Tim Cook on Privacy and Apple Pay (Sept. 15, 2014) | Charlie Rose
Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about consumer privacy, data, and Apple Pay in an exclusive two-part interview.
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German Panel to Question Executives Over NSA Spy Report
German parliamentary investigators plan to question executives of telecommunications operators about reports that U.S. and U.K. intelligence gained direct access to networks of companies including Deutsche Telekom AG.
US spies ‘can access German telecoms’
US and British intelligence services are able to secretly access information from German telecoms operators, according to a German newspaper report.
iPwned: How easy is it to mine Apple services, devices for data?
High-end tools, simple hacks can still make iPhone data less private than we’d like.
Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft
What we see in the public with these hacking incidents seems to only be scratching the surface. There are entire communities and trading networks where the data that is stolen remains private and is rarely shared with the public.
The Police Tool That Pervs Use to Steal Nude Pics From Apple’s iCloud
As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend, blame for the scandal has rotated from the scumbag hackers who stole the images to a researcher who released a tool used to crack victims’ iCloud passwords to Apple, whose security flaws may have made that cracking exploit possible in the first place. But one…
I Feel Nothing: The Home Depot Hack And Data Breach Fatigue
So when we ask why payment systems are insecure, it’s bigger — much bigger — than a lack of security at Home Depot, or Target, or name-that-brand. It’s really about an entire system that needs to play catch-up. Because we shop across many stores, and not just one, banks and card companies have to take the lead. So far, they’ve pledged to move to chip-and-PIN cards starting next year, but Litan says that could take seven to 10 years.
The Great Naked Celebrity Photo Leak of 2014 is just the beginning
For most people, privacy is little more than an illusion, one we create so we can feel less vulnerable as we move through the world, so we can believe some parts of ourselves are sacred and free from uninvited scrutiny. The further away you are from living as a white, heterosexual, middle-class man, the less privacy you enjoy – the more likely your illusions of privacy will be shattered when you least expect it.
“Don’t Take Nude Selfies,” Shrug It Off, and Other Gross Advice for Hacked Celebs
As Lena Dunham succinctly put it, “The ‘don’t take naked pics if you don’t want them online’ argument is the ‘she was wearing a short skirt’ of the web.”
Apple Isn’t Responsible for Your Nude Selfies
Owners of cloud services specifically refuse to take responsibility for data theft. So if you’re a celebrity whose nude pictures are splashed all over by hackers, all you can do is smile and wave.
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