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Hosts & Guests
* Stuart Clark
* Derek Silva
Thanks to techdoz.ca (http://techdoz.ca) for the loan of the snowball mic.
Topics
* Canadian cops want to know your passwords
* http://www.macleans.ca/news/canadian-cops-want-to-know-your-passwords/ (http://www.macleans.ca/news/canadian-cops-want-to-know-your-passwords/)
* This past week the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police passed a resolution calling for a legal measure to unlock digital evidence. The CACP is saying that criminals increasingly use encryption to hide illicit activities, but at the moment there is not a law in Canada that would compel someone to provide their password to police during an investigation.
* The RCMP complains criminals are operating online almost entirely anonymously with the help of tools that obscure identities and messages, which is a phenomenon we’ve discussed before called “going dark.” On the other hand, OpenMedia calls the request from the Chiefs “wildly disproportionate” because of how much data would actually be provided in the case of a laptop computer, for example, and adds that “On the face of it, this seems like it’s clearly unconstitutional.”
* Canadian government launches public forum on cyber security
* http://mobilesyrup.com/2016/08/17/canadian-government-launches-public-forum-on-cyber-security/ (http://mobilesyrup.com/2016/08/17/canadian-government-launches-public-forum-on-cyber-security/)
* On Wednesday, the Canadian government announced they are launching a public forum on Canada’s cyber security landscape, and they are inviting members of the public to share their views. The forum is open now until October 15, 2016, and some of the topics covered include the evolution of cyber threats, the increasing economic significance of cyber security, the expanding frontiers of cyber security, and moving forward on cyber security.
* Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan said the government has a responsibility to be on the forefront of cyber security and online privacy. And there is a link to access the forum and provide your input here:
* http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cnslttns/cbr-scrt/index-en.aspx (http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cnslttns/cbr-scrt/index-en.aspx)
* Open365 – Clouding with style
* http://www.ocsmag.com/2016/08/17/open365/ (http://www.ocsmag.com/2016/08/17/open365/)
* Open365 is made up of LibreOffice, Seafile, and KDE, and is produced by the same team that brought us eyeOS back in 2007. You get an @open365.io username and email address, access to all of LibreOffice’s applications online, similar to Google Docs and Microsoft Office Online or Office 365, along with GIMP – the open source alternative to Photoshop.
* For the most part the reviewer is pleased with the current state of Open365. A few notable issues are that the entire directory of users is searchable when sharing a file, making it far too easy to determine who has Open365 accounts; the versioning feature contributes to your storage usage, but 20GB is a bigger quota than what Google Drive provides at 15GB; things can still be a bit slow at times in this beta stage, and of course there is the classic issue of LibreOffice simply being ugly.
* Password strength meters fail to spot easy-to-crack examples
* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/19/password-strength-meters-security (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/19/password-strength-meters-security)
* You should be seeing password strength meters more and more as you use the web. They are supposed to tell you when you’ve entered enough different characters to make a secure password when you’re signing up for a new site, but it turns out they may be next to useless according to a one security consultant.
* These meters often appear as a bar that goes from red to green, and they rank passwords using measures like complexity, length and character use. Unfortunately,
