Organic food delivery service expands to Peru – Kokomo Tribune
Posted: March 12, 2017 at 11:46 am
Green BEAN Delivery, the regions largest online natural and organic grocery delivery service, has announced it is expanding its services to cover residents in Peru.
Beginning at 3 p.m. on Oct. 20, members can shop online from a full selection of local, organic produce and all-natural, artisanal groceries and have them delivered directly to their doorsteps.
We are excited to continue growing throughout our home state of Indiana, providing the Peru community with the freshest produce and thousands of all-natural and local, artisanal groceries, said Shane Towne, president of BEAN, LLC, parent company of Green BEAN Delivery, in a press release.
We take great pride in helping area farmers and artisans showcase their amazing products, each week, in our online grocery store, he said.
One of those local farmers is Mark Boyer, who started the company Healthy Hoosier Oils with his dad at their Converse farm in March 2015. The farm grows sunflowers and canola, which they turn into cooking oil using a cold press.
For around two years, Green BEAN Delivery has distributed their product. Boyer said now, its great to see the delivery service coming to his home turf.
This is a wonderful resource in our community for many healthy and specialty foods that were previously unavailable, he said in an email. Their service is growing, but not yet in many areas with populations the size of ours.
To become a Green BEAN Delivery member, residents can sign up, select their bin preference and delivery frequency, and begin exploring the virtual aisles of the online store. Every order is customizable with members choosing from thousands of organic, all-natural and local and artisanal offerings.
Peru residents who want to become members can register at http://www.greenbeandelivery.com/PeruWabash. The first 50 Peru residents who sign up will receive a special discount of 20-percent off of their first three grocery orders. Membership does not come with contracts or commitments, and delivery is free when the selected bins minimum order is reached.
The company was founded in 2007 by Matt Ewer and his wife, Beth Blessing, who said in press release their goal was to make local, organic produce and natural groceries convenient, affordable and accessible to area communities. Now, the company boasts the Midwest and Souths largest network of farmers and artisans with organic and sustainable practices.
The delivery service also operates a 60-acre organic farm in Sheridan, Indiana, where they grow a wide variety of vegetables and also is home to more than five acres of blueberry bushes. The produce from the farm is included in their bins.
Besides its online service, Green BEAN Delivery has also committed to combating food insecurity by donating over 950,000 pounds of fresh produce to food banks in the communities it serves. They also partner with anti-hunger organizations to increase the flow of fruits, vegetables and grocery items into emergency food assistance programs.
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Busy weekend? Try this 10-minute meditation routine to relax – GrindTV
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Youve worked 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday, and youre looking forward to the weekend.
That is, until you remember youve got a fun run on the shcedule, and your sisters cousins husbands nieces first birthday on Sunday, and youve got a long list of chores around the house that need attention.
If your weekend is shaping up to be less than relaxing, try incorporating 10 minutes of meditation into your weekend routine, to give your brain a break.
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The key to meditation is calming the mind. For most people, this may seem impossible, but with a few minutes of focused breathing, sitting still and letting yourself be truly calm, it will start to seem less impossible to find your zen.
The benefits of mediation range across many areas of life, from reduced stress to improved concentration. An article from the Huffington Post on the subject says that meditation encourages a healthy lifestyle, increases self-awareness, increases happiness, increases acceptance, slows aging, and improves cardiovascular and immune health.
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There are thousands of videos for guided meditation online, some with specific goals like decreasing anxiety, and others with more general aspirations.
If videos arent your style, you can also download a meditation app that can guide you to enlightenment, whenever you need it. Some of the more popular apps include Headspace, Buddhify and Sattva, but there are hundreds more to choose from.
Whatever your method, by incorporating meditation into your weekend routine (busy or not), youll be your most prepared for the week ahead.
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In the Neighborhood: A Meditation on the Golden Rule, Cheaters, and Prophets – Patheos (blog)
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Jan and I were walking into the parking lot after a quick run to one of our local grocery stores, when we noticed a bumper sticker. At first glance it seemed one of those co-exist stickers with the letters twisted out of symbols from the world religions. However, as we looked more closely we could see it was a parody of that sticker and instead, while using world religions letters it read contradict.
Im certainly okay with that. I mean, after all. But, then in smaller print was a citation of a popular chapter and verse from the Gospel of John. So, it appears the meta message here is that while the worlds religions do indeed contradict each other all over the place, there is, actually, among them, a true one. And, in case were confused, heres a pointer to which one that is. Okay. We all have the right to an opinion.
But, I have to say, if I had to pick a true or, more accurately the truer one among the many, as fond as I am of my natal lineage, and how much the stories of the Bible have a place in my heart, it just wouldnt be Christianity. In Arthur C. Clarkes novel Childhoods End theres a kind of time machine, it cant be used to travel, but one can look at the events of the past. Once people got to see how all the religions got going the only one left was a very modified and deeply simplified form of Buddhism.
Me, I think that would be true, although I believe a simplified form of Daoism based exclusively on the so-called philosophical Daoists, and a similarly pretty pared down form of Confucianism might be able to stand the scrutiny of that time viewer. I fear thats it.
That said,I think that slogan contradict is important, and a wise complement, as well as challenge, to cooperate. Among the difficulties with the cooperate, is the impliedthey all teach the same truth. You dont have to go very far into a study of comparative religions to know how deeply they are not all the same. And, even to make the claim, somewhere way, way down at bottom they are all the same is going to be rough slogging. Some believe in creator, some do not. Some see an end to time, while some do not. Some see souls and some do not. Its pretty hard to find that very far to the bottom place where they are all the same.
But, there is one area where near as I can tell all the religions seem to in fact agree. Interestingly, most, maybe none consider it their primary teaching. But they all have it, and they all consider it pretty important. And that common thing is the Golden Rule, which most of us here in English speaking North America know in its formulation in the Gospel of Luke, in the King James version, as do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The golden rule goes way back and it is found all around. As far as written records go some see it as far back as two thousand years before the common era in the Egyptian story the Eloquent Peasant. Reading it, frankly, I find that a stretch. The Odyssey, which might trace as far back as seven hundred years before the common era, has the goddess Calypso tell Odysseus shell be as careful for him as for herself, because she knows what is right and fair. Among the pre-Socratic philosophers of Greece both Thales and Pittacus of Mytilene, call us to not do that which we would not have done to us. And, while the rule isnt particularly obvious in Socrates, Plato or Aristotle (although I thank them deeply for that other bit of gold, the Golden Mean), the current continues to pop up among the Greeks here and there.
The Hebrew scriptures with strata that approach the Eloquent Peasants composition although as we understand the text more likely written closer to four or five hundred years before the common era in Exodus we are admonished to not oppress the foreigner, and in Leviticus to straight out love your neighbor as yourself. It is found in the hadith, the recorded sayings of the prophet Mohammed, and throughout muslim and particularly Sufi literature.We can find the Golden Rule in the Dhamapada, a collection of sayings attributed to Gautama Siddhartha, the Buddha of history. Confucius, from about the same period, tells us in his Analects not to do to others, what you would not want them to do to you. And the list just goes on and on. There are Muslim, Jewish, and Christian version, there are Hindu, Jain, and Buddhism versions, there is a Zoroastrian version. The gold rule abides among them all.
Even in our more secular era, we see it continue to be presented. For instance, some see a philosophical variation in Immanuel Kants categorical imperative, Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law. And for me, even more intriguing, Charles Darwin, writing in the Descent of Man opines that the social instincts the prime principle of mans moral condition with the aid of active intellectual powers and the effects of habit, naturally lead to the golden rule. As ye would that men should do to you, do ye to them likewise, and this lies at the foundation of morality.
And it may be even reflect natural patterning. Donald Pfaff, author of the Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule, tells how he read a paper by William Hamilton and Robert Axelrod showing that they could teach computers to behave in a according to what you could call reciprocal altruism, a fair-play principle.
Im moderately confident that the intuition that gives us the Golden Rule, and incidentally the Golden Mean, are built in, about as close to the hard wiring of our humanity as it gets. I am pretty sure it has something to do with our being mamas and herd animals. Although there is more to it, as the fact a computer can find a fair-play principle, suggests. Cooperation is critical to our survival.
All rather wonderful.
And, yes, shall we say, of course theres a fly in the ointment. This sense of fair does indeed seem to be built into our human consciousness. Generally we dont need an admonishment for something we all do. And, at about an equal level of strength so is a predilection to cheat, to advance ourselves over others. Human beings constantly are doing things that hurt others.
And, of course, we need that sense of self and that impulse for survival and advancement. Both of these goods, taken to extremes become destructive. Although, frankly, while absolutely see people who miss that the care for one another also means themselves, the excess that is more common, and dangerous in many directions is the preservation of ones self at all costs.
So, of course, the reality is we human beings live within a tension between these poles of our hearts.
And I suspect we may be looking at the deep structures of something else common among religions here. That is the problem of evil. Here we see something else common among the religions, a condemnation of the strong preying upon the weak. While there have always been a handful of people who value selfishness, Im looking at you Ayn Rand, these have always been outliers. The overwhelming majority of human beings and our religions rest upon a foundation of cooperation, of looking out for ones neighbors, of treating the other as we would treat ourselves.
But there is this conflict between selfishness and altruism. In some religions it becomes a cosmic war. And while in most good eventually prevails, I can think of at least one example where the forces of chaos eventually wins. The tension runs deep.
And, then, we can look around at the world we live in today. We have just elected a president who draws the smallest possible circle of who gets to be a neighbor, whose actions seem vastly more in concert with Ayn Rand than with Jesus, Buddha, or, for that matter, Darwin.
Now, in Jewish history in such harsh times when the rich put their boot on the neck of the poor, prophets arise and rail against the imbalance.
I consider these things, and I wonder if that prophet isnt getting ready to stand in front of the White House?
It feels that time is at hand.
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New Music: GoldLink feat. Jazmine Sullivan & KAYTRANADA … – Rap-Up.com
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GoldLink takes fans on an artistic trip inside of a nightclub in the video for his Jazmine Sullivan and KAYTRANADA-assisted single Meditation.
The clip shares an animated depiction of the club scene while GL raps about a complicated relationship with an ex. I still call ya, he raps. Whichever way you want it, baby girl, its on ya / I got the money, you got the problems, so I can solve it / But I still need ya / I still see ya.
Then, Jazmines soothing vocals shine throughout the KAYTRANADA-produced cut. I want to be more than homies, she sings. I just want to be your baby, your one and only.
While the song is soothing and romantic, things end in chaotic fashion, as gunfire erupts, and the visual fades to black.
Speaking of the track, GoldLink reveals the inspiration is rooted in his hometown. Meditation is a quick glimpse into DC Go-Go and street culture, he said. Its kind of like a West Side Story, in a way as far as its a guy who sees a girl. This guy is from one neighborhood and the girl is from another rivaling neighborhood. They see each other across the room. He talks to her, they reminisce, they laugh, and then a confrontation happens.
Meditation and the previously-released single Crew (featuring Shy Glizzy and Brent Faiyaz) are both set to appear on GoldLinks forthcoming project, which will be his first since 2015s And After That, We Didnt Talk.
Next, GoldLink is heading out on a string of separate shows with KAYTRANADA, Little Dragon, and Denzel Curry, starting with Coachella next month.
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Would preaching like Jesus be welcome in your church? – Patheos (blog)
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The Sermon on the Mount Carl Bloch, 1890 Wikipedia
Would your church cope with hearing preaching like Jesus? Has it ever struck you how very different the preaching of Jesus is to the preaching in the average church today? So much so, that if a young man came to your church to preach with a view like Jesus preached, I suspect he would be more likely to be politely thanked rather than asked to become your pastor.
In this post I will simply highlight some of the differences between the preaching of Jesus and many modern sermons. Im not suggesting that we simply ditch all our modern ways and preach exactly like him, but its definitely a useful excercise to think about these differences and whether our ways are always the best.
To begin with a minor difference of posture: Jesus almost always preached sitting down, most modern preachers preach standing up.
Jesus preaching focused on the felt needs of his audiences, often starting from a question he was asked and demonstrating how he had come to set the captives free. Preachers today always start with a Bible passage, and often focus more on the message than its hearers.
Jesus preached sermons which had no obvious structure. Preachers today usually announce three points, which sometimes feature clever alliteration.
Jesus preaching was simple and used common language. Modern preaching is often complicated, using theological terms, sometimes without even explaining them.
Jesus preaching was full of stories. Some preachers today believe illustrations are unnecessary padding.
Jesus sermons were intensely practical and filled with how tos. Much modern preaching is all about abstract theological truths or denouncing the things that society is doing wrong.
Jesus referred to the Scripture of his day in passing, often citing verses out of context to make his point. Modern preaching prides itself on being expositional and working systematically through Bible passages.
Jesus preached with authority. Todays preachers quote commentaries or other preachers as authorities to support their interpretations.
Jesus often used hyperbole and exaggeration designed to shock and not be taken literally. Our congregations like to hear preaching that is measured, calm, and doesnt raise eyebrows.
Jesus listeners would sit for hours to hear him raptly. Modern preaching tends to be limited to 45 minutes or less but still sends some people to sleep.
Jesus gathered crowds of thousands that would walk for miles just to hear him. Today we get suspicious of any preacher who can gather more than a couple of hundred people, suspecting he is being unfaithful in some way.
Jesus sermons changed lives. Our preaching fills notebooks.
Jesus sermons purpose was to save the lost. Our sermons are aimed at educating the saints.
Jesus crafted short memorable phrases that get his point across and can easily be used as tweets. Modern preachers often despise the age of soundbites as superficial.
Jesus preaching provoked both furious hatred towards him that got him killed, and adulation that spilled onto the streets. Many modern preachers are satisfied with a that was a lovely sermon, Vicar and rarely provoke anyone.
Jesus preaching laid out his personal unique claims, and calling people back to God through him. Our preaching often assumes all its hearers are already saved and rarely presses people for a response.
Jesus preaching was accompanied by dramatic miracles. Our sermons are followed by a rousing hymn or chorus.
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Worst attack in two years, Maoists kill 12 CRPF men in Sukma – The Indian Express
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The Indian Express | Worst attack in two years, Maoists kill 12 CRPF men in Sukma The Indian Express This is an area where a road is planned, and while there is no active construction at the moment, the CRPF moves around as a routine area-domination excercise. According to our information, a total of 110 men left the post, but this was something they ... |
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Why Zumba Is Insanely Good Exercise – TIME
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Zumba was born in Colombia in the 1990s, quite by accident. A fitness instructor forgot to bring his usual workout music to class, so he grabbed some Latin albums from his car, ditched the constraints of a traditional workout and danced just like he would at a club. His class followed along, sweating to the salsa and rumba beats, and loving it.
Since then, Zumba has pitched itself as more of a party than a workout. Indeed, some research suggests it may be the very best workout for people who hate to exercise.
A Zumba class is like any other instructor-led workout, but with simple dance moves heavy on the hips and step counts. Those moves add up to a decent sweat, says John Porcari, a professor of exercise and sport science at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. He and his colleagues analyzed a group of women who were Zumba regulars and found that a 40-minute class burns about 370 calories, a little more than nine calories per minute. Thats roughly the same amount youd work off if you ran at a slow-ish pace or biked at 15 miles per hour for the same amount of time.
People worked hard in the class, too. We found that they exercised at about 80% of maximum heart rate, and 60% V02 max, which is a measure of oxygen used during exercise, he says. We found its a pretty good workoutsimilar to moderately intense exercises like step aerobics or cardio kickboxing.
But the most impressive part of Zumba is how much it appeals to people who stay away from exercise. A study in the American Journal of Health Behavior showed that when women with type 2 diabetes and obesity did Zumba three times a week for 16 weeks, they lost an average of 2.5 pounds and lowered their percentage of body fat by 1%. More importantly, the women enjoyed the class so much that they made it a habitvery unusual for an aerobic exercise program. After the study had ended, most the participants continued going, says study coauthor Jamie Cooper, an associate professor at the University of Georgia. It seems like most of them had fun, made friends and didnt see Zumba as hard work."
The workout-in-disguise has unique physical and mental health benefits. Another study linked Zumbas hip-swinging, stomach-gyrating movements to increased core and trunk strength and better balance in older overweight women. After just eight weeks, the womens quality-of-life scores jumped 9% and their self-esteem increased 16%. A related study on Zumbas psychological benefits found that people who practice it feel more independent and said that their lives seemed more purposeful.
Its not hard to see why the activity would be invigorating and freeing. You have to let go and have fun during Zumba, Cooper says. Just as some people with anxiety take improv classes to relieve their social skittishness, dancing around other people may help Zumba-goers feel less shy or self-conscious about their bodies.
The workout may be especially helpful for older adults who can't run or do more intense workouts (or for those who don't want to). One 2015 study found that even scaled-back versions of Zumba can help older adults keep up their cardiovascular fitness. More broadly, plenty of evidence suggests that dancing can help seniors maintain balance and coordination, lowering their risk for falls.
Zumba is never going to compete with workouts like CrossFit or high-intensity interval training when it comes to physical fitness gains. But not everyone is the type to sign up for CrossFit, Cooper says. Theres still a place for Zumba, because people really enjoy it.
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Aerobics Class Founded By Sandra Day O’Connor Leaves Supreme … – KTEP
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Aerobics Class Founded By Sandra Day O'Connor Leaves Supreme ... KTEP Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's exercise class is vacating its home of 35 years, the basketball court right above the court room at the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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Oh Kale No! A Dearth of Vegan Options on Campus – Albany Student Press
Posted: March 11, 2017 at 4:48 am
The University at Albany students are finding the plant-based food options on campus to be inadequate. Many students would like to limit their consumption of animal products, whether for the health benefits or to avoid contributing to animal suffering and environmental degradation. The university should respect and support the ethical commitment of these students by providing sufficient plant-based options in the dining halls and Campus Center.
Plant-based foods can be varied and delicious. Favorites such as pizza, burritos, mac and cheese, and chocolate cake can be enjoyed without any animal-derived ingredients. Vegan food is increasingly available at restaurant chains such as Taco Bell, Blaze Pizza, Chipotle, and D.P. Dough. Mainstream supermarkets are selling vegan meat. Taste-testers on the Today Show couldnt tell that this meat wasnt from an animal.
Unfortunately for UAlbany students, plant-based food choices in the dining halls are scarce. On its website, UAlbany Dining claims to accommodate vegans, but in reality vegans living in the dorms have difficulty obtaining filling and nutritionally balanced meals. The options listed online are limited, and even those that are advertised are often not available. Some vegan dishes are mislabeled, making them difficult to identify.
The university has a responsibility to meet the needs of its students, including vegans; but the arguments in favor of providing more plant-based options go far beyond that. Plant-based foods are more environmentally sustainable: according to the United Nations report Livestocks Long Shadow, animal agriculture contributes more to global warming than does the transportation sector worldwide. Animal products come from an industry built on systematic animal abuse, and human workers in slaughterhouses and factory farms are frequently the victims of human rights violations. According to the American Dietetic Association, a well-planned vegan diet is healthful and nutritionally adequate at any stage of life, and is suitable for athletes. The ADA also states that following a plant-based diet may help treat or prevent certain diseases, a claim which is supported by countless studies on diseases such as heart disease and breast cancer.
With so many reasons to cut back on animal products, UAlbany Dining and Sodexo should be encouraging students to do it, not discouraging them. To make matters worse, students living on the quads are required to buy a dining plan, meaning that currently many of our vegan students are forced to pay for a service that is not meeting their needs. As a rule, freshmen must live in the dorms, so for them opting out is not an option. Some students resort to buying their own food off-campus to supplement the insufficient options in the dining halls; others, having paid the not-insignificant cost of a dining plan, cant afford to.
UAlbany should increase the quantity and variety of plant-based options available. By doing so, they would prove their commitment to the environment and to student health, and would enable students to make food choices consistent with their ethical convictions.
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Why We Should Not Know Our Own Passwords – Government Technology
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Since 2009, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have been allowed to search electronic devices carried by citizens or noncitizens as they cross the border into the United States from other countries. More recently, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly suggested this digital vetting should also include harvesting social media passwords. Kellys proposal prompted legal and technology experts to respond with an open letter expressing deep concern about any policy that demands that individuals violate the first rule of online security: Do not share your passwords.
Travelers themselves responded, too, looking for ways to avoid surrendering their device passwords to federal agents. One approach what we might call the Nothing To See Here method tries to make a device unsearchable by erasing the hard drive before travel, uninstalling social media apps, letting the devices battery charge run out or even wiping the device if an emergency or duress password was entered.
The Id Love To Comply, But I Cant approach involves exotic solutions like installing two-factor authentication on the device or social media account, and then making the second factor (such as a passcode or digital key) available only in a remote location. Retrieving the second factor would require a warrant and travel outside the border crossing.
These methods are dangerous because they put an already stressed traveler in the position of defying law enforcement at the border, a legal environment that is designed to support the government and not the traveler. Following this advice properly also requires careful execution of technical skills that most travelers dont have. And the degree of advance planning and preparation required might itself be considered a sign of suspicious activity requiring deeper scrutiny by border officials.
But its tempting to wonder: Could computer scientists and software designers like me create a better password system? Can we make Id Love To Comply, But I Cant the only possible answer for every traveler? In short, can we create passwords even their owners dont know?
Developing unknowable passwords is an active area of security research. In 2012, a team from Stanford University, Northwestern University and the SRI research center developed a scheme for using a computer game similar to Guitar Hero to train the subconscious brain to learn a series of keystrokes. When a musician memorizes how to play a piece of music, she doesnt need to think about each note or sequence. It becomes an ingrained, trained reaction usable as a password but nearly impossible even for the musician to spell out note by note, or for the user to disclose letter by letter.
In addition, the system is designed so that even if the password is discovered, the attacker is unable to enter the keystrokes with the same fluidity as the trained user. The combination of keystrokes and ease of performance uniquely ties the password to the user, while freeing the user from having to remember anything consciously.
Unfortunately, in our border travel scenario, the agent could demand that the traveler unlock the device or application using the subconscious password.
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A team at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, proposed a different solution in 2016. Their solution, called Chill-Pass, measures an individuals unique brain chemistry response while listening to her choice of relaxing music. This biometric reaction becomes part of the users log-in process. If a user is under duress, she will be unable to relax enough to match her previously measured chill state, and the log-in will fail.
It is unclear whether CBP agents would be able to defeat a system like Chill-Pass by providing travelers with, say, massage chairs and spa treatments. Even so, the stresses of daily life would make it impractical to use this kind of password regularly. A relaxation-based system would be most useful for people undertaking high-stakes missions where they fear coercion.
And just like with other plans to make CBP scrutiny impossible, this might end up attracting more attention to a traveler, rather than encouraging officers to give up and move on to the next person.
In 2015, Google announced Project Abacus, another solution to the Id Love To Comply, But I Cant problem. It replaces the traditional password with a Trust Score, a proprietary cocktail of characteristics that Google has determined can identify you. The score includes biometric factors like your typing patterns, walking speed, voice patterns and facial expressions. And it can include your location and other unspecified elements.
The Trust Score calculator constantly runs in the background of a smartphone or other device, updating itself with new information and recalculating the score throughout the day. If the Trust Score falls below a certain threshold, say by observing a strange typing pattern or an unfamiliar location, the system will require the user to enter additional authentication credentials.
Its unclear how a Trust Score authentication might affect a border search. A CBP agent could still demand that a traveler unlock the device and its apps. But if the agency couldnt disable the Trust Score system, the phones owner would have to be allowed to hold the device and use it throughout the agents inspection. If someone else tried to use it, the constantly recalculated Trust Score could fall, locking out an investigator.
That process would at least ensure a phones owner knew what information federal agents were collecting from the phone. That hasnt been possible for some arriving travelers, including U.S. citizens and even government employees.
But the Trust Score system puts a lot of control in the hands of Google, a for-profit corporation that could decide or could be compelled to provide government with a way around it.
None of these technological solutions to the password problem is perfect, and none of them is commercially available today. Until research, industry and innovation come up with better ones, whats a digital age traveler to do?
First, do not lie to a federal agent. Thats a felony and will definitely attract more unwanted attention from investigators.
Next, determine how much inconvenience you are willing to tolerate in order to remain silent or to refuse to comply. Noncompliance will have a cost: Your devices could be seized and your travel could be seriously disrupted.
Either way, if and when you are asked for your social media handles or passwords, or to unlock your devices, pay attention and remember as many details as you can. Then, if you wish, alert a digital civil liberties group that this happened. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a web page with instructions for how to report a device search at the border.
If you think that sensitive materials might have been compromised in the search, notify family, friends and colleagues who might be affected. And until we figure out a better way change your passwords.
Megan Squire, Professor of Computing Sciences, Elon University. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
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