There’s been a fair amount of talk lately about Hushmail and whether it’s still “safe” to use. This has apparently originated with a post on cyptome that cast some doubt on the .jar file for the applet that they use. This was later corrected, apparently somebody compared the wrong files.
The Congress finally manage to pass the recent FISA Amendments Act in spite of serious opposition from the EFF and a lot of other concerned citizens and organizations all across the country. Fortunately, even though it’s been passed, the fight to get the telecoms held accountable for participating in illegal, warrantless domestic spying is continuing.
It makes you wonder how much privacy you really have. Is there a hidden transmitter in your television? How easy is it for your phone or email conversations to be snooped?
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When I first read this story I thought it just HAD to be a joke or something but it’s actually real. The EU is testing a new prototype system of cameras mounted in strategic places [...]
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There’s an article on PC World that’s worth reading if you think that your ISP might be interfering with your ability to use BitTorrent applications.
They refer to a couple of tools, one called Glasnost and another from EFF called pcapdiff that they developed to allow people to identify potentially forged, dropped, [...]
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Here’s something that looks like it fell right out of a James Bond movie. It’s a “Secret Agent Pen Camcorder”. That’s right. A pen that contains a video and an audio pickup. It records Mpeg4 video and sound in an .avi container on 1GB of flash memory [...]
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In today’s age of all too frequently justified paranoia there’s an issue that is coming up more and more often. There are a lot more publicly accessible computers these days. They’re in Internet Cafe’s and all I’ve even seen one in a hospital lobby that allowed people to surf [...]
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The New Jersey Supreme Court has become the first one to recognize that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using the internet anonymously. This is a major step along the way to getting legal recognition of people’s right to privacy online. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing [...]
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I just read one of those kinda annoying “surveys”. This one showed up on Network World. According to something called “an Accenture survey”, 12% of the people who responded to the survey in the US and UK have connected through an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot.
Without going into a whole round [...]
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New Scientist has an article up about an idea that’s come out of Mitsubishi that proposes the concept that motion sensors would be less invasive than CCTV cameras everywhere. I’ll admit that it is a little better than having CCTV cameras watching everything but these people are ready to fill [...]
