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]Encryption can be very secure. Or Not. It depends on how it is implemented. Apparently, at least according to some sources, most of the Internet has gotten it wrong. That’s not very comforting. The rules of who people are protecting themselves from has changed from just a few years ago. Now we are talking about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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]A newly published article in The Intercept says that the NSA and GCHQ hacked anti virus vendor’s software and networks in order to “neutralize the threat” posed by that software. Based on newly released Edward Snowden documents, GCHQ obtained a warrant in 2008-2009 to have legal permission to monitor web traffic, hack email and reverse engineer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Several short items – The battle over NSA spying is not over, the OPM breach is better or worse than we thought, The first ruling on net neutrality is here, Senator McConnell is trying to insert the cyber protection bill CISA inside the defense appropriations bill in a way that does not allow for debate. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATED: 02 Jun 2015 2216 EDT The Senate, in a 67-32 vote, passed the same bill they were unable to pass before they went on vacation, restoring some of the expired provisions of the Patriot Act. The bill now goes to President Obama who said he would sign it. Gone is the bulk collection of […]
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