The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet:
According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have...
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The US Has a Shortage of Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
November 24 2022Nothing beats a dog’s nose for detecting explosives. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough dogs:
Last month, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a nearly 100-page report about working...
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Why Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged
March 18 2022My proof of COVID-19 vaccination is recorded on an easy-to-forge paper card. With little trouble, I could print a blank form, fill it out, and snap a photo....
Read morePrivacy Violating COVID Tests
February 25 2022A good lesson in reading the fine print: Cignpost Diagnostics, which trades as ExpressTest and offers £35 tests for holidaymakers, said it holds the right to analyse samples from seals...
Read moreFree home PCR devices would be technological marvels, and really useful, too. But there aren't any...
Read moreAre Fake COVID Testing Sites Harvesting Data?
January 19 2022Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a bunch of writing about what seems to be fake COVID-19 testing sites. They take your name and info, and do a...
Read moreDesigning Contact-Tracing Apps
September 13 2021Susan Landau wrote an essay on the privacy, efficacy, and equity of contract-tracing smartphone apps. Also see her excellent book on the topic.
Read moreApple and Google block official UK COVID-19 app update
April 12 2021UK coronavirus app update apparently included "feature creep" that's explicitly prohibited by Apple's and Google's programming rules.
Read moreCOVID-19 and Acedia
October 2 2020
Note: This isn’t my usual essay topic. Still, I want to put it on my blog.
Six months into the pandemic with no end in sight, many of us have...
Read moreFBI, CISA Echo Warnings on ‘Vishing’ Threat
August 21 2020The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing...
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