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Big Brother in the Restroom

26 Jun 2006 By Dancho Danchev

Wikes! This is nasty, and while the porn industry has commercialized the idea a long time ago, I never imagined the levels of crime in public restrooms would “reach” levels requiring CCTVs to be installed — if there’s so much vandalism going on in public restrooms, these will definitely get stolen as well, picture theRead More

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World's Internet Censorship Map

25 Jun 2006 By Dancho Danchev

While it seems rather quiet on the Internet’s censorship front, the media coverage on the topic represents a cyclical buzz that reemerges with the time. Thankfully, initiatives as the OpenNet one, and organizations such as Reporters Without Borders never stop being the society’s true watchdogs when it comes to Internet censorship. ONI’s neat visualization ofRead More

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All Your Confidentiality Are Belong To Us

10 Jun 2006 By Dancho Danchev

The proof that commercial and open source encryption has surpassed the technologies to police it, or the idea that privacy and business growth as top priorities would ruin the whole initiative? “The Government has launched a public consultation into a draft code of practice for a controversial UK law that critics have said could alienateRead More

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Pocket Anonymity

11 May 2006 By Dancho Danchev

While the threats posed by improper use of removable media will continue to make headlines, here’s a company that’s offering the complete all-in-one pocket anonymity solution — at least that’s how they position it. From the article : “Last month, a company called Stealth Ideas Inc. of Woodland Hills, Calif., came out with its StealthSurferRead More

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Snooping on Historical Click Streams

11 May 2006 By Dancho Danchev

In a previous post “The Feds, Google, MSN’s reaction, and how you got “bigbrothered”? I gave practical advices on how can easily do your homework on the popularity of certain search terms and sites, without the need of issuing a subpoena. The other day, AlltheWeb (Yahoo!) introduced their Livesearch feature, seems nice, still it basicallyRead More

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Wiretapping VoIP Order Questioned

09 May 2006 By Dancho Danchev

There’s been a lot of buzz recently on the FCC’s order requiring all VoIP providers to begin compliance with CALEA in order to lawfully intercept VoIP communications by the middle of 2007 . Yesterday, a U.S judge seems to have challenged the order, from the article : “The skepticism expressed so openly toward the administration’sRead More

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The Cell-phone Industry and Privacy Advocates VS Cell Phone Tracking

09 May 2006 By Dancho Danchev

I’ve once mentioned various privacy issues related to mobile devices, the growing trend of “assets tracking”, and of course, cell phones tracking. Yesterday I came across to great summary of the current situation — privacy groups make a point of it. From the article : “Real-time tracking of cell phones is possible because mobile phonesRead More

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Biased Privacy Violation

03 May 2006 By Dancho Danchev

This is a very interesting initiative, going beyond the usual MySpace’s teen heaven privacy issues, but directly exposing the mature audience in a way I find as a totally biased one. Girls writing stories on men that supposedly chated on them. DontDateHimGirl.com aims to : “DontDateHimGirl.com is an online resource for women who have sharedRead More

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April's Security Streams

02 May 2006 By Dancho Danchev

Hi folks, it’s about time to quickly summarize April’s Security Streams. As of today, my blog is officially six months old and the feeling of witnessing change and improvements has always been a pleasant one. Blogging “my way” takes a lot of time, that is, posts going beyond “preaching” but emphasizing on “teaching”, a littleRead More

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A comparison of US and European Privacy Practices

27 Apr 2006 By Dancho Danchev

A new study on “US and European Corporate Privacy Practices” was released two days ago, and as I constantly monitor the topic knowing EU’s stricter information sharing and privacy violations laws comparing to the U.S, thought you might find this useful. To sum up the findings : “European companies are much more likely to haveRead More

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