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Netscape Navigator browser snoops on Web searches

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AOL Time Warner's Netscape unit is snooping on searches performed by users of its latest Navigator browser at Google and other search sites. According to a network traffic analysis performed by Newsbytes, Netscape is capturing Navigator 6 users' search terms, along . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 08, 2002

Privacy Watchdog Says Windows XP Software Logs DVD Play

A prominent Internet privacy advocate says Microsoft Corp. should have warned consumers that the media player that ships with its new Windows XP operating system connects to a server operated by the software giant and reports what DVDs customers insert into their PCs.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 21, 2002

Peek-A-Booty - The First Screenshots

Peek-A-Booty is designed to let surfers access sites blocked by government restrictions, and is essentially, a distributed proxy network. It uses a peer-to-peer model, masking the identity of each node. So the user can route around censorship that blocks citizens' access to specific IP addresses, because the censor doesn't know they're going there. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 19, 2002

Freedom Network source code now available

Source code for ZeroKnowledge Systems' discontinued anonymous Internet service has leaked onto the Web, apparently with the blessing of ZKS' Chief Scientist Ian Goldberg. The announcement was made on Goldberg's behalf at the CodeCon conference by Len Sassaman, co-organizer of the three day grassroots P2P and crypto conference.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 18, 2002

SafeWeb Addresses Vulnerability in Consumer Privacy Technology

SafeWeb, a leading provider of Web-based security and privacy technologies, today announced that it will address JavaScript security vulnerabilities in its licensed consumer privacy technology that were highlighted in a recent a study. The company closed down the free privacy service in November 2001 for financial reasons.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 14, 2002

Biometric ID cards promise greater security benefits

The Government's plan to examine the use of biometrics on identity cards could bring real benefits to the general public, security experts believe. Biometric technology, which uses fingerprint data and iris scans to identify people, offers enhanced security when used with . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 14, 2002

SafeWeb Promises Security Fix

SafeWeb has pledged to repair security problems reported this week in its anonymous-surfing technology. The Emeryville, Calif. firm, which has received funding from the CIA, said late Wednesday it soon would release a patch to fix Javascript bugs that can decloak users by exposing their Internet addresses.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 14, 2002

Deanonymizing SafeWeb Users

Although SafeWeb's Web anonymizing service has been shut down since December, they claimed it was the "most widely used online privacy service in the world". .. Andrew Schulman and I have just finished a technical report detailing SafeWeb's catastrophic failures under the simplest of JavaScript attacks by Web sites or firewalls (e.g., by redirecting to a page containing the exploit).. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 14, 2002

Spam Gets a Stamp of Approval

A leading Internet privacy group has created an e-mail certification program that, while not doing away with spam, will require member companies to identify themselves when sending unsolicited messages. The program, announced Thursday at the 2nd Annual Privacy Summit in Washington, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 31, 2002

Business should 'use privacy laws, not abuse them'

The information commissioner is trying to allay business fears about using customer data. Do it - but do it within the law, says Elizabeth France. Privacy legislation need not hold back the deployment of CRM systems or other data-centric business . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 31, 2002

Government, Big Business battling another foe: liberty

Maybe you remember the quaint old days, early in 2001, when privacy still mattered. That was before Big Business used its clout to sweep aside or neuter an assortment of legislative and regulatory proposals. They might have given you and me . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 30, 2002

IRS Plans to Offer Tax Filing on Web

Taxpayers who rely on H&R Block or TurboTax software may be able to bypass the middleman and file, online, directly to the tax collector, under a plan being developed by the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS, backed by the White House . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 27, 2002

PGP creator: Surveillance must be curbed

Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the Pretty Good Privacy encryption tool, says that widespread surveillance is leading us into an Orwellian future Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy encryption -- better known as PGP -- was in Italy this week for the InfoSecurity conference.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 23, 2002

Anti-copying row asks: When is a CD not a CD?

Further developments on the DMCA, and how Philips plans to deal with the record labels and their efforts to create music CDs that can't be read on computer disc drives, thereby reportedly preventing copying. "Aside from its ownership of the compact disc trademark, Philips is a major manufacturer of CD burners, and Wirtz said future Philips machines will likely be able to both read and burn the protected CDs. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 21, 2002

Attention shoppers: You may be studied

Arlington, Virginia-based Brickstream on Monday launched its Brickstream System, which links the company's software to computer hardware and in-store cameras in an effort to examine in-store browsing and buying behaviors.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 16, 2002

Computer nerds beware: The digital divide will help Big Brother, industry leader warns

One of the world's leading telecommunications gurus warned colleagues at the annual meeting of the Pacific Telecommunications Council Tuesday that unless they found ways to adapt cutting-edge technology so that it helped reduce the so-called digital divide, democracy itself would be . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 16, 2002

Legal Advice Sinks Davis' Wiretap Bill

Gov. Gray Davis' proposal to let state and local police obtain roving wiretaps on suspected criminals was dropped from the legislation containing it Tuesday after the legislative counsel's office concluded that it was illegal. The proposal, a centerpiece of Davis' State . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 16, 2002

EPIC Sues For Govt. Data Collection Info

Privacy and civil liberties advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said that it asked a federal court Monday to order the release of records that detail the sale of personal information to law enforcement agencies. EPIC said in its complaint . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 16, 2002

Security Vs. Privacy

State motor-vehicle offices will propose that drivers' licenses incorporate biometrics. Is that the same as a national ID card? Calls for creating a national ID card system, which advocates say would make it harder for terrorists to move undetected within U.S. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 14, 2002

Carnivore: Turning Snooping Into Art

It's a privacy-busting boogeyman to civil libertarians, an anti-terror panacea to lawmakers. And now Carnivore, the FBI's infamous Internet surveillance program, has become an inspiration to a group of the Web's leading artists. In a collaborative art project called, creatively . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 05, 2002

Linux Privacy - Page 63

Navigating the Tails 6.8 Update: What It Means for Security-Minded Users

Google Chooses Passkeys Over Passwords: Examining the Security Benefits for Linux Users

Tails 6.6 Released: Unpacking Key Features & Updates