Microsoft has been fighting with the U.S. Department of Justice since 2013 when the DoJ tried to get Microsoft to get them to hand over data belonging to a user, stored exclusively in Ireland. This case has gone back and forth in the courts since then. The bottom line issue is whether a U.S. Court […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple was granted a patent last month that allowed someone to shut down photo and video recording on all nearby iPhones – say if you were photographing the police or a concert. The patent uses an infrared signal that would be received by appropriately equipped iPhones to disable the camera. Think about who might like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, you don’t have to check your calendar, it is not April Fools Day and Yes, they really do want to do that. Along with the rest of your medical devices. Some of you may remember that when Dick Cheney was Veep, they modified his pacemaker so that the bad guys couldn’t take him out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The government would like us to believe that if they have unfettered access to all the data that they want, it will be secure. The evidence does not support that. This past week, a terrorism database called World-Check was leaked accidentally (At least I think it was an accident). It contains information on about 2 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Early this year, we learned of a voter database of 191 million U.S. voters was found, unprotected on the Internet. The list contained name, address, political party, telephone and voting record (not who you voted for, but in which general elections and primaries). For people who want to keep that information private, such as […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A hacker called thedarkoverlord is offering 3 unique medical databases for sale at prices ranging from 151 bitcoins to 607 bitcoins. Deep Dot Web got to look at images of the database, shown below. One database has 48,000 records from a healthcare company in Missouri. The second database has 210,000 records from a healthcare care […]
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