Headline Nov. 19/ ''' MOURNING TEARS MOORING '''

''' MOURNING TEARS MOORING '''

*TEARS- YESTERDAY* : ONE FATHER threw *two girl-angels* to river. He was overcome before he could throw the others. Three, Yes 3 more.

The World Students Society, the entire world over, every single student the world over mourns, uncontrollably. 

Merium, Rabo, Dee, Haleema, Paras, Sorat, Zilli, Saima, Lakshmi, Sara, Rita  Masih, Seher, Eman, Armeen, and all students of the world, to pray to Almighty God for benevolence and mercy.

Wiping away tears, The World Students Society doubles its efforts in the great advance of the world students, to build a better world. And for that I go about addressing your recurring question:

Freedom, in the  Developing World, especially considering the Internet, and its multiplying roles in daily life, is something beyond illusion.

All Governments world-wide fear 'Net' and the anarchic freedom it represents. More on it, I assure you all, just as Zilli and research team wind up their conclusions.    

FACEBOOK : THE WHOLE WORLD'S most powerful social media company thinks it can experiment on whomever and whatever it wants.

''Hey, Zuckerberg, my democracy isn't your lab.'' And that's what Steven Dojcinovic tosses up to reason and understand:

Belgrade-Serbia : '' My country, Serbia has become an unwilling laboratory for Facebook's experiments to user behavior -and the independent, nonprofit investigative journalism where I am the editor in chief is the unfortunate lab rats.

Last month, I noticed that our stories has stopped appearing on Facebook as usual. I was stunned. Our largest single source of traffic, accounting for more than half of our monthly page views, had been crippled.

Surely, I thought, it was a glitch, it wasn't.' It wasn't just in Serbia that Facebook decided to try this experiment with keeping pages off the News Feed.........

More on all of the above, as I revert to an important subject for the Headline content : For the whole of the corporate world.

The admonition to business travelers headed to other countries should be familiar by now : Keep your laptop with you at all  times.

Stay off public Wi-Fi networks. Don't send unencrypted files over the internet.

But not all travelers are heeding them, and many are unaware of the hackers and state-sponsored  spies who are taking advantage of their lax security practices.

''There's a difficult intersection between convenience and security,'' said Samantha Ravich, who studies cyber related economics warfare at the Foundation for Defense Democracies, a policy institute focusing on national security.

It takes more time to work abroad in the most secure way, and she said she would ''often see executives hanging their head somewhat sheepishly when I ask who in the room follows all the security protocols.''

The theft of technical product specifications, investment plans, research on mergers and acquisitions, marketing plans and other information can have consequences beyond-

Loss of revenue and market position, Ms Ravich told the Senate Foreign relations Committee this year.

She described potential large-scale affects of state-sponsored economics and warfare, which, she said-

Could disrupt the delivery of items crucial for manufacturing, malware incidents that could disrupt travel and cyber attacks that could force companies to shut down their websites. 

The problem of intellectual property theft is not new, but it is now much more widespread.

''Placing listening devices in conference rooms, hotels and restaurants, is traditional Espionage 101,'' Ms. Ravich said. 

But with tools like tiny inexpensive cameras and microphones or compromised Wi-Fi networks, corporate or state-sponsored industrial espionage ''can be done cheaply and at scale,'' she said.

Multiple microphones in a conference center, for instance, can be recording constantly, and those recordings can be feed into language processing software trained-

To flag certain words and report those conversations. ''It's not just a guy with headphones listening in the next room anymore,'' Ms. Ravich said.

Communicating over the internet while abroad can be especially fraught said Nicole Miller, an independent consultant in San Francisco who helps companies communicate with employees and customers on cybersecurity issues.

''Assume any data, any information you transmit can be taken by a hacker, nation-state or another business,'' she said.''These are not pedestrian tools they are using. They are extremely sophisticated.'' 

Physical security of phones, tablets and laptop is as important as cyberprotection, Ms. Miller said.

''Don't leave your laptop or papers in your hotel room when you go out,'' she said. A hotel room safe should not even be considered secure.

Ms. Miller said she advised travelers to create complex passwords for their devices and all of their online accounts, to use two-factor authentication when ever possible and-

To avoid plugging other people's USB drives or other external hardware into their computers.

Laptops should be wiped clean of any data and software at the end of the trip, she said. ''Your device could have been altered, your data could have been altered,'' without your realizing it, Ms. Miller said. 

The Honor and Serving of the latest Operational Research on Life, Technology and Living  continues.

IN MOURNING, with respectful dedication to the Leaders, Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all on !WOW!  -the World Students Society and Twitter-!E-WOW!  -the Ecosystem 2011:

''' The World's Advance '''

Good Night and God Bless

SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless