Linux Privacy - Page 20 - Results from #380

Discover Privacy News

How These 5 Dirtbags Radically Advanced Your Digital Rights

data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20100%20100%22%3E%3C/svg%3E

Bad facts make bad law, the saying goes. But sometimes, bad people make good law. Consider the following exhibits: a cocaine dealer, a child pornographer, a purveyor of suspect penis-enlargement pills, and two accused hackers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 11, 2013

NSA Spying on Online Gaming Worlds

he NSA is spying on chats in World of Warcraft and other games. There's lots of information -- and a good source document. While it's fun to joke about the NSA and elves and dwarves from World of Warcraft, this kind of surveillance makes perfect sense.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 10, 2013

NSA Wrongly Says Warrantless Mobile-Phone Location Tracking Is Legal

National Security Agency snoops are harvesting as many as 5 billion records daily to track mobile phones as they ping nearby cell towers across the globe.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 06, 2013

NSA spying will ultimately benefit us all

Most of us would agree that the NSA has spread its nets too far and cut deeply into our personal privacy. Ultimately, and perhaps ironically, I am hopeful this transgression will leave us with better protection for our personal communication than ever before.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 02, 2013

Apple, Google, Microsoft unite against NSA spying program

The tech giants, along with Yahoo, Facebook, and AOL, call upon the Senate Judiciary Committee to substantially reform the US government's mass surveillance practices.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 29, 2013

The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA

his is a long article about the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU), which is basically its own internal NSA. It carries out its own signals intelligence operations and is trying to collect huge amounts of email and Internet data from U.S. companies -- an operation that the NSA once conducted, was reprimanded for, and says it abandoned.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 26, 2013

Tim Berners-Lee says government snooping threatens future democracy

Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that government surveillance and censorship will threaten the democratic nature of the web.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 26, 2013

Vint Cerf: 'Privacy may be an anomaly'

Could online privacy one day be a thing of the past as we share more and more details about ourselves through social networks? Vint Cerf certainly believes that privacy will become much harder to ensure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 20, 2013

Google: We're bombarded by gov't requests on user data

Requests from governments worldwide for user information have more than doubled since three years ago. Worse still, says Google, is what the US won't let us tell you.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 18, 2013

Close-In Surveillance Using Your Phone's Wi-Fi

This article talks about applications in retail, but the possibilities are endless. Every smartphone these days comes equipped with a WiFi card. When the card is on and looking for networks to join, it's detectable by local routers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 01, 2013

SecureDrop

SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower support system, originally written by Aaron Swartz and now run by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The first instance of this system was named StrongBox and is being run by the New Yorker.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 17, 2013

NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users

Just because the National Security Agency hasn't cracked the anonymizing service Tor doesn't mean that people who use the service are free from surveillance.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 08, 2013

Tech firms push for NSA surveillance transparency bills

The U.S. Congress must act quickly on legislation that would make electronic data collection efforts by the U.S. National Security Agency more public, a group of tech firms, civil liberties groups and other organizations said Monday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 01, 2013

Major US security company warns over NSA link to encryption formula

A major American computer security company has told thousands of customers to stop using an encryption system that relies on a mathematical formula developed by the National Security Agency (NSA).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 23, 2013

NSA

The NSA has been widely monitoring international banking and credit card transactions, a new report says referencing Edward Snowden

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 17, 2013

New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services

The Brazilian television show "Fantastico" exposed an NSA training presentation that discusses how the agency runs man-in-the-middle attacks on the Internet. The point of the story was that the NSA engages in economic espionage against Petrobras, the Brazilian giant oil company, but I'm more interested in the tactical details.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 16, 2013

How to remain secure against NSA surveillance

Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 10, 2013

NSA efforts to crack encryption 'betrayed Internet,' expert says

Experts on privacy and Internet security have blasted the National Security Agency over reports it has secretly been working with the British government to crack encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and confidential data secure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 09, 2013

THE SILENT POWER OF THE N.S.A.

David Burnham is a reporter in The Times's Washington bureau. This article is adapted from Mr. Burnham's book ''The Rise of the Computer State,'' to be published by Random House in May.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 03, 2013

Making Sense from Snowden: What’s Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations

Really good article by Susan Landau on the Snowden documents and what they mean.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 22, 2013

Linux Privacy - Page 20

Enhancing Online Privacy and Anonymity with Whonix as Your Digital Shield

Explore Tor Browser 14.0 Updates: Enhanced Privacy and Security Features

Practical Tips for Protecting Email Privacy on Linux

Discover Privacy News

How These 5 Dirtbags Radically Advanced Your Digital Rights

NSA Spying on Online Gaming Worlds

NSA Wrongly Says Warrantless Mobile-Phone Location Tracking Is Legal

NSA spying will ultimately benefit us all

Apple, Google, Microsoft unite against NSA spying program

The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA

Tim Berners-Lee says government snooping threatens future democracy

Vint Cerf: 'Privacy may be an anomaly'

Google: We're bombarded by gov't requests on user data

Close-In Surveillance Using Your Phone's Wi-Fi

SecureDrop

NSA tracks Google ads to find Tor users

Tech firms push for NSA surveillance transparency bills

Major US security company warns over NSA link to encryption formula

NSA

New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Internet Services

How to remain secure against NSA surveillance

NSA efforts to crack encryption 'betrayed Internet,' expert says

THE SILENT POWER OF THE N.S.A.

Making Sense from Snowden: What’s Significant in the NSA Surveillance Revelations

LinuxSecurity Poll

Which open source security automation tool do you use to protect against vulnerabilities?

Get the Latest News & Insights

News

Advisories

HOWTOs

Features

About Us

Powered By