Whirlpool Left Appliance Data, User Emails Exposed Online
Another day, another shining example of why connecting everything from your Barbie dolls to tea kettles to the internet was a bad idea. This week it’s Whirlpool that’s under fire after a researcher...
View ArticleUK City Leaves Nearly Nine Million License Plate/Location Data Records...
Government officials always remind us that the price of order and lawfulness requires us, as a society, to give up some of our privacy and liberty. It shouldn’t be that way, but it almost always is....
View ArticleHacker Taunts T-Mobile, Calls Its Security 'Awful'
It’s historically always been true that however bad a hack scandal is when initially announced, you can be pretty well assured that it’s significantly worse than was actually reported. That’s...
View ArticleMassive Chinese Police Database Hacked/Sold, Gov’t Responds By Trying To Bury...
The problem with gathering tons of sensitive data and storing it indefinitely is sooner or later someone with even worse intentions is going to come looking for it. And China’s massive surveillance...
View ArticleWhy The Massive China Police Database Hack Is Bad News For Surveillance...
A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about how an anonymous user had put up for sale the data of an estimated one billion Chinese citizens, probably obtained from the Shanghai police. Back then, what...
View ArticleCellebrite Accidentally Leaked Thousands Of Sensitive Documents During...
When a Cellebrite device is hooked up to a seized phone, the operator presses a few buttons to pull pretty much every bit of data from the device. From there, investigators can try to find the evidence...
View ArticleUS Airline Leaves No Fly List Details Accessible On The Open Web
The nation is no longer secure. I’m sorry I’m being so blunt here. But there’s no way the union can survive, not with the omnipresent threat of airborne terrorism that justifies the existence of the...
View ArticleNew Details Show Leak Of Supreme Court’s Roe Reversal Could Have Come From...
The leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision helped everyone. It helped people who supported the overturning of Roe v. Wade consolidate their power so they could effectively punish people for trying...
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As Free Speech Enthusiast Elon Plans To Release Twitter’s Source Code,...
Ever since Elon Musk made his initial bid to buy Twitter, he’s talked about “open sourcing” the algorithm. He mentioned it last April in the first interview he gave, on the TED stage, to talk about his...
View ArticleLeaker Of Those FTC Microsoft Documents Revealed: It Was Microsoft Doing An...
As many of you are probably already aware, a massive leak of internal documents at Microsoft occurred this week, all of which came out of the FTC’s challenge to Microsoft’s purchase of Activision...
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