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Monthly Archives: September 2018
How refusing to give police your Facebook password can lead to prison
A suspect will be jailed for 14 months for refusing to hand over his Facebook password to detectives investigating a 13-year-old’s murder.
Governments demand companies allow access to data, or else
A decades-old alliance of national intelligence partners promised to get at encrypted data last week, whether tech companies helped them or not.
Hollywood accuses itself of piracy
As the EFF puts it, the makers of buggy bots (there are two so far) are poster children for the failure of automated takedown processes.
Google Ads cracks down on tech support scammers
The search giant said that in future any company wanting to advertise these services would have to pass manual verification checks first.
Can you “see” someone’s screen by listening to it? [VIDEO]
What’s your video screen saying about you behind your back? We take a look – or, at least, a listen…
Firefox to start blocking ad-tracking by default
Mozilla has announced plans to tweak Firefox’s privacy controls so that advertising trackers will be blocked by default.
‘Sick sadist’ admits to trolling dead people on social media
He was intoxicated while posting about high-profile tragedies involving the death of young people, adding torment to families’ grief.
Chrome: Flash is almost, almost, almost dead
If you use Google’s Chrome browser, after 4 September, the latest update will make it even harder to use in-browser Adobe Flash.
Possible Satori botnet hacker indicted by Feds
A 20 year-old man has been indicted for computer crimes by a federal court in Alaska. Evidence suggests that he could be linked to the Satori botnet that exploited a previously unknown bug in a Huawei router.