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The Government can now put GPS on your car without warrant
Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway - and no reasonable expectation that the government [...]
HOWTO: Disable Facebook “Places” Tagging
Facebook yesterday announced a new geolocation tagging feature, called "Places," an app which enables people to send updates about where they are right now to their FB friends. Here's how to turn it off. (more...)
Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors
The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new automobiles in the US since 2008, can be used to track vehicles or feed bad data to the electronic control units (ECU), causing them to [...]
Who does Google know that you know?
This link will show you who Google knows that you know is the network of connections Google uses to identify relevant social search results. It is based on a combination of the following:• Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts • Direct connections from links that appear on your Google profile • Secondary [...]
Judge Napolitano tells the truth about Wikileaks on Fox News
"at least newspapers go out of business when they lie, governments don't..." and he said that on Fox?
Al Franken: Net neutrality is foremost free speech issue of our time
Al Franken is a rare politician who, every time he speaks, seems to be defending _MY_ interests personally. Nice to feel important for once. If we learned that the government was planning to limit our First Amendment rights, we'd be outraged. After all, our right to be heard is fundamental to our democracy. Well, our free speech rights are [...]
Man STILL faces jail for videotaping gun-waving cop
Police officer Joseph Uhler was caught on film charging out of his unmarked car and waving his gun at a unarmed motorcyclist pulled over for speeding. When the footage was uploaded to YouTube, authorities raided Anthony Graber's home, seized his computers, arrested him, and charged him with "wiretapping" offenses that could land him in jail [...]
Canadian cinema fined $10,000 for privacy invasion over bag search
A Canadian cinema has been fined C$10,000 for invasion of privacy when it searched a mother and daughter's bags for video cameras, but instead pulled out birth control pills from the daughter's purse. The mother had no idea. She sued. She won. Staff at the theater were searching customers' bags for video equipment that could be used for movie [...]
Personal info of thousands of Israelis stolen by Turkish hackers
According to reports in local media the email addresses, passwords and personal information of over 100,000 Israelis is being shared on Turkish hacking forums. Apparently, they were lifted from compromised websites in the aftermath of the Gaza flotilla raid earlier this year. The data breach was originally reported last Friday by an Israeli [...]
HP to spam your web-connected printer
HP and Yahoo are teaming up to spam advertisements to your printer... the next step being behavioral ads based on the traffic it can sniff from your local network: "Through IP (Internet Protocol) sniffing, you have an idea about where those printers are so naturally it allows you to kind of already target your offers," Nigro said.Ads can also [...]
Commercially available ATM skimmers
Brian Krebs continues his excellent series of posts on ATM skimmers, this time with a report on the state of the art in commercially available artisan-crafted skimmers that can be bought through the criminal underground... Generally, these custom-made devices are not cheap, and you won't find images of them plastered all over the Web. Take [...]
Supreme Court: Suspects must explicitly invoke Miranda rights
What they said is, you have every right to keep remaining silent as long as you want, but the police can keep questioning you until you tell them that you are choosing to remain silent according to your Miranda rights. The case involved a guy who stayed silent for 3 hours and then finally answered a question in a way that incriminated him, and his [...]
Canadian border guard used private info to stalk women on Facebook
VANCOUVER — A B.C. border guard e-mailed himself the passport details of attractive women who came through his inspection line so he could hit on them later on Facebook, according to an internal government investigation obtained by the Vancouver Sun. The woman told CBSA investigators she came into Canada on Oct. 18, 2009 at around 5 p.m. Four [...]
Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers
The privacy issues that have been hounding Facebook may be coming to a head. A report in the Wall Street Journal indicates that the Facebook, along with MySpace, Digg, and a handful of other social-networking sites, have been sharing users' personal data with advertisers without users' knowledge or consent. The data shared includes names, user [...]
Australian customs searching laptops for porn
There are far more convenient ways to smuggle porn into a country... are they not aware of this thing called the internet? Patten said officials now had an unfettered right to examine travelers' electronic devices, marking the beginning of a new era of official investigation into people's private lives. She questioned whether it was appropriate [...]
Phishing as a day-job
A single person in Nigeria is responsible for creating 1,100 phishing sites, as reported by Phishlabs after clever experiment that allowed them to monitor the use of phishing tool-kits in the wild. The fraudster set up two to three phishing sites a week. Meanwhile, the Anti-Phishing working group attributes two thirds of phishing attacks to a [...]
Meganet’s Dominator I snoops on four GSM convos at once… and fits in your overnight bag
"Dominator I" sounds more like a monster truck than a collection of small boxes that collectively erase 20 years of relatively secure wireless phone service, doesn't it? Alas, what you're looking at here is a convenient, plug-and-play solution for exploiting the hard work the world's hacking community has put into cracking the A5/1 encryption used [...]
India’s e-voting machines vulnerable to fraud
E-voting security researcher J Alex Halderman writes: India, the world's largest democracy, votes entirely on paperless electronic voting machines. There are an incredible 1.4 million machines in use. Authorities claim they are "tamperproof", "infallible", and "perfect," but they've prevented anyone from doing an independent security analysis by [...]
EFF: Helping You Take Back Your Privacy
Two weeks ago, social networking giant Facebook announced a radical new vision for the Internet - all online activity involving Facebook would be "social by default." Think about what that means: All of your personal information, and all of your online activity, automatically shared by Facebook with anyone, anytime it wants to, without your [...]
Facebook’s “anti-privacy monopoly”
In an essay and handy infographic, DeObfuscate lays out the inverse relationship between Facebook's growing market share and the erosion of user privacy. Words of wisdom tweeted by Tim Spalding over the weekend: Why do free social networks tilt inevitably toward user exploitation? Because you're not their customer, you're their product. [...]
