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Can the previous owner of your security camera spy on you? Webcam privacy scare highlights Internet of Things security difficulties

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Caleb Chen

Over the weekend, the security community heard rumors about a potential issue with the NETGEAR Internet of Things wireless security camera. A user reported to the privacy subreddit that after…

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Vint Cerf imagines a self archiving internet – one that could lead to a more open future

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

What would a self archiving internet look like? At the recent Decentralized Web Summit hosted by the Internet Archive, Vint Cerf, one of the computer scientists hailed as a founding…

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Privacy, an In-Alienable Human Right

Updated on Jan 25, 2024 by rasengan

Wikipedia begins its analysis on the history of privacy by recognizing Aristotle as the beginning of our collective understanding of privacy in humanity. This is wrong. Humans have been around for…

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In one single image, establishment and mainstream media show their utter ignorance of security

Updated on Mar 11, 2016 by Rick Falkvinge

The various branches of the establishment are frequently criticized for not understanding, or even caring about, the critically important fields of privacy and security. In just one image, the New…

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With The Golden Key To Your Luggage Leaked From The TSA, How Can Anyone Claim The Government Would Protect A Golden Key To Everything Else?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

The United States government keeps pushing for their mythical and imaginary "golden key" to people's correspondence - a key that would unlock all encryption, and they keep demanding this from…

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Ashley Madison: When Will Privacy Breach Liability Be Taken As Seriously As Other Safety Breach Liabilities?

Updated on Aug 29, 2014 by Rick Falkvinge

In the wake of the Ashley Madison privacy breach, people have killed themselves. This is a breach that should be no different from a breach of any other safety promise…

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Kim Kardashian, Meagan Good, Kaley Cuoco And Others Targeted In “Fappening Two”

Updated on Aug 5, 2020 by Joseph

Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens, Meagan Good and Gabrielle Union are among the celebrities, whose explicit photos have been hacked, exposing security issues that have allowed their personal information to be…

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New Catastrophic Privacy Leak Highlights How Nudes Are Nothing

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

A criminal group has obtained personal details for one of Sweden's largest anonymous forums. Done to scare, intimidate, and out political opponents discussing under protection of anonymity, the collateral damage…

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About the PIA Client Security and VPN Security in General

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by rasengan

There's been much discussion recently about the security of PIA's VPN services in particular and of VPN as a technology in general. This post should help both put our customers'…

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Heartbleed: Post Mortem

Updated on Mar 28, 2025 by rasengan

At Private Internet Access, we consider our customers’ privacy and security to be our highest priority. That is our business. That is our expertise. We wanted to take a brief…

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