AT&T lost control of data of nine million customers. T-Mobile lost data belonging to tens of almost a hundred million customers. Other carriers have too. All mobile providers collect a lot of data. Data for billing, data for profiling, data for selling ads. All kinds of data. Location data. They know every cell site that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Domain Name Service (DNS) is the part of the Internet that maps web site names that you use to IP addresses that the Internet uses. DNS servers see a lot of those names and numbers. Billions of them a day, in fact. Akamai, in addition to being one of the largest content delivery services […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Pornhub OnlyFans and Meta Join New Sextortion Prevention Platform This is actually pretty cool. The new service will allow a teenager (or anyone) that shared a nude image with someone who later posted it without their permission, to start the takedown process without having to send the sensitive image anywhere. They use the software to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the government to collect intelligence from non-Americans located outside the United States without a warrant. Section 702 cannot be used to target Americans. At least some people say that Section 702 needs some reform. When Section 702 was first enacted lawmakers knew that this could spell […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those not aware, Silicon Valley Bank is the go-to bank for tech startups and VCs all over the country. Until the state of California shut it down and the feds took it over. The chaos and confusion of the feds off again, on again bailout (and the sale of the UK part of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Even the DoJ Thinks John Deere Should Let Farmers Fix Their Tractors The “right to repair” movement has been growing for the last decade. John Deere has been leading the “its not safe for you to fix your own tractor” movement for years, saying they have made tractors too complicated for owners to fix. The […]
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