When Tweets Are Governmental Business, Officials Don't Get to Pick and Choose Who Gets To Receive, Comment On, And Reply to Them. That Goes For the President, Too We’ve taken a stand for the First Amendment rights of individuals to receive and comment on social media posts from governmental officials and agencies. We’ve received a lot of good questions about why we believe that public servants—mayors, sheriffs, senators, even President Donald Trump—can’t block people whose views they dislike on Twitter without violating those persons’ free speech rights. Some question why citizens have a right to receive an official’s private Twitter account—@realdonaldtrump, for example. Others point out that Twitter isn’t a government forum with an obligation to allow users access to Trump’s messages, and others say users can still use workarounds to see the tweets of those who have blocked them. We’re taking a deep dive into the First Amendment here to explain our thinking and our reading of the law that supports our position. As you read, bear this in mind: the First Amendment doesn’t just protect your right to speak your mind. As we wrote in the brief:
Anonymous Live CD Tails to Use Tor Browser 6.0, Firewall and Kernel Hardening - Ubuntu Free The next major version of the Tails amnesic incognito live system, also known as the Anonymous Live CD used by ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden to stay hidden online using the latest Tor technologies, is now in the works. Tails 2.4 development is open, and it looks like the first Release Candidate (RC) build has already landed for public beta testing, incorporating some major new features and changes, among which we can mention the upgrade to the latest Tor Browser 6.0 web browser based on Mozilla Firefox 45.2. However, being based on Debian GNU/Linux, Tails stay true to itself and offers users the Icedove 100% free (libre) email and news suite, which will be shipped with the automatic configuration wizard enabled by default, but patched to use and accept only secure protocols. The good thing about the Icedove implementation in Tails 2.4 is that it will also contain all the improvements done by the TorBirdy team in their non-automatic configuration wizard. Other new… (read more)
Trump tells confidants that a government shutdown might be good for him President Trump has told others that a government shutdown could be good for him politically and is focusing on his hard-line immigration stance as a way to win back supporters unhappy with his outreach to Democrats this fall, according to people who have spoken with him recently. Over the past 10 days, the president has also told advisers that it is important that he is seen as tough on immigration and getting money for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to two people who have spoken with him. He has asked friends about how a shutdown would affect him politically and has told several people he would put the blame on Democrats. Trump’s mixed messages on a partial government shutdown could hamper the ability of congressional Republicans to negotiate with Democrats, whose support they need to pass spending legislation in coming weeks. A White House official, speaking for the administration, said the president did not want a shutdown. Sen. House Speaker Paul D. Sen. But Sen. true
Burning Tails on a DVD If you know OpenPGP, you can also verify your download using an OpenPGP signature instead of, or in addition to, our browser extension or BitTorrent. Authenticating our signing key through the OpenPGP Web of Trust is the only way that you can be protected in case our website is compromised or if you are a victim of a man-in-the-middle attack. However, it is complicated to do and it might not be possible for everyone because it relies on trust relationships between individuals. The verification techniques that we present (browser extension, BitTorrent, or OpenPGP verification) all rely on some information being securely downloaded using HTTPS from our website: The checksum for the Firefox extension The Torrent file for BitTorrent The Tails signing key for OpenPGP verification It is possible that you could download malicious information if our website is compromised or if you are a victim of a man-in-the-middle attack.
Kellyanne Conway investigated by special counsel for allegedly breaking federal law The US Office of Special Counsel will open a case file to address allegations that White House aide Kellyanne Conway breached federal law with her comments about the Alabama Senate race. Walter Shaub, the ethics chiefs for former presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama, filed a complaint with the office last week alleging that Ms Conway violated the Hatch Act, a decades-old law that prohibits executive branch employees from using their government positions to campaign for or against political candidates. In an email to Mr Shaub, Ana Galindo-Marrone, the chief of the Office of Special Counsel's Hatch Act Unit, said the office had opened a case file on the matter, as is the standard practice for such complaints. “We have received your Hatch Act complaint and will open a case file to address this matter,” she wrote in the email that Mr Shaub posted a photo of on Twitter. “Folks, don’t be fooled. “[Mr Jones is] weak on crime, weak on borders. Reuse content
How to protect your online privacy At the American Civil Liberties Union, privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian (TED Talk: How to avoid surveillance … with the phone in your pocket) spends much of his time thinking about how individuals can protect themselves from spying. Last year, he recorded a Facebook Live conversation with his fellow TED Fellow, Will Potter (TED Talk: The secret US prisons you’ve never heard of before) — an investigative reporter who specializes in covering dissident politics and culture. Read on for their tips about how to protect your online privacy and security: Will Potter: If I don’t have anything to hide, why should I be concerned about privacy or security, anyway? Christopher Soghoian: I hear this all the time from people, and you know, I think many of us do have something to hide. We may not all be worried about the government, but there are things we may not want our employers or members of our families to know. What are the top few things we should all do to protect our basic information?
Style Notes: Zendaya Covers InStyle; Diana Ross Launches Fragrance 11:27 AM PST 11/29/2017 by Sam Reed Zendaya Talks Activism, Unisex Clothing for InStyle's January Cover Story [InStyle] Though Zendaya has a lot on her metaphorical plate — from her acting and singing career to her multiple endorsement deals, lifestyle app and clothing line — what she really wants to be known for is "active change" rather than "what my name stands for." The actress opened up to Ruthie Friedlander about her activism and her sense of responsibility as a public figure and role model for the cover story of the January issue of InStyle, for which she was photographed by Anthony Maule. She also opens up about the decision to make her Daya by Zendaya line unisex, noting, “I just felt that if I’m going to do a clothing line, that’s the only way I see it being done. That’s the future of fashion." You Can Try On Meghan Markle's Engagement Ring, Kind Of [Pret-a-Reporter Inbox] Ah, the power of science.
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How and Why NBC Kicked Ann Curry Off Today The family drama at NBC’s Today show, as detailed by Joe Hagan in New York last month, gets another close, gossip-and-backstabbing-filled examination today from The New York Times Magazine. In the excerpt from Brian Stelter’s forthcoming book Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV, the plot again swirls around the show’s ratings slide after a legendary run atop its rival Good Morning America, and the panicked pushing out of co-host Ann Curry less than a year after she took the spot she’d been pining for. From where Curry was sitting, a savage tone behind the scenes and a complicit Matt Lauer were her undoing. When Curry took over for Meredith Vieira in 2011, Stelter reports, it was because NBC’s money-maker feared losing Lauer: 5 Times Matt Lauer Was Inappropriate At one point, the executive producer, Jim Bell, commissioned a blooper reel of Curry’s worst on-air mistakes. Bell decided she had to go, no matter what: And he got the support he needed.
Even with a VPN, open Wi-Fi exposes users Larry Seltzer is the former editorial director of BYTE, Dark Reading, and Network Computing at UBM Tech and has spent over a decade consulting and writing on technology subjects, primarily in the area of security. Larry began his career as a Software Engineer at the now-defunct Desktop Software Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey, on the team that wrote the NPL 4GL query language. By now, any sentient IT person knows the perils of open Wi-Fi. Large sites like Twitter and Google have adopted SSL broadly in order to protect users on such networks. It's a better solution than relying on SSL from websites for a number of reasons: with a VPN, all of the traffic from your device is encrypted, whether the site you are visiting has SSL or not. But there is a hole in this protection, and it happens at connect time. In this period before your VPN takes over, what might be exposed depends on what software you run. I tested this scenario at a Starbucks with Google Wi-Fi while running Wireshark.
FCC chairman calls Twitter the real threat to an open internet FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has gone on the attack to defend his proposal to roll back net neutrality regulations. Pai said in a speech Tuesday he wanted to "cut through the hysteria and hot air" about the proposal he unveiled last week to unwind the Obama-era rules that prevent broadband companies from controlling consumers' internet experience. The Federal Communications Commission chairman defended his plan as a return to a light regulatory framework established by President Bill Clinton in the 1990s at the dawn of the commercial internet. Then he went on the attack against social media platform Twitter, accusing it and other, unnamed internet companies of censorship. He argued that these companies, rather than internet services providers, are the real threat to an open internet. "Let's not kid ourselves. Twitter didn't respond to a request for comment. He also attacked celebrities who've taken to Twitter and other social media networks to criticize his new policy. Twitter is the 'real' threat
Opera Launches Free VPN App for iOS Opera is bringing its free VPN to iOS. The app, launched Monday, blocks ads in Safari, Chrome, and other apps; prevents trackers from following you around the Web; and lets you access blocked websites. You can change your virtual location by connecting to one of five regions and borrowing an IP address from that area. The app comes just weeks after Opera added an unlimited and free virtual private network to its browser. Opera VPN for iOS creates a secure tunnel between you and SurfEasy's servers, making it more difficult for sites to track you around the Web. On the down side, however, SurfEasy President Chris Houston said the company will likely introduce advertising into the app in the future. Users should also be aware that the app collects anonymous data about how you use your mobile device, and Opera will make this information available to third parties. Meanwhile, if you're an Android user in need of a free VPN, don't feel too left out.
Nazi sympathizer profiled by NYT loses job, asks for donations on racist fundraising site Following The New York Times’s much-maligned profile on Tony Hovater, a white nationalist with the Traditionalist Worker Party, the number of critical responses was enough to prompt the Times to run an explainer on why they published the piece in the first place. However, there was one other result of the piece’s publication. According to a fundraising page set up this week, Hovater and his wife as “suddenly without an income and are going to have to leave their home.” Like many of those identified following this summer’s Charlottesville march, Hovater, according to the fundraising page, lost his job following his newfound notoriety. Additionally, Hovater and his wife will “soon … be without a home,” apparently as a result of the lack of income. Their appeal for funds is featured on a new, white nationalist fundraising platform called GoyFundMe, an anti-Semitic play on the more popular GoFundMe platform. Almost all of the projects on GoyFundMe have failed to reach their fundraising goals.