The 31-year-old woman who lives in Turin said she was devastated when she saw the pictures, taken in summer 2006 during a holiday in Sicily, on the social networking site.
The man who said he wanted to stop her becoming a nun has refused to remove the pictures despite the woman’s requests.
Seems to me like a case of unauthorized use of personal images, violating her privacy, but also a situation that resembles blackmail. Italian privacy laws such as 675/96 and 196/03 will probably lead the Supervisory Authority (Garante) to dispense of this quickly on a personal level. The bigger question will be how Facebook handles the case and whether they will attract prosecutors based on the steps they take and when.
One of the comments is a complaint — Jose did not put his list in htaccess format.
I find this comment quite odd.
I suppose some people think this should be setup for automation, but Jose’s blog is more about threat analysis and thinking than silent automation.
Moreover, it’s only 14 IPs and easy to convert. If you add “deny from” in front of the IPs, it’s the format for htaccess. Add the line, for example, “deny from 64.34.228.126″…
Examples of lists without any analysis can be found on many sites such as Country IP Blocks already formatted for quick inclusion. What they lack versus Jose’s list should be obvious. Ukraine (ua) has one of the largest blocks of bad agents of any country, with little or no explanation why.
Darwin was also not aware that appendicitis, or a potentially deadly inflammation of the appendix, is not due to a faulty appendix, but rather to cultural changes associated with industrialized society and improved sanitation, [William Parker, an immunologist at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.] said.
“Those changes left our immune systems with too little work and too much time their hands – a recipe for trouble,” he said. “Darwin had no way of knowing that the function of the appendix could be rendered obsolete by cultural changes that included widespread use of sewer systems and clean drinking water.”
Now that scientists are uncovering the normal function of the appendix, Parker notes a critical question to ask is whether anything can be done to prevent appendicitis. He suggests it might be possible to devise ways to incite our immune systems today in much the same manner that they were challenged back in the Stone Age.
“If modern medicine could figure out a way to do that, we would see far fewer cases of allergies, autoimmune disease, and appendicitis,” Parker said.
So the lowly appendix actually served a security role, making us less vulnerable, which was made redundant by a decline in threats to our health.
“Who among us gets to choose when we’ll die?” [professional-pilot-turned-writer William Langewiesche, one of the most articulate people I know on the subject of flying and air safety] asked. So why be any more afraid of flying than we are of crossing a street? Good point. But with whom you fly matters. The Daily Beast compared the global statistics for the 25 airlines with the best safety records and those with the worst, and the differences are striking. The chances of you being on a flight with at least one fatality are 10 times greater in the loser bucket. And the chance of you yourself dying? Twelve times greater.
The difference within the U.S., which has uniformly far safer standards, is far less.
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Sorting through the data leads to all sorts of interesting factoids: Pilot errors have been getting fewer. The accident rate has been consistently lower than in the 1990s. Flying in a private jet is more than four times more dangerous than flying on a big carrier.
Then there’s location. “Where you are is more important than the model you’re in,” says Dr. Todd Curtis, the author of Understanding Aviation Safety Data and creator of AirSafe.com.
That makes sense. If you are on the ground…definitely safer than in the air. Spoiler alert: AirTran gets the nod for safety record, although it has only existed since 1997.