Joe Mullen reports that thanks to a government redaction error, we now have confirmation that the government’s secret order involving real-time monitoring by LavaBit was for Edward Snowden’s information. LavaBit shuttered its business rather than comply with the order. Read more on Ars Technica. The error was first spotted by Cryptome, and reported on by…
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Apple’s Response To DOJ: Your Filing Is Full Of Blatantly Misleading Claims And Outright Falsehoods
Mike Masnick writes: As expected, Apple has now responded to the DOJ in the case about whether or not it can be forced to write code to break its own security features to help the FBI access the encrypted work iPhone of Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino attackers. As we noted, the DOJ’s filing was chock-full…
What ISPs Can See: Clarifying the technical landscape of the broadband privacy debate
A Canadian reader sent along a link to this paper. What ISPs Can See Clarifying the technical landscape of the broadband privacy debate Authors: Aaron Rieke, David Robinsoin, and Harlan Yu © 2016 Upturn. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. From the Introduction: In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reclassified broadband Internet…
FCC Settles Verizon “Supercookie” Probe, To Pay $1.35 Million, Compliance Plan Requires Consumer Opt-In for Third Parties
The Federal Communications Commission today announced a settlement resolving an investigation into Verizon Wireless’s practice of inserting unique identifier headers or so-called “supercookies” into its customers’ mobile Internet traffic without their knowledge or consent. These unique, undeletable identifiers – referred to as UIDH – are inserted into web traffic and used to identify customers in…