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VTech not backing down on terms change after data breach
CSO Online This was in response to a data breach the previous fall which affected about 5 million parent accounts and more than 6 million children's' accounts. The children profiles included names, genders, birthdates, headshots and chat logs while the parent … |
“Start snowblower” – as in make sure the snow blower starts – had been on my to-do list since before Thanksgiving, but it took an inch of slush on the driveway to get me off my backside.
The machine would not start. Not the day it kinda-sorta snowed; not the next day; not a third. And since the snowblower is more than 15 years old and cost me a minor repair bill last year, I figured it was time to look for a new one, which I did … online.
As we would all expect these days, my browsing brought a blizzard of snowblower ads to my Facebook and Twitter pages … and everywhere else, in fact.
Before committing major dollars to a new machine, I figured I’d give the old one a final try … and, perhaps having sensed my online activity, the engine roared to life. Now I’m figuring it’s good for at least another year.
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The FBI still wants backdoors into encrypted communications, it just doesn’t want to call them backdoors and it doesn’t want to dictate what they should look like.
FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he’d been in talks with unspecified tech leaders about his need to crack encrypted communications in order to track down terrorists and that these leaders understood the need.
In order to comply, tech companies need to change their business model – by selling only communications gear that enables law enforcement to access communications in unencrypted form, he says, rather than products that only the parties participating in the communication can decrypt.
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If a device has a default password, the crooks know what it is! So change it if you don’t want them watching what you’re filming…
Naked Security – Sophos