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The Ultimate Sign-out

stexas — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:07:56 +0000

The Ultimate Sign-out

6 Things You Should Never Reveal on Facebook

stexas — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:12:27 +0000

6 Things You Should Never Reveal on Facebook

Court OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking

stexas — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:22:46 +0000

Court OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking

NSA “Perfect Citizen” Program is Only One Piece of Cyber Security Puzzle

stexas — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:58:00 +0000

NSA “Perfect Citizen” Program is Only One Piece of Cyber Security Puzzle

Facebook’s privacy policies hit a language barrier

stexas — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:56:22 +0000

Facebook’s privacy policies hit a language barrier

Updated: Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

stexas — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:26:39 +0000

Updated: Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

What the DHS Knows About You

stexas — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:33:57 +0000

Here’s a real copy of an American citizen’s DHS Travel Record, retrieved from the US Customs and Border Patrol’s Automated Targeting System and obtained through a FOIA/Privacy Act request. The document reveals that the DHS is storing: the traveler’s credit card number and expiration; IP addresses used to make Web travel reservations; hotel information and [...]

Matt Blaze Examines Communications Privacy

stexas — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:22:47 +0000

Matt Blaze analyzes the implications of a recent Newsweek story on the Bush administration’s use of the NSA for domestic spying on communications, and questions whether the lower legal threshold for the collection of communications metadata is giving away too much to the government: ‘As electronic communication pervades more of our daily lives, transaction records [...]

New surveillance program will turn military satellites on US

stexas — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:35:20 +0000

The National Applications Office is meant to coordinate the use of military spy satellites to watch the US, but the GAO warns that more privacy checks are needed. Congress has given the NAO a qualified go-ahead, barring cooperation with law enforcement… for now. Read More… [From New surveillance program will turn military satellites on US]

Gabriel Ghinita, “Private Queries in Location Based Services: Anonymizers are not …

stexas — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:24:06 +0000

Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must not be disclosed. Existing solutions utilize a trusted anonymizer between the users and the LBS. This approach has several drawbacks: (i) All users must trust the third party anonymizer, which is [...]

Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling

stexas — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:18:08 +0000

New research could allow ISPs to selectively block or slow down your encrypted traffic even if they cannot snoop on your transmitted data. Italian researchers have found a way to categorize the type of traffic that is hidden inside an encrypted SSH session to around 90% accuracy. They are achieving this by analyzing packet sizes [...]

FBI’s New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows

stexas — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:15:14 +0000

The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it’s not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says ‘could be the basis for our facial recognition.’ It’s all part of a new biometric software system that could store millions of iris scans [...]

Deep packet inspection under assault over privacy concerns

stexas — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:18:17 +0000

A Canadian law clinic has asked the country’s Privacy Commissioner to take a closer look at the deep packet inspection being used by Bell Canada and others. While the technology also raises net neutrality concerns, in this case the issue is privacy. [From Deep packet inspection under assault over privacy concerns]

History of the U.S. Surveillance Debate

stexas — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:24:37 +0000

Excellent article, chronicling the surveillance debate from the mid 1980s until today. Don’t expect good coverage of the current debate, however: the legality of the NSA’s recent domestic eavesdropping program, and the legality of the assistance provided by the telcos.

FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion

stexas — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:23:58 +0000

“It probably won’t surprise you, but in 2005, the FBI manufactured evidence to get the power to issue National Security Letters under the PATRIOT Act. Unlike normal subpoenas, NSLs do not require probable cause and you’re never allowed to talk about having received one, leading to a lack of accountability that caused them to be [...]