56 posts tagged ‘Privacy’
Cavium Networking Hardware May Contain Backdoor
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Bruce Schneier: Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Stefania Maurizi: Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance is a public document and has been downloaded over 18,000 times since March 2022 when it was first published.[…]In 2013, Jacob Appelbaum published a remarkable […]
Data Analytical Services (DAS)
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra (Hacker News): A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter Wired obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality. According to the letter, […]
Section 24220: Advanced Impaired Driving Technology
Jon Miltimore (Hacker News): “Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the measure will mandate that automobile manufacturers build into every car what amounts to a ‘vehicle kill switch,’” wrote Barr, who was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president in 2008.[…]To my relief, I saw several fact-checkers at legacy institutions […]
Nothing’s iMessage App Was a Security Catastrophe
Ron Amadeo (via Hacker News): Last Tuesday, Nothing Chats—a chat app from Android manufacturer “Nothing” and upstart app company Sunbird—brazenly claimed to be able to hack into Apple’s iMessage protocol and give Android users blue bubbles. We immediately flagged Sunbird as a company that had been making empty promises for almost a year and seemed […]
Privacy Is Priceless, But Signal Is Expensive
Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund (Hacker News): Signal is also a nonprofit, unlike almost every other consumer tech company. This provides an essential structural safeguard ensuring that we stay true to our privacy-focused mission. To put it bluntly, as a nonprofit we don’t have investors or profit-minded board members knocking during hard times, urging us […]
Safari Share Menu Now Violates Privacy
Jeff Johnson: Looking at the packet trace, the share menu attempts to fetch the icon files favicon.ico, apple-touch-icon.png, and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png from the site.[…]And of course your IP address is leaked.My belief is that a website should not be notified and given your IP address and other information such as hardware device type and web browser […]
Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive
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What price privacy? End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app Signal has put out an interesting overview of the costs required to develop and maintain its pro-privacy systems which shield user data from tracking by default. The blog post, penned by Signal president Meredith Whittaker and developer Joshua Lund, reveals it’s currently spends around $14 million per […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Twitch launches Privacy Center to educate users about their personal data
In the name of transparency and accessibility, Twitch launched its new Privacy Center to educate users, after conducting “extensive research” and finding that many of its users had no idea how their personal data is collected and used. The Privacy Center, which launched on Thursday, is designed to provide “clear, actionable information” about privacy rights, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.