av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 2, 2018 | Lästips
Earlier this month, security researchers revealed that the Saudi Arabian government tried to hack a prominent Saudi dissident and human rights worker who lives in Canada. This came just a few weeks after Amnesty International accused the country of using sophisticated spyware to hack one of its researchers. Then, the New York Times revealed that the Saudis have turned a Twitter employee into a spy who helped them keep tabs on digital rights activists by accessing their accounts and private messages.
These are just the latest revelations about Saudi Arabia’s aggressive push to quash dissent and track down activists online. The regime’s favorite tools online are Twitter bots to spread disinformation and pro-government propaganda, and spyware to keep tabs on those who dare to speak up.
Källa: How ‘Mr. Hashtag’ Helped Saudi Arabia Spy on Dissidents
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 28, 2018 | Lästips
Adam Lackman ran TVAddons, a site hosting unofficial addons for Kodi media player. A legal team representing powerful telecom and media companies—Bell and Rogers included—searched his home and sued him for piracy. Now, he’s fighting to make it to trial.
When 30-year-old web developer Adam Lackman heard loud knocking on his Montreal apartment door around 8 AM, he thought he was about to be robbed.
On that morning on June 12, 2017, Lackman looked through the peephole and saw men he didn’t recognize. They called out his name. He didn’t answer. “Scared for his life,” he called the police and, he said, hid in a closet holding a knife while he waited for the cops to arrive.
Källa: What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 28, 2018 | Lästips
FBI har nu gripit en misstänkt som ser ut att vara den som är ansvarig för att ha skickat 145 bomber till demokrater och kritiker av Donald Trump. Wired har skrivit om hur jakten och gripandet gått till.
Sayoc was arrested Friday outside an AutoZone in Plantation, Florida. Law enforcement officials also discovered a white van belonging to the suspect, whoch, according to photos and videos from the scene, was covered in pro-Trump stickers, as well as other decals that appear to depict crosshairs over the faces of several figures who were sent explosive devices, including former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and former president Barack Obama. One decal read ”CNN Sucks.” CNN, Clinton, Obama, and the other mail bomb targets have been widely vilified by right-wing media, as well as by President Trump. Police towed the van, covered in a blue tarp, away from the AutoZone for investigation.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 27, 2018 | Lästips
Telia, Sweden’s largest Internet provider, will appeal a recent court order that requires the company to block The Pirate Bay, Dreamfilm, FMovies, and NyaFilmer. The ISP believes that the verdict, issued following a complaint from Hollywood and local studios, goes too far.
Earlier this year, several major Hollywood studios including Disney, Universal Studios and Warner Bros, teamed up with Swedish movie outfits to expand the local Pirate Bay blockade.
Källa: Swedish ISP Telia Appeals Pirate Bay Blocking Order – TorrentFreak
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 25, 2018 | Lästips
DEBATT. Den där aprileftermiddagen när Akilov mejade ner människor på Drottninggatan i Stockholm och slutligen körde rätt in ett skyltfönster på Åhléns, såg jag hur folk flydde över Klarabergsviadukten. De kom springande, medan jag väntade på att mina bonusbarn skulle välja glass inne på Pressbyrån.
Efter att ha läst förundersökningens bilaga om Akilovs elektroniska kommunikation, är jag övertygad om att den teknik som svenska företag kan förse FRA och SÄPO med skulle stoppat honom.
I dagarna har FRA gått på en PR-offensiv modell stor med ett långt hemma hos-reportage i Sveriges Radio och artiklar i morgonpressen där spionerna, barska och oemotsagda säger att de måste rusta upp.
De vill, i enlighet med utredningen, fiska med en stor trålare i de vatten man finner lämpligt, inte låta regeringen bestämma var man får fiska och vilken fisk man får fånga.
Källa: DEBATT: Så vill myndigheterna övervaka oss svenskar
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 20, 2018 | Lästips
Earlier this year, Louis Rossmann, the highest-profile iPhone and Mac repair professional in the United States, told Motherboard that determining “the difference between counterfeiting and refurbishing is going to be the next big battle” between the independent repair profession and Apple. At the time, his friend and fellow independent repair pro, Jessa Jones, had just had a shipment of iPhone screens seized by Customs and Border Patrol.
Rossmann was right: His repair parts were also just seized by the US government.
Källa: DHS Seized Aftermarket Apple Laptop Batteries From Independent Repair Expert Louis Rossman
