Arnold Roosendaal has uploaded his doctoral dissertation, conducted at Tilburg University, to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Every individual is represented in digital form in numerous data sets. Commercial companies use these digital representations as a basis for making decisions that affect the individual. This has implications for privacy and autonomy of the individual and the…
Category: Misc
VPN privacy policies decoded
Dennis Kügler of IVPN writes: As we’ve mentioned before on this blog, not all commercial VPN services are concerned about protecting your privacy, with some platforms presenting just as many surveillance risks as a regular ISP. VPN services are, of course, free to log your data and there’s nothing dishonest about this practice if it’s openly disclosed….
Configuring Adobe Reader securely
Via Cryptome.org, the NSA/CSS published “Recommendations for Configuring Adobe Acrobat Reader XI in a Windows Environment.” You might want to check out the recommendations for your own use. h/t, Joe Cadillic
Systems Announcement
If much of this morning’s updates seem like yesterday’s news, that’s because they are. A server crash resulted in the loss of yesterday’s entries when we had to restore from backup. I suppose it could have been worse.