2014年3月13日 星期四

Mark Zuckerberg 'confused and frustrated' by US spying


http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26571018


2014年3月14日 最後更新於  01:23

馬克·扎克伯格“困惑和沮喪”美國間諜

馬克·扎克伯格扎克伯格說，互聯網需要用戶作出更安全

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Facebook創始人馬克·扎克伯格曾表示，他已要求美國總統奧巴馬為“發洩不滿”對美國的數字監控。
在博客的29歲後表示，美國政府“應該是冠軍的互聯網，而不是威脅。”
他的意見來  報告後一天  ，美國國家安全局（NSA）模仿了Facebook的服務器感染監控目標的計算機。
美國國家安全局說，該報告是“不準確的”。
扎克伯格表示，9月，美國在互聯網上從事間諜活動“搞砸了”。
該技術的創始人寫在週四“好像它需要很長的時間，真正的全改”。
殘破的信任？
“當我們的工程師努力不懈地提高安全性，我們想像我們正在保護您免受罪犯，而不是我們自己的政府，”他  在他的博客中說。

如何情報收集

如何情報收集
  • 訪問互聯網公司數據
  • '攻'光纖電纜
  • 竊聽手機
  • 有針對性的間諜
“美國政府應該是冠軍的互聯網，而不是威脅。
“他們需要更加透明的了解他們在做什麼，否則人們會相信最壞的打算。”
美國國家安全局的活動由前承包商的機構，愛德華斯諾登，被洩露的最後一年。
他洩漏已經指出了國家安全局收集電話記錄，竊聽光纖電纜承載全球通信和黑客入侵網絡。
根據該文件，該機構有“後門”進入的九大科技公司，包括微軟，雅虎，谷歌，Facebook，夥伴談話，AOL，Skype和YouTube和蘋果公司的服務器。
所有命名的公司都否認他們的參與。
美國國家安全局稱最新的說法，它通過使用惡意軟件擴展監視，“不準確”。
在一份聲明中該機構表示：“美國國家安全局使用其技術能力只支持合法和適當的外​​國情報行動，所有這些都嚴格按照其主管部門必須進行。”
白宮發言人凱特琳·海登證實，與扎克伯格週三晚上對於“記者講述據稱活動由美國情報界最近的報導，總統講話。''她沒有給出進一步的評論。
“放火”
由於索賠出現的安全服務是使用社交媒體和技術公司來監控人，Facebook已經聯手與谷歌，蘋果，微軟，Twitter的，美國在線，LinkedIn和雅虎形成所謂改革政府監控的聯盟。
該組織呼籲為“大規模更改”美國政府窺探。
在他最新的博客文章，扎克伯格表示，保持強有力的互聯網，“我們需要保持它的安全”。
本週早些時候，斯諾登先生告訴一個招待會上說，美國和其他國家的政府進行群眾監督是“設置火到互聯​​網的未來”。
本月初，歐盟委員會副主席尼莉Kroes表示十億世界各地的人們不相信互聯網。







NEW HOME by Tracy Huang


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McDonald's workers sue over 'wage theft'





http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26567900



13 March 2014 Last updated at 18:15

McDonald's workers sue over 'wage theft'

Striking workers outside a McDonald's outlet in the USFast food workers in the US have been demanding higher wages

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McDonald's workers in three US states - New York, California and Michigan - have filed cases against the firm alleging it was "stealing" wages.
They allege they were forced to work off the clock and not paid overtime.
Workers in New York said they were not reimbursed the cost of cleaning their uniforms, which they claim pushed their real wages below the minimum limit.
The firm said it was committed to fair treatment of employees and was "reviewing the allegations".
"McDonald's and our independent franchisees are committed to undertaking a comprehensive investigation of the allegations and will take any necessary actions as they apply to our respective organisations," it said in a statement.
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The workers have filed a total of seven class action lawsuits in the three states.
In three California suits, workers claim that McDonald's and its franchise owners "failed to pay them for all time worked, failed to pay proper overtime" and "altered pay records".
The cases in Michigan claim the firm "regularly forces workers to show up for work, but then forces them to wait without pay until enough customers show up, and that it also routinely violates minimum wage laws".
Lawyer Michael Rubin, of Altshuler Berzon LLP, who filed the California suits, said: "We've uncovered several unlawful schemes, but they all share a common purpose - to drive labour costs down by stealing wages from McDonald's workers."
The lawsuits come just as President Barack Obama is expected to announce tougher rules on overtime pay.
Fast food companies have already been under increasing pressure to raise wages, and workers at various outlets, including McDonald's, have held strikes in recent months.
Earlier this month, McDonald's said that growing concerns over income inequality may force it to raise its wages.
It said the public focus on the issue "may intensify" over the coming months.


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How safe is your passport?



http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20140313-how-safe-is-your-passport


How safe is your passport?


Even as Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, headed from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, seems to have vanished into thin air, two people listed on the flight manifest remain safe. The two men, an Austrian and an Italian, never boarded – but their passports did.
Interpol has confirmed that the passports, which were reported stolen by their owners, were used by two Iranian citizens, 29-year-old Seyed Mohammed Reza Delavar and 18-year-old Pouria Nourmohammadi. As the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane stretches on, the case of the stolen passports has evolved into its own subplot, sparking questions about why – and how – the men were on the plane. Initial speculation that they were terrorists was rejected by Interpol. The night before they left for Kuala Lampur, Nourmohammadi and Delevar stayed with a friend, who later told the the BBC’s Jonathan Head that he believed they were setting off in search of a better life in Europe.
Still, a definitive answer for the stolen passports has yet to be found. While authorities continue to seek information about these two passengers, the travel industry is being forced to contemplate questions of its own.
The passengers carrying stolen passports were identified using Interpol’sStolen and Lost Travel Document database, but only after the plane was reported missing. The database, available to countries and law enforcement agencies, allows officials to screen passports being used to travel internationally against passports reported lost or stolen; Interpol has identified terrorists, murderers and war criminals using the database.
Yet according to Interpol, the option, which has been available since 2002, is significantly underused. “Approximately four out of every 10 international passengers are not being screened” against the database, Interpol reports, and fewer than 20 of 190 member countries routinely checked passports against the database in 2013.
Some nations use the database more than others. Interpol names the US, UK and UAE as the three most active countries when it comes to screening passports. In 2013, the US searched the database more than 238 million times, the UK more than 140 million times and the UAE more than 104 million times.
In the face of international attention, Interpol Secretary General Ronald K Noble said that if countries were failing to fully screen international passengers with the database, Interpol “must look to work with private industry in addressing this security gap”.
At an 11 March press conference in Lyon, France, Interpol announced that has launched a programme that will put security in the hands of the travel industry. Two airlines, Qatar Airways and Air Arabia, will  have limited access to the Stolen and Lost Travel Document database. The program, called I-Checkit, is intended to allow security checks to start as soon as a potential flyer books a ticket by extending access to the database to airlines, hotels and banks.
Whether this is a reasonable model for the travel industry remains to be seen. Perry Flint, a spokesman for the Geneva-based International Air Transport Association, said, “While all airlines visually screen travel documents presented by their passengers...they are limited in what they can do.” He added, “Border control and security are the responsibility of States.”
Since 2002, the Interpol database has gathered 40 million instances of lost or stolen passports – an average of more than 3 million passports reported lost or stolen each year. According to the World Tourism Organisation, there were one billion international tourists in 2013.
Frequent travellers also have many anecdotes about how common – and frightening – it is to misplace a passport. Lauren Manuel, a South Africantravel blogger living in Malaysia, once found herself in a foreign country sans passport. Manuel and her husband had been living in Thailand and had travelled to Penang, Malaysia to get their visas renewed. “We were stupid enough to have our hands full whilst paying the cab driver and grabbed all our belongings in a rush,” she said. “We were meant to hand our passports into a company who gets visas renewed for travellers in Thailand, so when we reached the office and couldn't find our passports, we flew into a blind panic.” If stolen, their passports could have been used for anything from identity theft to insurance to rent a scooter. Even if they were simply lost, Manuel and her husband still worried about being deported from the country.

They immediately contacted local police. After three stressful hours being hustled between local police stations, they were reunited with their passports. “In that moment, we both nearly collapsed from sheer relief and realised we had been saved. Someone had picked them on the street and handed them in,” Manuel said.
Fortunately, travellers like Manuel should soon benefit from the advancement of anti-fraud passport technology. By 2012, more than 100 countries had implemented biometric passports, or ePassports, according to the International Civil Aviation Organisation, a UN agency that develops standards and recommended practices for international flights.
Stewart Verdery, former US Homeland Security assistant secretary for policy, explained that ePassports are more difficult to forge because they use an implanted chip that contains biographical information and a biometric – a digital facial image or a fingerprint. This biometric information allows border agents to do a “one-to-one match, and a one-to-many match”, he said, comparing faces or fingerprints to databases that confirm identity and track criminal information. Individual countries or agencies are responsible for maintaining and checking their own databases.
As organisations continue to work on the procedures necessary for helping travellers keep their passports – and identities – safe, those on the road need to continue to follow practical tips: making photocopies of important travel documents, keeping close track of them and reporting a theft or loss immediately.





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