Tag Archive for: Privacy

Privacy researchers: Cell phone surveillance costs as little as 4 pennies an hour

Would you be upset to learn that it costs mere pennies per hour for law enforcement to violate your expectation of privacy with cell phone surveillance? If the cops wanted to spy on you for 28 days, Sprint, for example, only charges $ .04 cents an hour. 28 days is important because of U.S. v.
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Privacy lenses pointed at Snapchat for making phone number searches too easy

Security researchers claim that Snapchat, the controversial selfie-sharing picture site, is far too liberal with the phone numbers of its users. *If* those users are genuine – the researchers also found they could register bogus users as easily as they could look real ones up…
Naked Security – Sophos

Internet Privacy Tops IT Security Concerns In 2014 – Gulf Business News

Internet Privacy Tops IT Security Concerns In 2014
Gulf Business News
Internet privacy is predicted to emerge as the top IT security concern among businesses and internet users in 2014, according to research by the internet security firm ESET. Recent revelations from the National Security Agency (NSA) scandal, cybercrime 

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President’s Review Group recommends reforming the NSA so we have security AND privacy

The NSA paid $ 10 million to RSA so the security company would make flawed encryption the default, reported Reuters. Sources said the secret $ 10 million deal was so the RSA would make the Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom number generating algorithm the default algorithm in its BSafe crypto library so the NSA “could crack into widely used computer products.”
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