Internet Security

THERE ARE SOME firsts that don’t give you bragging rights — and in Yahoo’s case, that’s particularly true if the claim involves customer emails. A Reuters report Tuesday that Yahoo secretly agreed to search all its users’ incoming emails for a specific but unknown…

AN ARMY of networked kiosks is invading New York City. Hundreds of them. They’re large vertical slabs, practically ten feet tall and chock full of sensors. Reminiscent of the mysterious black monoliths from Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001. These kiosks are replacing the city’s aging public telephone…

The purpose of the Constitutional protections created by our White forefathers was not to make things easier for the police. SECURITY RESEARCHERS and civil liberties advocates on Friday condemned draft legislation leaked from the U.S. Senate that would let judges order technology companies to…

Despite denials, data was stolen from Disqus where racially conscious commenters are massively on the rise. A GROUP OF Swedish journalists are sitting on a goldmine of 29 million online comments, with information about users’ identities, from news sites around the world thanks to a security…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This isn’t about “protecting us from terrorism.” Any terrorist with an IQ above room temperature can use one-time pads for communications — and they can never be decrypted, not even by next century’s supercomputers. What this demand is all…

Wildly under-reports its own wiretapping; then lies about “terror threat” and alleged need to have mandated “back doors” to break encryption AS IF the government’s ubiquitous prying eyes weren’t intolerable enough already, now they’ve started complaining — rather,…

If amateurs can do this, imagine what the professionals at the Mossad, CIA, FSB, and “law enforcement” can do. And you can bet that the bill claiming to “protect us from hackers” will require back doors to permit exactly that. IT WAS A driver’s worst nightmare. (ILLUSTRATION:…