Privacy post archive
- Retrocomputing is as much optimism as an escape
- Joe Biden’s online privacy op-ed
- A new sign in was detected
- Banning video apps
- Another smart camera leaking information
- Password managers must encrypt metadata too
- Sideloading on iTelephones
- Demand for ads on the receiving end
- Website security word salad
- An app to not be run over
- Thinking aloud about web engagement
- The Brussels Effect
- TNL’s Nine Pillars of Digital Justice
- My essential Firefox fixes (and add-ons) in 2022
- Australian energy company data collection
- URL trends from 2013
- The Raspberry Pi A+, and Pi-Hole
- Not just the algorithm, it’s Zuck’s company too
- Privacy and trust as a luxury good
- Disparate thoughts about VPNs
- Martin Fowler on the impact of software
- Links for week 36, 2021
- Considering the context of IT systems
- Conflating security with privacy
- A rough week for Apple users
- Revisiting webcam covers
- Inline links to videos with play buttons
- ACIC’s expanded surveillance submission
- Opting out of Google’s FLoC
- The Internet interprets censorship as damage?
- Being victim of another data breach
- Security flaws in smart doorbells
- John Naughton on the Internet-of-Things
- If we could demand the same security answers
- Journalism: make them care
- Bruce Schneier on blockchain tech
- Social network CFO says iOS 14 to hurt tracking
- An analysis of native IoT advertising
- Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy
- Ministers not wanting the COVID tracking app
- Follow-up to my fintech security post
- Even respected sites are failing to address fintech security
- Digital rights and political impunity
- Rearranging The Verge’s tech flops list
- Solution to blocking home recording
- Firefox reporting blocked trackers
- Do you agree to accept our cookies?
- Ubiquiti’s phoning home issues
- What I'm reading, 2019 week 42
- Google against W3C privacy push
- Common myths about private browsing
- Siri response grading
- When someone close nearly got phone scammed
- The issue isn’t privacy, it’s privacy?
- False dichotomy of human rights or privacy
- Covering laptop cameras, revistied
- When CDNs say you have malware
- Richard Di Natale on Australia’s #aabill
- Elizabeth Warren breaking up big IT
- Australian IT in the budget reply speech
- Facebook’s lobbying against global privacy laws
- Testing HTTPS/TLS sites
- The unfortunately-named bought Eero
- Decentraleyes
- Pinterest’s CEO and his service
- Predictable issues with video doorbells
- Bell Canada wanting permission to track customers
- Bookmark cleanout, December 2018
- Revenue and responsibility
- Yes, the #AABill is about encryption
- Australia’s new anti-encryption bill
- If you want encryption, you support…
- Apple T2 webcam security
- IBM CEO on Silicon Valley privacy
- Those white collars
- Economic impact of back doors
- ModernWebBloat.js
- Replacing social networks with RSS
- The Facebook market failure
- Home digital assistants
- The one time I installed Chrome
- Two-factor auth and password managers
- Stack Overflow survey omission
- FaceID
- Advanced protection from Google instead?
- Osaka Free WiFi
- Scott Ludlam
- Prevent GELI password boot prompts
- Mr Brandis, You Can (Not) Decrypt
- The blight of expired Let’s Encrypt certs
- Trip back in time: cost of encryption
- Reasons to use HTTPS
- Covering laptop cameras
- Facebook privacy
- Windows 10 versus Wireshark
- Australian privacy, NBN net neutrality, and other news
- Microsoft responds to Windows 10 backlash
- Tracking loved ones, with victim blaming
- Just don’t use Facebook then
- Ed Bott on Windows 10
- Australia's surveillance tax is on
- Keyloggers
- Creepy sanctioned University Experience Surveys
- Media reporting on Dropbox security, privacy
- Force SSH password authentication
- S/MIME in Mac Outlook
- Windows 8 Mail and S/MIME
- Ladar Levison, and tapping is easy right?
- Why Lavabit shut down
- My preferred Safari extensions
- Disconnect for ALL the browsers
- Practical, private Dropbox use cases
- Wikipedia on DuckDuckGo and Google
- FreeBSD and hardware random number generators
- So we heard you like being in ads
- Remembering the goals of IT security
- Obama’s 2009 whistleblower promise
- Microsoft enhances Windows 8.1 with ads
- The real barrier to SaaS adoption
- HKSAR Government statement on Edward Snowden
- Sorry Scoble, @Om was right on privacy
- Google Keep?
- Yahoo! Mail finally gets SSL!
- Disable some of Google’s tracking
- Chrome supports DNT, finally
- Are sites storing your passwords securely?
- Robbie Williams, The Actor
- I was wrong about Google Street View
- No drive encryption in flavours of Windows 8?
- Google has merged their TOS… so?
- Your car was stolen in London too?
- Scared of Google? You won’t be of Microsoft!
- Telstra customers exposed, again?
- Telstra joins the Plaintext Password Parade
- Sophos CityRail memory key adventures
- Biometric flying Malaysian aeroplanes
- Cause this is my United States of Whatever
- Google_nomap?
- Is Facebook any different? I think so
- Westfield tracking users, not on trains
- What does Google know of your interests?
- Don’t be a cloud tool, use them as tools!
- Being realistic about Windows
- Apple Android locationgate whatnot
- Dropping some sanity… into a box
- FileVault on case sensitive HFS+
- Youths not concerned about online privacy
- CSRF, snooping, RequestPolicy for Firefox
- Cool uses for RequestPolicy!
- The bane of unmaintained Windows PCs
- A Windows 7 cleaning saga
- addons.mozilla.org compromised, with anecdotes
- Telstra’s Internet and Cyber-safety site thing
- The whole Beef Taco Firefox debate
- Australia to record browsing history?
- #CloudSourceSG, SalesForce in Singapore
- Installing TrueCrypt on x86 or x84 Fedora
- 14th of May is Kill Your Facebook Day
- Does Facebook sell me with a pretty bow?
- Facebook third parties and inconvenient privacy
- Personal take on CNET’s iPhone 4G wishlist
- Uh oh, Facebook pre-approved third-party sites
- Firefox 3.6.2 fixes that zero day exploit thing
- Ruben’s biased browser feature table
- Fielding beats Ludlam, game over folks
- A combination lock USB key?
- Bruce Schneier facts, again!
- Shell’s massive data breach loss thing
- Google Buzz was a Google Facebook moment
- An OpenSSH epiphany
- Shell TrueCrypt on OS X
- Facebook’s reputation erosion?
- Worrying out loud about JavaScript
- Thoughts on the .net Firefox plugin saga
- Deleting, starting my Facebook profile again
- Firefox 3.0.14 and 3.5.3 announced
- Good encrypted disk images on Mac OS X
- There’s nothing wrong with online privacy
- Ghostery Mozilla Firefox extension review