Category Archives: Privacy
Security Review: TrueCrypt
Summary TrueCrypt is a disk encryption system intended to solve the problem of people being forced to disclose encryption keys or face consequences. It allows a disk partition to be completely encrypted. The most recent version even includes a special … Continue reading
Security Review: Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets
The Mac OS X Dashboard is a platform for developing small applications, or Widgets, that can be accessed and hidden quickly at any time within the OS. Common widgets tasks include simple calendars, calculators, games, weather tracking, and system monitoring. … Continue reading
New York’s Total Snoop Grid Moving Forward
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/241207_snoop.htm The article describes the “mission creep” going on in our war on terrorism. While the purported reason for installing thousands of cameras in Manhattan is to protect us from terrorism, Manhattan seems an odd place to be spending to … Continue reading
Security Review: Cell Phone GPS
With the increasing popularity of auto-enabled GPS features in cell phones, a group at UC Berkeley is experimenting with using the phones as a means to gather real-time traffic information. The phones will broadcast their locations back to a central server … Continue reading
Search with a little help from your friends (on social networks)
Article As most of you know, social networks are rapidly becoming ubiquitous, with hundreds of millions of users between Facebook (62 million), Myspace (>100 million), and Linkedin (>17 million). Naturally, many companies are trying to take advantage of this fact … Continue reading
Security Review: Metal Detectors and Security Checkpoints
Anybody who has flown on a national airline or had business in a federal, state, or county government building has certainly had the experience of waiting in the queue to be ushered through a beeping metal-detecting portal, separated from bags … Continue reading
Pillaged MySpace Photos Show Up in BitTorrent Download
More than half of the million images that are private photos of MySpace users was stolen and uploaded onto BitTorrent. This is a huge privacy breach to MySpace users. The hacker, “DMaul”, said that he learned the security hole from … Continue reading
Alledged Skype Surveillance by German Police
Documents posted today on WikiLeaks suggest that German police in Bavaria may have used a trojan for intercepting Skype calls as part of their surveillance of suspects. One document is an offer from DigiTask, a German company, to rent Skype … Continue reading
Say goodbye to saying ‘Hello’
Microsoft has filed a patent application for a monitoring system that collects data such as heart rate, respiration rate, body temperature, and brain signals and interprets this into the worker’s stress, frustration and productivity levels. Microsoft claims that it will … Continue reading
MySpace is NotSafe
A recent article concerning user privacy on MySpace made it known there is a serious flaw in the social network’s security. The reported exploit of the bug allows anyone, not just MySpace account holders, to view private profiles and private … Continue reading