Dearth of Privacy
Over at Gizmodo, there’s this article on searching people who are pulled over for traffic violations: In a recent academic paper, South Texas Assistant Professor Adam Gershowitz explains that because...
View ArticleIP Addresses as Personal Data
There’s an interesting article over at the Washington Post, found via Slashdot, in which we find that the EU is proposing that IP addresses be treated as personal data. Scharr [Germany's data...
View ArticleCAPTCHA Cracked
I wrote earlier in the week about the possible use of something like CAPTCHA to combat Cross-site Request Forgery attacks, and as if by magic, we see the news breaking that CAPTCHA has apparently been...
View ArticleThe FBI Wants to Catalog You
Found over on CNN, an alarming article on the latest plans the FBI has to catalog everything about you, more or less. The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people’s physical...
View ArticleEFF Files Suit for Clarity on Electronic Searches
Last week, I wrote about the possibility of having your smartphone searched when you’re pulled over for a traffic violation. This is even more concerning, the Washington Post has this article up about...
View ArticleFacebook’s Troubling Policies
Caveat: I’m not a big user of social networking sites. I’ve always thought of myself as a bit more private than that. Perhaps this amplifies my concern over this story in the New York Times (found via...
View ArticleRFID Dust for Tracking
The expanding use of RFID chips, and their ever-decreasing size, has led to what sounds like science fiction to me. A company called Nox Defense has created RFID tags so small that they are calling it...
View ArticleFTC May View Companies Liable for Not Following Security Policy
One of the most distressing things about being a security professional in today’s IT environment is what seems like a lax attitude towards securing customer information. All that could change if a...
View ArticleThe New Computer Hacking Game
Perhaps I’m just getting to be an old timer. When I started managing computer systems for the telephone company in the late 1980s, the game was to break into systems primarily to learn something....
View ArticleRFID Wardriving
A copule of years ago, governments around the world began deploying RFID enabled identity documents, including passports and drivers licenses. Knowing this was coming, I renewed my passport before...
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