Surveillance
You Can Get Hacked Just By Watching This Cat Video on YouTube – The Intercept
Many otherwise well-informed people think they have to do something wrong, or stupid, or insecure to get hacked—like clicking on the wrong attachments, or browsing malicious websites. People also think that the NSA and its international partners are the only ones who have turned the internet into a militarized zone. But according to research I am releasing Read more
Pro-Privacy Blackphone Now Shipping | TechCrunch
The pro-privacy Blackphone, a hardened Android smartphone that focuses on making rigorous security features more accessible to a general phone user, has started shipping to its first wave of buyers.
NSA targets the privacy-conscious
Source code shows monitoring of specific servers in Berlin, Nuremberg, and other locations worldwide.
Why Facebook is beating the FBI at facial recognition
The FBI is getting set to deploy its own system of computerized facial recognition, called NGI. It will bring together millions of photos in a central federal database, reaching all 50 states by the end of the year.
But compared with Facebook’s DeepFace system it isn’t very good. Give Facebook two pictures, and it can tell you with 97 percent accuracy whether they’re the same person, roughly the same accuracy as a human being in the same spot. To be fair, Facebook has a whole network’s worth of data on its side.
The nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency is getting outgunned by a social network.
Webcam by Branden Kramer, Stefan Haverkamp, Jan Jaworski, Tom Kropp
A short film about what is called « webcam hacking ».
13 ways the NSA spies on us
Over the last year, we’ve learned more and more about the National Security Agency’s spying programs. Indeed, there have now been so many revelations that it can be hard to keep them straight.
So here’s a handy guide to the most significant ways the NSA spies on people in the United States and around the world.
NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using “cookies” and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.
Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can’t Be Searched Without a Warrant
The courts have long debated on if cell phones can be searched during an arrest without a warrant. Today, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.
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