The Privacy Disaster of Modern Smart Cars
November 10 2023Article based on a Mozilla report.
Read moreDecoupling for Security
November 8 2023This is an excerpt from a longer paper. You can read the whole thing (complete with sidebars and illustrations) here.
Our message is simple: it is possible to get...
Read moreSpyware in India
November 2 2023Apple has warned leaders of the opposition government in India that their phones are being spied on:
Multiple top leaders of India’s opposition parties and several journalists have received...
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Messaging Service Wiretap Discovered through Expired TLS Cert
October 27 2023Fascinating story of a covert wiretap that was discovered because of an expired TLS certificate:
The suspected man-in-the-middle attack was identified when the administrator of jabber.ru, the largest Russian...
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New NSA Information from (and About) Snowden
October 26 2023Interesting article about the Snowden documents, including comments from former Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill
MacAskill, who shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras...
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Signal Will Leave the UK Rather Than Add a Backdoor
September 26 2023Totally expected, but still good to hear:
Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit Signal messaging app, reaffirmed that...
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New Revelations from the Snowden Documents
September 21 2023Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing major, but a few more tidbits. Kind of amazing that...
Read moreCars Have Terrible Data Privacy
September 12 2023A new Mozilla Foundation report concludes that cars, all of them, have terrible data privacy. All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label—making cars the...
Read moreOwn Your Own Government Surveillance Van
August 31 2023A used government surveillance van is for sale in Chicago:
So how was this van turned into a mobile spying center? Well, let’s start with how it has more...
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