Surveilling Your Children with AirTags
August 5 2025Skechers is making a line of kid’s shoes with a hidden compartment for an AirTag.
Read moreHow the Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency
July 24 2025The current state of digital identity is a mess. Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts...
Read moreNew Mobile Phone Forensics Tool
July 18 2025The Chinese have a new tool called Massistant.
- Massistant is the presumed successor to Chinese forensics tool, “MFSocket”, reported in 2019 and attributed to publicly traded cybersecurity company, Meiya... Read more
Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock
July 17 2025The ICEBlock tool has vulnerabilities:
The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, promises that it “ensures user...
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Tradecraft in the Information Age
July 12 2025Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance.
Read moreYet Another Strava Privacy Leak
July 9 2025This time it’s the Swedish prime minister’s bodyguards. (Last year, it was the US Secret Service and Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguards. in 2018, it was secret US military bases.) This is...
Read moreSurveillance Used by a Drug Cartel
July 3 2025Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it:
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone...
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Surveillance in the US
June 20 2025Good article from 404 Media on the cozy surveillance relationship between local Oregon police and ICE:
In the email thread, crime analysts from several local police departments and the...
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Self-Driving Car Video Footage
June 19 2025Two articles crossed my path recently. First, a discussion of all the video Waymo has from outside its cars: in this case related to the LA protests. Second, a...
Read moreParagon Spyware Used to Spy on European Journalists
June 13 2025Paragon is an Israeli spyware company, increasingly in the news (now that NSO Group seems to be waning). “Graphite” is the name of its product. Citizen Lab caught...
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