Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Google Probably Knows Nearly Every Wi-Fi Password in the World
September 13th, 2013Via: Computer World: If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password. Considering how many Android devices there are, it is likely that Google can access most Wi-Fi passwords worldwide. Recently IDC reported that 187 million Android phones were shipped in […]
NSA Poses as Legitimate Websites for Man in the Middle Attacks
September 13th, 2013When you’re connected to .mil’s PSYOP ISP, you may get a ‘special’ version of the Internet. —U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators Via: Cnet: Here’s one of the latest tidbits on the NSA surveillance scandal (which seems to be generating nearly as many blog items as there are phone numbers in the […]
Some Dropbox Process Is Opening Documents
September 12th, 2013Via: WNCInfoSec: So now I’m curious…are the files being accessed for de-duplication purposes or possibly malware scanning? If so, then why are the other file types not being opened? It appears that only .doc files are being opened… I then uploaded more HoneyDocs files to my Dropbox folder, this time from a different computer and […]
Beeban Kidron: We Need to Talk About Teenagers and the Internet
September 12th, 2013Grim. Via: Guardian: There is a new world order and our children are carrying it around in their pockets.
NSA Shares Raw Intelligence Including Americans’ Data with Israel
September 11th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart […]
Apple Taking Biometric ID Mainstream with New iPhone
September 10th, 2013Via: Engadget: Apple’s brand-new iPhone 5s isn’t dramatically different from last year’s model, but it has at least one major addition: a “Touch ID” sensor. Us human beings are calling it a fingerprint sensor, and it’s built into the phone’s main Home button below the screen. Apple’s Phil Schiller says, “It reads your fingerprint at […]
NSA Can Access Data on All Smartphones
September 8th, 2013Via: Spiegel: The United States’ National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that SPIEGEL has seen explicitly note that the NSA can tap into such information on Apple iPhones, BlackBerry devices and Google’s Android mobile operating system. The documents state […]
Computer Program Uses Twitter to ‘Map Mood of Nation’
September 7th, 2013Via: BBC: British scientists have developed a computer program they say can map the mood of the nation using Twitter. Named Emotive, it works by accessing the emotional content of postings on the social networking site. The team, from Loughborough University, say it can scan up to 2,000 tweets a second and rate them for […]
Is NSA Dropping Its Own Versions of Open Source Encryption Software Onto the Wire As We Download Them?
September 7th, 2013Hijacking the stream and substituting the content? Trivial. I used to do this for fun on wi-fi networks last decade. Definitely trivial. But what I don’t get is how the downloads would pass hash checks? For example, you can check GPG’s SHA-1 values here. What’s SHA-1, you ask? In cryptography, SHA-1 is a cryptographic hash […]
John Gilmore on NSA Meddling in Cryptography Standards
September 7th, 2013Via: Cryptography Mailing List: To this day, no mobile telephone standards committee has considered or adopted any end-to-end (phone-to-phone) privacy protocols. This is because the big companies involved, huge telcos, are all in bed with NSA to make damn sure that working end-to-end encryption never becomes the default on mobile phones. Wikipedia: John Gilmore
