The internet came by storm. Yes, for years it wasn’t accessible to the major populace, but over time it found its way into the office, school, home, and now more specifically into the living room. With the evolution of the internet came few rules. In came the market makers who began to define basic expectations of online privacy, which were next to nothing. Google and Facebook … [Read more...]
Concerns Over Apple’s New Privacy and Security Decisions with Big Sur
Apple is a very polished company, both in how it designs and advertises its products. The latest macOS release of Big Sur, however, was anything but smooth. This can be partially attributed to Apple’s decision to use Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for certificate authentication and certificate revocation tracking. The issue is not only due to using OSCP, but that … [Read more...]
Mozilla and DNS over HTTPS
If you’re a privacy-centric individual, this post is for you. Mozilla, the creator of Firefox, has championed the new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard known as DNS over HTTPS (DoH). This isn’t a new concept, as Mozilla wrote about this back in 2018, but I only now came across their post describing it. Aside from the post explaining how DoH works, they also break … [Read more...]
Legal Requirements of Wiretapping, Amongst Other Things
I recently wrote about the heat Huawei has been getting and briefly mentioned “there are legalities in place” regarding wiretapping. In this post, I wanted to expand on that context; what the legal requirements are for wiretapping. Further, I also wanted to give readers (you) something to think about: what’s the difference between a backdoor and having the ability to “wiretap” … [Read more...]
Concerned with What Data Facebook Has Stored About You?
If you’re one of the 2.8B people that uses Facebook and are at least somewhat privacy-centric, I urge you to check out Facebook’s new Off-Facebook Activity settings option. For me, it was found within the Your Facebook Information section. There wasn’t too much within it for me, but The Hacker News’s Mohit Kumar wrote about his experience with this and there were over 1,000 … [Read more...]
