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Your Starbucks Card Is A Hacking Target

CNN is reporting that hackers have found yet another opportunity.  Hacking your Starbucks app, they add new cards to the account, then use your autofill bank account to load them.  Starbucks has acknowledged that this is happening, but says that they were not hacked.  Customer’s bank accounts are getting drained, however. Apparently, the way it […]

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Court Flip-Flops On Phone Warrant Requirement

As the courts wrestle with technology vs. the Constitution, the process has its up and downs.  Last year the 11th circuit ruled that the government could not get cell phone location data without a warrant.  That doing so was a violation of your fourth amendment rights. This year the same court overturned last year’s ruling […]

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Police Finding Few Allies On Encryption Back or Front Doors

Last week the FBI and DoJ testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on IT, asking for an encryption back door (or as the NSA has said they prefer, a front door).  They did not get a very welcome reception.  In fact,  Rep Lieu suggested that they “just follow the damn […]

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