“Google has revealed it had left some business users’ passwords exposed in plain text. The bug, which had existed since 2005, stored an unhashed, plain text copy of the password in G Suite’s administration console.”
““The app developers were not clear about their intentions,” one Ever user said. “I believe it’s a huge invasion of privacy.”
“Electrodes on the brain have been used to translate brainwaves into words spoken by a computer – which could be useful in the future to help people who have lost the ability to speak.”
“The in-depth investigation by the Times revealed many details about how Google uses its in-house database — called Sensorvault — to cooperate with law enforcement. Using the database, Google is able to provide police with the data of phones from a specific time and location.”
“When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold.”
“Pity the poor public-relations specialist hired to influence what is said about his clients on Wikipedia. The sprawling, chaotic storehouse of knowledge is governed by thousands of independent-minded volunteers committed to being neutral and allergic to self-serving manipulators.”
“Putting Facebook and other social networks in a bind, consumers are more worried than ever about their privacy — but few say they’re willing to pay to secure their personal information. That’s according to findings from Norton LifeLock’s latest Cyber Safety Insights Report.”
“From top to bottom, technology is riddled with security errors. At the lowest level, we have hardware errors such as Intel’s Meltdown and Spectre bugs. Just above those, we have programming language security holes, and boy, do we have a lot of those!”
“Ever since the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Panopticlick initiative in 2010, I’ve been sensitized to the risks and potential harms that come from adtech’s tracking of consumers. Indeed, in the years since, it has gotten far far worse.”
“At my bodega down the block, photos of shoplifters sometimes litter the windows, a warning to would-be thieves that they’re being watched. Those unofficial wanted posters come and go, as incidents fade from the owner’s memory.”
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