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Privacy Claims Based on LinkedIn’s Security Promises Survive Motion to Dismiss
(blog.ericgoldman.org)
Endless: An iOS web browser with a focus on privacy and security - now in the App Store
(itunes.apple.com)
When I switched again from Android to iOS, I had to give up using Firefox and its add-ons like HTTPS-Everywhere, Disconnect, and Self-Destructing Cookies.
I started making a browser for iOS (as a wrapper around UIWebView, of course) that had these things built-in, and I have been using it as my p...
RandomDNS aims to improve the security, privacy and anonymity of DNSCrypt. It can randomize the server choice at runtime, rotate it frequently and much more.
An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps
(research.csiro.au)
> The first analysis of its kind, the report looked at 283 Android VPN apps, investigating a wide range of security and privacy features.VPN facts from the study
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> Alarmingly, the report uncovered that not only did 18 per cent of the apps fail to encrypt users’ traffic but 38 per cent injected ...
On privacy and anonymity in electronic and non electronic voting: the ballot-as-signature attack.
(hal.archives-ouvertes.fr)
> **Abstract:** A wealth of protocols for electronic voting have been proposed in the literature over the past years. What makes these protocols difficult to conceive and verify is one fundamental property, anonymity, which is of paramount importance in the real world, in particular when performing ...
Computer Security, Privacy, and DNA Sequencing: Compromising Computers with Synthesized DNA, Privacy
(dnasec.cs.washington.edu)
NIST SP 800-53, Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations, Draft 5.
(csrc.nist.gov)
From the press release at https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2017/08/nist-crafts-next-generation-safeguards-information-systems-and-internet - "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new draft revision of its widely used Special Publication (SP) 800-53, Security an...
Impactful and relevant quotation:
*The very power of advanced computer systems makes them a serious threat to the privacy of the individual. If every significant action is recorded in the mass memory of a community computer system, and programs are available for analyzing them, the daily activiti...