Privacy

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:…

ProxyHam creator offers no explanation for his abrupt decision to abandon it. A SECURITY RESEARCHER has abruptly cancelled next month’s scheduled unveiling of a privacy device designed to mask Internet users’ physical locations. It’s a move that has both disappointed privacy…

The US Government continues its on-going campaign of infringing the little privacy left of American citizens. AN OLD LAW has come to the forefront, and it’s being applied in a way that could affect what you do on your PC. In a case close to the Boston Marathon bombings, a federal court will decide…

Facebook has a half billion people enthusiastically spying and reporting on their friends, family, and neighbors. by Andrew Wozny DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has some grotesque tentacles: the Information Awareness Office (IAO); TIA (Total Information Awareness, renamed…