Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks?
November 17 2021I received email from two people who told me that Microsoft Edge enabled synching without warning or consent, which means that Microsoft sucked up all of their bookmarks. Of...
Read moreFacebook to throw out face recognition, delete all template data
November 3 2021Publicity stunt? Or privacy progress?
Read moreHow the FBI Gets Location Information
October 27 2021Vice has a detailed article about how the FBI gets data from cell phone providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, based on a leaked (I think) 2019 139-page presentation.
Read moreS3 Ep55: Live malware, global encryption, dating scams, and secret emanations [Podcasts]
October 21 2021Latest episode - listen now! (And sign up for our forthcoming Live Malware Demo at the same time.)
Read moreUsing Machine Learning to Guess PINs from Video
October 19 2021Researchers trained a machine-learning system on videos of people typing their PINs into ATMs: By using three tries, which is typically the maximum allowed number of attempts before the card...
Read moreRecovering Real Faces from Face-Generation ML System
October 14 2021New paper: “This Person (Probably) Exists. Identity Membership Attacks Against GAN Generated Faces.
Abstract: Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved stunning realism, fooling even human observers. Indeed, the...
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Serious Security: How to make sure you don’t miss bug reports!
September 13 2021Hey, let's create a text file that lists our security contacts! We'll call it... security DOT txt.
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 moreProtonMail Now Keeps IP Logs
September 10 2021After being compelled by a Swiss court to monitor IP logs for a particular user, ProtonMail no longer claims that “we do not keep any IP logs.”
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