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Naked Security – Sophos
Let’s assume you know nothing about a person except for that during a three-week period, that person called “a home improvement store, locksmiths, a hydroponics dealer, and a head shop.” While you still don’t know that person, you certainly have insight into their private life that might allow you to infer a certain scenario. All of that sensitive information came from phone metadata surveillance….
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Earlier this month, Boeing submitted details about its new high-end smartphone, simply called “Black,” to the FCC, along with a request that most of those details be kept secret. The Black (FCC ID H8V-BLK) is an Android phone with a feature for a very specific demographic: it will self-destruct if tampered with.
In a letter to the FCC, Boeing’s counsel Bruce Olcott wrote, “Boeing’s Black phone will be sold primarily to government agencies and companies engaged in contractual activities with those agencies that are related to defense and homeland security. The device will be marketed and sold in a manner such that low-level technical and operational information about the product will not be provided to the general public.”
As part of the justification for requesting secrecy, Olcott added that the phone is a “sealed device” that will be sold with an end-user nondisclosure agreement. “There are no serviceable parts on Boeing’s Black phone, and any attempted servicing or replacing of parts would destroy the product,” Olcott wrote. “Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contained within the device and make the device inoperable.”
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During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board discussed their 238-page report [pdf] that found the “telephone records collected by the NSA under its Section 215 program” has “shown minimal value in safeguarding the nation from terrorism.
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