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Category Archives: surveillance

The FBI Identified a Tor User

January 17 2023 By Bruce Schneier in FBI, nsa, Privacy, Security, surveillance

According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May...
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Security Vulnerabilities in Eufy Cameras

December 9 2022 By Bruce Schneier in Privacy, Security, surveillance, vulnerabilities

Eufy cameras claim to be local only, but upload data to the cloud. The company is basically lying to reporters, despite being shown evidence to the contrary....

NSA Over-surveillance

November 11 2022 By Bruce Schneier in nsa, Privacy, Security, surveillance

Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that is, illegal) targeting of...

Using Wi-FI to See through Walls

November 8 2022 By Bruce Schneier in Privacy, Security, surveillance

This technique measures device response time to determine distance:

The scientists tested the exploit by modifying an off-the-shelf drone to create a flying scanning device, the Wi-Peep. The robotic...
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Iran’s Digital Surveillance Tools Leaked

November 1 2022 By Bruce Schneier in Iran, Privacy, Security, surveillance

It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked:

According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks,...
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Spyware Maker Intellexa Sued by Journalist

October 7 2022 By Bruce Schneier in Privacy, Security, surveillance

The Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis was spied on by his own government, with a commercial spyware product called “Predator.” That product is sold by a company in North Macedonia...

Large-Scale Collection of Cell Phone Data at US Borders

September 19 2022 By Bruce Schneier in Privacy, Security, surveillance

The Washington Post is reporting that the US Customs and Border Protection agency is seizing and copying cell phone, tablet, and computer data from “as many as” 10,000...

Surveillance of Your Car

August 2 2022 By Bruce Schneier in Privacy, Security, surveillance

TheMarkup has an extensive analysis of connected vehicle data and the companies that are collecting it. The Markup has identified 37 companies that are part of the rapidly growing connected...