This hearing comes at a time when americans are getting clobbered by climbing rents and home prices, key drivers of inflation. Data released last week showed that rents increased in june at the fastest rate since 1986. Buying a home is getting more expensive. Many young people who have modest incomes or big student loan debt, feel like the dream of Home Ownership has slipped out of their reach. The root cause is, the United States is not building enough housing. It has been that way for decades, and the shortage is affecting citizens and cities all over america. For example, my hometown of portland, as skyrocketing rents and low supply of suitable housing. It is also an issue, though, in central oregon, southern oregon, and eastern oregon, where they cant build enough housing fast enough to keep up with demand. Id be willing to bet that every member on this panel is hearing the same story. Now im going to talk about a number of issues this morning, and i would just like to raise a rela
Disclosure detailing alarming allegations about twitter security practices. Without objection, his disclosure will be entered into the record. The name is peter. Thank you for joining us. You are here to serve a subpoena, so that the public can hear the details of your disclosure. Youve alleged a number of security flaws and weaknesses within, flaws that may pose a direct threat to the safety and privacy of twitters hundreds of millions of users as well as Americas National security. This actually began in 20 11 when the ftc, the federal trade commission, first concluded that twitter was playing fast and loose with user data. They found that twitter had deceived customers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information. The company was ordered by the ftc to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality and integrity of user data. But you have claimed those changes have never been made. And more broadly, you have alleged that compared to other companies
Sen. Durbin resuming the hearing. Sen. Whitehouse for questions. Sen. Whitehouse . Thank you very much. Mr. Zatko, i wanted to follow up a little bit on the repeated suggestions you have made in your testimony that the cybersecurity vulnerabilities will expose the United States to risks and to attacks and that security failures threaten the countrys National Security. Good with that . Peiter yes, sir. Sen. Whitehouse i guess he didnt add buyers we saw the same thing with facebook when they were taking ads with payments denominated in rubles and not figuring out that might have been russians behind those ads, and you mentioned concerns about hidden chinese ad buyers. If we could talk a little bit more about the National Security risks associated with, for instance, the unregistered Saudi Foreign agent who worked at twitter or the pressure to hire Indian Government agents, walk us through a scenario of how an individual planted in twitter like that could create a National Security risk f
Up next, a forum on the occupy movement. This is one hour and a half. [applause] thank you very much, everyone, for coming. Thank you to the department of Political Science. Today, we have for pronounced we have for pamela spirit we will have a bit of discussion between them and then moved to audience discussion. First, deborah is the this is a professor of ethics and society. She is also the senior associate dean for the humanities. She is a member of the Philosophy Department and director for ethics and a society. Her research focuses on the ethical limits of the markets. A place of equality in a just society and a rational choice. She also works on ethics and at the in education. She is coeditor of the forthcoming collection, occupy the future. He is a graduate of mit and an early participant in occupy washington occupy boston. He specializes in web applications and design. A cofounder in danger of some in cambridge. Actually, just in Central Square. If he continues to be engaged in
Coverage live of the house and senate and also the Certain Committee hearings. I think they are very informative to the public to get to see what really happens in congress. I like the way cspan covers the fact that it just presents itself what is really happening with a little bit of commentary maybe, but not really edited out. It is just what they want to present to the american people. Bill watches cspan on comcast. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Supporters of the occupy movement, it began as a protest against social and inequality, this 90minute event was strongly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of technology and the Boston Review. Thank you very much, everyone, for coming. Thank you to the department of Political Science. Today, we have for pronounced we have for pamela spirit we will have a bit of discussion between them and then moved to audience discussion. First, deborah is the this is a