While our government is pressing the Unbreakable Encryption Prohibition button in our world with pitiful technological privacy implementation at least involving data mining, there’s this… FBI Director James Comey… admits he puts a piece of tape over the webcam lens…
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Private Taping
Tagged with: computer security, computers, encryption, government, law, privacy, surveillance, technology
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Path to Slutty Robots
Prompted by: People Feel Weird About Touching Robot Butts, Researchers Find (Slashdot) How would you feel if a robot asked you to touch its butt? Maybe it sounds like a silly question, but as robots proliferate and anthropomorphize, it’s actually…
Privacy is Dying
Prompted by “Samsung Warns Customers To Think Twice About What They Say Near Smart TVs”: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/02/14/1742240/samsung-warns-customers-to-think-twice-about-what-they-say-near-smart-tvs In a troubling new development in the domestic consumer surveillance debate, an investigation into Samsung Smart TVs has revealed that user voice commands are…
Tagged with: computer security, computers, privacy, security, technology
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Ad(d) Hypocrisy
Prompted by “Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating ‘Mafia’”: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/01/26/1720217/online-ad-czar-berates-adblockers-as-freedom-hating-mafia Randall Rothenburg, the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has made a speech branding the creators of Adblock Plus (who were banned from the conference where…
Tagged with: advertising, communications, computer security, computers, freedom, freedom of speech, health, information, Internet, liberty, mainstream media, privacy, security, software, stress, stress management, technology
Posted in TechYes
Posted in TechYes
Scarily Pathetic Tech
Prompted by “IoT Security Is So Bad, There’s a Search Engine For Sleeping Kids”: http://search.slashdot.org/story/16/01/24/0256224/iot-security-is-so-bad-theres-a-search-engine-for-sleeping-kids Shodan, a search engine for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently launched a new section that lets users easily browse vulnerable webcams. The feed includes…
Tagged with: computer security, Internet of Things, IoT, privacy, security, technology
Posted in TechYes
Posted in TechYes
Internet Nations
Prompted by “The Perfect Storm in Digital Law”: http://alistapart.com/article/the-perfect-storm-in-digital-law National Internet borders are coming, at least based upon common sense — and that’s obviously not a good thing, because it defies convenient international organization of the masses to form a…
Tagged with: freedom, freedom of speech, futurism, government, Internet, language, law, liberty, linguistics, science, scientific method, small business, small business owner, technology
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Posted in Liberty Shield, TechYes
Behavioral Targeting You
Prompted by: reasonably serious privacy concerns Anyone appreciating the sense in defending your privacy will appreciate this post (well, that’s my preference anyway). Although it may seem to be just focused upon a particular email service (one you probably don’t…
Tagged with: advertising, computer security, computers, journalism, journalism code of ethics, liberty, marketing, privacy, security, software, technology
Posted in TechYes
Posted in TechYes
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