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[dimovi] had a spare LCD monitor sitting around and thought it would be great to convert it into a “privacy” monitor. The process is simple enough for anyone comfortable with disassembling electronics. He took apart the monitor’s plastic frame, cutting out the polarized film with a utility knife. Once the film was removed, he spent some time removing the film adhesive from the glass panel … [Read more...]
Most people tend to enjoy a certain modicum of privacy. Aside from the data we all share willingly on the web in the form of forum posts, Twitter activity, etc., people generally like keeping to themselves. What would you think then, if you found out your iPhone (or any iDevice with 3G) was tracking and logging your every movement? That's exactly what two researchers from the UK are … [Read more...]
Maybe you don't want that one person that has barged into your life to know your private phone number? Could be a salesperson or a co-worker who you aren't that impressed with, but have to get in contact with. Check out inumbr. inumbr is a free online service that gives US users the ability to set up a unique phone number, have it forwarded to any number within the US and then have it set to … [Read more...]
With a new administration coming into power, the Electronic Frontier Foundation feels that it's time for a change (see what we did there). They've posted an agenda that covers fixing privacy issues that have come to the forefront in the last eight years. It involves repairing amendments that prevent corporations from being sued for warrantless wiretapping. They would also modernize the Electronic … [Read more...]
Piratbyrån and their hearties from The Pirate Bay are on a pan-European summer journey that will end at the Manifesta art biennial in Italy, but in the meantime they've been hard at work lobbying for total network encryption, a system that would protect users of a network (say, a P2P network) from deep packet inspection and other forms of activity analysis.The system by which this will be … [Read more...]
The OpenBeacon project is an open source hardware and software active RFID device. OpenBeacon tags consist of 2.4GHz transceivers and a PIC16F684. One use of the project was to create CCC Sputnik to show the downsides to information culled using data mining from large tracking systems. People who chose to participate and wear the Sputnik tags did so voluntarily to create a database of material for … [Read more...]
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