L1News: 2017-03-14 Party in the CIA | Level One Techs

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00:00 Intro

00:20 Wikileaks CIA Vault 7
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/wikileaks-cia-what-are-they-explained-vault-7-year-zero-julian-assange-secrets-a7616826.html

10:43 Federal Criminal Probe being opened into WikiLeaks' publication of CIA documents
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/08/politics/wikileaks-cia-investigation/

11:11 Intel Security releases detection tool for EFI rootkits
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3179348/security/after-cia-leak-intel-security-releases-detection-tool-for-efi-rootkits.html

13:25 House GOP bill would let employers demand workers' genetic test results
http://www.businessinsider.com/house-gop-employers-demand-workers-genetic-test-results-2017-3?r=UK&IR=T

16:25 Amazon shares data with Arkansas prosecutor in murder case
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1110e4449c3f4191909e4010da935056/amazon-shares-data-arkansas-prosecutor-murder-case

17:43 To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/doj-drops-case-against-child-porn-suspect-rather-than-disclose-fbi-hack/

21:14 Verizon Wireless and net neutrality with Fios
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/9/14876692/verizon-fios-zero-rating-mobile-streaming-net-neutrality

27:25 GOP senators' new bill would let ISPs sell your Web browsing data
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/gop-senators-new-bill-would-let-isps-sell-your-web-browsing-data/

29:00 Ajit Pai for 5 more years
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/7/14844910/ajit-pai-renominated-fcc-trump

30:22 AMD Zen-Based Naples Platform
http://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-poised-to-disrupt-the-data-center-with-zen-based-naples-platform

33:31 NVidia GTX 1080Ti
http://hothardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-performance-review-with-intel-and-ryzen

35:27 Bitcoin went to an all-time high
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-super-spikes-to-an-all-time-high-2017-3
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/10/us-sec-rejects-application-to-list-bitcoin-etf.html

37:05 Radioshack's Successor Preparing to file for Bankruptcy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/radioshack-s-successor-said-to-be-preparing-bankruptcy-filing

38:53 Android catching up to Windows
https://www.cnet.com/news/look-out-windows-android-is-catching-up/

41:20 Robots in warehouses to jump 15x over next 4 years
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/robots-in-warehouses-will-expand-to-620000-by-2021-according-to-report/

42:27 Dead Pixels on a Nintendo Switch, not Nintendo's problem
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/06/nintendo-switch-dead-pixels-console

45:01 Elon Musk and Australian Power
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/10/elon-musk-i-can-fix-south-australia-power-network-in-100-days-or-its-free

46:43 Advanced tactical laser Aircraft (Real Genius anyone?)
http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/119975/advanced-tactical-laser-aircraft-fires-high-power-laser-in-flight.aspx

47:46 Berkeley to Delete Online Content
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-berkeley-delete-publicly-available-educational-content

50:51 Poachers are trying to hack animal tracking systems
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/03/06/hack-animal-tracking-systems/

52:34 Dark Web has shrunk by 85%
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-dark-web-has-shrunk-by-85-percent/

54:15 Microsoft ads in Windows 10
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/245553-microsoft-now-puts-ads-windows-file-explorer

55:58 Single Atom Memory
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170309120521.htm

58:47 Flippy The Robot
http://www.zdnet.com/article/flippy-the-robot-uses-ai-to-cook-burgers/

1:01:41 Outro



This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://level1techs.com/video/l1news-2017-03-14-party-cia
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I see what you did there ;)

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I disagree in part about the "robot wrangles", the level of skill and education required for a wrangler would be entirely dependent on the types of robots being serviced. You don't need a network architect or a computer engineer to setup, troubleshoot or service router and you won't need a roboticist to do so for a robot. I think the vast majority of those jobs will be filled by candidates who get certifications or a two year degree in robot wranglin'. Maybe there will be a CompTIA Robot+ in a couple years.

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Its actually part of their specialty certifications.

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Fun fact: CompTia is lobbying against the right to repair in Nebraska.

They are Evil

No one needs to know how many firewire devices you can daisy-chain to do their job in the modern world

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What the hell is Nintendo thinking seriously... They used to be a respected company, and now... what. is. happening?!

I've stopped worrying about the implications of specific trends. It's because it's clear, when piling up a dozen trends or even several that fundamental change is afoot. No one can really produce a predictive conclusion from tends anyway but the outcome is going to include the sum of the most influential trends. Unfortunately these number more than the human mind can reconcile. Maybe an expert machine with some data analysis software could make heads or tales of it; but we humans are intrinsically too stupid.

I've noticed that many trends have implications that are adverse to implications of other trends. For instance, UBI and technological unemployment. You see, humans have an evolutionary predisposition to be useful. There is also another trend in passing technologies down to the common individual. Tech like PCs, 3D printers and such. What happens when people with a lot of free time and 100+ IQs start feeling the need to improve their situation? What happens to markets that put people out of work? People are going to make their own things because UBI checks would be stretched farther. Automated gardens are now a thing too. Why not save money on food too, if you have the time?

There are some Utopians suggesting that we would just be on vacation while the automated, private sector takes care of us. Sure... and the fact that the population would essentially be a bunch of wards of the state doesn't come to mind? What happens when subsidies start dipping into the funding for UBI like it has with SS (which is payed in, rather than an entitlement BTW)? That is likely to happen; and the will to survive alone would promote levels of self-sufficiency.

On Surveillance:

Privacy is something that has been going south for hundreds of years. As hunter gatherers, we had little to no privacy. In the civilized world, there really was no better time for privacy than colonial times to the late 1800s. People lived far from others and communication tech was very primitive. The Industrial Revolution packed lots of people into small spaces and privacy took a downturn. It got a little better in the 1900s until the internet. Now we're on a path to no privacy at all. What happens when people can communicate mind to mind with implants? We have no evolutionary predisposition toward the promotion of privacy. Hunter gatherers still all know each others business.

Overall, it's clear that an uncomfortable amount of change is coming for almost everyone. It seems that people are likely to choose the lesser of the evils and another social diversification might take place.

Me personally, I'm going to be a immortal cyborg with two onsite backups and one offsite. 3 2 1 bitches!!! :-)

Homebrew Cybernetics Club.

Samsung TVs can only be hacked with a USB drive, so the CIA needs physical access to your TV.

The report describes a malicious software installed through a physically connected USB drive which applies to firmwares on TVs sold in 2012 and 2013, most of which have already been patched through a firmware update.

Oh, you mean the agency that specializes in espionage and clandestine operations needs physical access to spy on someone?

What a relief.

I agree that people are focusing on the wrong things in the release, but there's an entirely separate group trying really hard to downplay, too.

Nowhere in the original release does it state that the TVs can be compromised remotely. I believe that misinformation originated with the NYT

What I'm saying is that it's impossible for the CIA to use this to do mass surveillance like the NSA, because CIA agents would need to break into every single house, that owns a Samsung TV.

This can only be used against specific targets.

I know. They likely largely only operate in other nations. No credible source is saying otherwise.

See:

I'd also add that the Release never alleged widespread surveillance of American citizens by the CIA. Unfortunately, a lot of MSM outlets did some egregious gun-jumping, citing Wikileaks as the source of their unverifiable claims.

I know, but when you say something like "the TV is spying on you", without mentioning the need for physical access, most people will think, that it's mass surveillance, that's done remotely.

If an average person, has heard about other mass surveillance programs, and then he hears about TVs spying on you, then he will assume, that this is also about mass surveillance.

I don't really see your point. That particular hysteria stems from irresponsible second-hand reporting, not the release or the information therein.

Yeah, no, that'd be that other alphabet agency, or you know, just plain old TV manufacturers:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/02/what-vizio-was-doing-behind-tv-screen

It's happening, just not domestically via the CIA.

When I first heard this news, I also assumed, that it's mass surveillance, until I found the article, that I quoted.

If I only saw this video, and heard Wendell talking about the Samsung TVs, without having this information beforehand, I would probably assume the same thing.

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Huh. I just read the source material. The CIA is primarily concerned with individual assets/cases abroad, and already cooperate extensively with the NSA. Why would they need redundant infrastructure that expensive if they can just pull from NSA juice?

The reason I took issue with this initially is that a vocal minority want to cast this leak as some sort of shadowy conspiracy conducted by Trump and Russia to distract from current political goings-on in the US, using misreporting as "evidence." Enabling this narrative is far more irresponsible than not clarifying that the CIA exploits need physical access for the most part.

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I barely have the time to watch these videos and to use this forum.

I don't have the time to read every single source material for every single story. And most people don't either.

The only reason, why I found the article, that I quoted, was because I was happening to watch Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver quoted the same article.

True, I'm a journalist, so I get paid to find/read/parse primary sources, meaning I'm not representative of most people's reading habits.

That said, the majority of articles directly link to primary sources (if they don't, then you shouldn't believe a word of what you read in them) and it takes maybe an extra 30 seconds to look through them.

Unfortunately, things always get lost in translation when it comes to the MSM and tech. they constantly lose the script.

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Its funny to me how his parodies are often better than the original song.

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This is nothing.

When the Daily Show reported on the bill, that lets ISPs sell your browsing history, Trevor said that he has to go and delete something.

He actually thinks, that deleting the browsing history on his browser will solve the problem.