ceasefire casualty israeli troops fire on citizens in gaza one person is killed and several others injured so can the fragile two day old cease fire between hamas and israel hold an update straight ahead. and for most of us using computers and smartphones is a way of life but how safe and secure are they tonight will break down the top ten reasons you should be concerned about cyber security celebrities a misused with much more than regular people like you in the twitter fail a lot of people can get into some serious trouble in one hundred forty characters or less so tonight our team has the social media site may just society dumb or.

well good evening it's friday november twenty third eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our t.v. . let's begin with an update from the middle east where at this hour a cease fire between israel and hamas continues to hold now according to israel's journalism outlet deb a lot of this ceasefire could be owed to a phone call by president obama to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in which the president promised to send u.s. troops to the sinai peninsula that's the territory in north africa that is surrounded by the suez canal in the west and israel on the east now this does follow eight days of violence between gaza and israel that left more than one hundred sixty palestinians in gaza dead more of half of whom were civilians and that includes thirty seven children now four civilians and two soldiers were also killed in israel just a little while ago

a spokesman for the is israel's prime minister's office spoke to r.t. alex blames hamas for the deaths of all those civilians in gaza. these rule doesn't target civilians and if we heard civilians it's we see a failure in it but you have to understand that hamas militants from us terrorists the hide behind civilians the fire rockets on our civilians from schools from hospitals they hide the rockets in hospitals in schools we see that the fire rockets from apartments of buildings so if we do not want seaview and soon gaza to be hurt we call upon civilians and we do it before every strike we call upon civilians they will not be around the they will not let the terrorists to use them to use their houses to use their schools well of course the international community is keeping a close eye to see what will happen next that cease fire largely brokered by egypt

egyptian officials have said the rougher crossing will remain open both sides remain clear that they are ready to strike should the other show any signs of breaking the truce. while in the coming days there will be some things to keep your eyes out for regarding the future of your privacy in this country and the increased ways in which the government has decided protecting our privacy might no longer be top priority earlier this week we had a attorney a mr pan of h. on the show now she was one of two lawyers with epic the electronic privacy information center who filed a freedom of information request they wanted to make president obama's directive on cyber security public all out for a request was promptly denied and there are still so many americans who don't seem to be paying much attention to what's going on in the world of cyber security r.t. correspondent liz wahl has more. well here at r.a.t we pay close attention to what's happening on capitol hill regarding cyber security legislation but the

effects reach far beyond washington here are ten things in your daily life that are affected by cyber security first off your personal correspondence or e-mails are saved and can be accessed by the government and the private companies they contract and under current laws phone calls can already be listened to number nine your health the establishment of electronic medical records is a major part of health care reform but those records can be accessed by doctors and other health care providers some of whom aren't your personal doctor and also friends up these private records to vulnerabilities from hackers and at number eight your money using online banking apps makes banking information passwords and account numbers easily open to scanning via smart phone and bank servers can store it in a fine features of the devices used to access the information number seven your vote voting machines have long been called hackable and on election day we saw some

regularities stemming from both being allegedly altered as to the fact that many observers claim the current crop of technology is in need of serious oversight and should make many wonder but the possibility of throwing an election might not be too far from reality and number six mass transit transportation systems work thanks to information and transit system networks that control navigation traffic signalling systems traction power systems traveler information and fare collection systems all of which are vulnerable to cyber attacks and number five infrastructure parts of our critical infrastructure from electric grids to water pumps and filtration systems to nuclear plants and cellular all depend on computers to function. a number for government communication governments and corporations use security e-mail or secure e-mail or other systems to stay in contact but with

techniques like spearfishing these e-mail service can do breach plus should whistleblowers like bradley manning face life and solitary confinement for passing along this information. and number three global finance high frequency trading uses computer algorithms and technological tools instead of runners on an exchange floor of course time the global finance system to computers means that it is just another part of our world affected by cyber security and number two news and information news organizations use web content systems to plug in and share their stories and governments large and small connect with constituents via official web sites which can easily be taken down and distributed denial of service attacks they can also be hacked and last but not least the surveillance state big data is here to stay the ability to store and compress huge amounts of information is getting easier databases are already finding patterns giving individuals

a digital footprint between security cameras hiding and more and more places and cell phone location information there won't be many blanks to fill in and the privacy the expectation of privacy we have or at least our parents had will be lost . in washington liz wall r.t. . and you know there's other reasons to be concerned about new decisions being made in the name of cyber security well they may be beneficial to the government and to private industry they often come at the expense of individuals rights and we do have a few weeks specific examples to tell you about let's start with the case of andrew arnheim or he was convicted this week of stealing more than one hundred twenty thousand e-mail addresses of i pad users and illegally gaining access to the servers while he was charged with conspiracy to access a computer without authorization and fraud in connection with personal information but there's a whole lot more to this case it's not really very simple i was joined earlier by our two web producer andrew blake to help me fill in the holes. it's

a whole lot of holes that someone really needs to fill in because it seems like the justice department kind of screwed up when they were figuring out how to do this it goes back to two thousand and ten when you are and i learned a group called security they discovered that there was pretty much just a huge security flaw with eight hundred two servers and the serial numbers belong to all new i pads were linked to profiles that were hosted openly on the internet not password protected not encrypted if you knew where to look you could find them and instead of calling up eighteen thousand telling him you know telling a.t.t. this is what's up our neighbor went to the press and revealed ok look there's a huge security breach and thousands of thousands of customers can easily be targeted because of this but he didn't break into any security and you know he didn't fight he didn't do anything he just sort of exposed what he found and what he thought a lot of other people could find me to simplify it's more or less finding finding himself in the right place at the wrong time he discovered on the internet that you

can access all this information without having any sort of special credentials or history much just going into an address bar and typing a website it's as simple as that and finding something that's just sitting there on the internet now a lot of stuff gets put on the internet that people might not certainly want to find you might have a compromising pictures or or old high school poetry or something they don't want to end up on there but that's why you have to protect things in the case of eighteen today took thousands thousands of their customers and left their data sitting there on encrypted waiting for someone to go on time or to come along and say hi there's a problem here now he never hacked anything he was just smart enough to find out what was going on but because these laws are quite defined yet when they took them to a court in new jersey last week and they tried to charge him for this the jury only took around an hour to convict him on a couple of charges and now he's looking at prison so his attorney does plan on appealing but shows us that you can pretty much do anything and if a prosecutor tells the court one thing and convince the other way that no one is

really safe right now i think. you make a really really good point when it comes to laws and the internet there are a whole lot of things that just aren't defined they don't refer to the the legal you know or the case that took place a few years ago to try to solve this one talk a little bit about the precedent that this case could set for years to incredibly incredibly damaging one actually if if this case is in appeal properly and it stays as it is right now means that anyone who has anything on the internet ever on any sort of accessible network can take someone else to court just for finding it if if you don't take your own for cautions to ensure things are pretty protected securely they are open there for everyone that's why people don't give out passwords but with a ninety nothing was password protected it was just sitting there waiting for it in your own home or made a really good point when he was on trial he said that you know any computer in this instance is a protected computer the internet itself is a publishing platform and you don't have to call up google every time you want to

use google you just go onto google and you type something so hopefully i mean for the sea to save ourselves who use computers daily this this will be reanalyzed in another court retry and hopefully the person that was set this week in newark will not stand yeah absolutely and i do want to talk about someone else now jeremy hammond he's been behind bars for nearly eight months he's accused of being a member of and part of the group that hacked into that private intelligence firm strat for a whole lot going on here he was denied bail. talk a little bit about some of the other things we're learning about this case ok so you important thing yeah it's really going to have an himself was it was in court in new york this week and there was no conviction there was like you said he's still it's been eight months and there hasn't been a trial yet he's is hopefully going to be released on house arrest so that he can kind of you know get himself together before he goes into court for this and the judge went and said no you can't get bail because you're a dangerous person if we let you out you're going to see. out of your apartment

you're going to go to a coffee shop you're going to go onto a computer if you're going to steal credit card numbers again and you are pretty much a domestic terrorist so they had to stop him and say look sorry not only can't you get dealt but we're also thinking about putting you in prison for life and one really interesting thing here was that hammond he did he could be the very first american citizen charged with a crime relating to wiki leaks because we know that when those files provide him to julian assange and then from there are things going to steam rolled so it's really interesting case here because not only are we seeing that you know alleged computer criminals can be put away for a really long time but the government can easily be using this case to set an example for anyone else who dare do something that the government might not like protected network well the other thing too that i think you didn't mention is that the judge in this case is related to someone who actually was a client of stratfor yes yes yes i think. it's kind of funny actually had that the judge who was presiding over this case in

a new york district court her husband was one of the couple thousand clients of stratfor who subscribe to the email updates you caved in like twenty five dollars a month and you can get intelligence from this so-called global intelligence company sent to your inbox well the judge's husband was one of the few thousand people whose identities were compromised in this attack step stretford already filed they already came to a settlement with a class action lawsuit and we believe now that the judge's husband actually received that settlement because he was impacted by the heck so there's calls now from members of anonymous and members of the jeremy hammond solidarity network to try to bring this up into the media is something we're doing right now so that you know we realize oh maybe a judge someone with an arsenal interest in the case perhaps be sitting on the bench the judge is telling a twenty eight year old guy hi by the way you can't be released on bail and then we could put you away for life and didn't you tell me earlier andrew that this judge actually said he was as dangerous as

a sexual predator we have. she can use programs like tor the onion router which allows people to cover up their footprints when they do things online a lot of people use tor so that they can protect their identity when they're talking to sources or perhaps you know sharing information online in his case they believe that he used it when he was helping out tax transferred and distribute it spiles among members of law but because sexual predators can also use tor he's just as dangerous as them and so now he's going to be denied bail just last question and i mean bigger picture you know we sort of started off this statement talking about why this wasn't necessarily a great week for attack. and not so much for type of but for people who use technology for you know who have made it a part of their lives and for privacy rights i mean is there light at the end of the tunnel where we can hopefully what really we've been seeing for the last couple of months there's so many efforts on a congressional level to try to pass cyber security legislation and we already know that congress is having a hell of a hard time on their part trying to do that so ideally we can we can rely on the court system to take these little discrepancies but looks like we really can't

right now but hopefully these cases are getting the media attention slowly but surely that are necessary so that people will start voicing their opposition like remember what happened with sopa and even the n.d.a. when there is use things that started to seem like like fringe topics to begin with but when people realized oh ok so put that passes i can't do this on the internet so when they started getting in touch with their lawmakers who then decided oh wait maybe i shouldn't vote for this piece of legislation hammond may have actually committed a crime that's on the books life imprisonment for victimised victimless crime seems a bit harsher with our home or for all intents and purposes i think a lot of people go ahead and say that he never actually committed a crime all right certainly very interesting stuff here are two weapons use or injure blake thanks as always thank you. well for most school age kids around the country there's no school today the day after thanksgiving is usually a school holiday but one texas teen has been told she won't be allowed to return to

her school beginning on monday high school sophomore andrea hernandez was not found to be cheating on a test or ditching class she's not flunking out nor did she get in a fight with fellow classmates andrea hernandez has been told she can't return to school because she refuses to wear a student id card that's implanted with a g.p.s. identification chip she says it's against a religious belief well back to our county district court judge has just stepped in granting hernandez a temporary restraining order as she awaits trial by this is a case with a major implications so we want to speak with her attorney john whitehead he is a constitutional attorney john thanks for being on the show this is a project that john jay high school science and engineering academy called the student locator project what's up while all this well the point of the project supposedly is to raise money for the school if they can put this program until effect supposedly improve that they can increase attendance are supposed to make more money but the forest five hundred thousand dollars buying the chips from

a large corporate entity so money is obviously being made here but andrea had a religious objection to the having to wear the chip and the privacy concerns i mean even when she was in the bathroom she said she had to have a chip plus says she's not being treated equally if she doesn't have the chips you can access the library cafeteria she could she was told she couldn't vote the whole coming in or wink so she also ahead of half halts saying that she giving her objections to why she didn't wear this ship and they were told that she was told she couldn't do that well so i don't understand though the principle offered to actually have the chip taken out of the card why then does she still refuse to wear it. well her father and her talk they called me and they said well this is she still wearing the so-called smart id or student caterer badge what she's saying is i endorse the program and they feel so strongly about it that they

said she cannot and will not endorse the program so we filed for temporary restraining order on the constitutional issues and we just got a judge who says that they were going to expel him from school put out of school the judge says they can't do that because of the constitutional issues involved so she's gone but be back in school and there's going to be a hearing next week but this is so much bigger john than just one case talk a little bit about the legal precedent here as you mentioned you know the school already has surveillance cameras many schools have metal detectors what's the bigger picture here the bigger picture here this is the test project which will spread throughout the country and the question is going to be if those who do not ask into this program will they be punished as andrea andrea is a very good student by the way like you said she didn't cheat she doesn't she just very well this is the school that she worked her way to get into and she's being honest she will not go on with what she feels the constitutional violation of the

key to the case here is whether or not those who want privacy if they don't want to be in such a program have first meant the jackson whatever will they be punished so i think is that's why this case is very very very best i think is but here's the key i think all is well let's think and this is the all the whole thing was. kids' lives are. in school so it was on the record i. always be able to go be out of work if i think come next obviously again learned the. elite in the agency for whatever reason yet and this as you mentioned it's just a pilot program so we don't see this happening in schools across the country but here at the school the school officials want to. see this implemented at more than one hundred schools and more than one hundred thousand students and they say they want to increase attendance yeah and they say they say that this is supposed to

help them increase attendance by tracking the students whereabouts and therefore in the end they'll get much more money from the state government i guess so and talk a little bit about the system that's in place and what concerns you about the way it's set up by the way it's set up is agrees the bottom line. the right to privacy personal concerns all those things that make us human beings i mean so people that ask me what how what would you compare this to was like a chicken in a cage i think this is a contrast you wherever you go the government in the school of this flea when we grow up kids grow up in society when there's a trail of cameras everywhere now anyway and so the question is as human beings will we have any privacy in the future or well as we know and i can already predicted there will be no privacy but can can we have privacy sure they're going to people who are going to love. and that's important in this case is we want to protect those people who don't want to be part of a system they will buy a waste of human dignity and their constitutional rights yeah i think this is

certainly just the beginning of what we'll probably see will be many more cases like this i know your client hernandez has said that this is the implementation of the mark of the beast do you know what she meant by that. yeah in the book of revelation the new testament there's this prophecy about the anti christ that there will be a number of people and they will be able to buy and sell so that's their belief but incredibly in this case though that's come true if you don't have the chips you can go to the cafeteria the library you can't you don't have access to certain things so. i don't agree with that particular belief but again the constitution provides for the freedom of religion and when is this trial had to take place on. this come wednesday all right when you keep us posted thanks so much for being on the show constitutional attorney john whitehead thank you well in many ways social media has revolutionized and really for ever changed the way people communicate with one another thanks to facebook our friends in other parts of the world can see what

we're doing as we're doing it and of course thanks to twitter we know the place to post all of our deepest thoughts and insights as long as they're under one hundred forty characters are to correspond honest osseous are going to take the fun look at how twitter has changed us forever. one hundred forty million users. and millions of posts in one hundred forty characters every day from ones of questionable substance there's this really annoying phenomenon where people tweet what they have for breakfast i hate that like i don't care what you had for breakfast i don't want to see a picture of it i don't want you to tell me the ingredients and there's like a self obsession that that is the that is brought up by twitter to gaffes lending tweeters in big trouble like media mogul rupert murdoch tweeting about quote jewish owned media coverage of the israeli palestinian conflict only to later tweet an apology the culture of self obsession and political correctness has created a minefield the illusion of safety that people have when they're typing away on

their computer either from the safety of their office or from the safety of their home office sitting in their underwear in their parents' basement and they feel people really feel invulnerable i popping tweets from the rich famous and powerful often get them an earful of criticism not to mention the loss of potential endorsements it doesn't help that their twitter audience is so large celebrities have misused twitter much more than regular people like you and me john mayer. was answering all of his tweets and posting updates at the same time he had been telling jennifer aniston he was too busy to take her calls this a celebrity gossip journalist michael musto says ridiculous twitter behavior will exist as long as those in the public eye tweet before they think twitter is a treat for scandal lovers auto giant chrysler had to apologize for a post on people not knowing how to drive on a reality t.v. star kim carr dashing deleted tweets amid death threats after being pro israel then

pro gaza then pro both sides driven well past the last exit to relevance billionaire donald trump selection one twitter rage almost stole headlines as the media announced election results this election is a total sham and travesty we are not a democracy the world is laughing at us which is funny because the world laughs at donald trump a lot more than they laugh at obama trump became one several of. republicans whose excessive critique went viral over elections and coulter said that that she called for rock obama a retard first of all it's just respecting the president and also which of course she does every day every week in her column anyway but also you know retard is obviously an offensive word. and you know it's a slur against the mentally disabled consultant tweets aside outright wacky wants often get more attention and tougher consequences than they deserve if a blog is a column without responsibility then a tweet is like a fart online it's

a brain fart you can say anything you want and i think it's kind of crazy that people are held responsible for what they tweet i mean i guess it's the winner might be an exception a mix of point formats and misuse of the microblog made the congressman an infamous symbol of what not to do on twitter he's just a great example of the slip of the tongue right or slip of the finger or slip of the twitter or slip of the tweet right that can get you in trouble i need to do is tweet something that you mean can direct method in your career is over politicians of course should be tweeting because everybody should be tweeting but they should really be very careful to also be fair to not post half naked pictures of yourself looking a rousing to anybody because it only takes a few seconds to send a tweet many people forget about its longevity a tweet will remain online for ever even if deleted so why not think twice before clicking as abraham lincoln said it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt and. r.t.

new york. well today is considered one of the busiest shopping days of the year there are ads and specials and mas mobs of people committed to shopping until they drop but how is it that a holiday season that's supposed to be about caring and sharing kicks off in a way that's centered around spending and consuming laurie harshness with the resident on that spoke to several people in new york city for more on that. the holidays have arrived in the united states but instead of talking about family and religion americans seem only to be talking about. why is that this week let's talk about that do you think that americans are aware of the irony of having a crazy frenzied shopping day the day after we give thanks for what we already have best day of the year which one thanksgiving or black friday the day after black friday exactly you love it yeah it's a great time of year to go shopping and trample people. the world's ending anyway

twenty two. so we don't have to worry about fixing our consumerism we don't have to worry about shopping nothing do you think it's an american thing or do you think it's a worldwide thing. i think americans are probably worse than do you think americans are a little too obsessed with shopping for the holidays no i think it's great it's wonderful to get out but it's spending money and stuff you don't necessarily need that over the holidays or about what's makes the economy go round is that the most important thing you know we're hearing from this great are people obsessed with shopping where you're from well yes because we know the whole reason why we come here so we can show so we are obsessed and we count life it's from our what does it say about us as a society it's humanity that we're so obsessed with consumerism. i think it's very pretty sad why do you think americans are so crazy about shopping during the holidays. media you guys. i doubt everyone's advice

that exactly and so they do i haven't seen one commercial for jesus i haven't seen one commercial for volunteers i haven't seen one commercial about the spirit at all but i've seen plenty rich shopping why is that. the material aspect of society there they push it and we fall into that trap those that are fault for falling into the trap it's a combined effort by a. non human humanistic. with an economy in the tank a climate in shift and a world at war it might behoove us off to focus less on consuming and more on what's really important the holiday and. well that's going to do it for the news for this week but be sure to tune in next week want to tell you some of the stories that we're going to be focusing on will a ceasefire between israel and hamas hold israel only agreed to the cease fire

after president obama promised military muscle in the sinai peninsula the egyptian territory and north africa so what does washington getting the u.s. into by sending twenty five hundred troops to the region and now those protests underway in egypt after president mohamed morsi gave himself more power the u.s. support of the arab spring in egypt so how will they react to these latest protests in the ever changing middle east and the twenty twelve election is over and conservatives lost a look at how religious affiliation played a big role in the way americans voted and how we're non-religious voters are changing the political playing field well that is going to do it for us for now but for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america or check out our website it's r t dot com slash usa and you should follow me on twitter you can find me at christine for is out for now have a great night and a great weekend.