In my experience, and in the experience of many others as well, unfocused attempts at visualization over raw, unreduced data produce visualizations that are not particularly useful for security operations. Â Visualization does have tremendous potential to bring value to security operations when leveraged properly. Â Performing data reduction by posing specific, targeted, incisive queries into the data provides a good starting point for producing visualizations of high value to security operations. Â Get the picture?
The same is true for eDiscovery data. I’ve seen many a user go straight to a visualization of email connections, for example, over their entire dataset, and then dismiss the use of visualizations because there’s nothing useful in it. Which, of course, there isn’t. You need to define what kinds of connections you’re looking for (Over a date range, to/from one particular custodian of interest, etc.) before you start looking at the pictures that are going to show them to you.
However, the article below goes on to note that Meta has options. It could create hurdles, it could delay and fight it. Neither of those would likely make much difference in the grand scheme.
Eva Galperin from the EFF, though, offers the best solution. She points out that tech companies can’t turn over what they don’t have.
It’s the collection. It’s the lack of end-to-end encryption. It’s all the information they keep about all of us forever. If they didn’t do that, it wouldn’t exist to be turned over.
They made a choice, and anyone using their services to communicate private information made theirs.
This is probably something everyone should at least be thinking about when they go to sell or return old devices. I will add one thing, however. Earlier versions of some smartphones have been shown to leave behind some data even after being reset to factory settings. It would require a lot of work, and expertise,…
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If the details in this story are true, Google is about to be absolutely complicit in violating the human rights of millions of Chinese citizens. Not just linking search history to individual phone numbers, but actively blocking material, replacing factual material with information straight from the government on things like weather and pollution levels. And…
Maybe the big thing is that most companies are not tech companies. They use tech, and they have an IT department, but it’s not their core function. If it’s not your core function do you want to be in the data center business?
