Reading – Why We Encrypt
Good look at why encryption isn’t just for “people with something to hide”, and why lots of people do, actually, need to hide. Including you.
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Fooling your cars GPS system into believing you are somewhere else, apparently, has already been done: “In December, CNN confirmed that instead of showing the cars where they really were — cruising along the Moskva River — the GPS suddenly insisted the cars were 20 miles away, at the Vnukovo International Airport.” What’s next? How…
News UK: BT admits sending internet virus to its customers. Ouch, that’s a rather embarrassing thing for an ISP to have to admit. Of course if people had kept their browser upgrades and patches up to date it wouldn’t matter who sent it to them, it couldn’t hurt them. Guess that’s asking too much though,…
“For example, Schneier and other experts testified that the same poor security exists in computers making their way into hospitals, including those used to manage elevators and ventilation systems. It’s not hard to imagine a fatal disaster, which makes it imperative that the government step in to fix this “market failure,” he said. The problems…
The Pew Research Center conducted a survey to discover what Americans know about personal cybersecurity. The results are troubling. Most people know very little which makes them vulnerable when they go online. This has a lot to do with why ransomware and hacking seems to be on the rise. It works, and it works because far…
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