Today we are releasing a new browser extension for Chrome and Firefox named Privacy Pass. Privacy Pass uses privacy-preserving cryptography to allow users to authenticate to services without compromising their anonymity. This is joint work with George Tankersley, Ian Goldberg, Nick Sullivan and Filippo Valsorda.

I have some news: the Internet of Things is a mess. A hacked refrigerator sounds slightly scary, but a vibrator-controlling app that records all your sex sounds and stores them on your phone without your knowledge? That's way worse.

For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed that the electronic systems that had gained favor in the United States after the 2000 presidential election were shoddy, and eminently hackable.

The S8 data line locator is a GSM listening and location device hidden inside the plug of a standard USB data/charging cable. It supports the 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz GSM frequencies.

Its core idea is very similar to the COTTONMOUTH product line by the NSA/CSS [1] in which an RF device is hidden inside a USB plug. Those hidden devices are referred to as implants.

The device itself is marketed as a location tracker usable in cars, where a thief would not be able to identify the USB cable as a location tracking device. Its malicious use-cases can, however, not be denied. Especially since it features no GPS making its location reporting very coarse (1.57 km deviation in my tests). It can, e.g., be called to listen to a live audio feed from a small microphone within the device, as well as programmed to call back if the sound level surpasses a 45 dB threshold.

Gizmodo's Kashmir Hill continues her excellent investigative work on Facebook's mysterious "People You May Know" system, which has caused consternation among users by making seemingly impossible (and often disturbing) connections, such as "A woman whose father left her family when she was six years old—and saw his then-mistress suggested to her as a Facebook friend 40 years later."

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Amazon is going to show the industry how to monitor more moments: by making corporate surveillance as deeply embedded in our physical environment as it is in our virtual one. Silicon Valley already earns vast sums of money from watching what we do online. Soon it’ll earn even more money from watching what we do offline.

This project extends the base LMIC 1.6 implementation with 915 subband selection and demonstrates how to use the LMIC 1.6 LoRaWAN stack on a Raspberry Pi targeting the Dragino LoRa/GPS HAT and a Raspberry Pi Zero with a standalone Hope RFM95W LoRa module.

Mit der PSD II können Firmen im Internet dann einen Blick auf die Konten ihrer Kunden werfen. Voraussetzung dafür ist aber laut „Bild“, dass der Kunde einwilligt und dem Anbieter von Konteninformationsdiensten eine geheime PIN zur Verfügung stellt. Damit kann dieser dann auf die Kontodaten der vergangenen 90 Tage zugreifen. Firmen könnten so beispielsweise herausfinden, wieviel ihre Kunden verdienen und wofür sie ihr Geld ausgeben.
Gedacht sind die Konteninformationsdienste eigentlich dafür, Kunden eine bessere Übersicht über ihre Konten zu bieten.

Die FDP will, dass Trennungskinder ein Recht darauf haben, abwechselnd bei Vater und Mutter zu leben. Doch Union und Grüne wehren sich.

Detaillierter als Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Das BKA hat ein genaues Bewegungsprofil eines bei G20 akkreditierten ARD-Korrespondenten aufgezeichnet – und dabei auch noch Fehler gemacht. Arnd Henze berichtet.

Die E-Gates werden aufgrund einer Änderung im Schengen-Abkommen installiert, die vorsieht, dass auch die Daten von EU-Bürgern bei der Einreise in die EU lückenlos mit dem Schengener Informationssystem abgeglichen werden. Durch die E-Gates soll gewährleistet werden, dass dieser zusätzliche Aufwand nicht zu längeren Wartezeiten führt. Herkömmliche Grenzkontrollen bleiben als Alternative aber erhalten.

Concerned that browser cookies fall short when it comes to tracking mobile devices and their owners on the internet, computer-science boffins believe they can recognize phone-toters using only their keystrokes and accelerometer data.

Microphone embedded in RJ45 plug.

People should worry about online data collection by technology companies because it gives them unparalleled insight into users lives, the creator of one of the biggest web browsers, Opera, said on Thursday.

Dystopia is not very evenly distributed.

I think I aspire to naturalism, which today is easily mistaken for the dystopian. When Neuromancer was published in 1984, it was seen by many as a very dark view of the future indeed; yet I knew that the world was full of millions of people who’d migrate to the Sprawl in a flash, if only they had the chance, and be socioeconomically much better off for it.

The popular 104-key Mantistek GK2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard that costs around €49.66 has allegedly been caught silently recording everything you type on your keyboard and sending them to a server maintained by the Alibaba Group.

People known to the South Australian police as being at risk of starting fires will be tracked via number plate recognition technology during the 2017-18 bushfire season.

Face ID is the iPhone X’s new touted security feature which is said to be more secure than fingerprints and harder to fool. In fact Apple made a pretty big deal about it by claiming to have worked with makeup artists, mask makers, and others to ensure that all the ways that one could trick Face ID would be covered.

In Pinneberg wird es für einen Nutzer von Amazons Alexa teuer. Der digitale Assistent drehte nachts so laut Musik auf, dass die Polizei gerufen werden musste.