The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled that the remote activation of microphones and cameras on electronic devices such as smartphones by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) corporate spying agency, without the owner’s knowledge, is today legal.
Category: Internet
TV ads that silently ping commands to smart phones : sneaky SilverPush code reverse-engineered
An application that uses SilverPush’s code can pick up these messages from the phone or tablet’s builtin microphone, and be directed to send information such as the handheld’s IMEI number, location, operating system version, and potentially the identity of the owner, to the application’s backend servers.
TPP If ratified by the twelve nations contracted, will be the death of free internet
The document presents a huge drive to expand copyright enforcement, which will ultimately lead to the criminalisation of common online activities leading to the main thrust of the contract which give the corporate state the means to infringe your freedom of expression. This will be achieved through internet censorship should your video, report or story, utilise the work of another. It is easy to see how it is intended to be used for censorship when you study the chapter on intellectual property rights which aims to en-mass stifle the contract signatories through the removal of the fair use provisions that are necessary to protect freedom of speech.
Is this the end of MovieTube? Hollywood files a lawsuit
The MPAA has revived its legal campaign against piracy sites with a new lawsuit against movie streaming platform MovieTube. The people behind MovieTube allegedly operate a group of infringing sites and the studios are demanding millions of dollars in damages. All mentioned sites are currently offline. Unauthorised movie streaming sites have been a thorn in the side of Hollywood for many years, and yesterday the MPAA decided to take one of the most prominent players to court. MPAA members 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros filed a lawsuit against a group of MovieTube affiliated websites, which operate from more than two dozen domain names
Backdoors and distortions of Prism
Unwarranted government surveillance is an intrusion on basic human rights that threatens the very foundations of a democratic society. store of this information about each person is a huge liability : Whom would you trust to decide when to access it, or even to keep it secure? Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, upon learning of the covert Prism operation, which has been reported extensively in The Guardian. According to their report, The US-run programme, called Prism, would appear to allow GCHQ to circumvent the formal legal process required to seek personal material such as emails, photos and videos from an internet company based outside the UK
Intel -based Core vPro totally and permanently hackable
The new Intel Core vPro processors contain a new remote access feature which allows absolute remote access to a PC all of the time, even if the computer is turned off. And if you thought not connecting your PC to the internet solves the issue, think again, the wifi system can do it for them. Core vPro processors contain a second physical processor embedded within the main processor which has its own operating system embedded on the chip itself