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Hilton Honors Web Site Flaw Found and Fixed

I have to both harass and complement Hilton. Until recently, Hilton was offering Honors members 1,000 points to change their passwords. First the harassment: A security staffer at BancSec figured out that you could hijack any other Honors account by guessing or knowing the account number and making a small change to the site’s HTML. The […]

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Email privacy

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was written 29 years ago.  Before Google.  Before Facebook.  Even before AOL. The rules that ECPA set up were based on how we worked 29 years ago.  While there have been many attempts to change ECPA, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2015 (ECPAA), none, so far, […]

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Man Arrested At Border For Refusing To Hand Over Phone Passcode

CNet wrote about a man who was arrested at the Halifax (Canada) airport for refusing to hand over the passcode for his cellphone to the Canadian border agents. Even if you are not paranoid, it should make you think about what gadgets you take across the border.  Here are some details of this case. He […]

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