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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