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Cybersecurity

A French man has been sentenced to two years in jail because of the contents of his internet history

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The contents of your internet history are more than enough to send you to jail in France. A French man has been sentenced to two years in jail for visiting…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Private Internet Access responds to Rule 41 change in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The recent change to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure would allow a federal magistrate judge to issue a search and seizure warrant for electronic media if the…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Bipartisan group of Senators introduce S.3475 to delay the DOJ from being able to unconstitutionally hack millions of devices with a blanket warrant under an amendment to Rule 41

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Rule 41 is set to be changed on December 1st. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is trying to expand the government’s hacking powers to an unconstitutional level using a little-known…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments

Researchers show that your smartphone’s camera fingerprint allows anyone to track videos and pictures back to you

Updated on Jan 25, 2024 by Caleb Chen

Your smartphone has a unique camera fingerprint that can be used to match a photo or video with its recording device. A new app created by security researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Traveling businessmen now consider WiFi more of a daily essential than sex, alcohol or even chocolate

Updated on Jul 16, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Traveling businessmen and businesswomen worldwide consider WiFi to be the utmost daily essential, more important even than sex, alcohol, or chocolate. The shocking results come from the iPass Mobile Professional Report…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News

Nvidia has made your GPU the newest spying device in your PC

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Tyson O'Ham

The newest Windows driver update from graphics silicon manufacturer nVidia comes with more than just game optimizations and bug-fixes (and disappointingly little of those at that.) If you have an…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance

AT&T actually sells leads to DEA and local law enforcement using Project Hemisphere

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

AT&T has been running a for-profit mass surveillance program, called Project Hemisphere, since 2007. Everybody already knows about AT&T cooperation with NSA mass surveillance metadata database... This is a separate program…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Active 4G LTE vulnerability allows hackers to eavesdrop on conversations, read texts, and track your smartphone location

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Zhang Wanqiao, a Chinese researcher from Qihoo 360 has demonstrated an active 4G LTE vulnerability that allows any dedicated attacker to intercept your calls and texts as well as track your…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance

Once more, with passion: Fingerprints suck as passwords

Updated on Oct 24, 2016 by Rick Falkvinge

Imagine you had a really strong and complex password. It was so hard for anyone to remember, that you had printed thousands of business cards with the complex password on…

Categories: Cybersecurity

In the UK, running a blog over HTTPS is an act of terrorism, says Scotland Yard

Updated on Jan 31, 2024 by Rick Falkvinge

In a bizarre case, Scotland Yard is accusing a person for six separate acts of preparing terrorism. Those six acts include researching encryption, developing an "encrypted version" of his blog,…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News
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