When you ask a merchant to store your credit card information, you are trusting them to protect that information. While some web sites make it very difficult for you NOT to save your credit card information (Amazon being one), many web sites ask you if you want to save your credit card information. For sure, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last December, DHS started asking some foreign visitors for their social media account information. The request is ‘optional’. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Google+, Instagram and others are on a list where visitors are asked to enter their account names. Note that they are not being asked for their passwords. The Feds are trying […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just after midnight on August 11th, Jered Kenna in Medellin, Columbia was notified that two of his email accounts had their passwords reset. He tried regaining control of the accounts by getting the services to send him a text, which he never received. When he called his phone company (T-Mobile), they said that he didn’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One thing about data rich environments – you have to trust that the data keepers do what they say they are going to do. As we all know, Uber collects a lot of data – even data that they don’t know what they will use it for – but surely they will need it in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. All that is about to change and I don’t mean that the Constitution is going to change. Like the Apple-FBI fight earlier this year, Amazon is in a fight with the law and I don’t think it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you may be aware that earlier this year the FBI outed two major New York based law firms – Cravath, Swaine & Moore (500 attorneys) and Weil, Gotshal & Manges (1,000 attorneys) – as being hacked. But they did not give a lot of details. Now some of the details are coming out, […]
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