Assuming she makes one, wonder if the state will defend a claim of 'Qualified Immunity' when folks start suing Ms Dookhan for false imprisonment damages.
Given the footdraging by the DA's office, a case might be made for stripping them of Immunity.
Unless QI is stripped, the sad thing is that the bad guys in this won't bear the cost, it will be the folks paying taxes so these DA's could brag about their conviction rates.
If the phones are the problem, just ban them from school grounds.
As far as searching the phones, a better approach might be to task a set of judges to be on call to issue warrants based on requests from school administrators. That way, student's rights are preserved.
Sad but not surprising. When I asked my Representative about implementing Cyber Security standards for the average citizen, I got a Deer in the Headlight look, followed by a suggestion to 'hold a seminar'.
Also, of the two factor methods mentioned, the ID card with a WORKING smart chip as Something you Have is the best. A high percentage of smartphones have malware/spyware installed and a USB device means you have to allow USB devices to be plugged into your secured computer. And USB is a known attack vector.
Not much different then Apple providing low cost Apple computers to schools decades ago. Or Microsoft basically giving away Office when Wordperfect and Lotus had the majority of those markets. Didn't work so well for Apple and worked to perfection for Microsoft.
The thing to watch is what happens if Axon's play works well. If the prices then jump due to them taking advantage of a monopoly, will any regulatory agency have the guts to challenge a "Friend of Cops"?
Since the bull was abandoned by the artist and ownership assumed by some NYC entity, it would seem that the owner of the statue can display it however they seem fit. Ownership still has some benefits. Of course, some companies and artists are working to minimize ownership, think Deere, Apple and this artist as examples. If the owner of the bull wants to put a small statue of a young female nearby, should be their right. If they want to cut the bull in half, should be their right. They own the thing. Now if they wanted to start selling copies either of the bull alone or of the bull and girl together, that would be a different issue.
11th circuit covers 3 states. Lesson learned is if someone knocks on the door after acceptable hours, dial 911 and report unidentified person banging on door, leave call open, activate one or more recording devices, and silently wait with your semi auto rifle pointed at the door. If the door flies open, empty 30 round magazine. Send copy of recording(s) to lawyer asap.
Most of these Congress critters have no clue about tech stuff. The Republicans are just doing the scorched Obama policies that their voters are demanding. Actual knowledge of the policies and side effects not required. Not much different then what happened when Obama came in and many Bush policies got trashed.
Still trying to understand why having gun parts in checked baggage justified a search in the first place. You are allowed to carry declared fully operational firearms in checked baggage provided they are in a locked container. Sounds like the govt. was on shaky ground for the first search and used the 'border exception' excuse to allow the search.
IMO, ATF/DOJ lost all credibility when they screwed up the "Fast and Furious" gun sales sting by loosing track of thousands of high power weapons that ATF told gun stores to sell to known criminals. Many murders and injuries have been traced to these weapons. The harshest penalty that any of the employees involved received was re-assignment to a different job at the same or higher pay. I have no doubt that if a gun maker had conspired with a gun store to sell to known criminals, that CEO and other corporate officials would be serving long jail terms and all of the assets would have been seized.
If Trump wants to "Drain the Swamp", ATF would be a good agency to completely flush out of existence.
Couple the declining subscribers to ESPN with the falling ratings for the NFL and the picture looks even worse. If the NFL starts cutting back on commercial slots, ESPN's revenue will take a sharp hit. MLB is trying things to shorten games as well to stem fan losses. Fewer commercial slots is one of the few things left that can really shorten games.
The real danger is most of these Congress Critters have little clue what 'Net Neutrality' means. Many think it refers to regulating ISP prices or build out practices. Others think it has something to do with cyber security, another thing most are clueless on. So they will vote how some lobbyist paid staffer tells them to vote or they will trade a yes vote on this for an IOU from the bill's supporters.
For an interesting insight into the realities of Congress, watch the movie "Charlie Wilson's War."
If Trump wants to get in front of this, he will work with Congress to create a unified government policy on getting newly elected/appointed officials set up with appropriate computerized communications accounts BEFORE they take office. Setting up should also include training on the proper use of such systems and when such use is required. Leaving it up to each official or agency just begs for multiple security failures.
My guess is with the current system, most of the new folks will get their "Welcome to Federal Government New Employee Orientation" training sometime during the Summer.
My state of Oklahoma uses a thick paper ballot that is scanned and counted. Even when there are 20-30 different things to vote on, it doesn't take long to fill in the boxes with the provided ink pen. The ballot is scanned when you feed it in and kicked back if the scanner can't read the ballot. The few hand recounts we have had have been within a few votes of the original scanned tabulations.
The customer should file a computer crimes complaint with the FBI and his local authorities. TOS can not override criminal behavior. Using a computer network to disable someone's legally purchased system IS a criminal violation and should be handled as such. People have gone to jail for doing far less harm then this customer service action did.
I noticed that another item on the agenda authorizing the purchase of a license tag scanner system. Someone in that town REALLY wants to keep tabs on someone else.
If the law passes, businesses near the town hall and city council/mayor homes should point their required cameras at the town hall or homes to better watch the elected officials while on the job or entertaining guests. Regularly post the videos online. Law will probably get repealed in short order.
Bad idea. No way the camera makers would come up with a common standard AND keep it updated. Better approach is have multiple storage cards. Several have the expected touristy type pictures on them. A couple special cards are used for the worrisome pictures. These are then copied to a second device, encrypted and stored in some game folder as gamedatafile42.dat. If possible, also transmit the files out of area via whatever means are available. Don't overlook using postal mail. Lose the 'special cards' once the data is safe.
This way, the likely bored boarder agent sees several hundred or thousands of non-threatening pictures on the camera you respectfully handed over and you are on your way a few minutes later, camera in hand.
Government officials are mostly clueless about cyber security. Little will be done about these toys until pedophiles hack some to tell little Johnny or Jane to "go to the park to meet Santa". Then there will be a great cry to "Save the Children" and some hasty poorly thought out legislation will happen that will do more harm then good.
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Given the footdraging by the DA's office, a case might be made for stripping them of Immunity.
Unless QI is stripped, the sad thing is that the bad guys in this won't bear the cost, it will be the folks paying taxes so these DA's could brag about their conviction rates.
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As far as searching the phones, a better approach might be to task a set of judges to be on call to issue warrants based on requests from school administrators. That way, student's rights are preserved.
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Also, of the two factor methods mentioned, the ID card with a WORKING smart chip as Something you Have is the best. A high percentage of smartphones have malware/spyware installed and a USB device means you have to allow USB devices to be plugged into your secured computer. And USB is a known attack vector.
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The thing to watch is what happens if Axon's play works well. If the prices then jump due to them taking advantage of a monopoly, will any regulatory agency have the guts to challenge a "Friend of Cops"?
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If Trump wants to "Drain the Swamp", ATF would be a good agency to completely flush out of existence.
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For an interesting insight into the realities of Congress, watch the movie "Charlie Wilson's War."
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My guess is with the current system, most of the new folks will get their "Welcome to Federal Government New Employee Orientation" training sometime during the Summer.
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If the law passes, businesses near the town hall and city council/mayor homes should point their required cameras at the town hall or homes to better watch the elected officials while on the job or entertaining guests. Regularly post the videos online. Law will probably get repealed in short order.
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This way, the likely bored boarder agent sees several hundred or thousands of non-threatening pictures on the camera you respectfully handed over and you are on your way a few minutes later, camera in hand.
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Real news: Cable companies rate increases less then average inflation rate.
Anyone see a problem with these examples?
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