Nick Wingfield reports: The online habits of most people who use the world’s dominant Web browser are an open book to advertisers. That wasn’t the plan at first. In early 2008, Microsoft Corp.’s product planners for the Internet Explorer 8.0 browser intended to give users a simple, effective way to avoid being tracked online. They…
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U.A.E. Is to Bar BlackBerry E-Mail Over Security Issues
Joseph Berger reports: The United Arab Emirates, long regarded as one of the most business friendly economies in the Middle East, announced Sunday that starting in October it will prevent BlackBerry owners from sending and receiving e-mail and other messages and browsing the Internet because the security-minded government cannot adequately monitor those features on the…
“When you hit the delete button, it’s never really deleted:” Why cops love iPhone
Amber Hunt reports: […] And if you’re doing something criminal, something about it is probably going to go through that phone: • Every time an iPhone user closes out of the built-in mapping application, the phone snaps a screenshot and stores it. Savvy law-enforcement agents armed with search warrants can use those snapshots to see…
Hacker snoops on GSM cell phones in demo
Robert McMillan reports: Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead with a live demonstration of mobile phone interception at the Defcon hacking conference Saturday. Using several thousand dollars worth of equipment, Paget was able to intercept mobile-phone data on the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) networks…