Category: Paranoid Peeps
Deepfakes – Welcome to the post truth society
I recently watched the New York Times’ Weekly episode “Deepfakes – Believe at Your Own Risk” and while I have been concerned about the implications…
WordPress wants sites to eat their (patching) vegetables
Apparently. over a third of the web sites on the Internet (including this one) run the WordPress content management software package. Natch, this makes WordPress…
Good privacy advice from the US DoD
The US Department of Defense has put out a nifty guide on how to protect your privacy on social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram,…
Naming and shaming
So here’s a bit of an odd story… according to the Financial Times, the US Federal Reserve has publicly sanctioned an ex employee of a…
Grindr and US national security
Here’s an interesting development…the US federal agency which reviews foreign investments in US companies has ordered a Chinese firm to sell its stake in gay…
In DPRK, Linux Watches You
A presentation from this past week’s Chaos Computer Congress shows how totalitarian states (like, in this case, North Korea) can leverage open source software in…
more details – microsoft’s deal with the nsa
This article from the Guardian claims that our friends in Redmond are cooperating with the NSA to give the spying agency access to all sorts…
in which i dare disagree with security industry luminary bruce schneier
It’s not often that I disagree with Bruce Schneier, one of the leading lights of the security world… however, I do have a teensy weensy…
here… have a pill… what’s the worst that could happen?
Spear phishing has been in the news quite a bit lately – it seems like just about all of the recent high profile hacks began…
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