Updated: 2010-06-29 18:44:10
Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source | Onion News Network: “”
Finally a viable solution to the privacy problem!!!
Updated: 2010-06-29 12:26:28
I don’t know if it’s PCI compliance fever season or what, but I’ve been asked a lot about “weak SSL ciphers” lately. Mostly, having to do with “what the heck are those anyway?” If you don’t have a decent grasp of SSL, start with my previous article on SSL. If you think [...]
Updated: 2010-06-28 21:34:08
Lawmakers To Introduce New Internet Privacy Bill : NPR
Rick Boucher (D-VA) has released draft legislation to significantly increase required privacy notifications for Internet users.
Many websites are fighting the proposed bill, claiming it would hurt their business. I am unsympathetic to complaint that their business would suffer if people actually knew what they were doing with [...]
Updated: 2010-06-28 20:40:23
The European Parliament appears to be trying to create a regulation to require search engine companies to retain total information about their user’s searches for a period of years. If you are in the EU area, I strongly encourage you to reach out to fight this.
Declaration29: “A group of members of European Parliament is collecting [...]
Updated: 2010-06-24 15:24:29
A few months ago, I described how the Firefox add-on HttpFox could be used for basic traffic monitoring. Another helpful add-on that complements nicely with HttpFox is called HackBar.
HackBar adds a toolbar underneath the main address bar that can be toggled on or off with the F9 key. When enabled, the toolbar provides a miniature [...]
Updated: 2010-06-21 19:59:49
Cnet (among others) reports on Google’s interception of personal information from open WiFi nodes, including passwords and e-mail.
Clearly it was poor practice for Google to be capturing and recording such information as they drove around, but the real news should be that the information was there to be captured. The intent of the monitoring of [...]
Updated: 2010-06-18 15:05:38
A beta release of HTTPS Everywhere was released today. It’s a collaborative project between those at the Tor project and the EFF.
Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages [...]
Updated: 2010-06-07 19:11:14
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Updated: 2010-06-02 15:29:45
WikiLeaks seeded its database of documents by intercepting traffic through a TOR node they were operating.
This article at Wired highlights an almost buried section of this New Yorker interview with one of the founders of WikiLeaks.
Before the WikiLeaks site went live, the founders noticed that hackers were transferring stolen government documents over the TOR network. [...]
Updated: 2010-05-31 18:32:45
John Gruber at Daring Fireball posted this interesting article on the growing practice of websites intercepting your attempts to copy text from their pages. They are actually modifying the contents of your clipboard and tracking the fact that you have clipped the information.
The referenced cases seem to be doing it for marketing and informational purposes, [...]
Updated: 2010-05-31 18:27:33
Apparently the legislators in Louisiana feel that crimes committed with an electronic map are much more serious than those committed with the aid of paper maps. Not just some of them, the vote in the Louisiana House approved it unanimously (89-0).
If a “virtual street-level map” is used in the commission of ordinary crimes, a mandatory [...]
Updated: 2010-05-31 18:15:29
On May 26th Facebook announced new privacy controls. The EFF has a nice tutorial on how to properly configure these new settings to best protect your privacy.
Unfortunately these new settings options are being rolled out slowly. At this point I still don’t have the ability to use the new settings at all. If you are [...]
