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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014
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Cloudy. 10 percent chance of rain. Wind NE at 14 mph.
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Calendar
Thursday, Jan. 30
What: Making the Most of the University Career Fair
When: 4 to 5 p.m.
Where: 149 Burge Union
About: A professional development workshop focused on the upcoming career fair. The workshop will also stream live at career.ku.edu.
Friday, Jan. 31
What: Lunar New Year Party
When: 5 to 7 p.m.
Where: ECM Center
About: An international program event celebrating the Year of the Horse. Food, music games and other activities are free and open to the public. Lessons in making dumplings and mochi will start at 3 p.m. before the event.
Saturday, Feb. 1
What: KU Wind Ensemble and KU Jazz Ensemble I Concert When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Lied Center About: A concert featuring the University wind and jazz ensembles. Tickets are $6 for students, children and seniors, and $8 for adults.
Sunday, Feb. 2
What: KU Prairie Winds Festival Concert When: 1 p.m. Where: Lied Center About: High school band students from across the country will perform on the final day of the weekend-long camp.
TECHNOLOGY
Android system offers texting privacy
DUNCAN MCHENRY
news@kansan.com
Tangled data web
Anything you electronically send or post, whether via Internet data service or through a cellular provider, may be used against you. In court, the authorities need probable cause and a warrant in most cases. However, hackers, and others who don't follow legal procedures, do not.
Scams targeting cell phone users and breaches in protected data storage have become relatively common. On Jan. 27, the Better Business Bureau warned Midwest residents of a new "One Ring" scam, in which programmed computers send thousands of calls to random cell numbers before hanging up after one ring. When the victim gets curious and calls back, they are connected to a paid international line and automatically billed about $20.
In the world of mobile apps, security researcher Steven Hickson announced last week that it took him just 30 minutes to write a program capable of automatically cracking Snapchat's latest security features.
Mike Kautsch, a KU professor of media law, said users can almost never count on complete security in their
messaging.
"All electronic messaging, regardless of the type, goes across the Internet through so many different connections and servers that it could go almost anywhere and be accessed by unknown parties at a number of different points," Kautsch said. "You may find copies reside on servers even in other countries and are accessible there."
Ensuring privacy
But for Android users, new security is now available for text messages. The custom Android operating system CyanogenMod — the equivalent of "jailbreaking" the phone — has now added the encryption app TextSecure to its messaging. As a result, CyanogenMod's roughly 10 million Android users will be sending encrypted messages by default, but iPhone owners can also choose to install the app.
Adam Mansfield, an attorney with KU Legal Services, said encryption is the only way to guarantee some degree of privacy in electronic messaging. Encrypted texts send with a complicated number sequence that "wraps" the data of the actual message and requires a code to unlock. The sequence can be broken without the code, but it takes a great deal of time and computer power.
"It's like putting a letter in an envelope," Mansfield said. "Your encryption is wrapping it up so nobody can see it while it's in transit; only the person who has the key to open up that envelope."
While Apple has said all iMessage communications are encrypted, security researchers have contested that Apple could choose to
"It's like putting a letter in an envelope. Your encryption is wrapping it up so nobody can see it while it's in transit."
ADAM MANSFIELD KU Legal Services attorney
decrypt messages themselves because they control the decryption keys. TextSecure, however, has been better received due to a feature called "perfect forward secrecy" that changes the decryption key with each message.
— allows users to argue for an expectation of privacy; so fourth amendment protection should apply because the content can't be "easily read if intercepted." He also said it is always a good idea to use a password or gesture
Mansfield added that, in terms of law enforcement, message encryption — which is also possible with emails
lock as there have been cases of police looking through a suspect's phone with and without a warrant. The law is currently unclear on whether the content of a single phone merits fourth amendment protection.
From a student perspective Clare Frantz, a senior from Lawrence, said she has heard of message encryption but doesn't use it herself.
"For some people who are really protective or careful about their messages I can see where that would be appealing," Frantz said. "For me personally it's not high enough on my priority list."
Students may be more immediately concerned with how future employers might access and use their social media content during hiring.
Kautsch said that, while the law is not plain, employers could find themselves in trouble for not respecting privacy settings of a platform such as Facebook.
"One of the greatest vulnerabilities is where employers get information that, if used against the prospective employee, might be a basis for a discrimination claim," Kautsch said. "For example, the employer would be barred from asking about a prospective employee's race. But, if they get that info by bypassing privacy settings on Facebook, then the applicant whose application is denied upon finding out that their race was known based on a background check on Facebook, that could open up liability."
Edited by Alec Weaver
- A text is sent from a phone with TextSecure installed.
- The receiver, who also has TextSecure, sees they've received a message but must first enter their password to unlock the content.
How TextSecure works:
- If the receiver can't check their phone at that moment, the content of the message is protected until the passcode has been entered.
WASHINGTON — For some White House allies, the list of executive actions President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address was marred by a fear glaring omissions.
Gay rights advocates are seething over Obama's refusal to grant employment discrimination protections to gays and lesbians working for federal contractors, safeguards they have been seeking for years. And some immigration overhaul supporters were disappointed that he did not act on his own to halt deportations, which have soared during his presidency.
POLITICS Obama omits several allies from address
On both issues, White House
"In the absence of congressional action, an executive order that prohibits discrimination by contractors is a tailor-made solution to the president's expressed aims," said Fred Sainz, vice president of Human Rights Campaign.
officials say the place for action is in Congress, where successful legislation would be far more sweeping than the steps the president could take by himself. But work on an employment non-discrimination bill and an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws is stalled on Capitol Hill, leaving advocates perplexed as to why their calls for executive action did not fit into Obama's vow to act "whenever and wherever" Congress will not.
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