Showing posts with label tracking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tracking. Show all posts
Friday, December 16, 2011
Major media companies discovered pirating. See below.
Amazon Granted Location Tracking Patent
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/1354245/amazon-granted-location-tracking-patent
Amazon Big Brother patent knows where you'll go
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57342567/amazon-big-brother-patent-knows-where-youll-go/
Sony, Universal and Fox Caught Pirating Through BitTorrent
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/0632236/sony-universal-and-fox-caught-pirating-through-bittorrent
Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/0439226/judge-orders-man-to-delete-revenge-blog
Wikipedia Debates Strike Over SOPA
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/14/0615207/wikipedia-debates-strike-over-sopa
Carrier IQ Responds To FBI Drama, EFF Wants More Information
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/13/2347241/carrier-iq-responds-to-fbi-drama-eff-wants-more-information
24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200 PDFs
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/13/2321224/24-year-old-asks-facebook-for-his-data-gets-1200-pdfs
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
CarrierIQ: The Saga So Far
What keeps this blog hopping is that there are so many violations of privacy expectations these days. That means I can barely keep up, and you can read about the details from many other sources that have better information than I do. Here is my collection of articles and links about Carrier IQ and its spat with the cell-phone-using public.
Background: Trevor Eckhart discovered a piece of software (a rootkit?) installed on many Android, Blackberry, and Nokia cell phones that records keystrokes(?) and records just about everything that happens on that phone. When this news became public, Carrier IQ issued a cease-and-desist letter to Eckhart. The tech-savvy community took this as confirmation that everything Carrier IQ was accused of doing was true.
Carrier IQ: Most Phones Ship With "Rootkit" (11/16/11)
Carrier IQ Tries To Silence Security Researcher (11/22/11)
Cease and Desist Letter Sent to Eckhart by Carrier IQ (11/16/11)
More on Carrier IQ (11/15/11)
Analyzes and extrapolates on the emerging data, pointing out that phone company employees would then have extremely good intell that could be used for home invasions.
Carrier IQ Relents, Apologizes (11/24/11)
Their press release (11/23/11):
How Carrier IQ was wrongly accused of keylogging (12/2/11)
Carrier IQ Drama Continues (12/3/11)
So what's going on? Carrier IQ has pointed out that if anyone is recording anything, it is the carriers, who have control over the data stream.
Interestingly, in the CNET article above, they say "...AT&T's statement, which merely says that Carrier IQ is used in accordance with the company's privacy policies." To me, this sounds like a paper wall between the public and spooky surveillance. What AT&T is really saying is, "we don't look at unless the Federal government shows up and tells us to give your data to them."
Just Plain Spooky - A Links Collection
Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time
This is about a year old. The Wired site has a full DOJ PowerPoint presentation. Aside from being spooky, this is a problem when fitted together with the "all data spills" concept. That is, if we assume that Fed personnel are human, and therefore subject to little side deals and payments, then this data leaks out to "unnamed third parties" continually.
Canon blocks copy jobs by keyword
Using OCR, plus I assume other means, Canon's Uniflow 5 system can read the content of documents being scanned, printed, and copied and record the existence of trigger words or even block specific functions.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/235047,canon-blocks-copy-jobs-by-keyword.aspxCookies on Your Computer That Last Forever
Hackers have been working on making tracking cookies that cannot be deleted. This is a holy grail goal for both marketeers and spy agencies. (No difference!) Warning: If you go to this URL, they may place a tracking cookie on your browser (and computer) that you may not be able to get rid of.
'Pre-crime' Comes to the HR Dept
A company called Social Intelligence is scraping your Facebook, MySpace, Google+, LinkedIn and other posts and building a case file that will be sold to companies that want to judge whether you will be a fit employee.
Black duck eggs and other secrets of Chinese hackers
Plain old industrial espionage, yum yum. I think this is pretty much the epitome of the undeniable tell. China, you can't deny that black duck eggs would be available in that tiny town! Dead give away!
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
American Science & Engineering, based in Billerica, Massachusetts, makes the Z Backscatter Vans ("ZBV") that can be used on any road and used to peer through building walls. (I wonder what the medically-indicated maximum dose of X-ray radiation from these things is? How long until the surveillance is so regular that cancer rates go up?)
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