Privacy post archive

  1. Retrocomputing is as much optimism as an escape
  2. Joe Biden’s online privacy op-ed
  3. A new sign in was detected
  4. Banning video apps
  5. Another smart camera leaking information
  6. Password managers must encrypt metadata too
  7. Sideloading on iTelephones
  8. Demand for ads on the receiving end
  9. Website security word salad
  10. An app to not be run over
  11. Thinking aloud about web engagement
  12. The Brussels Effect
  13. TNL’s Nine Pillars of Digital Justice
  14. My essential Firefox fixes (and add-ons) in 2022
  15. Australian energy company data collection
  16. URL trends from 2013
  17. The Raspberry Pi A+, and Pi-Hole
  18. Not just the algorithm, it’s Zuck’s company too
  19. Privacy and trust as a luxury good
  20. Disparate thoughts about VPNs
  21. Martin Fowler on the impact of software
  22. Links for week 36, 2021
  23. Considering the context of IT systems
  24. Conflating security with privacy
  25. A rough week for Apple users
  26. Revisiting webcam covers
  27. Inline links to videos with play buttons
  28. ACIC’s expanded surveillance submission
  29. Opting out of Google’s FLoC
  30. The Internet interprets censorship as damage?
  31. Being victim of another data breach
  32. Security flaws in smart doorbells
  33. John Naughton on the Internet-of-Things
  34. If we could demand the same security answers
  35. Journalism: make them care
  36. Bruce Schneier on blockchain tech
  37. Social network CFO says iOS 14 to hurt tracking
  38. An analysis of native IoT advertising
  39. Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy
  40. Ministers not wanting the COVID tracking app
  41. Follow-up to my fintech security post
  42. Even respected sites are failing to address fintech security
  43. Digital rights and political impunity
  44. Rearranging The Verge’s tech flops list
  45. Solution to blocking home recording
  46. Firefox reporting blocked trackers
  47. Do you agree to accept our cookies?
  48. Ubiquiti’s phoning home issues
  49. What I'm reading, 2019 week 42
  50. Google against W3C privacy push
  51. Common myths about private browsing
  52. Siri response grading
  53. When someone close nearly got phone scammed
  54. The issue isn’t privacy, it’s privacy?
  55. False dichotomy of human rights or privacy
  56. Covering laptop cameras, revistied
  57. When CDNs say you have malware
  58. Richard Di Natale on Australia’s #aabill
  59. Elizabeth Warren breaking up big IT
  60. Australian IT in the budget reply speech
  61. Facebook’s lobbying against global privacy laws
  62. Testing HTTPS/TLS sites
  63. The unfortunately-named bought Eero
  64. Decentraleyes
  65. Pinterest’s CEO and his service
  66. Predictable issues with video doorbells
  67. Bell Canada wanting permission to track customers
  68. Bookmark cleanout, December 2018
  69. Revenue and responsibility
  70. Yes, the #AABill is about encryption
  71. Australia’s new anti-encryption bill
  72. If you want encryption, you support…
  73. Apple T2 webcam security
  74. IBM CEO on Silicon Valley privacy
  75. Those white collars
  76. Economic impact of back doors
  77. ModernWebBloat.js
  78. Replacing social networks with RSS
  79. The Facebook market failure
  80. Home digital assistants
  81. The one time I installed Chrome
  82. Two-factor auth and password managers
  83. Stack Overflow survey omission
  84. FaceID
  85. Advanced protection from Google instead?
  86. Osaka Free WiFi
  87. Scott Ludlam
  88. Prevent GELI password boot prompts
  89. Mr Brandis, You Can (Not) Decrypt
  90. The blight of expired Let’s Encrypt certs
  91. Trip back in time: cost of encryption
  92. Reasons to use HTTPS
  93. Covering laptop cameras
  94. Facebook privacy
  95. Windows 10 versus Wireshark
  96. Australian privacy, NBN net neutrality, and other news
  97. Microsoft responds to Windows 10 backlash
  98. Tracking loved ones, with victim blaming
  99. Just don’t use Facebook then
  100. Ed Bott on Windows 10
  101. Australia's surveillance tax is on
  102. Keyloggers
  103. Creepy sanctioned University Experience Surveys
  104. Media reporting on Dropbox security, privacy
  105. Force SSH password authentication
  106. S/MIME in Mac Outlook
  107. Windows 8 Mail and S/MIME
  108. Ladar Levison, and tapping is easy right?
  109. Why Lavabit shut down
  110. My preferred Safari extensions
  111. Disconnect for ALL the browsers
  112. Practical, private Dropbox use cases
  113. Wikipedia on DuckDuckGo and Google
  114. FreeBSD and hardware random number generators
  115. So we heard you like being in ads
  116. Remembering the goals of IT security
  117. Obama’s 2009 whistleblower promise
  118. Microsoft enhances Windows 8.1 with ads
  119. The real barrier to SaaS adoption
  120. HKSAR Government statement on Edward Snowden
  121. Sorry Scoble, @Om was right on privacy
  122. Google Keep?
  123. Yahoo! Mail finally gets SSL!
  124. Disable some of Google’s tracking
  125. Chrome supports DNT, finally
  126. Are sites storing your passwords securely?
  127. Robbie Williams, The Actor
  128. I was wrong about Google Street View
  129. No drive encryption in flavours of Windows 8?
  130. Google has merged their TOS… so?
  131. Your car was stolen in London too?
  132. Scared of Google? You won’t be of Microsoft!
  133. Telstra customers exposed, again?
  134. Telstra joins the Plaintext Password Parade
  135. Sophos CityRail memory key adventures
  136. Biometric flying Malaysian aeroplanes
  137. Cause this is my United States of Whatever
  138. Google_nomap?
  139. Is Facebook any different? I think so
  140. Westfield tracking users, not on trains
  141. What does Google know of your interests?
  142. Don’t be a cloud tool, use them as tools!
  143. Being realistic about Windows
  144. Apple Android locationgate whatnot
  145. Dropping some sanity… into a box
  146. FileVault on case sensitive HFS+
  147. Youths not concerned about online privacy
  148. CSRF, snooping, RequestPolicy for Firefox
  149. Cool uses for RequestPolicy!
  150. The bane of unmaintained Windows PCs
  151. A Windows 7 cleaning saga
  152. addons.mozilla.org compromised, with anecdotes
  153. Telstra’s Internet and Cyber-safety site thing
  154. The whole Beef Taco Firefox debate
  155. Australia to record browsing history?
  156. #CloudSourceSG, SalesForce in Singapore
  157. Installing TrueCrypt on x86 or x84 Fedora
  158. 14th of May is Kill Your Facebook Day
  159. Does Facebook sell me with a pretty bow?
  160. Facebook third parties and inconvenient privacy
  161. Personal take on CNET’s iPhone 4G wishlist
  162. Uh oh, Facebook pre-approved third-party sites
  163. Firefox 3.6.2 fixes that zero day exploit thing
  164. Ruben’s biased browser feature table
  165. Fielding beats Ludlam, game over folks
  166. A combination lock USB key?
  167. Bruce Schneier facts, again!
  168. Shell’s massive data breach loss thing
  169. Google Buzz was a Google Facebook moment
  170. An OpenSSH epiphany
  171. Shell TrueCrypt on OS X
  172. Facebook’s reputation erosion?
  173. Worrying out loud about JavaScript
  174. Thoughts on the .net Firefox plugin saga
  175. Deleting, starting my Facebook profile again
  176. Firefox 3.0.14 and 3.5.3 announced
  177. Good encrypted disk images on Mac OS X
  178. There’s nothing wrong with online privacy
  179. Ghostery Mozilla Firefox extension review