Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

Ubuntu’s New Firefox Is Watching You

sukotto writes “Ubuntu recently released an unannounced and experimental ‘multisearch’ extension to Firefox alpha 3, apparently in an effort to improve the default behavior of new tabs and of search. In a response to one of the initial bug reports the maintainers mentioned that the extension’s other purposes were ‘collecting the usage data’ and ‘generating [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Hacker Says iPhone 3GS Encryption Is ‘Useless’ for Businesses

Apple claims that hundreds of thousands of iPhones are being used by corporations and government agencies. What it won’t tell you is that the supposedly enterprise-friendly encryption included with the iPhone 3GS is so weak it can be cracked in two minutes with a few pieces of readily available freeware.
via Hacker Says iPhone 3GS Encryption [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Švedi so se spametovali!

“The highest applicable Swedish court, Regeringsrätten, has ruled that IP numbers are protected (in Swedish) since they can be traced to individuals. This means that only government agencies are allowed to track and store IP adresses, leaving “anti-piracy” advocates with no legal way to find possible copyright infringers.”
via Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Swedish [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Se je TOS spremenil? Preveri!

TOSBack keeps an eye on 44 website policies.
Every time one of them changes, you’ll see an update here.
via TOSBack | The Terms-Of-Service Tracker.
EFF je začel na enem mestu zbirati vse spremembe TOS-ov raznih (44ih)  popularnih strani na internetu.  Ob kliku na spremenjen TOS se pokažejo tudi barvno-kodirane spremembe (neki podobno diff-u).
Sicer večina ljudi nabrž niti [...]

Read the rest of this entry »