Android Phones: Your Every Movement Is Tracked
If you have set Location Tracking to ON, security services can know everywhere you have been. We know that Google gives up info to the NSA For ad serving purposes, they keep account of your movements...
View ArticleThe New Silk Road(s)
When Silk Road – the online bazaar for drugs, weapons and more – was taken down by US authorities, aficionados wondered how long it would take for replacements to arrive, if they would be better or...
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Be Wary of Big Data in the Wrong Hands
Here’s a great example. The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission records and keeps data on every taxi fare, including the driver, vehicle, start and finish addresses and the fare and tip....
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DarkNet Markets Taken Down
It looks like the awesome anonymity of TOR meant that router operators were lax about general security. Well, however it happened, the authorities have hacked their way into the DarkNet and pulled the...
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Australian Drone Laws Updated
Common-sense rules for private drone operation are coming into force in Australia: must be kept at least 30 metres away from other people more than 5 kms from airports lower than 121 metres in height...
View ArticleThe DarkWeb: Not easy being un-regulated
If the purpose of the Dark Web was just the sharing of information for free – information that perhaps is illegal in the real world – then it would probably do okay. I’m sure there are existing hidden...
View ArticleThey Are Listening – To Your Lounge Room Convos
Once again a tech company (Samsung) covering their arses in the T&C has led to speculation of nefarious plans: “To provide you the Voice Recognition feature, some voice commands may be transmitted...
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RFID-Blocking Clothing
Before long most of us will be carrying RFID products, or something that has similar abilities – to wirelessly communicate your credentials over short distances. This will be for financial...
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Google Listening – Without Permission
Google’s Chronium is supposedly open source and open to scrutiny. However Google added some code without telling anybody: Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that –...
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Legal in the USA: Drones That Can Attack You
Either this will get reversed in due course, or it is a sign of a future we need to get used to. In North Dakota it is now legal for the authorities to fly unmanned vehicles that can use non-lethal...
View ArticleLaser Drone Destroyer
Given the potential for unaccountable, untraceable attacks with drones, it isn’t surprising that science is developing ways of blowing them out of the sky. The HEL MD’s laser weapon is accurate enough...
View ArticleHow Legal is Stingray?
Judge Kendra Ausby ruled last week that the police should not have used a stingray to track Andrews without a search warrant, and she said prosecutors could not use any of the evidence found at the...
View ArticleDarkMarket / OpenBazaar
Open Bazaar (previously known as DarkMarket) has a major advantage over the now closed Silk Road – it is peer to peer. That means no central website that the authorities can take down. DarkMarket works...
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Sweden: First Cashless Society?
When a former member of ABBA says a cashless society will have less crime, people listen. Already Sweden has laws restricting cash deposits in banks, as well as 80% of transactions being non-cash (USA...
View ArticlePassport Acquires Verizon
Company from the future Passport has announced that they will be buying Verizon in a cash and stock deal. This means that a company that has made its name monitoring and tracking drones and other...
View ArticleIs Big Brother Coming to China?
As with just about everything else reported on here, it will likely come to be because, good honest people have nothing to fear. It would be far nicer if the focus was only the positive, getting plus...
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Office Monitoring Has Begun
Because legally an employer can track anything you do at work (except for bathroom breaks), it is clear what the end result will be – total tracking. The only question is how long it will take to...
View ArticlePing GPS Tracker
Ping Cut No Sound v2 from Joshua Lippiner on Vimeo. Inside Ping is a GPS module, Bluetooth, and 3G cellular module. Bluetooth is used for short distance, while the 3G cellular lets owners find things...
View ArticleThermal Imaging Reveals Smartphone PIN
The concept is quite simple – the screen on your smartphone retains the heat from your fingertips for a short while. If you unlock your phone and then it can be scanned by thermal imaging equipment...
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US Border Patrol Increases Digital Searches
In the first full month after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, warrantless searches of electronic devices by U.S. Customs and Border Protection — which had already dramatically expanded during...
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