Montana and Indiana TikTok Ban Stunts Unsurprisingly Fail in Court Both Indiana and Montana passed laws completely banning TikTok – both at the app store and private citizen level. Given that these laws were political stunts designed to try and impress voters, it is not surprising that they failed in court. The courts struck down […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]King Charles approved the Online Safety Act last month and its regulator, known as Ofcom, has already issued its first regulation in draft form. Among other “features” of this law is a requirement to scan end to end encrypted messages for CSAM, even though that is impossible. The act also requires platforms to execute a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well That is a Bit of an Oops A Google employee uploaded a list of 5,600 Virus Total customer administrators to Virus Total itself, making it visible to anyone. Among the users were admins from the NSA, Pentagon, FBI. UK Ministry of Defense and ministries in Germany, Japan, Qatar, Turkey, Frances and a dozen other […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Encrypted Phone Firm Sky ECC “Hacked” by Police Police have arrested 48 people and confiscated 14 tons of Cocaine and over a million Euros, after decrypting a half billion messages and listening in on the bad guys for several weeks. The phone company said that they don’t think the encryption was cracked, but rather, they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Contact Tracing Horror Begins The UK is now saying that all of the contact data that they are collecting from the app people install on their smart phones – that data may be kept by the government forever and no, you can’t ask them to delete it. Credit: The Register Singapore will require smartphone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UK Proposes Weak Security Law for IoT Devices; Calls it Strong The UK is proposing a law similiar to California’s existing IoT law and calls it strong security. What makes it strong is that they call it strong, maybe? The bill requires that default passwords on IoT devices be unique (likely part of the serial […]
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