Privacy: NSA – All Your Data Is Belong To Us
NSA secretly buying Americans’ data without a warrant – Washington Times
Smartphones: Google to end cloud storage of location data
Google to end cloud storage of phone location data and store it only on the phone device itself. Thus, no longer accessible to police dragnets.
Smart phones: Google’s Find My Device Network
Apple has had Air Tags for some time, and Samsung has it’s Smart Tags. Both are small devices that are detectable by Apple iPhones (for Air Tags) or Samsung phones…
Should we all be “preppers”?
Preppers is the term given to those who plan for disasters – for some, like us, this means the ordinary situation like power outages, while for others, it is preparing…
Crime, Security: Property Crime seems to run rampant in major U.S. cities
Portland, Oregon San Francisco Elsewhere An increase in shoplifting crime is blamed on An increase in shoplifting and property vandalism are reportedly spreading to other countries. Recent crime data itself…
Security: The scammers are out in full force this morning
This is the 2nd email phishing scam email I’ve received this morning – and it is still mid-morning on the west coast of the U.S. Note some of the oddities:…
Security: Lily Collins Facebook hack garnering media coverage
The hack swipes 2FA authentication tokens from the user’s computer and then uses those to login to their FB account, change their password, change the account name to Lily Collins,…
Security: Details on one of the Lily Collins Facebook Hack Methods
So far, at least 3 Chrome extensions contained compromising code to do these attacks. Plus it looks like a FB ad network delivered add did a drive-by install of a…
How the Lily Collins Facebook Hack May have worked
Details are here. I believe there were multiple attack vectors. The one described at the link is an analysis of a Google Chrome extension that grabbed the authentication cookie for…
The “Lily Collins” Facebook hack is still underway
Facebook has no control over the hack. It’s being blamed on a Google Chrome extension – but I don’t use Google Chrome. It’s also been blamed on a drive by…
How did a 2FA protected Facebook account get hacked?
Through a mistake in Facebook’s account management that enabled a hacker to attach a victim’s phone number (linked to the FB account) to their own FB account. That’s one possibility:…
Demographics, Media: Population trends in the U.S. and California
The pop media seldom does good reporting on the population demographics issue. This report, though, from the Orange County Register, is excellent, with clear and easy to understand charts. I…
Legal Problems with Drone Detection and Defense Systems
Trying to stop bad drones? This article dives into the different types of counter drone systems (drone jammer, anti-drone gun, etc.) & their legal problems. Source: Big Legal Problems with…
The end of passwords?
Interesting ideas: Instead of a password, devices could look for your phone over Bluetooth. Source: Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard | Ars Technica
Many Android smart phones are spying on you and your data
Google sends large amounts of obfuscated data from your phone to Google – no one knows what Google is collecting: Study Warns Android Phones From Samsung, Xiaomi And Others Are…