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''' INTERNET IN INVERSE '''
*FOILING SPIES FORTUNE* on business trips, and in every day struggles, is set to be The World Students Society's-
One very great advance. And never a retreat.
Governments the world over fear the 'net' and the anarchic freedoms it represents, freedom of speech and expression that governments find terribly inconvenient-
And seek to constrain and limit, often with considerable success as the citizens of China would- find were they to get the chance to use an Internet free of government filters.
Freedoms Constrained : Proud Pakistan, for one has a tendentious relationship at government level with the 'net' and has at various times over the years blocked access to all or part it for varying lengths of time.
For the sixth year in succession, Pakistan has been found to be 'not free' by Freedom House in its report for 2017 that was researched by the Digital Rights Foundation [DRF}-
An NGO that is thorn in the side of the administration and rightly lauded outside the country for its efforts.
The overall ranking for Pakistan stands at 71 -with 100 being the worst by way of state interference or constraint in terms of the 'net'.
The World Students Society thanks Express Tribune for its editorial insights and commends DRF for its diligence and tenacity, and prays that 'long it may be a thorn in the side of successive governments'.
To Belgrade, Serbia then and Steven Dojcinovic the editor in chief is one the unfortunate lab rats in yell and scream titled :
*Hey, Zuckerberg, my democracy isn't your lab*.
'Facebook has made a small but devastating change in Posts made by 'pages' -including those of organizations like mine -had been removed from the regular News Feed, the default screen users see when they log on to the social media site.
They were now segregated into a separate section called Explore Feed that users have to select before before they can see our stories. {Unsuprisingly, this doesn't apply to paid posts].
It weren't just in Serbia that Facebook decided to try this experiment with keeping pages off the News Feed.
Other small countries that seldom appear in Western Headlines -Guatemala, Slovakia, Bolivia and Cambodia -were also chosen by Facebook for the trial.
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 security 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 laptops 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 whenever possible-
And to avoid plugging other people's USB drives or other external hardware into their computers.
Laptop should also 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.
Sometimes circumstances beyond travelers' control expose their information, as when custom officers in an another country seize a person's device and copy its contents, she said.
''That's why any information not absolutely required for a trip should remain at the office,'' Ms. Miller said.
Maureen Sharma travels regularly to Asia as part of her work for Mullaly International, a small product development company in Seattle.
Some unsettling incidents, she said, have made her more cautious when she travels abroad.
''I often get more spam and strange emails that look like they are from me with attachments,'' when returning from her business trips.
Once, Ms. Sharma said, she received an email that looked as if it were from a Chinese factory she was working with, asking her to send the next payment to new bank account.
''Luckily, I called to confirm, because the factory had not sent that email,'' she said.
Ms. Sharma said she makes sure never to bring sensitive information to her laptop and changes all her passwords every time she returns home from any trip abroad.
When the Chinese company purchased the Waldorf Astoria in New York, President Barrack Obama stopped having meetings there over cybersecurity concerns.
Businesses, military and government information is being targeted for industrial espionage, said Evan Anderson, chief executive of Invnt/IP, a group dedicated to-
Combating nation-sponsored intellectual property theft, who writes about intellectual property security for the Strategic News Service website.
''So shouldn't we take the same precautions at home as we would abroad?''
Ms. Anderson said he created a map of Chinese-owned hotels around the world in 2016 and was surprised by how many they were, including some in Silicon Valley where technology companies hold meetings.
''Most people don't realize that an individual Four Seasons hotel, Ritz-Carlton, or many other brands can be owned by a Chinese company with close ties to the Chinese government,'' he said.
Of course, listening, spying and hacking can happen no matter who owns a hotel or where a meeting is.
''The Internet has no borders,'' Ms. Miller said.
''You could be hacked in another country or the U.S.. and you have no idea where that person is.''
With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Grandparents, Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all on !WOW! -the World Students Society and Twitter-!E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011:
''' Democracy & Drumbeats '''
Good Night and God Bless
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