Tag: surveillance
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VB2019 paper: The push from fiction for increased surveillance, and its impact on privacy
Levels of anxiety over technology and interconnectedness are growing. People are becoming increasingly concerned about privacy, and wary that every gadget or app might be spying on them. But researchers Miriam Cihodariu ( Heimdal Security ) and Andrei Bogdan Brad ( Code4Romania ) wondered how much impact the misrepresentation of surveillance technology in fiction (films…
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Detekt tool searches PCs for traces of surveillance spyware
Second opinion essential in circumstances under which likely victims operate. Last week, the release of the free ‘ Detekt ‘ tool was announced. Developed by Claudio Guarnieri and released in partnership with organizations including Amnesty International and the Electronic Frontier Foundation , the tool scans Windows computers for traces of government surveillance spyware. The tool…
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There is a place for unauthenticated key exchange, but don’t tell anyone
Making dragnet surveillance harder justifies using weak form of encryption. Discussions on how to make the Internet more secure have been going on ever since the first two computers were connected. Recently, however, Snowden’s revelations about surveillance on a scale that was hitherto only imagined by the most paranoid have made some of these discussions…
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Open letter asks AV companies for openness on surveillance malware
Old issue has become hot topic again following Snowden revelations. A group of experts in privacy and digital rights has sent an open letter ( pdf ) to a number of anti-virus companies, asking them to be clear about their detection of government surveillance software both in the past and in future cases. The experts,…