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WebPrivacyDigest.com Navigation Recent posts User login Login/Register Popular content Today's:U.S. Plans to Screen All Who Enter, Leave CountryResearchers Crack KeeLoq Code for Car KeysSoft on Crime (Bush Commutes Libby sentence) - New York Times OpinionLaser Printers Found Guilty of "Making Available" CrimesAll time:U.S. Plans to Screen All Who Enter, Leave CountryResearchers Crack KeeLoq Code for Car KeysSoft on Crime (Bush Commutes Libby sentence) - New York Times OpinionLaser Printers Found Guilty of "Making Available" CrimesClaim of a Blu-ray BD+ CrackLast viewed:News from the Show-Me-Your-Papers StateFederal Government Expands Database on TravelersFair Eagle taking over the world? ISPs being compromised or just cheap?EU data privacy officers launch investigation into Google's Internet search engine - International Herald Tribune tags in Topics ACLU Activists Advertising Alert Anonymity Companies Congress Copyright Court (US) Databases Data Breach Data Mining DMCA DOJ - Dept of Justice Editorial EFF Entertainment Europe Exploits FISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Fourth Amendment Government Hmmm ID Infrastructure ISP - Internet Service Providers Law Enforcement Laws News Follow-up Update/Correction NSA - National Security Agency P2P Podcast Politics Privacy Proposed Laws Remember Reports Rights Scams Security Senate Software Spin Zone Standards Surveillance Technology Telecommunications Tracking White House World more tags Syndicate  more Amazon.com Widgets  EatonWeb Blog Directory View blog authorityBroadcast FlagCelebrity FeudNikon D200Canon Rebel XTi Bookmark/Search this post with:  Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AcademiaAdministriviaData MiningDatabasesEditorialHmmmIDReportsStudiesWeblogWebsite MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Federal Government Expands Database on Travelers August 21, 2008 - 12:20pm — MacRonin Federal Government Expands Database on Travelers - Via ACLU - Privacy: ACLU calls on Congress to stop collection of data on innocent travelersFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: (202) 675-2312 or media@dcaclu.orgWashington, DC – Once again the federal government is expanding its collection of data on innocent travelers, the American Civil Liberties Union said today, with the Department of Homeland Security creating dossiers of travelers who pass through U.S. border checkpoints, maintain these files for 15 years, and share this data broadly – including providing access to courts and attorneys in civil litigation like divorce proceedings. “Our government is not supposed to collect information on the innocent activities and movements of its citizens just in case they later commit a crime,” said Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Program. “This program illustrates why America needs more robust and across-the-board privacy laws.” read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati ACLUActivistsAlertData MiningDatabasesEditorialFourth AmendmentGovernmentHmmmHomeland SecurityIDLaw EnforcementPrivacyRememberRightsSecuritySpin ZoneSurveillanceTrackingTSA - Transportation Security AdministrationWorld MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Technology's Toll on Privacy and Security: In-Depth Reports in Scientific American's Special Issue August 21, 2008 - 6:22am — MacRonin Technology's Toll on Privacy and Security: In-Depth Reports in Scientific American's Special Issue - Via Scientific American: Computers, databases and networks have connected us like never before, but at what cost?SciAm's issue on Privacy. Our jittery state since 9/11, coupled with the Internet revolution, is shifting the boundaries between public interest and "the right to be let alone"A cold wind is blowing across the landscape of privacy. The twin imperatives of technological advancement and counterterrorism have led to dramatic and possibly irreversible changes in what people can expect to remain of private life. Nearly 10 years ago Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems famously pronounced the death of privacy. “Get over it,” he said. Some people, primarily those younger than about 25, claim to have done just that, embracing its antithesis, total public disclosure. And of course in many cases—determining the whereabouts of a terrorist or the carrier of a disease—public interest has an overwhelming claim on information that is usually private.Yet in many contexts—banking, commerce, diplomacy, medicine—private communications are essential. The founding fathers of the Republic put great stock in personal privacy; privacy is embodied (though, as we are often reminded, not stated) in the Bill of Rights. In her keynote essay Esther Dyson clarifies what “privacy” means by reminding us what it is not: several important issues commonly labeled dilemmas of privacy are better understood as issues of security, health policy, insurance or self-presentation. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AdvertisingAlertBiometricsCompaniesCryptographyData MiningDatabasesEditorialFourth AmendmentGovernmentHIPAAHmmmIndustryInfrastructureIssuesPrivacyRememberRFIDRightsSecuritySpin ZoneSurveillanceTracking MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Gmail HTTPS Doesn't Protect Account, New Setting Does August 21, 2008 - 6:22am — MacRonin Gmail HTTPS Doesn't Protect Account, New Setting Does - Via Threat Level: Just paranoid-enough Gmail users have long known that logging in via https://mail.google.com keeps the entire emailing session wrapped in cozy,128-bit encryption -- leaving would-be Wi-Fi snoops at a cafe staring at the electronic equivalent of a blended latte.It's a simple rule: https is your friend, especially when it comes to checking your webmail in a cafe. Without it the contents of your email are readable by anyone running a simple-to-find Wi-Fi monitoring program (if you are using a Wi-Fi connection, that is). But it turns out that's not enough. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AlertCompaniesCryptographyExploitsGoogleHmmmInfrastructurePrivacySecurity MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Watch-Listed Fliers Can Sue, Appeals Court Rules August 20, 2008 - 5:12pm — MacRonin Watch-Listed Fliers Can Sue, Appeals Court Rules - Via Threat Level: Airline passengers on the government's no-fly list can sue the government to get their names removed, according to a federal appeals court ruling Monday that swept aside complicated judicial rules that insulated the government from lawsuits over the sprawling list of suspected terrorists.The decision (.pdf) marks the first time that an individual has been allowed to use the court -- rather than a form mailed to a Homeland Security office -- to contest their inclusion in the nation's secret anti-terrorism database. In a recent interview, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff said such court reviews would destroy the watch lists and lead to another hijacking like 9/11. Those who continually run up against the list describe the experience of trying to figure out how to get off the list as Kafkaesque. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati ActivistsAppealsCompaniesCourt (US)DatabasesDecisionsEditorialGovernmentHmmmIDLaw EnforcementPrivacyRememberRightsSpin ZoneTSA - Transportation Security Administration MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Analysis: FCC Comcast Order is Open Invitation to Internet Filtering August 20, 2008 - 5:06pm — MacRonin Analysis: FCC Comcast Order is Open Invitation to Internet Filtering - Via Threat Level: Using words like "misdirection," "obfuscation," "absurd" and "verbal gymnastics," the Federal Communications Commission released its formal decision Wednesday ordering Comcast to stop throttling BitTorrrent traffic, a practice the carrier has repeatedly denied performing. Buried in the commission's vitriolic-filled 67-page decision -- which was announced three weeks ago and formalized in written form on Wednesday -- lurks an open invitation to internet service providers to filter content. In essence, the commission said carriers cannot discriminate against file sharing protocols, but they may act as a traffic cops and block illegal material and "transmissions that violate copyright law."The commission on Wednesday reiterated that Comcast violated net neutrality rules when it blocked BitTorrent file transfers. In no uncertain terms, however, the commission endorsed throttling internet traffic. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AlertCompaniesCopyrightDMCAEditorialEntertainmentFCC - Federal Communication CommissionFourth AmendmentGovernmentHmmmInfrastructureISP - Internet Service ProvidersNet NeutralityNews Follow-up Update/CorrectionP2PPrivacyRememberReportsRightsSpin ZoneSurveillance MacRonin's blogAdd new comment "Functionally voluntary" music may lead to blanket licenses August 20, 2008 - 4:37pm — MacRonin "Functionally voluntary" music may lead to blanket licenses - Via ars technica: Jim Griffin consults for Warner, one of the four major music labels, and he sees a disturbing sight when he looks around at the digital music landscape. Taking music without paying for it may not be "morally voluntary," Griffin says, but he admits it has become "functionally voluntary." No civilized society, he adds, can endure "purely voluntary payment for art, knowledge, and culture." So Griffin's job is to help Warner monetize digital music, and he's convinced that the issue of payment for music is nothing less than "our generation's nuclear power." If our society can monetize music in a balanced, consumer-friendly way, the results will be awesome. If we can't... well, remember Chernobyl?Speaking today at the Progress & Freedom Foundation's annual Aspen conference, Griffin made an impassioned case for music and the importance of monetizing it. He started from the premise, of course, that those who create art should be able to profit from their creative work. He told the story of a Parisian composer in the 1840s who went to dinner at a Champs Elysee restaurant, heard the orchestra there playing his tune, and left without paying for his supper. When hauled before a magistrate, the composer wondered why he should pay for dinner when the restaurant had paid him nothing for his own work. Out of the incident, the world's first collection society was born. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati CompaniesCopyrightDMCAEditorialEntertainmentHmmmP2PStandards MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack August 20, 2008 - 4:53am — MacRonin Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack - Via ZDNet.com : Malicious hackers are using booby-trapped Flash banner ads to hijack clipboards for use in rogue security software attacks.In the Web attacks, which target Mac, Windows and Linux users running Firefox, IE and Safari, hackers are seizing control of the machine’s clipboard and using a hard-to-delete URL that points to a fake anti-virus program.According to victims on several Web forums, the attack is coming from Adobe Flash-based advertising on legitimate sites — including Newsweek, Digg and MSNBC.com. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AdvertisingAlertCompaniesExploitsHmmmHow-ToPrivacySecurity MacRonin's blogAdd new comment DPI discussion highlights a Net Neutrality weak spot August 20, 2008 - 4:52am — MacRonin DPI discussion highlights a Net Neutrality weak spot - Via The Industry Standard: Argentina's Department of Justice recently sent a notice out to all ISPs operating in the country -- including several American firms -- ordering that they cut off domestic traffic to bwin.com.ar, a gambling site which has been found guilty of operating without a license.No big deal. Just have the ISPs block the site's IP address, right? Wrong. In this case, the request proved to be difficult for one of the American ISPs. It's not just the fact that bwin.com.ar may change its IP address to evade the block. Another issue, says a source at the ISP, is its network architecture also encompasses a neighboring country in South America. Some users outside of Argentina would be impacted, even though they are outside of the jurisdiction of Argentina's legal system. So what to do? The source, who requested anonymity and asked that the ISP's name not be printed, tells The Industry Standard that legal and technical staff began to work out the best way of handling the Argentinean order. Someone floated an alternative: DPI. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AlertCompaniesCourtGovernmentHmmmInfrastructureISP - Internet Service ProvidersLaw EnforcementPrivacyRightsSecuritySpin ZoneSurveillanceWorld MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare August 20, 2008 - 1:52am — MacRonin Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare - Via Slashdot : bcrowell writes "The LA Times has a front-page article about how open-source college textbooks are starting to gain traction. One author says, 'I couldn't continue assigning idiotic books that are starting to break $200,' and describes attempts by commercial publishers to bribe faculty to use their books. The Cal State system has started a Digital Marketplace to help faculty find out about their options for free and non-free digital textbooks, and the student group PIRG has collected 1200 faculty signatures on a statement of support for open textbooks."(Read Original Article - Via Slashdot .)Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AcademiaActivistsCompaniesEditorialHmmmOpen Source MacRonin's blogAdd new comment A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail August 20, 2008 - 1:06am — MacRonin A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail - Via Slashdot : Ashik Ratnani writes with this snippet from Hungry Hackers: "A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas. Last week, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, not just authentication. Users who did not turn it on now have a serious reason to do so, as Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the tool, is planning to release it in two weeks."(Read Original Article - Via Slashdot.)Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AlertCryptographyEditorialExploitsGoogleHmmmPrivacyRememberSecurity MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Judge Lifts Unconstitutional Gag Order Against MIT Students August 19, 2008 - 4:08pm — MacRonin Judge Lifts Unconstitutional Gag Order Against MIT Students - Via EFF.org Updates: Boston - Today, a federal judge lifted an unconstitutional gag order that had prevented three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students from disclosing academic research regarding vulnerabilities in Boston's transit fare payment system. The court found that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Agency (MBTA) had no likelihood of success on the merits of its claim under the federal computer intrusion law and denied the transit agency's request for a five-month injunction. In papers filed yesterday, the MBTA acknowledged for the first time that their Charlie Ticket system had vulnerabilities and estimated that it would take five months to fix.Tuesday's ruling lifts the restriction preventing the student researchers from talking about their findings regarding the security vulnerabilities of Boston's Charlie Card and Charlie Ticket -- a project that earned them an "A" from renowned computer scientist and MIT professor Dr. Ron Rivest. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) represents the students as part of its Coders' Rights Project. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AcademiaActivistsAlertCompaniesCourt (US)DecisionsEditorialEFFExploitsFirst AmendmentGovernmentHmmmLegalRememberReportsRightsSecuritySpin Zone MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Victory for MIT Students in MBTA Lawsuit Hearing :-) August 19, 2008 - 2:54pm — MacRonin Victory for MIT Students in MBTA Lawsuit Hearing - Via EFF.org Updates: Today, Judge George O'Toole lifted the gag order on three MIT students who were sued by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for discovering a security vulnerability in the MBTA's fare payment system. The Court found that the MBTA was not likely to prevail on the merits of its claim under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. MBTA had argued that the CFAA, which prohibits the transmission of a program that causes damage to a computer, also covers "verbal transmission," such as talking to people at conferences. Judge O'Toole, however, looked closely at the statute, and held that the CFAA does not apply to security researchers like the students talking to people. More details to follow.(Read Original Article - Via EFF.org Updates.)Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AcademiaActivistsAlertCompaniesCourt (US)DecisionsEditorialEFFExploitsFirst AmendmentGovernmentHmmmLegalNews Follow-up Update/CorrectionReportsRightsSecurity MacRonin's blogAdd new comment MIT Coders' Free Speech At Stake August 19, 2008 - 2:51pm — MacRonin MIT Coders' Free Speech At Stake - Via EFF.org Updates: As regular Deeplinks readers know, EFF's Coders' Rights Project is defending the rights of three MIT students who were prevented from presenting their research on security vulnerabilities in Boston's transit fare payment system. The students were hit with a temporary restraining order that silenced their planned presentation at DEFCON.Why this is ImportantAt first glance, the issues at play may appear obscure, and of interest only to technical researchers and lawyers. But as we noted in a post last week, the right to publish without pre-publication review is part of the purpose of the 1st amendment, and one of the reasons Americans fought the Revolutionary War. (The MBTA's stance is all the more ironic, considering Boston's role in that war.) read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AcademiaActivistsAlertAppealsCompaniesCourt (US)EditorialEFFExploitsFirst AmendmentGovernmentHmmmLegalNews Follow-up Update/CorrectionRememberReportsRightsSecuritySpin Zone MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Still Big Threats Online, But Slowly Improving August 19, 2008 - 1:06pm — MacRonin Still Big Threats Online, But Slowly Improving - Via CDT - PolicyBeta: The newest State of the Net report from Consumer Reports has concluded that several major online risks- including spyware infections- are declining in precedence. Unfortunately, spyware still cost the country 3.6 billion dollars over the last six months, with over half a million households being forced to replace computers because of spyware.While this is an intimidating figure, it in fact represents a 54% decline in the rate of serious spyware problems, even though a third of respondents didn’t install anti-spyware programs (about the same as last year). Unfortunately, the rate of serious spyware infections is not falling at the same rate as serious spam and virus incidents.Consumer Reports credits the progress being made against spyware and other online threats to consumer education, improved user tools, and government involvement. Of course, the spyware developers are working to come up with new ways to circumvent consumer precautions. One in 14 households had a serious spyware incident, and spyware developers are taking advantage of new platforms, such as cell phones.Like last year, we are pleased to see progress being made in the flight against spyware, and hope that legal and technical solutions to spyware continue to be pursued.(Read Original Article - Via CDT - PolicyBeta.)Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati ActivistsCDTEditorialExploitsHmmmPrivacyReportsSecurityStudies MacRonin's blogAdd new comment MPAA Helped Cops Nab Hundreds of Movie Pirates August 19, 2008 - 1:05pm — MacRonin MPAA Helped Cops Nab Hundreds of Movie Pirates - Via Threat Level: The Motion Picture Association of America announced Monday the arrest of 461 alleged movie pirates – 56 caught using a camcorder in a theater – during a three-month period ending in July.The announcement, which also said 1,000 optical disc burners were seized, could not be independently verified in what the MPAA is calling "Operation Takedown" – a law enforcement effort conducted jointly with local authorities and MPAA investigators.The operation included the countries of China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Korea. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati CompaniesCopyrightDMCAEntertainmentLaw EnforcementMPAASpin ZoneWorld MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Pirate Bay Renamed Beijing Bay After Olympics Tracking August 19, 2008 - 1:26am — MacRonin Pirate Bay Renamed Beijing Bay After Olympics Tracking - Via Threat Level: The Pirate Bay has a new logo, at least temporarily.The world's most notorious torrent-tracking site has temporarily renamed itself The Beijing Bay after the International Olympic Committee sought the assistance of the Swedish government to stop it from tracking clips from the ongoing Olympics in Beijing. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati CopyrightCourtDatabasesDMCAEntertainmentEuropeEventsGovernmentHmmmLaw EnforcementNGOP2PPrivacy MacRonin's blogAdd new comment File Sharer Settles with RIAA for a Whopping $756 a Song August 19, 2008 - 1:25am — MacRonin File Sharer Settles with RIAA for a Whopping $756 a Song - Via Threat Level: A Bronx woman is agreeing to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $6,050 to settle allegations she purloined eight tracks on the file sharing network Kazaa. That's $756.25 a song from artists (.pdf) DMX, Lenny Kravitz, Eagles, Sade, Ready For the World, Uncle Sam and Tamia.The settlement (.pdf) came three weeks after the woman, Denise Barker, admitted liability and challenged (.pdf) the constitutionality of the Copyright Act, the law under which the RIAA sued Barker and thousands of others for copyright infringement. Among other things, Barker alleged the act's fines, up to $150,000 per track, were unconstitutionally excessive and against U.S. Supreme Court precedent. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati CompaniesCopyrightCourt (US)DMCAEntertainmentHmmmLawsLegalP2PRIAARightsSpin Zone MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants August 19, 2008 - 12:43am — MacRonin Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants - Via Salon: Glenn Greenwald: Associated Press, yesterday:Foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of "severe retaliation" if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the summer Olympic games, a U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., produced a translated version of a document from China's Public Security Bureau that requires hotels to use the monitoring equipment. . . . . Brownback said several international hotel chains confirmed receiving the order from China's Public Security Bureau. The hotels are in a bind, he said, because they don't want to comply with the order, but also don't want to jeopardize their investment of millions of dollars to expand their businesses in China. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati ActivistsAsiaCompaniesCongressCourt (US)DNI - Director of National IntelligenceEditorialFISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ActFourth AmendmentGovernmentHmmmInfrastructureISP - Internet Service ProvidersPrivacyRightsSenateSpin ZoneSurveillanceTelecommunicationsWorld MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Aligning Words and Deed With Human Rights August 18, 2008 - 10:33pm — MacRonin Aligning Words and Deed With Human Rights - Via CDT - PolicyBeta: The Olympics are well into their second week. Although we’ve seem some inspiring performances from athletes like swimmer Michael Phelps and gymnast Nastia Liukin, it’s sad that these games have been mired in controversy from the beginning: the IOC’s lack of will or ability to hold China to its promise to improve its human rights record as a condition of winning the Olympic bid, China’s violent crackdown on Tibetan demonstrators, ugly protests during the global Olympic torch relay, the apparently underage Chinese gymnasts, and – “dear” to CDT’s heart – the surveillance of Beijing hotel guests’ communications and the Chinese government’s unwillingness to make the Internet totally free of censorship for foreign journalists. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati ActivistsAsiaCDTCompaniesCourt (US)EditorialFCC - Federal Communication CommissionFirst AmendmentGovernmentHmmmInfrastructureMediaNGOPoliticsPrivacyRightsSpin ZoneStandardsSurveillanceTrackingWorld MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Innocent Customers Potentially Dragged Into Legal Battle Over Satellite TV August 18, 2008 - 2:19pm — MacRonin Innocent Customers Potentially Dragged Into Legal Battle Over Satellite TV - Via EFF.org Updates: San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a federal court Friday to reject efforts by Echostar to get the names and addresses of every customer that purchased a free-to-air satellite receiver. Echostar claims that the receiver can be modified to pirate DISH satellite TV programming. EFF argues that Echostar's demand, which seeks all purchasers regardless of whether they actually pirated DISH TV, would violate user privacy and leave innocent purchasers vulnerable to bogus legal threats. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati ActivistsAlertCompaniesCopyrightCourt (US)DatabasesDMCADRMEditorialEFFEntertainmentFourth AmendmentHardwareHmmmPrivacyRememberRightsSpin Zone MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Visual Search Engine Tracks Stolen Images August 18, 2008 - 1:30pm — MacRonin Visual Search Engine Tracks Stolen Images - Via Slashdot : Barence writes "A new visual search engine could help photographers keep track of their photographs whenever, and wherever, they appear on the internet. The TinEye search engine allows users to search by uploading a picture rather than typing in a keyword. It then conducts a pixel by pixel search across the internet, flagging up all instances of that image even if it's been cropped, merged or digitally altered in some way. It's not just for copyright enforcement though, "it's being used by researchers who need to find where an image came from to provide attribution, even people who are trying to find out who people are in old photos." It's currently in beta, but you can try it out."(Read Original Article - Via Slashdot.)Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati CopyrightData MiningDatabasesDMCAHmmmHow-ToTechnologyTrackingWebsite MacRonin's blogAdd new comment Apple faithful snared in phishing scam targeting Mac.com users August 18, 2008 - 12:27pm — MacRonin Apple faithful snared in phishing scam targeting Mac.com users - Via The Register(UK): Hundreds of Mac users have been snared in a phishing scam that coincided with the glitches in the roll-out Apple's MobileMe service.Data obtained by CardCops, a credit card protection service owned by the Affinion Group, shows sensitive information belonging to several hundred people with Mac.com email addresses being traded in underground forums frequented by identity thieves. The details include social security numbers, birth dates, mothers' maiden names, credit card numbers and other sensitive information. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AlertAppleIDPrivacyScams MacRonin's blogAdd new comment U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules August 18, 2008 - 12:17pm — MacRonin U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules - Via washingtonpost.com : The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years.The proposed changes would revise the federal government's rules for police intelligence-gathering for the first time since 1993 and would apply to any of the nation's 18,000 state and local police agencies that receive roughly $1.6 billion each year in federal grants.Quietly unveiled late last month, the proposal is part of a flurry of domestic intelligence changes issued and planned by the Bush administration in its waning months. They include a recent executive order that guides the reorganization of federal spy agencies and a pending Justice Department overhaul of FBI procedures for gathering intelligence and investigating terrorism cases within U.S. borders. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati AlertData MiningDatabasesDOJ - Dept of JusticeEditorialFourth AmendmentGovernmentHmmmIssuesLaw EnforcementLegalPrivacyRememberRightsSpin ZoneSurveillanceWhite House MacRonin's blogAdd new comment In court: right to privacy vs. free speech August 18, 2008 - 12:08pm — MacRonin In court: right to privacy vs. free speech - Via inRich.com : Social Security numbers of officials posted on Web site in effort to pressure stateA privacy advocate's free-speech challenge to a state law aimed at protecting Social Security numbers readily available on government Web sites might soon be resolved."I think this case presents some new questions and some hard questions," U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne said yesterday afternoon after several hours of argument during which he asked some tough questions of both sides.Betty "BJ" Ostergren of Hanover County has posted the Social Security numbers of 20 state officials and others on her Web site, www.TheVirginiaWatchdog.com, to pressure state officials to keep the numbers off government Web sites. read more »Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Reddit Google Yahoo Technorati ActivistsCourt (US)First AmendmentGovernmentHmmmIDLawsPrivacyRights MacRonin's blogAdd new comment 123456789…next ›last » © Copyright 1997-2008 Paul Hardwick, with Web Hosting provided by MacRonin.com. _uacct = "UA-242814-1";urchinTracker(); |
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