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Supreme Court Gives FBI Hacking Permission Via “Rule Change”

The Supreme Court, last week, gave the FBI permission to hack into any computer anywhere in the world with the stroke of a single pen. Ignoring, for the moment, whether other countries are going to think this gives them permission to hack into any computer in the U.S., this could be problematic. What is at […]

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Minecraft Hacked – Decided It Was Better Not To Tell Anyone; 17 Also Breached

Motherboard is reporting that over 7 million user accounts belonging to the Minecraft community “Lifeboat” are for sale. Security researcher Troy Hunt is loading the data onto his web site “Have I been Pwned?” so that people can check if there data was in hacked group. Lifeboat runs servers for custom multiplayer editions of Minecraft […]

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We Only Thought Blackberry Was Secure

Blackberry CEO John Chen said that tech companies must balance customer privacy with lawful government interests.  The translation of this is “we have given the Blackberry keys to a variety of governments”.  And we only THOUGHT that Blackberrys were secure. One point that is important to understand is that for companies that have their own […]

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British Surveillance No Different Than U.S.

While the U.S. has Snowden, The Brits have Privacy International.  As part of a lawsuit, Privacy International obtained formerly secret files regarding the extent of British surveillance. The data the Brits are hoovering up includes private medical records, correspondence with your doctor or lawyer, financial data and other information. And the government admits that the […]

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FISA Court Affirms FBI Does NOT Need A Warrant To Read Your EMail

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or FISA Court has affirmed that the Feds do not need a warrant to search your email.  Of course, if that email is encrypted – not like GMail, but with real encryption – then while they may have the FISA court’s permission to look at it, they will have to […]

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