Power sockets can be used to eavesdrop on what people type on a computer. Security researchers found that poor shielding on some keyboard cables means useful data can be leaked about each character typed. By analysing the information leaking onto power circuits, the researchers could see what a target was typing. The attack has been…
Category: Misc
Summer reading
Looking to get caught up on recent articles on privacy over the summer? I’ve compiled a list of some recent articles that are available for free online that I’ve been meaning to get to, and I thought I’d post the list here. Many more privacy-related articles can also be found on SSRN. If you know of…
Privacy and the democratization of fame
Sarah Hinchliff Pearson has a commentary on differing notions of privacy for celebrities and ordinary people that seems quite timely in light of the media fascination with Michael Jackson. Pearson, a Stanford Center for Internet and Society Residential Fellow, writes, in part: On one hand, we can tell ourselves that celebrities were asking for public…
Employee privacy, health privacy, and public safety
Every so often, a case comes along that pits health privacy against public safety, such as the case involving a honeymooning Atlanta lawyer who was publicly named — and sued by fellow air passengers — for posing a risk to the public of a treatment-resistant strain of tuberculosis. The lawyer eventually sued the Centers for…