{"id":3864,"date":"2010-03-17T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2010-03-17T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:35:00","slug":"giving-it-away-in-more-ways-than-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3864","title":{"rendered":"Giving It Away, in More Ways Than One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s lunchtime news chum highlights three articles related to security and privacy, a personal interest of mine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Hand Sanitizer as  Anonymizer<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> Reuters is reporting on some interesting research: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62E4G520100315\" target=\"_blank\">People leave behind a unique trail of germs when they touch things<\/a>. This goes beyond just your fingerprints: Researchers have been learning that people are colonized with billions of microbes, both inside and on the body. Studies have shown that these colonies are unique to the individual and even to the place on the body. Even more interesting is the fact that hand-washing doesn\u2019t remove that signature: the colonies recover within hours from hand washing. Additionally, the bacteria don\u2019t break down, even after two weeks. The researchers were able to do the study because of rapid advances in techniques and equipment for sequencing DNA.  No word yet on whether this is being explored for I&#038;A devices.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Won\u2019t You Be My Friend<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> I\u2019m sure that, by now, you don\u2019t automatically accept friend requests on Facebook. But in case you\u2019re open with your friendship, here\u2019s another caution: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/When-tweets-can-make-you-a-apf-2661969609.html?x=0\" target=\"_blank\">The FBI is using social networking<\/a>. That\u2019s right. They are monitoring tweets, and creating profiles that suspects might friend, thus permitting monitoring of activities. As this is a new technological area, it isn\u2019t covered well by law. As always, knowledge is power.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Giving It Away<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> Of course, privacy doesn\u2019t mean beans if you give it away&#8230; and privacy is like virginity: once you give it away, you can\u2019t get it back. This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/17\/technology\/17privacy.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">highlighted in a New York Times article<\/a> about how people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced. Examples given in the article include birthday greetings sent and received, school and work gossip, photos of family vacations, and movies watched. Don\u2019t believe me? Look at the meme going around Facebook right now where you post the city where you were born: a popular security question.  As noted in the article, technology has rendered the conventional definition of personally identifiable information obsolete. Even if you are careful and don\u2019t disclose information, your friends may do it for you (yes, I\u2019m looking at you, the person reading this). Even if they don\u2019t, the patterns of your communication can reveal things.  So what do you do. Remember the following: When you\u2019re doing stuff online, you should behave as if you\u2019re doing it in public.<\/ul>\n<p>And a bonus chum&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Giving It Away<\/b>\u201d Department<\/i>: And speaking of \u201cgiving it away\u201d, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/ci_14679094\" target=\"_blank\">the Daily Breeze is reporting about a new lipstick for women that changes color when they are in the mood for sex<\/a>. The lip product changes from clear to deep crimson as the wearer feels more and more \u201cfrisky\u201d (yes, that\u2019s the term in the article, and no, they don\u2019t define it better). It works by reacting with a woman&#8217;s body chemistry. Each $18.50 tube comes with a color chart so men can figure out how aroused their partner is feeling. The article jokes about women not wanting to use it because they might give away arousal, whereas I think it is more a commentary on the cluelessness of us guys.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s lunchtime news chum highlights three articles related to security and privacy, a personal interest of mine: From the \u201cHand Sanitizer as Anonymizer\u201d Department: Reuters is reporting on some interesting research: People leave behind a unique trail of germs when they touch things. This goes beyond just your fingerprints: Researchers have been learning that people <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3864\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}