UPDATE: Interesting question: Right now, the government has the benefit of secrecy when they spy on our internet traffic with laws like the U.S. Patriot Act. If they want to be able to decrypt your messages and the app doesn’t have a back door, they would have to come to you and ask for your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN is reporting that visitors to HuffPo and several other major sites last week might have caught a virus from malware infected Advertisements. The malware only infected Windows PCs and only those running Internet Explorer 8 (does anyone really use IE any more?). Even though IE11 is the current version of IE, according to CNN, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Former Microsoft Security Advisor Caspar Bowden gave a presentation at 31C3, the hacker conference in Hamburg last month, that gave the conspiracy theorists some more ammunition. An article on his presentation appears here, his slides are here, and a video of the talk is on YouTube here. A quote from the article gives you a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The media has been talking about the feds running Stingrays and Dirtboxes to gather cell phone data on potentially thousands of Americans. The government’s take on this has been that a warrant is not required. The FBI made their position known in a private briefing to the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. The result was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As has been the case for more than 10 years, California leads the way, for better or worse, for the rest of the country in protecting resident’s privacy. Their original breach law, SB 1386, is the model for laws for the rest of the country. So, what is new in 2015 – read on. If […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]HR 4681, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2015 was signed into law on December 19th, 2014 and provides funding for the intelligence community until next September. The bill and now law contains one section – section 309 – that deals with the collection, retention and sharing of information collected by the intelligence community. Because […]
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