Samsung Maintenance Mode – this is a good idea, that has been a long time coming: New Samsung Maintenance Mode protects your data during phone repairs (bleepingcomputer.com) But only for those users who have the right Galaxy devices and living in the right countries! Privacy for some of their valued …
Mercenary Spyware
Here is a an interesting article from The Record by Andrea Peterson looking at the impact of “Off-the-shelf spyware” such as Pegasus from the Israeli NSO Group in democratic countries – particularly focusing on its use in Mexico and a recent Citizen Lab report. Democracies are having a reckoning with …
There was the story of taking burner phones to China for the Olympics – now we have the Qatar World Cup spyware
I found this on Bruce Schneier’s blog: I covered the story of the Beijing 2022 Olympics and the privacy issues raised for those attending, and the advice that burner phones would be a good idea because of China’s internet and privacy policies: Privacy in China and the Winter Olympics – …
Microsoft encryption not up to the job
Research is showing that Microsoft’s Office 365 Message Encryption is good for privacy – as it makes accessing the message difficult, rather than security, putting the message out of reach of anyone but the recipient. Microsoft disputes report on Office 365 Message encryption issue after awarding bug bounty – The …
Data Sovereignty. You should get involved…
So I have just finished reading this piece, on The Register: Just how critical is data sovereignty? • The Register It is sponsored by Intel and is collecting research information on how organisations think about their data sovereignty. Not sure what data sovereignty is? Here is an example, you collect …
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That old chestnut again – yours and my privacy
Let me say this before I start, I support any action both legal and technical that will be effective in preventing the exploitation of the vulnerable. We support this government initiative (check the page footer): Let’s stop abuse together I like parts of the government’s forthcoming Online Safety Bill and …
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