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Cory Doctorow / 6:57 am Mon, Aug 14, 2017

It's not hard to think of ways to outsmart Stingray-detector apps

A group of researchers from Oxford and TU Berlin will present their paper, White-Stingray: Evaluating IMSI Catchers Detection Applications at the Usenix Workshop on Offensive Technologies, demonstrating countermeasures that Stingray vendors could use to beat Stingrays and other "cell-site simulators" (AKA IMSI catchers). Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 9:06 am Tue, Mar 22, 2016

US Embassy staffer ran a sextortion racket from work computer for 2 years

Michael C Ford has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison, having pleaded guilty to running a sextortion/phishing operation from his work computer at the US embassy in London for two years. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 10:59 am Mon, Jun 1, 2015

TSA airport checkpoints STILL miss 95% of weapons in smuggling tests

As has been the case since the agency's inception, its agents missed the overwhelming majority of "red team" attempts to smuggle weapons past its checkpoints: 67 out of 70 this time. Read the rest