An AOL researcher inadverntly released a database of 21 million search queries to the Web. It's been snagged and is providing a valuable trove of sociological search behavior ... and potential privacy intrusion if the ID numbers are ever associated with u
Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C. PI has conducted campaigns and res
Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges that AT&T cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic surveillance progr
invisiblog.com lets you publish a weblog using GPG and the Mixmaster anonymous remailer network. You don't ever have to reveal your identity - not even to us. You don't have to trust us, because we'll never know who you are.
A German court can rule as to the legality of something within the framework of the German legal system, but such rulings obviously do not extend past the nation's borders. The Internet is no respecter of national borders, which makes judicial proceedings
So, you're probably asking yourself "just where do I get this nifty tool?". Ah yes, well, it seems the author of this tool had the foresight to make sure he/she was truly anonymous. First you need to install the i2p software. But don't worry, its not spyw
There seems to be a great deal of unnecessary mystery about SSL, IPsec, and public-key certificates in general. This mystery often leads people to self-sign their entire public key infrastructure
I managed to take (Bluetooth GPS, mobile phone and application), combine them Perl, and create a system that automatically sends my location to the website. I can be located all the time.
M. Windl, V. Winterhalter, A. Schmidt, and S. Mayer. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, (2023)
M. Porter. (2022)cite arxiv:2201.07794Comment: working paper (associated with my data-ethics lecture at the 2021 AMS Short Course on Mathematical and Computational Methods for Complex Social Systems); not yet refereed; private comments and suggestions are appreciated.