Using Generative AI for Surveillance
November 20 2023Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it...
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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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 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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Applying AI to License Plate Surveillance
August 22 2023License plate scanners aren’t new. Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. What’s new is that AI is being used on the data, identifying “suspicious” vehicle behavior:
Typically, Automatic...
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Zoom Can Spy on Your Calls and Use the Conversation to Train AI, But Says That It Won’t
August 15 2023This is why we need regulation:
Zoom updated its Terms of Service in March, spelling out that the company reserves the right to train AI on user data...
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Read moreSerious Security: Why learning to touch-type could protect you from audio snooping
August 9 2023Fast, quiet, smooth, consistent and low impact... why true hacker-grade touch-typing might keep you more secure.
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