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GCHQ Pulls Kill Switch On Smart Meter Rollout

GCHQ is The British version of the CIA.  Usually, they are out chasing bad guys in foreign countries.  This week they are protecting British citizens.  With all of the news of intelligence agencies eavesdropping on citizens, it is nice to hear a story where they are decidedly, doing the right thing. This all started with […]

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Cop Accused Of Spying On Breastfeeding Mom

A Michigan woman is suing a police officer who used the baby monitor app on her fiance’s cell phone that he confiscated when the fiance was arrested, to spy on her while she was nude and breastfeeding her son. Note that nothing has been proved yet, so this is only claims and allegations, but it points […]

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Court Can Compel You To Unlock Your Phone – If It Is Locked With Your Fingerprint

Authorities in L.A. obtained a search warrant compelling the girlfriend of an alleged gang member to press her finger on an iPhone to unlock it because they wanted to see what was in it. Whether this violates the 5th amendment or not is in dispute and this was an L.A. court – likely a district […]

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IoT Hacks A Reality – Set Off Fire Alarms, Unlock Doors

As the security research community (and me) has been saying for years, the Internet of Things is really an Internet of insecurity and researchers have now demonstrated that in a noisy way. Researchers at the University of Michigan and Microsoft (yes, really, THAT Microsoft) have published a paper that they are going to present at […]

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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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