Category Archives: Privacy

Security Review: TrueCrypt

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Brian

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 →

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Security Review: Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets

Posted on February 10, 2008 by jimg

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 →

Posted in Integrity, Privacy, Security Reviews | 1 Comment

New York’s Total Snoop Grid Moving Forward

Posted on February 7, 2008 by imv

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 →

Posted in Current Events, Privacy | 2 Comments

Security Review: Cell Phone GPS

Posted on February 3, 2008 by mccoyt

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 →

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Search with a little help from your friends (on social networks)

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Max Aller

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 →

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Security Review: Metal Detectors and Security Checkpoints

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Trip Volpe

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 →

Posted in Physical Security, Policy, Privacy, Security Reviews | 2 Comments

Pillaged MySpace Photos Show Up in BitTorrent Download

Posted on January 27, 2008 by felixctc

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 →

Posted in Availability, Current Events, Privacy | 5 Comments

Alledged Skype Surveillance by German Police

Posted on January 26, 2008 by iddav

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 →

Posted in Current Events, Privacy | 4 Comments

Say goodbye to saying ‘Hello’

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Chad

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 →

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MySpace is NotSafe

Posted on January 19, 2008 by kurifodo

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 →

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