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•        May 19-31, 2016 – Celebrity Equinox 12-Night Eastern Mediterranean Cruise from Rome to Barcelona. Stops on Amalfi coast (Salerno) and at Sicily, Athens, Santorini and Mykonos, Greece, and Istanbul and Ephesus, Turkey. Veranda cabins $2,336.40 per person, double occupancy. Other categories available. Optional travel insurance, air and gratuities not included. Deposit $450 per person. Hosted by Bill and Judy Blackburn. For more information, call Earth Travel Pals at 843-222-5839.

 

•        Oct. 1-11, 2016 – 11-day Historic Trains of the Old West with Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. Start in Denver with an overnight at the historic 1893 Hotel Colorado. Travel to Durango and take a scenic ride through the San Juan National Forest on a legendary stream train. Admire the cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. Visit the 1,100 year old city of Taos, N.M., and the famous Royal Gorge. In Colorado Springs enjoy a train journey on the cog railway to Pikes Peak. Spend two days at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the largest ballooning event in the world. Land tour cost $2,934 per person, double occupancy. Optional travel insurance additional. Tour deposit $250 per person. Estimate air $550 per person. Hosted by Judy and Bill Blackburn. For more information, visit www.EarthTravelPals.com; call Judy at 843-222-5839 or email judy@earthtravelpals.com; call Kathy at 843-450-2032 or email kathy@earthtravelpals.com.

 

·         Oct. 21-28, 2016 – Ireland – Eight-day tour from $2,999 per person double occupancy that includes roundtrip airfare, six nights accommodation, luxury motor coach, tour manager throughout, full Irish breakfast daily, welcome dinner, one additional dinner, farewell dinner, sightseeing per itinerary (Achill Island, Connemara, Galway, Dublin, County Wicklow and Glendalough), fuel surcharges/air taxes up to $600. Membership in the OLLI@CCU program is required for this trip. Please contact the OLLI office at 843-349-2767 or 843-349-6584 for OLLI membership details. For more information and reservations, contact World Cultural Tours at 1-877-218- 8687, reference tour code: CCU009.

 

•        March 25-April 2, 2017 – Cuba's Charming Colonial Cities and Havana – People to People program. Experience the real Cuba with its colorful history and lively culture. Begins with one pre night in Miami with two nights in Camaguey, two nights in Trinidad and three nights in Havana. Included:  eight nights hotel, eight breakfasts, seven lunches and six dinners, gratuities, airport transfers, round-trip air from Miami to Cuba, Cuban visa cost and required Cuban health insurance.  Optional cancellation/health travel insurance available for additional $289. Cost is $4,333 per person double occupancy. Single supplement additional $545. Save your space for $250 deposit per person. Hosted by Kathy and Bruce Blackburn. To reserve or for more information, call Kathy at Earth Travel Pals at 843-450-2032 or email kathy@earthtravelpals.com.

 

•        New Lower Price - April 6, 2017 – Exclusively for OLLI members from around the USA – Old World Prague and the Blue Danube – 13 days, including international airfare from Myrtle Beach from $4,445 (12 days – River Cruise Tour only from $3,195). Additional departure cities are available. Included: Three nights in Prague at the moderate first-class Park hotel Praha or similar and eight nights aboard a private Grand Circle river ship in an outside cabin; 28 meals including a farewell reception and dinners; seven exclusive tours with personal headsets: Prague Old Town, Cesky Krumlov, Melk Abbey, Durnstein, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest; Exclusive Discovery Series events; Apfelstrudel baking demonstration, home-hosted visit; school visit; airport transfers upon arrival and departure; all port charges; gratuities for local guides and motor coach drivers on your main trip, baggage handling for one piece luggage per person, including tips; 5 percent frequent traveler credit toward your next Grand Circle trip. For more information, contact Grand Circle Cruise Line at 800-597-2452, then press 2, please mention this booking code: G7-27123.

 

·         May 22-June 3, 2017 – 12-night Alaska Land and Sea Tour - Denali Explorer – Five nights from Fairbanks, Alaska, including two nights at the Denali National Park and two at Mt. McKinley Wilderness Lodge, with a seven-day Princess Cruise, Voyage of the Glaciers, with stops in Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan and Hubbard Glacier Scenic Cruising, ending in Vancouver. Enjoy the beautiful spring blooms, enchanting wildlife and scenic views with a group from Myrtle Beach. Inside cabins, $2,156 per person; oceanview, $2,776 per person; balcony, $3,216 per person (all based on double occupancy). Single rates available. Estimated air from Myrtle Beach $900 per person. Hosted by Judy and Bill Blackburn. Contact Judy at 843-222-5839 or email Judy@EarthTravelPals.com.

 

 

 

 

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Litchfield Education Center / Georgetown Education Center

Office of Executive Development and Continuing Education

PO Box 261954, Conway SC  29528

843-349-2025 / 843-349-6584 / lrickenb@coastal.edu

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For up-to-date information about Continuing Education, OLLI & Coastal Carolina Kids Camp Programs, visit  www.coastal.edu/outreach

 

 

 

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Device Tracking: Because they're unique, MAC addresses can be used to track you. When you walk around, your smartphone scans for nearby Wi-Fi networks and broadcasts its MAC address. A company named Renew London used trash bins in the city of London to track people's movements around the city based on their MAC addresses. Apple's iOS 8 will use a random MAC address each time it scans for nearby Wi-Fi networks to prevent this sort of tracking.

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How to Change Your Apple ID

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iDevices Passcodes

Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook published an open letter opposing a court order to build the FBI a "backdoor" for the iPhone.

Cook wrote that the backdoor, which removes limitations on how often an attacker can incorrectly guess an iPhone passcode, would set a dangerous precedent and "would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone's physical possession," even though in this instance the FBI is seeking to unlock a single iPhone belonging to one of the killers in a 14-victim mass shooting spree in San Bernardino, California in December.

It's true that ordering Apple to develop the backdoor will fundamentally undermine iPhone security, as Cook and other digital security advocates have argued. But it's possible for individual iPhone users to protect themselves from government snooping by setting strong passcodes on their phones — passcodes the FBI would not be able to unlock even if gets its iPhone backdoor.

The technical details of how the iPhone encrypts data, and of how the FBI might circumvent this protection, are complex and convoluted, and are being thoroughly explored elsewhere on the internet. What I'm going to focus on here is how ordinary iPhone users can protect themselves.

The short version: If you're worried about governments trying to access your phone, set your iPhone up with a random, 11-digital numeric passcode. What follows is an explanation of why that will protect you and how to actually do it.

If it sounds outlandish to worry about government agents trying to crack into your phone, consider that when you travel internationally, agents at the airport or other border crossing can seize, search, and even temporarily retain your digital devices — even without any grounds for suspicion. And while a local police officer can't search your iPhone without a warrant, cops have used their own digital devices to get search warrants within 15 minutes, as a Supreme Court opinion recently noted.

The most obvious way to try and crack into your iPhone, and what the FBI is trying to do in the San Bernardino case, is to simply run through every possible passcode until the correct one is discovered and the phone is unlocked. This is known as a "brute force" attack.

For example, let's say you set a six-digit passcode on your iPhone. There are 10 possibilities for each digit in a numbers-based passcode, and so there are 106, or 1 million, possible combinations for a six-digit passcode as a whole. It is trivial for a computer to generate all of these possible codes. The difficulty comes in trying to test them.

One obstacle to testing all possible passcodes is that the iPhone intentionally slows down after you guess wrong a few times. An attacker can try four incorrect passcodes before she's forced to wait 1 minute. If she continues to guess wrong, the time delay increases to 5 minutes, 15 minutes, and finally 1 hour. There's even a setting to erase all data on the iPhone after 10 wrong guesses.

This is where the FBI's requested backdoor comes into play. The FBI is demanding that Apple create a special version of the iPhone's operating system, iOS, that removes the time delays and ignores the data erasure setting.   The FBI could install this malicious software on the San Bernardino killer's iPhone, brute force the passcode, unlock the phone, and access all of its data. And that process could hypothetically be repeated on anyone else's iPhone.

(There's also speculation that the government could make Apple alter the operation of a piece of iPhone hardware known as the Secure Enclave; for the purposes of this article, I assume the protections offered by this hardware, which would slow an attacker down even more, are not in place.)

Even if the FBI gets its way and can clear away iPhone safeguards against passcode guessing, it faces another obstacle, one that should help keep it from cracking passcodes of, say, 11 digits: It can only test potential passcodes for your iPhone using the iPhone itself; the FBI can't use a supercomputer or a cluster of iPhones to speed up the guessing process. That's because iPhone models, at least as far back as May 2012, have come with a Unique ID (UID) embedded in the device hardware. Each iPhone has a different UID fused to the phone and, by design, no one can read it and copy it to another computer.

So the FBI is stuck using your iPhone to test passcodes. And it turns out that your iPhone is kind of slow at that: iPhones intentionally encrypt data in such a way that they must spend about 80 milliseconds doing the math needed to test a passcode, according to Apple. That limits them to testing 12.5 passcode guesses per second, meaning that guessing a 6-digit passcode would take at most just over 22 hours.

You can calculate the time for that task simply by dividing the 1 million possible 6-digit passcodes by 12.5 seconds. That's 80,000 seconds, or 1,333 minutes, or 22 hours. But the attacker doesn't have to try each passcode; she can stop when she finds one that successfully unlocks the device. On average it will only take 11 hours for that to happen.

But the FBI would be happy to spend mere hours cracking your iPhone. What if you use a longer passcode? Here's how long the FBI would need:

• 7-digit passcodes will take up to 9.2 days, and on average 4.6 days, to crack
• 8-digit passcodes will take up to 3 months, and on average 46 days, to crack
• 9-digit passcodes will take up to 2.5 years, and on average 1.2 years, to crack
• 10-digit passcodes will take up to 25 years, and on average 12.6 years, to crack
• 11-digit passcodes will take up to 253 years, and on average 127 years, to crack
• 12-digit passcodes will take up to 2,536 years, and on average 1,268 years, to crack
• 13-digit passcodes will take up to 25,367 years, and on average 12,683 years, to crack

It's important to note that these estimates only apply to truly random passcodes. If you choose a passcode by stringing together dates, phone numbers, social security numbers, or anything else that's at all predictable, the attacker might try guessing those first, and might crack your 11-digit passcode in a very short amount of time. So make sure your passcode is random, even if this means it takes extra time to memorize it. (Memorizing that many digits might seem daunting, but you're older than, say, 29, there was probably a time when you memorized several phone numbers that you dialed on a regular basis.)

Nerd tip: If you're using a Mac or Linux, you can securely generate a random 11-digit passcode by opening the Terminal app and typing this command:

python -c 'from random import SystemRandom as r; print(r().randint(0,10**11-1))'

It's also important to note that we're assuming that the FBI, or some other government agency, has not found a flaw in Apple's security architecture that would allow them to test passcodes on their own computers or at a rate faster than 80 milliseconds per passcode.

Once you've created a new, 11-digit passcode, you can start using it by opening the Settings app, selecting "Touch ID & Passcode," and entering your old passcode if prompted. Then, if you have an existing passcode, select "Change passcode" and enter your old passcode. If you do not have an existing passcode, and are setting one for the first time, click "Turn passcode on."

Then, in all cases, click "Passcode options,"  select "Custom numeric code," and then enter your new passcode.

Here are a few final tips to make this long-passcode thing work better:.

• Within the "Touch ID & Passcode" settings screen, make sure to turn on the Erase Data setting to erase all data on your iPhone after 10 failed passcode attempts.
• Make sure you don't forget your passcode, or you'll lose access to all of the data on your iPhone.
• Don't use Touch ID to unlock your phone. Your attacker doesn't need to guess your passcode if she can push your finger onto the home button to unlock it instead. (At least one court has ruled that while the police cannot compel you to disclose your passcode, they can compel you to use your fingerprint to unlock your smartphone.)
• Don't use iCloud backups. Your attacker doesn't need to guess your passcode if she can get a copy of all the same data from Apple's server, where it's no longer protected by your passcode.
• Do make local backups to your computer using iTunes, especially if you are worried about forgetting your iPhone passcode. You can encrypt the backups, too.

By choosing a strong passcode, the FBI shouldn't be able to unlock your encrypted phone, even if they install a backdoored version of iOS on it. Not unless they have hundreds of years to spare.

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