Archive for August, 2009
La Marina de los Estados Unidos ha prohibido por un año, y efectivo ya, el uso de redes sociales en su propia red (Marine Corps Enterprise Network MCEN) como medida preventiva para evitar la exposición de información al enemigo y por preocupaciones relacionadas al malware. La orden lee como sigue:
“THE VERY NATURE OF SNS CREATES A LARGER ATTACK AND EXPLOITATION WINDOW, EXPOSES UNNECESSARY INFORMATION TO ADVERSARIES AND PROVIDES AN EASY CONDUIT FOR INFORMATION LEAKAGE THAT PUTS OPSEC, COMSEC, PERSONNEL AND THE MCEN AT AN ELEVATED RISK OF COMPROMISE.” This includes, but is not limited to, Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. “THESE INTERNET SITES IN GENERAL ARE A PROVEN HAVEN FOR MALICIOUS ACTORS AND CONTENT AND ARE PARTICULARLY HIGH RISK DUE TO INFORMATION EXPOSURE, USER GENERATED CONTENT AND TARGETING BY ADVERSARIES”
No nos debe sorprender esta decisión dado que estas redes han sido utilizadas para dar a conocer vulnerabilidades de seguridad y por la costumbre de algunos usuarios de publicar más de lo que se considera discreto. Según los administradores de sistemas se preocupan por el descuido exhibido por los usuarios en el uso de estas redes sociales, la Marina tiene aún más razones para preocuparse. En contraste con esta orden, la Marina de los EU tiene una página en Facebook con más de 75,000 fanáticos, mientras que el Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tiene una cuenta en Twitter con 4,300 seguidores. El Ejército de los EU ordenó recientemente quitar el bloqueo a Facebook y Flickr, reconociendo la necesidad de interactuar con los usuarios de Internet, mientras que la Marina todavía no encuentra un balance entre esta interacción y los riesgos de seguridad.
Fuente: Prisma Digital
Japan: A restaurant in Nagoya called the FuA-Men (Fully Automated raMen) is ran by robots. It features both a chef and an assistant which are both robots. They perform all the cooking tasks needed to make 80 bowls of noodles per day in their small shop.
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The customers said there is a small difference in the noodles prepared by the robots and humans. The robots are made to time the boiling of noodles, and to add toppings to them, and to make sure the taste and temperature of the noodles is right.
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The robots work well together and also work hard to entertain customers. They put on a comedy show where one robot has a knife and the other has a pot lid to defend itself. The restaurant is working on getting a robotic busboy.
Source:Â Short News
Apple refused to add Ninjawords, a dictionary program, to its iPhone Apps story until all ‘objectionable’ words had been removed. Even after being censored the program is restricted to people aged 17 and above.
While protecting the masses from naughty words, Apple allowed a game that involved shaking a baby to make it stop crying. Apple commentator John Gruber says he thought he had seen the worst App Store rejection, but he was wrong.
“Apple censored an English dictionary… for words contained in all reasonable dictionaries… Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary that omits half the words Steve Jobs uses every day,” said Gruber.
Source: Short News
Police in the UK have sent out a warning to teens about the dangers of “sexting”, or sending explicit or intimate photos of themselves via SMS messaging. The increase was reported by The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
According to the centre, it receives daily reports of harassment after the so-called “sexts” have been sent. Some of the photos, sent by 11- to 18-year-olds, have been featured in paedophile forums on the Web.
Technically speaking, those under 18 who are taking and distributing photos of themselves are breaking UK law.
Source: Short News