CIA and DHS heads' personal email reported hacked // China's "character scores
CIA, DHS secretary hacking report investigated http://www.wyff4.com/politics/cia-dhs-secretary-hacking-report-investigated/35921328 In fact, the hacker told The New York Post that he used a stunningly simple tactic to allegedly hack Brennan's account. The process, called "social engineering," involves collecting information on a person that is publicly available and using it to personalize an attack on their accounts. In this case, the alleged hacker told the Post he tricked Verizon employees into giving him Brennan's information and got AOL to reset his password, presumably sending the reset to the hacker. - - - AOL ACCOUNT? AOL? Say what??? = = = Inside China's plan to give every citizen a character score https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28314-inside-chinas-plan-to-give-every-citizen-a-character-score/ Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you. These are just a few of the measures which the Chinese government plans to use to give scores to all its citizens. China's Social Credit System (SCS) will come up with these ratings by linking up personal data held by banks, e-commerce sites and social media. The scores will serve not just to indicate an individual's credit risk, but could be used by potential landlords, employers and even romantic partners to gauge an individual's character. "It isn't just about financial creditworthiness," says Rogier Creemers, who studies Chinese media policy and political change at the University of Oxford. "All that behaviour will be integrated into one comprehensive assessment of you as a person, which will then be used to make you eligible or ineligible for certain jobs, or social services." One of the earliest components of the system is called Sesame Credit - a scoring system built and run by Ant Financial, a subsidiary of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. It assigns citizens a score of between 350 and 950 points based on factors such as their financial history. Spending more through Alibaba's payment app, Alipay, or doing financial transactions involving friends through Sesame Credit, can also raise your score. - - - Oh China ... WHAT COULD GO WRONG? --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
