Israel’s Failure to Stop the Hamas Attack Shows the Danger of Too Much Surveillance
Though details of exactly how the attack happened are still emerging, it seems that oversights related to grappling with this signal-and-noise conundrum […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
Apple’s Encryption Is Under Attack by a Mysterious Group
Does the public have a right to see gruesome photos of animal test subjects taken by a public university? That question underpins […]
The Team Helping Women Fight Digital Domestic Abuse
Pick up any piece of tech and Emma Pickering knows how it can be used to abuse, harass, and stalk women. Amazon’s […]
How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
Davis has released hundreds of pages of emails, contractual documents, memos, and other veterinary records detailing the public university’s work for Neuralink […]
Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes
In her 2019 master’s thesis for the Naval Postgraduate School, Ana Lalley, police chief of Elgin, Illinois, wrote critically about her department’s […]
How to Tell When Your Phone Will Stop Getting Security Updates
If you’re struggling to find out this information about a particular gadget, the web can help—and specifically the endoflife.date site, which lists […]
Chinese Hackers Are Hiding in Routers in the US and Japan
WIRED broke the news on Wednesday that SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is acquiring some assets—including patents, customers, and […]
US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases
The United States Justice Department (DOJ) is being asked to investigate whether a gunshot-detection system widely in use across the US is […]
Your Boss’s Spyware Could Train AI to Replace You
“They will learn from the workflow in which they’re engaged,” Autor says. “Often people will be in the process of working with […]
You Need to Update Google Chrome or Whatever Browser You Use
China-linked hackers are increasingly moving beyond espionage and into the disturbing world of power grid attacks. Threat researchers at security software firm […]