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Your Digital Legacy: States Grapple with Protecting Our Data After We Die
http://techland.time.com/2012/11/29/digital-legacy-law/?hpt=hp_t3
This is quite interesting to me on more than one level. When my dad died a number of years ago he left quite a few on-line accounts …
Cheaters and the sinister normalisation of our surveillance society
With zero outrage, a hit TV show turns snooping on private citizens into entertainment. How little we value our liberties
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/26/cheaters-sinister-normalisation-surveillance-society
In many ways the most horrifying part of this is …
Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/
Yes, a long article, but one well worth reading for anyone reading this (since you clearly are on-line and thus have an on-line presence to protect and …
FBI’s abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal needing investigation
That the stars of America’s national security establishment are being devoured by out-of-control surveillance is a form of sweet justice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/petraeus-surveillance-state-fbi
As Glenn put it: “…there is some …
Fake tech gear has infiltrated the U.S. government
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/08/technology/security/counterfeit-tech/index.html?source=cnn_bin
What is really amazing to me is the totally unspoken story about the non-governmental costs associated with this exact same issue. Because the government has historically been required to go with …
U.S. officials believe Iran is behind recent cyberattacks
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/15/u-s-officials-believe-iran-is-behind-recent-cyberattacks/?hpt=hp_t3
The US continues to play the victim card and increases babble about the dangers of Iran to promote willingness amongst the sheeple for a war with Iran (I have talked about …
Hacker cracks 4 million hotel locks with ‘James Bond Dry Erase Marker’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213849/Matthew-Jakubowski-Hacker-cracks-4-million-hotel-locks-James-Bond-Dry-Erase-Marker.html
I think people just refuse to realize how completely vulnerable they are to any number of exploits. I guess it is the same with con artists, no …
Four ways your privacy is being invaded
Slowly but surely, government and telecommunications companies have forged a police-corporate surveillance complex
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/11/four_ways_your_privacy_is_being_invaded/
This is a rather long outline of all the ways we have lost privacy over the last several decades …
SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find
Forensic analysis of drives by investigators now uncertain
http://news.techworld.com/security/3263093/ssd-fimware-destroys-digital-evidence-researchers-find/?olo=rss
Quite amazing how the steps to Skynet are taken unconsciously and incrementally. I am sure that many will question this comparison, but the important …
Beware Fake Microsoft And Amazon Emails Exploiting Java Security Vulnerability
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/09/04/beware-fake-microsoft-and-amazon-emails-exploiting-java-security-vulnerability/
I almost blogged on this last week when I heard that Oracle had taken so long to put out a fix. Now, it seems, even the fix is a …