Home Posts Tagged "Eavesdrop"
After Superfish-Lenovo incident, Facebook probes larger issue of SSL-sniffing adware
Last week, PC maker Lenovo was called out for shipping laptops with adware, called “Superfish,” pre-installed – an incident that led Facebook to investigate …
What Happens When Spies Can Eavesdrop on Any Conversation?
Imagine having access to the all of the world’s recorded conversations, videos that people have posted to YouTube, in addition to chatter collected by …
ISPs Removing Their Customers’ Email Encryption
Recently, Verizon was caught tampering with its customer’s web requests to inject a tracking super-cookie. Another network-tampering threat to user safety has come to …
How to Save the Net: Break Up the NSA
By treating the Internet as a giant surveillance platform, the NSA has betrayed the Internet and the world. It has subverted the products, protocols, …
The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations
In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device’s …
Recent Comments