“The UK has just legalised the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies.”
Source : ‘Extreme surveillance’ becomes UK law with barely a whimper | World news | The Guardian
Étiquette : security (Page 14 of 21)
« I think government involvement is coming, and I’d like to get ahead of it. I’d like to start thinking about what this would look like.We’re now at the point where we need to start making more ethical and political decisions about how these things work. When it didn’t matter—when it was Facebook, when it was Twitter, when it was email—it was OK to let programmers, to give them the special right to code the world as they saw fit. We were able to do that. But now that it’s the world of dangerous things—and it’s cars and planes and medical devices and everything else—maybe we can’t do that anymore ».
Source : Bruce Schneier: ‘The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over’ | The Daily Dot
L’agence fédérale de sécurité routière américaine vient d’adopter une nouvelle norme qui oblige les véhicules électriques et hybrides à faire du bruit lorsqu’ils roulent à faible vitesse.
Source : Les voitures électriques devront désormais faire du bruit à faible vitesse – Tech – Numerama
En clair, les données personnelles et biométriques de tous les détenteurs d’une carte d’identité ou d’un passeport seront désormais compilées dans un fichier unique, baptisé « Titres électroniques sécurisés » (TES).
Source : La création d’un fichier rassemblant 60 millions de Français suscite de vives inquiétudes
Bryan Police Make DWI Arrest of 19 year old — — Rader after she collided with a parked patrol car last night. According to Rader she was sending photos through snapchat to her boyfriend. Rader was arrested for for DWI and bonded out on $2000 bond.
Source : City of Bryan Police Department
Critics, however, say social media monitoring is simply mass surveillance by another name. An email originating from a crime analyst in Sacramento, California, for instance, claimed the city’s police department cast a net over the entire city, capturing the social media posts of residents on a “24/7” basis.
Source : Twitter Cuts Ties with SnapTrends, a Social Media Spying Tool for Police | The Daily Dot
Law enforcement face recognition networks include over 117 million American adults
Source : Perpetual Line Up – Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America
Depuis 1991, avec le développement des communications sans fil de proximité, le périmètre de la «voie hertzienne» s’est très considérablement étendu. Techniquement, la formule peut recouvrir ce qui transite entre un téléphone portable et une antenne relais, un ordinateur et une borne wi-fi, un opérateur internet et un satellite, une carte bancaire sans contact et un lecteur… C’est bien ce qu’a fait valoir ce mardi l’avocat des trois associations, Me Patrice Spinosi, pour qui «ce sont plusieurs milliards de données qui sont susceptibles d’être concernés».
Source : (1) Ecoutes : une brèche légale devant le Conseil constitutionnel – Libération
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
Source : Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence – sources
The botnets are made up of tens of thousands of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including unsecure routers, digital video recorders (DVRs) and connected IP cameras. Such IoT machines have been shown widely vulnerable to simple hacks, meaning the bot masters are easily able to build up vast networks of compromised systems to send extraordinary volumes of traffic to a chosen target.
Source : How Hacked Cameras Are Helping Launch The Biggest Attacks The Internet Has Ever Seen