


Ask Slashdot: How Do News Organizations Keep Track of So Much Information? 119

Network Time Protocol Hardened To Protect Users From Spying, Increase Privacy (theregister.co.uk) 51
The header fields in question are Stratum, Root Delay, Root Dispersion, Reference ID, Reference Timestamp, Origin Timestamp, and Receive Timestamp. The Origin Timestamp and Receive Timestamp offer a handy example or a "particularly severe information leak". Under NTP's spec (RFC 5905), clients copy the server's most recent timestamp into their next request to a server – and that's a boon to a snoop-level watcher.
The proposal "proposes backward-compatible updates to the Network Time Protocol to strip unnecessary identifying information from client requests and to improve resilience against blind spoofing of unauthenticated server responses." Specifically, client developers should set those fields to zero.

YouTube Clarifies 'Hate Speech' Definition and Which Videos Won't Be Monetized (arstechnica.com) 271

Silk Road Founder Loses Appeal and Will Serve Life (yahoo.com) 145

AI Could Get Smarter By Copying the Neural Structure of a Rat Brain (ieee.org) 89

Experts Call For Preserving Copper, Pneumatic Systems As Hedge For Cyber Risk (securityledger.com) 169

Intel's Super Portable Compute Card Could Be Your Real Pocket PC (techcrunch.com) 61

New Privacy Vulnerability In IOT Devices: Traffic Rate Metadata (helpnetsecurity.com) 24
In addition, the article notes, "Separating recorded network traffic into packet streams and associating each stream with an IoT device is not that hard."

Wormable Code-Execution Bug Lurked In Samba For 7 Years (arstechnica.com) 83
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's CERT group issued an anouncement urging sys-admins to update their systems, though SC Magazine cites a security researcher arguing this attack surface is much smaller than that of the Wannacry ransomware, partly because Samba is just "not as common as Windows architectures." But the original submission also points out that while the patch came in fast, "the 'Many eyes' took seven years to 'make the bug shallow'."

Newly Discovered Vulnerability Raises Fears Of Another WannaCry (reuters.com) 109

How Facebook Flouts Holocaust Denial Laws Except Where It Fears Being Sued (theguardian.com) 310

Republicans Want To Leave You Voicemail -- Without Ever Ringing Your Cellphone (recode.net) 443

Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work (consumerist.com) 147

Java Creator James Gosling Joins Amazon Web Services (geekwire.com) 90

Netgear Adds Support For "Collecting Analytics Data" To Popular R7000 Router 110
NOTE:It is strongly recommended that after the firmware is updated to this version, log back in to the router s web GUI and configure the settings for this feature.
An article on Netgear's KB states updated last week that Netgear collects information including IP addresses, MAC, certain WiFi information, and information about connected devices.

The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) 581
- The president of one job leadership consultancy argues C and C++ coders will soon be as obsolete as Cobol programmers. "The entire world has gone to Java or .Net. You still find C++ coders in financial companies because their systems are built on that, but they're disappearing."
- A data scientist at Stack Overflow "says demand for PHP, WordPress, and LAMP skills are seeing a steady decline, while newer frameworks and languages like React, Angular, and Scala are on the rise."
- The CEO and co-founder of an anonymous virtual private network service says "The rise of Azure and the Linux takeover has put most Windows admins out of work. Many of my old colleagues have had to retrain for Linux or go into something else entirely."
- In addition, "Thanks to the massive migration to the cloud, listings for jobs that involve maintaining IT infrastructure, like network engineer or system administrator, are trending downward, notes Terence Chiu, vice president of careers site Indeed Prime."
- The CTO of the job site Ladders adds that Smalltalk, Flex, and Pascal "quickly went from being popular to being only useful for maintaining older systems. Engineers and programmers need to continually learn new languages, or they'll find themselves maintaining systems instead of creating new products."
- The president of Dice.com says "Right now, Java and Python are really hot. In five years they may not be... jobs are changing all the time, and that's a real pain point for tech professionals."
But the regional dean of Northeastern University-Silicon Valley has the glummest prediction of all. "If I were to look at a crystal ball, I don't think the world's going to need as many coders after 2020. Ninety percent of coding is taking some business specs and translating them into computer logic. That's really ripe for machine learning and low-end AI."

A Tip for Apple in China: Your Hunger for Revenue May Cost You (wsj.com) 57

The Republican Push To Repeal Net Neutrality Will Get Underway This Week (washingtonpost.com) 141
