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https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//tags/privacy/David Bremnerikiwiki2016-03-15T01:32:31ZLies, damn lies, and university marketing.https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//blog/posts/lies_marketing/
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2016-03-15T01:32:31Z2016-03-15T01:07:00Z
<p>Today I received some marketing bumpf from my employer, which on top
of being a charming way to spend money while cutting my unit budget,
is frankly an embarassment from the point of view of security and
privacy.</p>
<p>Every link in this supposed communication from UNB is a link to a
third party site, with the host name consisting mainly of digits. When
we receive large scale phishing attacks every week so, training people
to ignore funny looking urls doesn't seem like a great idea. All of
these URLs contain tracking cookies, presumably so that Eloqua can
sell UNB information about the mail reading habits of its employees
and alumni.</p>
<p>It finishes with the following text.</p>
<div class="highlight-txt"><pre class="hl">UNB occasionally sends out important announcements to the UNB community. To unsubscribe from these emails, please click
here <http://s1961286906.t.en25.com/e/cu?s=1961286906&elqc=11&elq=my_cookie_deleted>.
To unsubscribe from all future UNB emails, please click here
<http://s1961286906.t.en25.com/e/u?s=1961286906&elq=my_cookie_deleted>.
Privacy Statement
UNB, the UNB Advancement Office and third party host Eloqua/Oracle are committed to protecting the personal information of
all UNB Alumni. The information collected will be used for the purposes of promoting and supporting UNB events, activities,
and endeavours and will be accessible to UNB Advancement database administrators. Connection to third party host is via
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. For more information on the protection of personal information at UNB please consult
the University Secretariat, University of New Brunswick, PO Box 4400, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3 www.unb.ca/secretariat (506)
453-4613.
</pre></div>
<p>Can you spot the lie? <em>Of course</em> I mean the technical error about
about http and https. What kind of cynic do you take me for?</p>
<blockquote><p>Never mind what the government said<br />
They're either lying or they've been misled...</p>
<blockquote><p> Bruce Coburn, <em>Burn</em>, 1986</p></blockquote></blockquote>
Crime and Punishement on the Rideauhttps://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//teaching/old/3997/clippings/posts/carleton_jail/
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2009-08-24T16:44:46Z2008-09-27T03:00:00Z
<p>The <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/editorials/story.html?id=0f2b40a0-a005-40b6-971d-571aaad26399">Ottawa
Citizen</a>
and
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/09/11/ot-carleton-080911.html">CBC</a>
have coverage of the case of Mansour Moufid, who is alleged to have
installed key-logging software and somehow reprogrammed magnetic
student card-readers at Carleton. Mr. Moufid apparently faces
criminal charges.</p>
<p>What makes it an interesting case from an ethics point of view is what
Mr. Moufid did with the information he obtained, which was inform the
university and his victims of the security weaknesses in the system.</p>
<h3 id="UPDATED">UPDATED</h3>
<p>The <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/09/26/ot-carleton-080926.html">CBC</a> reports
on the punishment dealt out Mr. Moufid by Carleton. Personally</p>
<ol>
<li><p>I find odd that the letter is signed by the Associate
Vice-President Student Services. I would expect student discipline
to be a matter for the academics at the university.</p></li>
<li><p>The requirement that Mr. Moufid allow computing and communication
services to monitor his online activities as long as he is at
Carleton rings several alarm bells. I think it is both
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionable">unconscionable</a> and
an inappropriate quasi-judicial role for computing services.</p></li>
</ol>
Facebook is public, deal with it.https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//teaching/old/3997/clippings/posts/facebook_is_public_deal/
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2009-08-24T16:44:46Z2008-09-14T03:00:00Z
<p>According to Ryerson Prof. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/09/04/facebook-privacy.html">Avner
Levin</a>
some of you may be under the impression that things you post on
facebook are private. I guess you can figure out what I think.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080912.wgtprivacy0913/BNStory/Technology/home?cid=al_gam_mostview">Globe and Mail</a> has a more in-depth discussion
of the same topic.</p>
BC Ministry of Health promises to shape uphttps://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//teaching/old/3997/clippings/posts/unencrypted_health_records/
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2009-08-24T16:44:46Z2007-12-07T04:00:00Z
<p>The CBC
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2007/12/12/loss-records.html?ref=rss">reported</a>
on how the BC Ministry of Health will no longer accept unencrypted
health records. Welcome to the 1940's boys and girls.</p>
NB promises legislation for electronic health recordshttps://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//teaching/old/3997/clippings/posts/health_records_privacy_nb/
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2009-08-24T16:44:46Z2007-10-24T03:00:00Z
<p>The CBC <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2007/10/24/nb-health-privacy.html?ref=rss">reported</a> the New Brunswick government has promised legislation to regulate
a new electronic health records system.</p>