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May 24, 2017

Galicia continues promotion of free software | Joinup

The government of the autonomous region of Galicia (Spain) will continue to encourage the use of free and open source software solutions in the public and private sector. This week, the government published the ‘Free Software Plan 2017’, outlining 110 actions.

Barack Obama's team secretly disclosed years of illegal NSA searches spying on Americans | Circa News - Learn. Think. Do.

The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to date by the U.S. intelligence community.

« Facebook affirme qu’il n’a pas de rôle éditorial, mais les documents attestent du contraire »

Sarah Roberts, chercheuse en sciences de l’information à l’université de Californie de Los Angeles, revient sur le contenu des guides de modération publiés par le « Guardian ».

L’addiction de l’Europe à Microsoft, un énorme risque pour la sécurité – Framablog

L’équipe de journalistes d’Investigate Europe s’est lancée pendant trois mois dans une mission d’exploration pour établir des faits et interviewer des économistes, des responsables informatiques, des experts en sécurité et des politiciens dans douze pays européens, ainsi qu’à la Commission et au Parlement européens. Les résultats sont inquiétants.

La dépendance des États envers Microsoft :

• engendre des coûts en hausse constante et bloque le progrès technique au sein des autorités publiques ;
• contourne systématiquement les lois européennes en matière de passation des marchés et de règles de concurrence ;
• introduit une influence politique étouffante de la part de cette entreprise ;
• crée pour les systèmes informatiques étatiques, ainsi que pour les données de leurs citoyens, un grand risque technique et de sécurité politique.

Facebook Tinkers With Users’ Emotions in News Feed Experiment, Stirring Outcry - NYTimes.com
Facebook Failed to Protect 30 Million Users From Having Their Data Harvested by Trump Campaign Affiliate

Survey participants didn’t know that operatives hired to influence U.S. voters were harvesting “likes” and demographic data from their Facebook profiles.

The Future of Ransomware - Schneier on Security
Get your loved ones off Facebook. - Salim Virani

I originally wrote this for my friends and family in 2015, to explain why the latest Facebook privacy policy is really harmful. It’s since been read by over a million people, and I updated it earlier thise year. External references – and steps to get off properly – at the bottom. Oh, and if you’re interested in a privacy-friendly way to stay in touch with friends, I’m looking into making a simple phone app for easy sharing.

CCC | Chaos Computer Clubs breaks iris recognition system of the Samsung Galaxy S8
“I have nothing to hide. Why should I care about my privacy?”

This is why.

Hacked in Translation - from Subtitles to Complete Takeover | Check Point Blog

Check Point researchers revealed a new attack vector which threatens millions of users worldwide – attack by subtitles. By crafting malicious subtitle files, which are then downloaded by a victim’s media player, attackers can take complete control over any type of device via vulnerabilities found in many popular streaming platforms, including VLC, Kodi (XBMC), Popcorn-Time …

Numérique : les grands chantiers du président Macron

Emmanuel Macron pense que les logiciels libres jouent un « rôle essentiel » dans la future « stratégie globale d'achat numérique » de l'État.

Etcher : L'outil d'écriture USB open-source - CitizenZ
Exclusif - Microsoft : menace sur la sécurité de l'Etat

Alors qu'une cyberattaque exploitant une faille de Windows touche des dizaines de milliers d'ordinateurs dans le monde, le ministère de la Défense a reconduit son contrat avec Microsoft. Bill Gates a, quant à lui, été décoré de la Légion d'honneur. Marianne s'est penché sur les liens étroits entre la firme de Redmond et l'Etat français.

WikiLeaks Dump Shows CIA Could Turn Smart TVs into Listening Devices

One revelation from the cache of 8,000 CIA documents: the CIA can turn a voice-recognition feature of some Samsung TVs into a covert listening device.

The book "Chaos Monkeys"[1], while irritating in many ways, has a detailed descr... | Hacker News

The book "Chaos Monkeys"[1], while irritating in many ways, has a detailed description of how Facebook correlates its own advertising data with information from data brokers (such as credit card transaction aggregators). This kind of stuff has been happening for quite some time. (As an extra bonus, the book describes how the author's ad-tech startup got into YC and was bought by Twitter.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019MMUAAQ

Facebook self-censorship: What happens to the posts you don’t publish?

A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked on Facebook: Do you think that facebook tracks the stuff that people type and then erase before hitting ...

Facebook Won’t Say If It Will Use Your Brain Activity for Advertisements

A forthcoming mental-input system from Facebook assumes that if you sent a thought to the speech center of your brain, you want to share it.

Judge: It's OK If Best Buy's Geek Squad Nerds Search Your PC for Illegal Content

A judge presiding over a child pornography case that was set in motion in 2012 has ruled that users have no legal expectation of privacy when they hand over their computers to Best Buy's Geek Squad IT technicians.

Laure Lucchesi : “Les administrations feront leur mutation quand elles sauront attirer des communautés de contributeurs” - Acteurs publics

Le logiciel libre sera “encouragé” mais pas pour autant “prioritaire” pour équiper les systèmes d’information des administrations. Est-ce suffisant à vos yeux ?

Cette mesure sur l’encouragement des logiciels libres va dans le bon sens. La formulation est peut-être prudente mais elle aura des effets réels. Il ne faudrait pas non plus imposer des logiciels libres dans des administrations qui n’ont pas les moyens de les mettre en œuvre, ce serait inefficace. A Etalab comme à la Dinsic, nous visons l’utilité et l’efficacité. Comment ? En créant une dynamique nouvelle, qui fait que les collectivités ou les administrations attirent à elles des communautés de contributeurs et sortent de la seule logique d’achat d’un logiciel. Le logiciel libre n’est pas forcément la meilleure solution. Cela dépend de la capacité des administrations à contribuer et à maintenir le code source de ce logiciel.

Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats - Motherboard

White hat hackers have made the first proof of concept for malware that locks a smart thermostat and demands a ransom.

Not Google specific, but some good reading on this topic came out in January - T... | Hacker News

Not Google specific, but some good reading on this topic came out in January - The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

MasterCard and Visa not only make money from each credit card transaction but to... | Hacker News

MasterCard and Visa not only make money from each credit card transaction but to add insult to injury, they make money selling that transaction data as well! That's what I call a ludicrous business.

Facebook's Advertisers to Hijack Your Status Updates and Use You in Their Ads - CBS News

There's nothing you can do about it either, as Facebook's terms of service give Facebook the right to use anything you post on the social network as if it were Facebook's own.

Google starts tracking offline shopping — what you buy at stores in person - LA Times

Google says it has access to roughly 70% of U.S. credit and debit card transactions through partnerships with companies that track that data. By matching ad clicks with this data, Google says it can automatically inform merchants when their digital ads translate into sales at a physical store.