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Security, Privacy, and DRM

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 9th of April 2021 12:11:11 PM Filed under
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  • Uninformed Legislators Shoot Down Right To Repair Legislation In Colorado

    As we've noted a few times, 2021 is seeing record interest in new right to repair laws. Driven by grass roots activism, such laws are being pushed in more than fourteen states. Most variations not only protect your right to repair hardware you own, they open the door to more independent repair shops, and fewer corporate giants attempting to monopolize repair (Apple, John Deere, Microsoft, Sony, many more).

  • Another day, another data breach. Here’s how to see if you’ve been exposed

    In early April, security experts made public the details of yet another Facebook data breach, this one affecting over half a billion users. As originally reported by Business Insider, personal information on 533 million Facebook users spanning 106 countries surfaced in a hacking forum, with records including email addresses, phone numbers, full names, locations, birthdays, and relationship statuses. This data traces back to a vulnerability fixed by Facebook in 2019, which allowed the scraping of profiles.

  • Got your covid shots? You might have to prove it. [Ed: Linux Foundation pushing mass surveillance again, using COVID]

    “It’s a jumble,” says Jenny Wanger, who oversees covid-related initiatives for Linux Foundation Public Health. “This is all just a sign of how massively underfunded our public health infrastructure has been for so many years.”

  • Corona pass can be doctored, warns IT security expert

    Peter Kruse, the founder of IT security company CSIS, points out to DR that it “does not take a genius” to reuse the result of an old test to make it look like it is one carried out within the last 72 hours.

    “It is virtually impossible for a teacher or a hairdresser to check whether a test result is legitimate when the results are issued as they do,” he lamented.

    All it takes is two clicks on an [Internet] browser, he added.

  • “Vaccine Passports”: ACLU Warns of Privacy Nightmare That Could Create “Two-Tiered Society”

    As people try to find a safe way to gather and travel during the pandemic, there is growing interest in documenting who has been vaccinated or tested negative for COVID-19. The World Health Organization has warned so-called vaccine passports may not be an effective way to reopen, and healthcare professionals argue vaccine certificates may further exacerbate vaccine inequality. New York is already testing a digital vaccine passport app made by IBM called the Excelsior Pass, while countries including the U.K. and Israel have issued their own versions of electronic vaccine certificates. The U.S. government has ruled out the introduction of mandatory vaccine passports at the federal level, but many private companies are now developing COVID-19 tracking systems. ACLU policy analyst Jay Stanley says smartphone-based vaccine passport apps “raise a lot of questions” around privacy, access and discrimination. “We have systems in place already for proving you’ve been vaccinated,” he says. “Is that system so broken that we need to construct an entirely new electronic system?”

  • Fallback Directories - Upcoming Change

    This is to announce that the Tor Project network team will soon change how fallback directories are selected as we are about to update that list.

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