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Saturday, May 31st, 2008If you live in the U.K., and you’ve just downloaded your email, cleared it off the server, read it, then deleted it from your computer, it just might still exist in a database if a new proposal is successful.
Slip, Slipping Away
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 “The true criminals will go and use random Wi-Fi nodes where you can get anonymous access,” he said. “You haven’t done anything but increase surveillance of law-abiding citizens.”
~ Jim Harper, Cato Institute, as reported by CNET
What price for loss of freedom and expectation of privacy are [...]
Banks Not Using Secure Log-In Pages
Sunday, March 16th, 2008You’d think with the vast numbers of phishing attempts, financial institutions would be doing everything they can do to help with preventative measures. But an unofficial survey shows some banks are lagging way behind.
Johannes Ullrich, SANS “Handler Of The Day” on April 19, 2006, checked out some financial institutions’ log in pages. In what [...]
Bizarre Anti-”Cyber Stalking” Law
Sunday, March 16th, 2008A new US law defines “cyber-stalking” so broadly as to include anything that may be posted anonymously on the Internet that is “annoying” to someone.
First, let’s look at the term “cyber-stalking.” While making my own rounds of various blogs, I’ve come across this term used to describe people who might post comments frequently on [...]
Who Is Cyveillance And Why Should You Care?
Sunday, March 16th, 2008If you maintain a website, keep a blog, chat on IRC or other Internet “chat rooms,” you should be very concerned about a private corporation in the United States called Cyveillance.
Today, I was going through some web log files and discovered something strange. An IP address identifying itself as “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows XP)” [...]
Privacy Commissioner Blasts Canadian Government
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Last year, PIPEDA – the act that is supposed to guarantee privacy in the Internet age for Canadians was passed into law. It’s a tough law, and requires that every organization (including every business) in Canada must have a privacy policy that is available to anyone that requests it.
Penalties for non-compliance are stiff as [...]