Cell phone privacy guide for Android
The Pirate Party of Canada has a nice list of applications and add-ons for Android phones which enhance security and privacy. It boils down to Use Cyanogenmod. Install applications from the alternative...
View ArticleThe Right to Read
There is something depressing and chilling when the most dystopian prophecies come true. Especially, when those dystopian prophecies are written by Richard Stallman, who has spent the better part of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
USB Smart Card Reader
Just got another shipment from Deal Extreme. This time a USB Smart Card Reader. It’s for reading my soon to arrive Free Software Foundation Europe fellowship card. However, all I had to try out with so...
View ArticleNSA surveillance – business as usual
This week saw two interesting, and supposedly shocking, stories about the scale of the US government’s Internet surveillance. Starting Thursday with the news that the phone operator Verizon had been...
View ArticlePrivacy – A great opertunity for Free software, and funny news
It has been an entertaining week in the privacy and security headlines. Since the NSA stories broke last week, protecting ourselves from state surveillance suddenly became mainstream. We’ll see if that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PRISM – the effect
Another week with NSA and PRISM news has gone by, and now the reactions and comments start to take on more substance and show that people have had to the time to reflect on the various issues, rather...
View ArticlePRISM – The political repercussions
It has been about a month and half since the NSA and PRISM story broke, and we are now starting to see some of the political repercussions. As expected, they take longer to develop than news-headlines...
View ArticleNSA survailance violations – a brief summary
A summary of the latest news and NSA revelations. Thanks to Snowden, we now know the NSA: Had James Clapper lie under oath to us – on camera – to Congress to hide the domestic spying programs Occured...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The mind of a megalomaniac: NSA chief Keith Alexander
Glenn Greenwald recently had a nice story in the Guardian which showed how completely out of touch with society and reality NSA’s surveillance operation has become. NSA chief Keith Alexander have built...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Latest NSA round-up
Glenn Greenwald has the latest round-up of various NSA surveillance related stories around the world this week. From the British GCHQ spying on Belgium’s largest telecom, Belgacom, to Obama working...
View ArticleNSA’s Social Graph
NSA is creating a social graph of everybody. That is the latest NSA story based on Snowden’s documents. “The agency can augment the communications data with material from public, commercial and other...
View ArticleThe list of shame
Over the last years, Wikileaks has collected and published a set of files detailing the companies involved in implementing and assisting mass surveillance. The “Spy Files” includes mostly public...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trends: Snowden didn’t change public’s behaviour
For all the NSA documents revealed by Snowden, and for all the news headlines stressing the gravity of the situation, it seems the general public has not changed their behaviour much. At least that...
View ArticleAnother assault on privacy by GCHQ
Recently, it was revealed by IT Security Guru that the British intelligence agency GCHQ had demand a backdoor into the secure email service PrivateSky by CertiVox. At the end of 2012, GCHQ made the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
anonabox : a Tor hardware router
Update: This project turned out to be too good too be true, at least for now. Wired has a brief article on the problems of the project, and why it was canceled by Kickstarter. However, as the developer...
View ArticleReview: No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald
In his latest book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald gives a brief summary of the events since Edwards Snowden first contacted him 1 December 2012, up until UK government’s harassment of David Miranda...
View ArticlePrivacy attacks and government surveillance continue
At the Symantec Government Symposium on Tuesday, FBI director James Comey said he “can’t resist talking about encryption and going dark”, and will continue an “adult” discussion into 2017. What’s...
View ArticleExpanding police and surveillance powers across Europe
In January, two interesting and thorough reports on expanding police and surveillance powers across Europe were published: Amnesty International published a 70 page report which summarizes its research...
View ArticleFacebook shattered
The last week has been devastating for Facebook, with revelations about the Cambridge Analytica data abuse, but also uncontrolled access to people’s private information and friend networks by thousands...
View ArticleRichard Stallman response to the Facebook scandal
In an opinion piece in The Guardian, Richards Stallman shares his view on the latest Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal. He is definitely in a position to say “I told you so”, and both he and...
View Article