Tag Archives: Privacy

A New Stock Photo for a Hacker

Posted on 2015-02-25 by jcs

Christopher Soghoian has an excellent suggestion New rule: Instead of a stock photo of masked-man at a keyboard to show hackers, use the NSA director. More accurate. pic.twitter.com/DjziAmzptq — Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) February 23, 2015 If that picture isn’t scary … Continue reading →

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And So It Begins

Posted on 2015-02-23 by jcs

The lawyers will be happy.

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Everybody Wants Ta Get Inta Da Act

Posted on 2015-02-23 by jcs

Apologies to Jimmy Durante but everyone, it seems, is waging man-in-the-middle attacks. The latest perpetrator is the provider of in-flight WiFi, Gogo. Google security engineer Adrienne Porter Felt, while on a flight, discovered that Gogo was serving up fake SSL … Continue reading →

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Lenovo Denies Security Problems

Posted on 2015-02-22 by jcs

It’s infuriating that Lenovo continues to deny that SuperFish is a security threat. They keep saying that they’ve stopped installing it but that in any case SuperFish didn’t collect or store any private information. Doubtless that’s true but it’s a … Continue reading →

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MITM Coming to a Job Near You

Posted on 2015-02-21 by jcs

Just in case you think that man-in-the-middle attacks are just for the victims of Lenovo’s shenanigans, there’s this .@mountain_ghosts Such as this lovely device, which goes by the Orwellian name of an "SSL Visibility Appliance": https://t.co/TEmLfOTZnt — Nick Stenning (@nickstenning) … Continue reading →

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Lenovo

Posted on 2015-02-21 by jcs

You’ve almost certainly heard about the astoundingly stupid actions on the part of Lenovo. Forget about the security implications for a minute. What this boils down to is that Lenovo sold out their customers for a few pieces of silver … Continue reading →

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Privacy or Security

Posted on 2015-02-20 by jcs

The government and others are fond of telling us that we must give up some privacy to ensure our security. Paul Downey reminds us of a truth worth remembering. "Anyone who makes you choose between privacy and security wants you … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

Posted on 2015-02-13 by jcs

The Stasi is a good point. The Stasi is what happens when a state tries to achieve total watchfullness. — Nic Ferrier (@nicferrier) January 18, 2015

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Deanonymizing Metadata

Posted on 2015-02-01 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about the New York City Taxi Commission’s metadata and how easily it can be abused even though it was anonymized by removing the personally identifiable information. The anonymization notwithstanding, data analysts were able to … Continue reading →

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Identifying Muslim Taxi Drivers

Posted on 2015-01-24 by jcs

Remember that NYC Taxi Commission data set that was used to identify strip club patrons and the comings and going of celebrities? Another data analyst has shown how it can be used to identify Muslim cab drivers. There’s nothing wrong … Continue reading →

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