Former NSA director Michael Hayden says that he would not support [FBI] Director [James] Comey’s demands for access, according to a story by Motherboard. This goes against the “wishes” of the current FBi director and head of the NSA. It is clear to me that if everything is transmitted unencrypted, with weak encryption or with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI director James Comey has been telling everyone that the world will end unless every company around the world provides the FBI and only the FBI a back door to allow them to decrypt your communications. This includes countries we like and ones we don’t like. So far the world isn’t listening to him, but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI is warning people to be wary of fake federal web sites which both take their PII and also steal money from them. The web sites rank high on the search engine page, ask for PII and collect a fee. Sometimes they ask people to send their birth certificate or other information. People are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sorry this post is so long, but we are beginning to see more information on how Stingrays work and are used. As I said the other day in my last Stingray post, the cat is kind of out of the bag (see post) and only going to be more so. Well, along those lines, Wired […]
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]I read an interesting article in USA Today recently. The FBI says that over 500 million financial records have been hacked in the last 12 months (given that the Chase hack accounts for over 80 million records alone, this number in itself is not surprising). Here are a few tidbits out of the article that […]
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