Well, seems like covering your laptop's front cam has turned from a geek fad to a necessity, now that hackers have occasionally demonstrated that yes, those cameras are not just dormant, they can be used to watch you while you're fapping to porn:

Why is everyone covering up their laptop cameras?

Stickers and slides serve to ease concerns that ( Read more... )

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/27/donald-trump-russia-hillary-clinton-emails-dnc-hackAsking a foreign government to hack a political rival's email ( Read more... )

FBI Drops iPhone Case Against Apple After Outside Hack Succeeds

"A mysterious method suggested by a third party appears to have allowed the FBI to hack into the iPhone belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the attackers in last year’s shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., prompting the agency to withdraw its legal case against Apple."

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Apple likely to invoke free-speech rights in encryption fight
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NYC police: Criminals say Apple encryption a ‘gift from God’

It's the eternal fight, isn't it. Civil rights like personal privacy and free speech against public concerns like national security.

The bottom-line is elsewhere, though. Apple would certainly help the government open a ( Read more... )

Private messages at work can be read by employers, says court

Employees in the EU better watch out from now on. Their bosses can snoop into their online communications, a human rights court has ruled. The whole case started with a scandal in 2007 where a Romanian engineer was fired after his boss had found out he was using Yahoo Messenger to chat ( Read more... )

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Luck does have a sick sense of humor, doesn't it...


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First off, we've all heard the news:

In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are
"Files provided by Snowden show extent to which ordinary Web users are caught in the net"

Now the question.

Should governments spy on their citizens?


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When a couple of weeks ago it transpired that the US were regularly tapping billions of phone calls, emails and text messages overseas, including in countries that were supposed to be American allies, the European media exploded with tons of angry articles. There were protests on the streets, calling for an end of this practice. In stark contrast ( Read more... )

http://m.guardiannews.com/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston

So there's an FBI counter terrorism guy out there saying that the US government records ALL digital communication in the US.

On Thursday night ( Read more... )