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Phorm: the smoking gun

11/03/2008 – 13:22

Re-posted with permission from http://www.badphorm.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?632. Needs as much publicity as possible. Many thanks to The Other Steve at the regester message board http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/10/isps_phorm_comment_target_market/comments/ Hey I said they wer lying to us all the time. OK PHORM PR GET OUT OF THIS you have been spreading lies over the internet, yet your patent says otherwise. Posted [...]

By mojo | Also posted in Uncategorized, networking, security | Comments (0)

Avira Labs fail to identify malware, even when the analysis is done for them

10/03/2008 – 18:16

As a follow-up to to my blog post about g-archiver, I submitted g-archiver to Avira Labs (makers of Anti-Vir) for analysis so it can be added to their database. Their web form didn’t have anywhere to add additional information, so I submitted by email instead with a link to the dissection of the code. Despite [...]

By mojo | Also posted in idiots, security, software | Comments (0)

Dephormation Firefox Add-On

10/03/2008 – 18:05

A new tool to fight Phorm: http://www.dephormation.org.uk/ This Firefox plug-in cannot stop Phorm from monitoring every web site you visit, reading your web mail (unless you use gmail via secure http) etc but it can at least mess up the tracking system. It’s a start. What is really needed is a program to randomly surf [...]

By mojo | Also posted in networking, security | Comments (1)

UK ISPs allowing Phorm fraudsters to track everyone!

08/03/2008 – 13:53

I was horrified when I read about Phorm. Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk are teaming up with Phorm to track all web browsing on their networks. The tracking info will be used to spam subscribers with targeted ads. The privacy implications are mind bloggling… I have already written a few letters of complaint, but it [...]

By mojo | Also posted in idiots, law, networking, security | Comments (5)

Defence against capturing passwords from memory

08/03/2008 – 00:09

I spotted this interesting bit of software on Hack a Day. The basic idea is to do a hard reset and boot a Linux environment, which can then dump the contents of the computers RAM which will still contain any encryption keys and decrypted documents the user was working on. It’s an old idea, in [...]

By mojo | Also posted in security | Comments (0)

Project Chanology – The War on Scientology

05/02/2008 – 13:08

Scientology is a dangerous cult, and Project Chanology is Anonymous’s attempt to destroy it. Well, it looks like maybe Tom Cruise is doing that for them, but anyway… If you are in any doubt, google “Lisa McPherson“. Scientologists believe some pretty crazy stuff (see the video below). Don’t believe it? Here is a BBC video. [...]

By mojo | Also posted in security | Comments (0)

UK ID card "coercion"

02/02/2008 – 19:13

An allegedly leaked document from the Passport Service shows that the government intends to use “coercion” to get people to sign up for an ID card. While this isn’t news per-se, as we knew they would anyway, it is probably the first time they have actually admitted it. Typical tactics will include requiring people to [...]

By mojo | Also posted in politics | Comments (0)

Welcome to 1984: Britain an "endemic" surveillance society

01/01/2008 – 20:58

Just been reading this report from Privacy International… It pretty much confirms what we already know: that Britain is the surveillance capital of the world. Well, to be fair, Scotland seems to be doing a bit better than England & Wales (no wonder they want independence). The shear number of CCTV cameras in the UK [...]

By mojo | Comments (0)

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