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Illegal Super Bowl Streaming Is a Security Nightmare

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If you don’t have cable, but you want to see the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs fight it out in this year’s Super Bowl, you may find yourself among the millions of people worldwide seeking to stream the Big Game by any means possible.

Many viewers searching for Super Bowl livestreams will land on illegal sites seeking to steal data and install malware—a dark side to this otherwise festive event.

Last year, an estimated 7.7 million searched for “Super Bowl stream,” according to new data from VPNOverview(Opens in a new window). In total, the game attracted 99 million viewers (beyond just streamers), with 103 million tuning in for the halftime show. This year, search volume will likely be even higher. Beyond the game, viewers will want to catch Rihanna’s halftime show, her first major performance since her 2016 tour. Born in Barbados, she has among the largest(Opens in a new window) international fanbases of any artist.

While football is largely an American sport, potential streamers of the Super Bowl are all over the globe. Canada, home to the CFL(Opens in a new window) (short for Canadian Football League), edged out the US as the country with the most stream searches on a per-capita basis. The top five countries are all primarily English-speaking: Canada, the US, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia.

Even the tiny island nation of Malta, located between the base of Italy and North Africa, made the top 10 list on a per-capita basis: 670 people searched for the game last year, netting out to 12.92 per 10,000 people.

Looking at all streaming searches, more Americans (3.5 million) tuned in online than any other nation, followed by Canada (402,440). Germany made the next top spot, with 120,250 people wanting to catch the Super Bowl.

But while you’re happily cheering on your team and taking in Rihanna’s latest fashion, illegal sites might be having a feeding frenzy on your data behind the scenes. And not incidentally, there are legal ramifications of illegal streaming.

“Unregulated streaming websites are as tempting as they are dangerous,” says Djordje Djordjevic of VPNOverview. “People are still gravitating toward them because they’re convenient and usually free (or…

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CLE groups work together to develop cameras utilizing AI to slow illegal dumping

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CLEVELAND — Illegal dumping is off to a fast start in the City of Cleveland in 2023, but so is the city in its effort to combat the chronic problem with the development of surveillance systems utilizing artificial intelligence.

The city has teamed up the Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve University through the Internet of Things, or IOT Collaborative, to create a deployable smart camera system that will recognize illegal dumping as it’s taking place and report it to law enforcement.

The development project has been made possible through funding from the Cleveland Foundation.

Nick Barendt, CWRU executive director for the Institute for Smart, Secure, Connected Systems, told News 5 field testing on the systems will take place in the coming months.

“How do we harness technology, but make sure we’re doing it in a way that serves the public interest, said Barendt. “How do we improve the operational capabilities of these sorts of systems and reduce the false positives.”

Cleveland developing cameras utilizing artificial intelligence to slow illegal dumping

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Nick Barendt, Case Western Reserve University Executive Director, Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS)

Barendt said his team is gong to create a corridor on one of the campuses that can be used as a controlled test bed.

“Where we can drag boxes or furniture or whatever into the field of view and make sure we can detect those,” he said. “You’re detecting things coming into a cameras field of view, that the don’t leave the field of view within some reasonable amount of time. There’s going to have to be some privacy by design considerations, as well as signage and other things that we’re going to have to put up.”

CLE Developing AI cameras to slow illegal dumping

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The project will utilize some City of Cleveland camera technology currently in use.

Brian Ray, Cleveland State University law professor and director of the Center for Cyber Security and Privacy Protection, told News 5 the team is working to create smart cameras that won’t create neighborhood privacy issues.

“We don’t want a ‘big brother’ society, but we do want to get rid of illegal dumping,” said Ray. “We want to make sure that enforcement is efficient, but also make sure…

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UK issues a new maritime security strategy with a focus on illegal fishing, seabed mapping and cybersecurity

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A newly released strategy document from the UK government, published on 15 August, redefines maritime security as upholding laws, regulations and norms to deliver a free, fair, and open maritime domain.

The  ‘National Strategy for Maritime Security’ recognises illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and environmental damage to the seas as topics of maritime security concern.

Also on 15 August, the government announced it is establishing a UK Centre for Seabed Mapping to enable collaboration and collect more and better data.

UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: ‘Our new maritime security strategy paves the way for both government and industry to provide the support needed to tackle new and

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58 Pieces Of Information That Feel Illegal To Know (New Answers)

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The things that you know, all the skills that you’ve honed over the years—all of these can give you a massive advantage in life. Sure, pretty much everyone knows the phrase that knowledge is power, but how often do we realize how true that is? And sometimes that knowledge can make people feel guilty that they know it at all. The burden’s just too big to bear.

Some bits of info feel practically illegal to know even if they’re technically not. From being able to pick locks to knowing how atomic bombs work and how people taste and more, Reddit users opened up about the most esoteric, ‘forbidden’ pieces of knowledge they’ve accidentally stumbled upon.

We’ve collected the most honest and intriguing insights from these two r/AskReddit threads right here and here to give you a glimpse into a darker, more uncomfortable side of real-life, Pandas. Read on, upvote the answers that impressed you the most, and share your own bits of info that feel illegal to know in the comments. But before you do, take a look around to check if the FBI and CIA aren’t nearby in an unmarked white van.

Pssst, Pandas, if you’d like even more captivating but dark facts, you should definitely check out Bored Panda’s earlier article right here.

Bored Panda reached out to Steven Wooding for a chat about ‘forbidden’ knowledge, limiting access to information, and responsibility. Steven is a member of the Institute of Physics in the UK and part of the Omni Calculator Project team. He created the Weird Units Converter.

“There have to be some limits to information, for the protection of the general public and those trying to use such information,” Steven shared with us. “One area where this is common is in the field of computer security. The fine details of how to do an exploit are withheld to stop low-level hackers from simply following a recipe to cause havoc on the internet. We mustn’t make it too easy for bad people to do bad things.” Read on for the full interview.

Steven absolutely believes that people have more and more responsibility, the more information they know. “If you know potential dangerous information, you should protect it from the general public, or more specifically, people…

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