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Firefox Removing Battery Status API

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academicpapers, browsers, firefox, identification, linux, privacy, Security technology, tracking

Firefox is removing the battery status API, citing privacy concerns. Here’s the paper that described those concerns: Abstract. We highlight privacy risks associated with the HTML5 Battery Status API. We put special focus on its implementation in the Firefox browser. Our study shows that websites can discover the capacity of users’ batteries by exploiting the … Read More “Firefox Removing Battery Status API” »

Cybersecurity Issues for the Next Administration

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censorship, cybersecurity, nationalsecuritypolicy, power, privacy, propaganda, Security technology, surveillance

On today’s Internet, too much power is concentrated in too few hands. In the early days of the Internet, individuals were empowered. Now governments and corporations hold the balance of power. If we are to leave a better Internet for the next generations, governments need to rebalance Internet power more towards the individual. This means … Read More “Cybersecurity Issues for the Next Administration” »

Yahoo Scanned Everyone's E-mails for the NSA

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datacollection, email, filtering, fisa, nsa, privacy, Security technology, spam, surveillance, yahoo

News here and here. Other companies have been quick to deny that they did the same thing, but I generally don’t believe those carefully worded statements about what they have and haven’t done. We do know that the NSA uses bribery, coercion, threat, legal compulsion, and outright theft to get what they want. We just … Read More “Yahoo Scanned Everyone's E-mails for the NSA” »

Using Neural Networks to Identify Blurred Faces

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academicpapers, biometrics, identification, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

Neural networks are good at identifying faces, even if they’re blurry: In a paper released earlier this month, researchers at UT Austin and Cornell University demonstrate that faces and objects obscured by blurring, pixelation, and a recently-proposed privacy system called P3 can be successfully identified by a neural network trained on image datasets­ — in … Read More “Using Neural Networks to Identify Blurred Faces” »

Hacking Wireless Tire-Pressure Monitoring System

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academicpapers, cars, eavesdropping, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, wireless

Research paper: “Security and Privacy Vulnerabilities of In-Car Wireless Networks: A Tire Pressure Monitoring System Case Study,” by Ishtiaq Rouf, Rob Miller, Hossen Mustafa, Travis Taylor, Sangho Oh, Wenyuan Xu, Marco Gruteser, Wade Trapper, Ivan Seskar: Abstract: Wireless networks are being integrated into the modern automobile. The security and privacy implications of such in-car networks, … Read More “Hacking Wireless Tire-Pressure Monitoring System” »