Discussed Articles

1) China Dabbles in Pre-Crime

The Communist Party has directed one of the country’s largest state-run defense contractors, China Electronics Technology Group, to develop software to collate data on jobs, hobbies, consumption habits, and other behavior of ordinary citizens to predict terrorist acts before they occur.

* http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-03/china-tries-its-hand-at-pre-crime

2) How to Hire Good Security Engineers

A survey of some good articles about how to do useful interviews and hire good security nerds.

* https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-hire-the-best-just-like-everyone-else/

* https://danielmiessler.com/study/infosec_interview_questions/

* https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-phone-screen-questions

* https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers#software-engineer:-services--applications

* http://philcalcado.com/2016/03/15/on_asking_job_candidates_to_code.html

3) FBI Abandons It's Order to Apple

The FBI files a motion to vacate their order to Apple to help them remove the security controls on the iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters.

* https://threatpost.com/fbi-drops-its-case-against-apple/116918/

* https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2773542/031123152171.pdf

* http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=5966

Breach of the Week

OPM Breach: It's Worse Than You Thought

In which we learn that more and more incredibly personal information was stolen from the OPMs systems.

* https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-opm-hack-far-worse-you-imagine

* https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnla/2015/04/26/defenders-think-in-lists-attackers-think-in-graphs-as-long-as-this-is-true-attackers-win/