by Andy Greenberg. One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion: It’s possible, user privacy groups and a growing industry of crypto-focused companies tell us, to encrypt everything from emails to IMs to a gif of a motorcycle jumping ... MORE
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How To Anonymize Everything You Do Online
by Andy Greenberg. One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion: It’s possible, user privacy groups and a growing industry of crypto-focused companies tell us, to encrypt everything from emails to IMs to a gif of a motorcycle jumping ... MOREOops Again? A Key Server Accidentally Gets Wiped By IRS
by Steve Sherman. It would be comical if it wasn't so corrupt. Another server has been “inadvertently” wiped of all of its key data at the IRS. What is it over there? Does Lois Lerner come in and give “tutorials” on server wiping? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) saidFriday it erased a hard drive belonging to a former agency Senior official after a ... MOREFarai Chideya: Your Data Is Showing -- Breaches Continue To Wreak Havoc While the Government Plays Catch-Up
Government's incentive is to infiltrate, not protect. When Kansas City, Missouri, real estate appraiser Dave Markus learned he was one of about
80 million people whose personal data was exposed in the Anthem health
insurance breach discovered at the end of January, he immediately signed
up for an identity protection service. But ... MOREHolding Data Hostage: The Perfect Internet Crime?
by Tom Simonite. Every so often someone invents a new way of making money on the Internet that earns wild profits, attracts countless imitators, and reshapes what it means to be online. Unfortunately, such a shift took place last year in the world of online crime, with the establishment of sophisticated malicious software known as ransomware as a ... MORE
Computer Crashes At IRS Now Reach Epidemic Proportions
by Patrick Howley. Another likely story from our unaccountable government. IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the ... MOREJohn Stossel: Here Comes Tomorrow
Robots will make our future better. Ray Kurzweil — inventor of things like machines that turn text into speech — has popularized the idea that we are rapidly approaching "the singularity," the point at which machines not only think for themselves but develop intellectually faster than we. At that point, maybe we no longer talk about "human ... MORE
How The NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' Of Computers
by Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald. Government malware to aid in warrantless searches. Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process. The ... MOREGuy Adams: Is Your TV Spying On YOU?
The answer is not so simple. You are sitting in bed in your pyjamas, drinking a cup of cocoa. A loved one lies next to you, watching late-night television. Pillow talk is exchanged. An alarm clock is set. Eventually the lights are turned out. Earlier, you sat on the living-room sofa eating supper, before loading the dishwasher and heading ... MORE
Corey Rangel: Student Suspended Over Picture Of Gun
Political correctness run amok. A high school student in Florence said he has been suspended because of a picture of a gun. Daniel McClaine Jr., a freshman at Poston Butte High School, said he saved the picture as his desktop background on his school-issued computer. A teacher noticed it and turned him in. The picture shows an AK-47 ... MOREJacob Sullum: From Hackers To Slackers
How to prosecute almost anyone with a computer. If you are reading this column online at work, you may be committing a federal crime. Or so says the Justice Department, which reads the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) broadly enough to encompass personal use of company computers as well as violations of fine-print website rules that ... MOREDeclan McCullagh: No Fifth Amendment In Cyberspace
Helping to build a case against ourselves. American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo. woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer ... MORE
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