Antechinus: Kazakhstan – Mass Surveillance Experiment?
IO Privacy
Kazakhstan: A poorly thought-out surveillance technique or an experiment for the West?
The Government of the Kazakhstan plans to implement a new internet control policy for the whole population starting from 1st January 2016. The announcement was published by Kazakhtelecom JSC, the largest telecommunications company in the country, on Monday 30th November 2016; and stated the government would oblige the population to install a “national security certificate” on every internet-capable device in the country, including desktops and mobile devices; leaving Kazakhtelecom (the ISP) able to carry out ‘man-in-the middle (MitM) attacks; all the other operators would be obliged by law to do the same, meaning that all HTTPS connections in Kazakhstan will be inspected.
Stephen E. Arnold: Google Timeline = Police State
IO Privacy
Google Timeline Knows Where You Have Been
We understand that to get the most out of the Internet, we sacrifice a bit of privacy; but do we all understand how far-reaching that sacrifice can be? The Intercept reveals “How Law Enforcement Can Use Google Timeline to Track Your Every Move.” For those who were not aware, Google helpfully stores all the places you (or your devices) have traveled, down to longitude and latitude, in Timeline. Now, with an expansion launched in July 2015, that information goes back years, instead of just six months. Android users must actively turn this feature off to avoid being tracked.
Richard Stallman and Phil Zimmerman underline key concerns with tech sector
IO Impotency, IO Privacy, IO Technologies
Richard Stallman and Phil Zimmerman underline key concerns with tech sector
Two of technology's most pioneering developers have strongly criticised the current state of the industry, warning that the right to encryption is doomed and that users are exploited by the software that they use.
Open sourcerer Richard Stallman has painted a very bleak picture of today's technology and communications environment, describing proprietary software as “malware”.
Stallman, the founder of the free software movement, perhaps not surprisingly has a very jaundiced view of proprietary software, and of Microsoft Windows especially. “What kinds of programs constitute malware? Operating systems, first of all. Windows snoops on users, shackles users and, on mobiles, censors apps,” he wrote in a newspaper editorial.
Berto Jongman: DroneShield Invented and In Demand — Will Drones (and Blimps) Lead to a Global Citizen Revolt?
07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, IO Privacy, IO Technologies, Law Enforcement, Military
DroneShield warns of low-flying UAVs with 18 nations demanding the device – inventor
The Voice of Russia, 14 February 2014
In a matter of a few years, tons of drones could be whizzing around residential zones, taking away tiny pieces of privacy people once had. DroneShield is a fresh new concept that alerts of nearby low-flying UAV devices in the area. John Franklin, one of the developers, told the Voice of Russia that 18 countries, including Russia, have already put in orders for the gadget and has been creating buzz ever since.
Stephen E. Arnold: Only 58% of US-UK Companies and Information Governance Policies
IO Impotency, IO Privacy
Recommind Survey Shows Stats Related to Information Governance
January 16, 2014
The article titled Bridging the Global Information Governance Gap on IDM offers more governance advice from the findings of Recommind’s survey of US and UK companies. The survey posed questions related to information governance (IG), which is “a cross-departmental approach to optimising [sic] the value of information simultaneously associated risks and costs.” We had thought Recommind was a variant of the Autonomy type of system, we are learning new things every day. Their survey revealed that only 58% of companies in the US have an IG policy. The article quotes the global head of information governance at Recommind, Dean Gonsowski:
Penguin: NSA Paid RSA for an Embedded Back Door Into Products Sold — Time to Indict Hayden & Alexander — and File RICO Charges Against RSA
03 Economy, 10 Security, 11 Society, Commerce, Ethics, Government, IO Impotency, IO Privacy, Military, Officers Call
Can you spell treason? How about racketeering? This would seem to call for the indictment, conviction, and loss of pensions for the top NSA deciders, and enough RICO lawsuits to put RSA out of business. Shame!
Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
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Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show that the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula for generating random numbers to create a “back door” in encryption products, the New York Times reported in September. Reuters later reported that RSA became the most important distributor of that formula by rolling it into a software tool called Bsafe that is used to enhance security in personal computers and many other products.
