Month: April 2019
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Hey Alexa: How can we escape surveillance capitalism?
Originally published in Engadget. This is not what we signed up for, but at least it was on sale. 1 / 3 Illustration by Koren Shadmi Where do you go when you want to escape surveillance? When you want to stop feeling like you might be being listened to by microphones, or watched through surveillance… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week, dispatches from infosec bizzaroland include: an award-winning security journo doxing a hacker, mental health apps doxing users, the CIA-employee “Vault 7” WikiLeaker complaining he can’t have a gun in jail, Apple getting sued over facial recognition criminal charges, and much more. Dox Populi In the annuls of bad infosec… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week the UK has its first porn-police privacy fail, MalwareTech preps to do some time, an attempted armed domain robbery goes wrong, the DHS is doing something dirty with our faces, and unfortunately, there’s more. Prohibition was also famously bad The UK government is rolling ahead with its extremely bad… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got the Earth Alliance deception conspiracy to arrest Julian Assange, Facebook’s disturbing internal mockery, WordPress plugin security sadness, and more. No, the Embassy doesn’t count for ‘time served’ After trying to kick him out for at least a year, Juilan Assange was ejected from the Ecuadorian embassy in… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got Secret Service pwning themselves with Chinese malware, Facebook with more password and user data exposures, Assange and WikiLeaks in hack-and-dox threats of Ecuador’s president, everyone forgot Kirstjen Nielsen ran the country’s cybersecurity plans, and more. Decimating national security to own the libs One of the big stories… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week the Bezos phone hacking blackmail story leads to Saudi Arabia, the biggest breach of classified information in US history, Martin Shkreli is in solitary, Cloudflare’s maybe-VPN, Zuckerberg’s hot air and digital security theater, and more. Follow the (blood) money The messy story about Jeff Bezos’s phone and potentially embarrassing… Read more…