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June 9, 2013
18:11 • 1 week ago
Allowing the United States government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.
Admitted NSA whistleblower Edward SnowdenIn an interview with The Washington Post, the other publication he worked with when leaking information. (He previously spoke to The Guardian.) Snowden says he has no plans to hide from the federal government, and will remain in Hong Kong for the time being. He suggests that, by arresting him, the federal government will only prove his point on the leaks issue. “I’m not going to hide,” he told the newspaper.
14:40 • 1 week ago
Twitter account of the day: Someone started a Twitter account that simply retweets people who claim, in the wake of the NSA news of the past week that they have “nothing to hide,” so they therefore aren’t concerned with people looking over their shoulder. The background image on the Twitter account, BTW? A picture of sheep. (via Hacker News)

Twitter account of the day: Someone started a Twitter account that simply retweets people who claim, in the wake of the NSA news of the past week that they have “nothing to hide,” so they therefore aren’t concerned with people looking over their shoulder. The background image on the Twitter account, BTW? A picture of sheep. (via Hacker News)

11:44 • 1 week ago
June 6, 2013
15:49 • 1 week ago
Within the last few years, this program was used to stop a terrorist attack in the United States. We know that. It’s important. It fills in a little seam that we have, and it’s used to make sure that there is not an international [nexus] to any terrorism event if there may be one ongoing. So in that regard, it is a very valuable thing.
Rep. Mike Rogers, House Intelligence Committee Chairman • Defending a recently revealed NSA program, which collected tens of millions phone records from Verizon, during a press conference on Thursday afternoon. Rep. Rogers claimed that the extremely unpopular program has already prevented at least one act of terrorism, but declined to divulge any additional details, saying such information is still in the process of being declassified. source
May 14, 2013
12:44 • 1 month ago
March 15, 2013
19:45 • 3 months ago

  • 16.5k the number of ultra-secret national security letters sent by the FBI, with gag orders, in 2011. The agency has sent hundreds of thousands of them over the years—and appears to have finally met its match in the form of a federal judge who ruled on Friday that the orders were unconstitutional. The case, involving an unnamed telecom firm, prevented the firm from speaking about the case to the public. source

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December 28, 2012
14:32 • 5 months ago
December 26, 2012
09:45 • 5 months ago
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Let’s talk about Facebook privacy…

Reminder: Randi Zuckerberg is a huge advocate of privacy.

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Let’s talk about Facebook privacy…

Reminder: Randi Zuckerberg is a huge advocate of privacy.

December 11, 2012
22:26 • 6 months ago
So the week of The Daily’s closing, they break a story revealing that city buses across the country are adding audio-recording mechanisms to eavesdrop on conversations. What terrible timing for a scoop. :/

So the week of The Daily’s closing, they break a story revealing that city buses across the country are adding audio-recording mechanisms to eavesdrop on conversations. What terrible timing for a scoop. :/

September 28, 2012
10:13 • 8 months ago
The Golden State is pioneering the social media revolution and these laws will protect all Californians from unwarranted invasions of their personal social media accounts.
Calfornia Gov. Jerry Brown • On the signing of two separate bills that block employers and universities from asking their employees or students, respectively, for social media passwords. Brown says the bill came as a result of reports of employers asking for the passwords. While the federal government didn’t take it up, some states — including California — did.
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September 26, 2012
13:04 • 8 months ago

  • 100GB worth of website logs remained publicly available on the servers of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Some of the unencrypted plaintext files included user names, passwords, and users’ site activity.
  • 100k computer engineers, including employees of Apple and Google, had their personal data compromised by the oversight. IEEE is the world’s largest professional trade organization for computer engineers, and the leak affected nearly one-fourth of its 411,000 members. So what was the most common password? “123456” source

September 4, 2012
08:11 • 9 months ago

  • 12 million the number of Apple iOS device identifiers in the FBI’s custody, according to AntiSec
  • 1 million the number of device numbers AntiSec publicly leaked early Tuesday morning source

» Wait a sec … the FBI had them? Well, funny story about that. Back in March, the group says they gained access to a computer owned by an FBI official. Just by chance, they found a file on the agent’s desktop titled “NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv” — a long list of 12 million UDID identifiers for iOS devices, along with a number of other pieces of personal info. AntiSec released just 1 million of the UDID numbers (which you can analyze here to see if you were nailed), but it’s worth keeping in mind that the odds may not be super-high of getting hit. There are 410 million iOS devices on the market, as of July. The problem for many is that the FBI reportedly had this info in the first place. What did they need it for, and why was it sitting on some dude’s desktop?

UPDATE: The FBI says that there is “no evidence” they had a file like the one described above.

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August 13, 2012
21:50 • 10 months ago
New tech site “Terms of Service; Didn’t Read” wants to expose what they call “the biggest lie on the Web.” To put it simply, nobody actually reads the Terms of Service. They just say they do. And in the case of some services, such as TwitPic (above), this is pretty evil. Did you know they can sell your photos to a news wire without paying you? Scary, right?

New tech site “Terms of Service; Didn’t Read” wants to expose what they call “the biggest lie on the Web.” To put it simply, nobody actually reads the Terms of Service. They just say they do. And in the case of some services, such as TwitPic (above), this is pretty evil. Did you know they can sell your photos to a news wire without paying you? Scary, right?

August 7, 2012
15:15 • 10 months ago

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