The recent Wi-Fi “KRACK” vulnerability, which allowed anyone to get onto a secure network (and which was quickly patched by reputable vendors), had been…
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IMSI Catching: Phone surveillance measures and countermeasures go mainstream
The German newspaper Die Zeit has a long feature this week about IMSI catchers and their countermeasures, words that were long heard only in…
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More People Were Paid To Exploit Heartbleed For The NSA Than To Fix It
Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the NSA knew about the Heartbleed bug since shortly after it was added to OpenSSL. While thousands of salaried…
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Censorship Triggers Liability: UK ISPs Need To Be Sued Way Out Into Atlantic
Internet Service Providers in the United Kingdom have started censoring the Internet wholesale by default. This is a horrible transgression against the free exchange…
Read MoreThe Pirate Bay Is A Trailblazer In Technical Resilience
The Pirate Bay is a site that has remained online for ten years come this summer, despite attempts from almost every Ancient-Power-That-Be to shut…
Read MoreEvidence The Pirate Bay Move To North Korea Was A Prank, In Understandable Terms
Yesterday’s big story was definitely about The Pirate Bay having moved to North Korea. If you asked the Internet’s infrastructure, the net itself would…
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Free Market Failure: Telcos Charge More For Sending A Text Next Door Than Cost Of Sending Data From Mars
The telco industry charges more, kilobyte by kilobyte, for sending a text message from your phone to next door than what it costs to…
Read MoreFree Market Failure: Telco Profit Margin On Data Roaming Exceeds One Million Per Cent
The profit margin for the telecom industry on mobile data roaming is in excess of one million per cent. On healthy and functioning markets,…
Read MoreDocument Freedom Day – March 28
Among the stupid initiatives from corporate monopolists, we need good news once in a while from activists. One such initiative is Document Freedom Day,…
Read MoreAmerican Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted For Anything
The discussions around SOPA have shown a very unfortunate side of United States policymaking — that its policymakers are not the slightest afraid of…
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