Proto-Hypertext Memory Expander
Data breaches keep happening, they keep getting worse, and yet companies keep collecting our data in ever-more-invasive ways, subjecting it to ever-longer retention, and systematically underinvesting in security.
Continue reading “Companies keep losing your data because it doesn’t cost them anything”
The assassination and dismemberment of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi (previously) finally accomplished what decades of detailed reports of human rights abuses and years of increasingly grave details of a brutal proxy war in Yemen could not do: it made the Saudi royal family into international pariahs, even among the plutocrat class who had fattened themselves off of Saudi money.
Continue reading “Mister Bone Saw got a standing ovation at Davos in the Desert”
Tomorrow’s EU vote on a new copyright directive will determine whether the EU internet will be governed by algorithmic censorship filters whose blacklist anyone can add anything to. (Visit Save Your Internet to tell your MEP to vote against this)
Continue reading “The EU’s copyright plans will let anyone mass-censor the internet”
Equifax’s nation-destroying data-breach was subsequently revealed to be just the latest in a series of unbelievably careless IT blunders, and it eventually cost the company CEO his job; now his replacement has told Congress that he’s not really sure if the company has finally started encrypting the detailed, compromising, sensitive data they nonconsensually harvest from every person in the USA.
Continue reading “Equifax’s CEO isn’t sure whether they’ve finally started encrypting their servers yet”
Equifax’s world-beating breach of 143 million Americans’ sensitive personal and financial information was the result of the company’s failure to patch a two-month-old bug in Apache Struts, despite multiple reports of the bug being exploited in the wild.
Continue reading “Equifax has terrible information security practices, and that resulted in multiple breaches”
The death-toll on London’s Grenfell Tower fire continues to mount, it’s worth remembering that there are no “natural disasters,” only human disasters, created by people who weigh different interests in the balance and create policies based on the way the scales come up.
Continue reading “London fire: just last year, Tory landlord-MPs rejected Labour’s tenant safety law”
Years before the complaints from Flint’s citizenry about their water provoked action from the state, Governor Rick Snyder spent $440,000 to supply better water to the GM factory, where the new water supply was corroding the car parts on the assembly line.
Continue reading “Ten hard truths about the Flint water atrocity”
In a new episode of the BBC’s Panorama, Edward Snowden describes the secret mobile phone malware developed by GCHQ and the NSA, which has the power to listen in through your phone’s mic and follow you around, even when your phone is switched off.
Continue reading “Smurfs vs phones: GCHQ’s smartphone malware can take pics, listen in even when phone is off”
