Representing Facebook before U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria was Orin Snyder of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, who claimed that the plaintiffs' charges of privacy invasion were invalid because Facebook users have no expectation of privacy on Facebook. The simple act of using Facebook, Snyder claimed, negated any user's expectation of privacy:
There is no privacy interest, because by sharing with a hundred friends on a social media platform, which is an affirmative social act to publish, to disclose, to share ostensibly private information with a hundred people, you have just, under centuries of common law, under the judgment of Congress, under the SCA, negated any reasonable expectation of privacy.
I'm so glad I've never in my life used Facebook. The company cares less than nothing about its users.
Chinese intelligence agents acquired National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia, a leading cybersecurity firm has discovered. The episode is the latest evidence that the United States has lost control of key parts of its cybersecurity arsenal.
"182 men didn't die at The Alamo just so we could give @Whataburger over to Chicago. I'm just sayin'."
Quintessentially Texas.
The legal complaint released on Wednesday read like an ice-cream vendor crime wave, complete with a map of midtown, speckled with red dots appearing like sprinkles, to indicate summons locations.
A few months ago, a routine deployment in a core service of M3, our open source metrics and monitoring platform, caused a doubling in overall latency for collecting and persisting metrics to storage [...]. Mitigating the issue was simple - we just reverted to the last known good build, but we still needed to figure out the root cause so we could fix it.
And it's a doozy. Great post on some in-depth debugging.
Keith Wardrip of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Kyle Fee and Lisa Nelson of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland have put together a map. Its most resounding and confounding recommendation: Stay out of the superstar cities. Their booming tech, health and financial industries may offer great jobs for the college educated. But if you don't have the degree, they have little for you.
It was Sept. 10, 2018, nearly 10 years to the day that the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers sparked a global financial panic.
The short, intense crisis Mr. Aas created was a precarious moment for the financial industry. It cast doubt on the safety of institutions like Nasdaq Clearing, which were supposed to prevent another meltdown, not create one. Within the small and dispersed community of regulators and central bankers whose job it is to maintain the infrastructure of global commerce, the incident provoked a debate about contagion that continues to rage.
The closing line is spot on.
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages.
— Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Workism offers a perilous trade-off. On the one hand, Americans' high regard for hard work may be responsible for its special place in world history and its reputation as the global capital of start-up success. A culture that worships the pursuit of extreme success will likely produce some of it. But extreme success is a falsifiable god, which rejects the vast majority of its worshippers. Our jobs were never meant to shoulder the burdens of a faith, and they are buckling under the weight. A staggering 87 percent of employees are not engaged at their job, according to Gallup. That number is rising by the year.
One solution to this epidemic of disengagement would be to make work less awful. But maybe the better prescription is to make work less central.
In February 2018, we launched Microsoft 365 Government to empower government agencies to collaborate and be productive while meeting their security and compliance requirements, including FedRamp, CJIS, IRS 1075, ITAR, DFAR, and NIST. As part of our continued investment to Microsoft 365 Government, today we're pleased to announce the availability of Microsoft Teams in all Microsoft 365 Government cloud environments.
While Teams has been available in the Government Community Cloud (GCC), today we are announcing the availability of Teams in GCC High and Department of Defense (DoD) environments. Teams is built to meet the enhanced security and compliance requirements of government agencies, which can now better deliver against their mission and provide services to citizens and constituents.
It sounds like corporate-speak, but this is the culmination of two years of architectural changes and infrastructure work involving new identity management systems, security scanning solutions, network architectures and capabilities, and deployment technologies in partnership with eight teams in four divisions including Azure, Office, Skype, and Teams. There are some real heros involved in all the systems integration work, documentation, security and compliance reviews, and troubleshooting that went along with deploying 60+ Azure microservices in a locked-down environment.
We're pleased that U.S. government agencies at the local, tribal, state, and federal levels now have a modern, productive, and secure communications platform.
I'm extraordinarily proud to have been part of this effort and to hopefully have helped the government run a little more efficiently. On to DEOS!