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Vice Motherboard has an interesting article about governments using social-media platforms for propaganda and surveillance, and the companies that are supporting this. Powered by WPeMatico
Google’s new ways to violate your privacy and — more importantly — how to opt out. Powered by WPeMatico
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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” »
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” »
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” »
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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” »
The Intercept has published the manuals for Harris Corporation’s IMSI catcher: Stingray. It’s an impressive surveillance device. Powered by WPeMatico
The Intercept has published a 120-page catalog of spy gear from the British defense company Cobham. This is equipment available to police forces. The catalog was leaked by someone inside the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Powered by WPeMatico