The Intel remote vulnerability is much, much worse than you thought
The Intel remote vulnerability which was recently disclosed has been discussed in more detail, and it's much, much worse than you thought. It's not just that the Intel servers are…
Rick Falkvinge
Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy. Additionally, he has a tech entrepreneur background and loves good whisky and fast motorcycles.
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The six worst recent hypocrisies of the copyright industry
The copyright industry keeps pounding a simplistic message to legislators - that copyright law is simple and that nobody honest could ever break it, and that it's easy to "tell…
Wikipedia censored from the Internet in Turkey: Government rejects the world’s reality and substitutes its own
This morning, Turkey decided to censor the entire Wikipedia in all its editions. Work is ongoing by local activists to establish the exact technical scope. Turkish authorities have issued a…
De-spamming service “Unroll” selling your inbox to Uber shows the importance of information hygiene, yet again
It was a perfect service: sorting your mail and not just removing all spam for you, but also unsubscribing you from all of that spam garbage going forward. It kept…
What Australia can learn from Europe’s failure with Data Retention
Last week, Australia's law mandating telecommunications data retention went into effect. It is clear that Australia learned absolutely nothing from Europe's abysmal 10-year failure with this exact law before it…
With laptops banned onboard aircraft, your data is no longer yours if you fly
New US regulations ban laptops on board some aircraft, requiring laptops to be in checked luggage. One of the first things you learn in information security is that if an…
Europe bans domestic roaming charges: Here’s why it’s a big deal
The European politicians have had enough of telco abuse, and are outlawing roaming charges within Europe. Normally, you would not care much about more market regulation and just shrug it…
Airport: “We’re tracking every single footstep you take and can connect it to your mail address, but your privacy is safe because we say so”
A sign on the revolving entrance to a European airport, one sign among many, says "the airport employs wi-fi and bluetooth tracking; your privacy is ensured". The vast majority of…
Without privacy, you lose the ability to form your identity
There's much more to privacy than just a random individual luxury: if you don't have privacy growing up, you can't even form your identity. Growing up and forming an identity…
Would U.S. Congress find it acceptable that their phonecalls were recorded, sold, and published?
Congress has decided that Internet Service Providers shall be Common Carriers but without the obligations of a Common Carrier. Specifically, which was the shocker last week - telephone secrets don't…