children, foia, nsa, Security technology, Uncategorized
Via a FOIA request, we have documents from the NSA about their banning of Furby toys. Powered by WPeMatico
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child pornography, children, crypto wars, encryption, laws, national security policy, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explains why breaking encryption isn’t the solution. Powered by WPeMatico
child pornography, children, crypto wars, cybersecurity, encryption, marketing, privacy, propaganda, Security technology, Uncategorized
Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” rhetoric we’re seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars. The technical eavesdropping mechanisms have shifted to client-side scanning, which won’t actually help … Read More “UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption” »
children, cybersecurity, generations, privacy, security education, Security technology, Uncategorized
A new draft of an Australian educational curriculum proposes teaching children as young as five cybersecurity: The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old children — an age at which Australian kids first attend school — not to share information such as date of birth or full names with strangers, and that they should consult parents … Read More “Teaching Cybersecurity to Children” »
children, exploits, facebook, fbi, pornography, Security technology, vulnerabilities, zeroday
This is a weird story: Hernandez was able to evade capture for so long because he used Tails, a version of Linux designed for users at high risk of surveillance and which routes all inbound and outbound connections through the open-source Tor network to anonymize it. According to Vice, the FBI had tried to hack … Read More “Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit” »
backdoors, children, cryptography, cryptowars, encryption, Security technology
Prepare for another attack on encryption in the U.S. The EARN-IT Act purports to be about protecting children from predation, but it’s really about forcing the tech companies to break their encryption schemes: The EARN IT Act would create a “National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention” tasked with developing “best practices” for owners … Read More “The EARN-IT Act” »
blackmail, children, datacollection, dataloss, leaks, secretsharing, Security technology
This is a big deal: Whisper, the secret-sharing app that called itself the “safest place on the Internet,” left years of users’ most intimate confessions exposed on the Web tied to their age, location and other details, raising alarm among cybersecurity researchers that users could have been unmasked or blackmailed. […] The records were viewable … Read More “The Whisper Secret-Sharing App Exposed Locations” »
baserate, children, kidnapping, Security technology, warontheunexpected
Here’s a crazy story from the UK. Basically, someone sees a man and a little girl leaving a shopping center. Instead of thinking “it must be a father and daughter, which happens millions of times a day and is perfectly normal,” he thinks “this is obviously a case of child abduction and I must alert … Read More “Worst-Case Thinking Breeds Fear and Irrationality” »
academicpapers, children, identification, nationalsecuritypolicy, privacy, Security technology, tracking
Interesting research: “‘Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?’ Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale“: Abstract: We present a scalable dynamic analysis framework that allows for the automatic evaluation of the privacy behaviors of Android apps. We use our system to analyze mobile apps’ compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), one of the few … Read More “COPPA Compliance” »
cameras, children, privacy, Security technology, surveillance
Reka makes a “decorative Santa cam,” meaning that it’s not a real camera. Instead, it just gets children used to being under constant surveillance. Our Santa Cam has a cute Father Christmas and mistletoe design, and a red, flashing LED light which will make the most logical kids suspend their disbelief and start to believe! … Read More “Fake Santa Surveillance Camera” »