Via: freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/calea-ii-risks-of-wiretap-modifications-to-endpoints/
Will US secure communication devices come with a new generation of backdoors?
Where US device makers go, the world usually follows.
May 182013
May 142013
An anonymised mobile phone usage data package came with a nice bit of info: your location down to ~100 metres.
The data was all anonymised, aggregated- just dont think too much about the 100m part.
Dec 012012
Olson’s sons Eric and Nils are in court with the question of been killed in custody vs the drug linked suicide story.
Nov 252012
Going back to the site:
consortiumnews.com/2012/11/04/the-why-behind-the-benghazi-attack/
A interesting view after the “Mata Haris” like email find
presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/19/273240/coup-and-countercoup-in-washington/
Nov 122012
An interesting read on the possible value of a privacy policy in the EU.
Nov 042012
Your Forth Amendment will cover your home and land directly outside of it – the “curtilage”
Fences do not seem to help with right of privacy.
Oct 252012
Via: www.zdnet.com/australian-police-want-telco-customer-data-retained-forever-7000004811/
2 years? 5 years? – try forever. Dont worry its not the content, just ip’s…
Oct 052012
Welcome to 24-hour, all weather surveillance units. Some stats in the linked pdf :
HD (needing fiber optic network for the masses of data), 500 feet range , with zoom, a face at 400 feet, ~ two week retention.
$350,000 for 11.units
Sep 112012
Via: rt.com/usa/news/fbi-recognition-system-ngi-640/
Biometric identification and criminal history will be expanded around the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
Will photography in a public space get you on a file?
Aug 302012
www.computerworld.com.au/article/434911/data_retention_could_cost_over_500m_comms_alliance_amta/
Expensive
delimiter.com.au/2012/08/29/insufficient-evidence-telcos-pan-surveillance-reforms/
Do we need it?
www.itnews.com.au/News/313178,public-opposes-federal-data-retention-proposal.aspx
Not happy about it
www.computerworld.com.au/article/434909/proposed_data_retention_laws_likened_police_state_bendall_/
Fun for friends of friends of friends and the one legal note to watch them all?
If everybody knows they are been watched on Web 2.0, they will move to other forms of communications.
All the logs become junk.