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Justifying Mass Surveillance: A Fallacious Myth
“Regardless of whatever safeguards may have been implemented to safeguard your personal information, it’s a question of when — not if — said data will end up being corrupted or lost.”
From infopackets
Watchdog Group Slams Google on Privacy
From washingtonpost.com (via slashdot)
In a report released Saturday, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with “comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy.”
Read the full article at washingtonpost.com
Read the report by Privacy International
Four ways to hide information inside image and sound objects
From Linux.com:
Ever find yourself with too many passwords to remember and no idea where to keep them so that only you can find the password list? Creating a password.txt file in your root directory is out of the question, as is a password-protected OpenOffice.org file. A piece of paper hidden somewhere is not a good idea, because after you forget where did you put it, someone else will find it and abuse it. Instead of these approaches, consider using steganography, a method for hiding sensitive information inside some other object, typically a JPEG picture or a sound file.
Read the full article at Linux.com
Escaping the data panopticon: Prof says computers must learn to “forget”
From ars technica (via slashdot):
“If whatever we do can be held against us years later, if all our impulsive comments are preserved, they can easily be combined into a composite picture of ourselves,” he writes in the paper. “Afraid how our words and actions may be perceived years later and taken out of context, the lack of forgetting may prompt us to speak less freely and openly.”
Read the full article at ars technica
Real-World Passwords
Bruce Schneier has written an interesting peice about the passwords people use.
How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts?
Read the full article at Schneier.com
The Death of Privacy
Jeffrey Rothfeder at Ziff Davis CIO Insight has written an article about how companies treat their customers privacy.
“The general disinterest in doing little more than the bare minimum to shield consumer privacy extends well beyond companies that are closing up shop.”
Read the full article at CIO Insight
Look At All Of These Passwords!
From A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator:
If you use any number of popular web forums or even some commercial services like classmates.com, amazon.com, netzero.com or your provider’s webmail service, you may not be aware that you’re sending your credentials over the internet in the clear.
Read the full blog post at Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator
Protecting your Identity from theft
Canada.com has an article entitled ‘Keeping Your Identity on a Short Leash’ in which Terry Cutter a Certified Ethical Hacker
“The dangers of information and identity theft are many, but by following a few very simple rules, people can drastically lower their odds of being victimized.”
Read the full article at Canada.com
FAQ: Protecting yourself from search engines
CNet News.com have published a FAQ written by Declan McCullagh that has helpful search engine privacy advice.
“Search engines place a multibillion-dollar infrastructure at the hands of any random user who stops by their Web site. The price you pay, however, is that the company may hold on to your search queries–which can provide a glimpse into your life–forever.”
Microsoft to drop parts of WGA program amid controversy
From Wikinews
“Microsoft has announced its plans to drop the part of its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool that sends data back to Microsoft saying if it is genuine or not.”
Read the full article at Wikinews
