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Facebook App Bug Exposes Questionable Data Practices
Facebook offers its users the ability to upload your email contact list, presumably so you can discover which of your friends are on Facebook (that you haven’t already befriended). Once you’ve done this, you also have the ability to download those contacts via an archiving tool called DYI (Download Your Information), that delivers this information
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Don’t Let Your Smartphone Autoconnect to Wifi Networks
Security researchers at Skycure have discovered another weakness in smartphone security, and this could impact you despite whatever security measures you’ve taken personally. Most smartphone operating systems, iOS and Android included, offer the ability to “remember” the SSID’s and passwords of Wifi networks you have accessed with your smartphone, and have the ability to automatically
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NSA Whistleblower: Endpoint Security is the Weakest Link
In a public event hosted by the Reddit.com, infamous NSA whisteblower Edward Snowden answered questions posted by Reddit users on a variety of topics. Of particular note was his response to a question about whether encrypting emails would be an effective way to keep the NSA (or anyone else, for that matter) out of your
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Is the US Government spying on you?
There’s a whole lot of spying going on: the US and China continue to bicker over who’s spying on who, and the Washington Post fumbles an early scoop that clearly confuses what may end up being the biggest information leak since the Wikileaks scandal. In the midst of this surveillance brouhaha, the confidential source that
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Apple iOS 7 coming in Fall 2013
Apple officially announced the next version of their mobile device operating system at the Worldwide Developer Conference on June 10th. The rumors of a redesigned interface proved to be true, as iOS 7 showed off a completely reskinned interface that features a more muted color scheme with “flattened” elements, a marked departure from the infamous
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No Facial Recognition in Google Glass…for Now
Proving that sometimes our Congress people come by their paychecks honestly, a bi-partisan privacy caucus led by Joe Barton (Rep. TX) sent a list of questions to Google’s CEO Larry Page, asking him point blank about several privacy issues, including whether or not Google would allow the use of facial recognition technology on the device.
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