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If you take your Internet security seriously, now there’s an app for that.Launching today in Apple’s App Store, Cisco’s SIO To Go is a free iPhone app that allows users to get customized alerts on new and breaking security threats as well as additional information for safe web browsing.SIO To Go pulls its information from C (Read More)
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Version 2.0 of my Force-TLS add-on for Firefox was released by the AMO editors on Tuesday, and in incorporates a few important changes: It supports the Strict-Transport-Security header introduced by PayPal, and also has an improved UI that lets you add/remove sites from the forced list. For more information see my Force-T (Read More)
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Photo: Joe PuglieseShedding Your Identity in the Digital AgeStories From the HuntEvan’s Daily Costume ChangeMedia, From TV to Mags to Blogs, Followed the HuntSocial Networking Sites at Center of Coast-to-Coast Coordinated Search Wired Tests Writer With a Series of Bold Challenges1August 13, 6:40 PM: I’m driving East out of (Read More)
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As the federal government readies the third iteration of Einstein, privacy concerns over the intrusion detection system were voiced at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.Philip Reitinger, Department of Homeland Security deputy undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, told the Senate Committee on the Jud (Read More)
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“We’ve moved from an era of privacy keepers to one of privacy peepers and data-mining reapers who want to turn our information into products…The product is our records, our privacy, our family’s history. We wouldn’t let the government do this, so we have to protect against companies that want to do this.”Congressman Ed Mark (Read More)
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David Loukidelis, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, speaking today at The Surveillance Games workshop, has made it quite clear that his office does not want the Winter Games to leave a legacy of securitization in the city or indeed, fear (as the Assistant Federal Privacy Commissioner, Chantal Be (Read More)
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Global Guerrillas:
Some random items of interest:Vigilante militias in Rio are displacing the drug gangs -- favelas under the control of militias has grown from 108 in 2005 to 400 in 2008 (out of 965). Why? They have a better (albeit parasitic) conflict/business model than the drug gangs since they act as a substitute for missing public goo (Read More)
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GovInfoSecurity reports on a U.S. Senate hearing about Einstein 3. It is a Bush-era pilot program, continued under Obama, that seeks to have private telecommunications companies route the Internet traffic of civilian government agencies through hardware and software that would search for and block malicious computer codes.P (Read More)
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Over at Kent Online we learn that an astute commuter has established through Southeastern Rail's complaints procedure that some of their CCTV cameras are always switched off - not because of technical problems but as a matter of policy. I mention it because, as I've written before, we can develop a false sense of security b (Read More)
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Seventy-nine percent of senior IT executives believe growth in collaboration software applications has increased the likelihood of data breaches. (Read More)
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This afternoon, we’re excited to release the first official Mozilla application on Facebook. The app is a 5 question quiz designed to teach users some quick tips about how to stay safe online. At the end of the quiz, you’ll be prompted to go check out our newly refreshed security page on the Mozilla website.Facebook applic (Read More)
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Today, the Department of Homeland Security proposed to make permanent Global Entry, a program the agency says will “streamline the international arrivals and admission process at airports for trusted travelers through biometric identification.” Under the proposed system, pre-registered international travelers can bypass con (Read More)
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Below you will find our proposed Open Letter to President Obama. We will continue editing and discussing as needed, and as always, we welcome your thoughts and ideas in the comments:Dear President Obama,In July 2008, in response to our previous Open Letter, you promised “to have my Attorney General conduct a comprehensive r (Read More)
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Cato-at-liberty:
My March 2008 paper, Franz Kafka’s Solution to Illegal Immigration, detailed the problems with electronic employment verification systems. The paper concludes that successful “internal enforcement” of immigration law requires a national ID—and ultimately a cradle-to-grave biometric tracking system.The Department of Homeland (Read More)
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