Stop Apple from spying on you
On 2012/10/12
Got a new iPhone 5, an iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, an iPad 2 or 3, or a recent iPod touch running iOS 6, Apple’s touch device operating system in September 2012? If so then Apple is spying on you. They do this for two business reasons. They track your usage for internal purposes. They sell [...]
Going anti-social
On 2012/03/26
Social is the mantra of the post-web 2.0 Internet. We are bombarded by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Path, Instagram, Pinterest…. New social networks seemingly form daily. A truism about free social networks is that we are the product not the customer. Social websites spy on and track users’ posts, relationships and behaviors because they [...]
Who are the bad guys?
On 2012/01/23
Wednesday evening, January 25, 2012, I am presenting Being Safe in a Digital World to the Cotton Club Greenwich, a Greenwich, CT group. The talk is intended to help tighten up one’s mental and digital defenses against digital data and privacy loss. My preparation got me thinking, “Who do we need to defend ourselves against?”
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Cell carriers add insult to injury
On 2011/12/18
The Carrier IQ pre-installed keylogging rootkit software has been a big item in tech security news ever since Trevor Eckhart of Torrington, CT unleashed his analysis on his WordPress blog a few weeks ago.
Cell phone carriers, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, but not Verizon, installed this software on Android [...]
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