To call this big brother is watching would be polite. Universities are using apps on students phones and either Bluetooth beacons or WiFi to track students location including class attendance and, I would guess, how much time their spend in local bars. The attendance part is to “encourage” students to attend class. Students who do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the 9-11 attacks on The World Trade Center Twin Towers, the Pentagon and Shanksville, PA, Congress quickly and without much discussion, passed the Patriot Act, the single biggest spying operation likely ever. Under the Patriot Act, the government was able to collect information on Internet traffic, mostly of foreigners. The amount of data that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In an interesting turn of events, Republican US Senator Roger Wicker’s staff has written a draft federal privacy bill. It’s main goal is to overturn California’s privacy law that goes into effect in January. Of course, there are only 28 days between now and January 1, so I would be really surprised if the bill […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Huawei Ban – Is It A National Security Issue or Bargaining Chip? Back in May, President Trump issued a ban on US companies buying from or selling to Huawei (see here). Since then, the government has issued an extension to the ban 90 days at a time and the government just issued another extension. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SmarterASP.net, a web hosting provider with over 400,000 customers, was infected by ransomware over the weekend. They are, at least, the third provider to be hit by such an attack. Affected user web sites are down and the company’s website was also down. Customers logging in might see a directory listing that looks like this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Comcast Testing Encrypted DNS While Lobbing Against It Encrypted DNS (either DoH or DoT) has become a political hotbutton. Recently Vice reported that Comcast is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against it. Mozilla is writing to Congress saying that what Comcast is saying is not true and most interestingly, Comcast is testing its […]
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