enterprises. Among IBM’s partners on blockchain projects are the London and Japanese stock exchanges and ABN AMRO Bank and a shipping company.
- Saying that some software circumvents the design of Windows 10, Microsoft announced today that Cortana will only work with the Edge browser on Windows 10. Cortana will no longer use your default browser. Cortana will also only deliver search results from Bing, even if a different search engine is chosen in Edge.
- Submitted by lokirobert
- Facebook released its latest Global Government Requests Report Thursday. Government requests for Facebook user data rose 13% in the second half of 2015 for a total of 46,763 requests. 60% of requests from US authorities came with a non-disclosure order.
- Australia’s Productivity Commission spent 9 months studying intellectual property rights and now recommends the free import of books, free use of copyrighted material under new fair use rules, tighter restrictions on patents and a legislated guarantee of the right to defeat geoblockers. The commission determined, “The evidence (and indeed logic) suggests that the duration of copyright protection is far more than is needed. Few, if any, creators are motivated by the promise of financial returns long after death." Comments on the draft are due by June 3 with a final report coming in August.
- Submitted by FailedAccessMemory
- Rovi has agreed to purchase TiVo for $1.1 billion ($10.70/share) pending regulatory approval. The Wrap reports the combined company will keep the TiVo name with Rovi CEO Tom Carson as head. Rovi provides electronic guide data to cable companies and others. Both companies have analytics operations and make money licensing patents.
- Submitted by jnamadan and pcguy8088_
- Several US government sources told Reuters Thursday that the US FBI paid less than $1 million for the technique used to unlock an iPhone 5C in the San Bernardino case. Last week Director James Comey said the FBI paid more than he would make in salary over the rest of his job term which would have meant roughly $1.3 million.
- The Indian Space Research Organization launched the IRNSS-1G satellite Thursday completing development of the NAVIC geopositioning system. NAVIC joins the US GPS, Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s Glonass and Japan’s QZSS systems. China plans to have its Beidou system working by 2020. NAVIC will be fully tested in about a month and provide open source localized navigation in India as well as encrypted service for the Indian military and government.
- Channel Jimquisition does not run ads on its YouTube channel and supports itself entirely through Patreon. However occasionally game companies would put Content ID claims against his video, choose to monetize them, and he would have to explain the ads running were not his fault. By accident, he found out that if multiple companies put claims against his video, and one of them opted to prevent monetization, it would default to no monetization. So he now makes sure to try to trip Content ID multiple times in order to insure that one no monetization claim is made and ads are prevented.
- Submitted by reischl_franz
Discussion
Submitted by goofball_jones and GreggN
- Supreme Court moves to expand FBI’s hacking authority
- Rule 41 would make it easier for the government to carry out hacks
- Rule 41. Search and Seizure
- Wyden: Congress Must Reject Sprawling Expansion of Government Surveillance
- Google: Proposed government-sanctioned hacking is a threat to us all
- Rule 41. Search and Seizure - Cornell University Law School
- Judge invalidates warrant that let feds hack Tor-using child porn suspect
Pick of the Day
- For a few days I've been using an app called Speedafari. it's a content blocker for iOS (that's not blocked by Wired or Forbes, not yet at least), what makes it different from others is that it has three blocking aggressiveness levels, the first blocks ads and tracking scripts, the second blocks all scripts and fonts, and the third just gives you the html page (or any other page format) stripped out of everything, it also has a notification widget for switching it on or off faster.
It's $1.99
Love the show.. - Submitted by Anas from Syria
- For a few days I've been using an app called Speedafari. it's a content blocker for iOS (that's not blocked by Wired or Forbes, not yet at least), what makes it different from others is that it has three blocking aggressiveness levels, the first blocks ads and tracking scripts, the second blocks all scripts and fonts, and the third just gives you the html page (or any other page format) stripped out of everything, it also has a notification widget for switching it on or off faster.
- I recommend this browser for Android.
- Submitted by Darren
Messages
- Just wanted to send a note about the usefulness of the Apple Care kit apps. I have type one diabetes and have been using the One Drop app to log how much insulin I’m using and how many carbs I’m eating (among other things). The app can even take readings from two of Dexcom’s continuous glucose monitors (the G4 and G5) .... It really has helped me lower my average glucose readings and has helped me analyze how what I eat and when I eat it affects me. That information helps drive how I treat my T1D.
... the ease with which my glucose levels and how I treat them will be able to be sent to my endocrinologist makes it easier for them to offer help without an actual visit....
And on a side note - to have had T1D for 34 years and see that the technology used to treat it has went from things like testing urine (with results that were what your glucose level was 4 hours prior) to now being able to look at your smartwatch and have it tell you your glucose level is nothing short of amazing to me. It’s even moving forward to where insulin pumps work in conjunction with continuous glucose monitors to react in the manner a functioning pancreas would. I could have never imagined that way back when.
Thanks, - Sent by Scott Wilhelm
- Just wanted to send a note about the usefulness of the Apple Care kit apps. I have type one diabetes and have been using the One Drop app to log how much insulin I’m using and how many carbs I’m eating (among other things). The app can even take readings from two of Dexcom’s continuous glucose monitors (the G4 and G5) .... It really has helped me lower my average glucose readings and has helped me analyze how what I eat and when I eat it affects me. That information helps drive how I treat my T1D.
- The Steam news about them accepting Bitcoins or Bitpay left me pretty excited.
Around two years ago, the biggest bank in the country banned Steam transactions from their services… One may think that the solution is to just change banks but it does seem like a lot of trouble for one service and that biggest bank is actually pretty good in many other ways, which is why they are popular. Buying Steam prepaid cards may sound like a solution but over here, they are sold in shops with a premium, maybe 5-10% of their sticker value.
Yaru, - Sent by Malaysia
- The Steam news about them accepting Bitcoins or Bitpay left me pretty excited.
- If apple did remove the headphone jack from the iPhone it would possibly mean it would no longer comply with the Americans with disabilities act (ADA). Things like public ATMs with assisted listening systems are required by the ADA to have standard 3.5mm jacks available.
706.2 Receiver Jacks. Receivers required for use with an assistive listening system shall include a 1/8 inch (3.5 mm) standard mono jack.
I don't actually know if apple do have to comply, but if they do or if they wanted to, then the headphone jack is here to stay, or at least an adapter?
I'm no expert here, I just heard someone else mentioning these ADA requirements for ATMs and it got me thinking about the apple rumours. - Sent by themitchnz
- If apple did remove the headphone jack from the iPhone it would possibly mean it would no longer comply with the Americans with disabilities act (ADA). Things like public ATMs with assisted listening systems are required by the ADA to have standard 3.5mm jacks available.
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