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Used Tesla Components Contain Personal Information

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cars, dataloss, dataretention, hardware, identification, internetofthings, leaks, Security technology

Used Tesla components, sold on eBay, still contain personal information, even after a factory reset. This is a decades-old problem. It’s a problem with used hard drives. It’s a problem with used photocopiers and printers. It will be a problem with IoT devices. It’ll be a problem with everything, until we decide that data deletion … Read More “Used Tesla Components Contain Personal Information” »

Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

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baserate, bluetooth, covid19, falsenegatives, falsepositives, gps, identification, medicine, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, tracing

I was quoted in BuzzFeed: “My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value,” Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, told BuzzFeed News. “I’m not even talking about the privacy concerns, I mean the efficacy. Does anybody think … Read More “Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps” »

Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate

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cameras, essays, facerecognition, identification, lawenforcement, laws, privacy, Security technology, smartphones, surveillance

Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; the neighboring city of Oakland soon followed, as did Somerville and Brookline in Massachusetts (a statewide ban may follow). In December, San Diego suspended a facial recognition program in advance of a new … Read More “Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate” »

Bypassing Apple FaceID’s Liveness Detection Feature

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apple, biometrics, hacking, identification, Security technology

Apple’s FaceID has a liveness detection feature, which prevents someone from unlocking a victim’s phone by putting it in front of his face while he’s sleeping. That feature has been hacked: Researchers on Wednesday during Black Hat USA 2019 demonstrated an attack that allowed them to bypass a victim’s FaceID and log into their phone … Read More “Bypassing Apple FaceID’s Liveness Detection Feature” »

Cardiac Biometric

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biometrics, facerecognition, falsenegatives, falsepositives, identification, medicine, Security technology

MIT Technology Review is reporting about an infrared laser device that can identify people by their unique cardiac signature at a distance: A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special Forces requested it, can identify people without seeing their face: instead it detects their unique cardiac signature with an infrared laser. While it … Read More “Cardiac Biometric” »

Fingerprinting iPhones

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academicpapers, apple, cellphones, identification, iphone, phones, Security technology, sensors

This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer sensors found in smartphones to construct … Read More “Fingerprinting iPhones” »

Using a Fake Hand to Defeat Hand-Vein Biometrics

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authentication, biometrics, identification, Security technology

Nice work: One attraction of a vein based system over, say, a more traditional fingerprint system is that it may be typically harder for an attacker to learn how a user’s veins are positioned under their skin, rather than lifting a fingerprint from a held object or high quality photograph, for example. But with that … Read More “Using a Fake Hand to Defeat Hand-Vein Biometrics” »

MD5 and SHA-1 Still Used in 2018

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algorithms, identification, md5, Security technology, sha1

Last week, the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence published a draft document — “SWGDE Position on the Use of MD5 and SHA1 Hash Algorithms in Digital and Multimedia Forensics” — where it accepts the use of MD5 and SHA-1 in digital forensics applications: While SWGDE promotes the adoption of SHA2 and SHA3 by vendors … Read More “MD5 and SHA-1 Still Used in 2018” »