Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Digital Spying

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/30013026/fbi-seizes-all-tormail-data-to-catch-hackers

FBI seizes all Tormail data to catch hackers

28/01/2014
"If you had any faith left in anonymous email services, now would be the time to let that go.

New court documents show that in chasing down associates of Freedom Hosting, the FBI managed to download the entire email database of TorMail."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/30012952/spies-use-smartphone-apps-to-track-people

Spies use smartphone apps to track people

28/01/2014
"Documents leaked by former NSA contactor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in Angry Birds and a host of other apps installed on smartphones across the globe."


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=11211356

Yahoo users' webcam privacy breached by British spies - Guardian

28 Feb 2014

"Britain's Guardian newspaper says that the UK's signals intelligence branch is stealing screenshots from hundreds of thousands of Yahoo users' webcam videos, including a massive haul of intimate photographs."


http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/30019895/webcam-spies-get-an-eyeful-of-nudity

28 Feb 2014

"Britain’s top spy agency has been literally peeking in on private webcam use and discovering a great deal of “undesirable nudity”, the Guardian reports.

It says the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had been randomly snatching images off millions of webcam users between 2008 and 2010."