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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released Rayhunter, a new open-source tool designed to detect cell site simulators (CSS). These devices, also known as IMSI catchers or Stingrays, mimic cell towers to trick phones into connecting so they ca…
According to author and activist Cory Doctorow, it’s a scammer’s world and we’re just living in it.
The post Cory Doctorow Makes Us Wonder if Everything’s a Scam appeared first on Adam Levin.
The EFF has created an open-source hardware tool to detect IMSI catchers: fake cell phone towers that are used for mass surveillance of an area.
It runs on a $20 mobile hotspot.
Is using stalkerware to spy on someone ever okay? Eva Galperin doesn’t think so.
The post EFF’s Eva Galperin Is Not the Pope of Fighting Stalkerware (But She Is) appeared first on Adam Levin.
From AaronSwartzDay.com:
Aaron Swartz Day was founded, in 2013, after the death of Aaron Swartz, with these combined goals:
To draw attention to what happened to Aaron, in the hopes of stopping it from happening to anyone else.
– This includes cl…
From an EFF announcement this week:
Technical standards like fire and electrical codes developed by private organizations but incorporated into public law can be freely disseminated without any liability for copyright infringement, a federal appeals co…
For over 30 years the EFF has presented awards recognizing those “advancing innovation and championing digital rights,” according to its web site, celebrating “the accomplishments of people working toward a better future… both in the public eye and b…
In a groundbreaking ruling, a district court judge in New York, United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023), declared that a warrant is necessary for cell phone searches at the border, unless there are urgent circumstances. The Electronic Frontier F…
In March U.S. President Joe Biden “signed an executive order that limits U.S. government agencies from using commercially available spyware,” writes EFF senior policy analyst Matthew Guariglia.
“But that doesn’t mean there will be no government use o…
The recently introduced RESTRICT Act, otherwise known as the “TikTok ban,” is a dangerous substitute for comprehensive data privacy legislation, writes the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a blog post. From the post: As we wrote in our initial review …