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Interesting essay on the sorts of things you can learn from anonymized taxi passenger and fare data. Powered by WPeMatico
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Last month, I wrote that the FBI identified Ross W. Ulbricht as the Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts through a leaky CAPTCHA. Seems that story doesn’t hold water: The FBI claims that it found the Silk Road server by examining plain text Internet traffic to and from the Silk Road CAPTCHA, and that it visited … Read More “How Did the Feds Identity Dread Pirate Roberts?” »
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This essay, “Grooming students for a lifetime of surveillance,” talks about the general trends in student surveillance. Related: essay on the need for student privacy in online learning. Powered by WPeMatico
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The latest Intercept article on the Snowden documents talks about the NSA’s undercover operatives working in foreign companies. There are no specifics, although the countries China, Germany, and South Korea are mentioned. It’s also hard to tell if the NSA has undercover operatives working in companies in those countries, or has undercover contractors visiting those … Read More “NSA Has Undercover Operatives in Foreign Companies” »