#Blackphone, Android for the paranoid – w/o #Google apps
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid Has useful services: Disconnect VPN, SilentCircle, SpiderOak
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Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid
July 6, 2014Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid
July 4, 2014#Blackphone, Android for the paranoid
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid Has useful services (Disconnect VPN, Silent Circle, SpiderOak) but little $GOOG
The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye | May 2014 | Communications of the ACM
June 2, 2014The #NSA & #Snowden: Argues 2-factor authentication & 2-person authorization would’ve stopped theft of 1.7M documents
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/5/174340-the-nsa-and-snowden/fulltext
Why Privacy Is Actually Thriving Online | Threat Level | WIRED
April 18, 2014Why #Privacy Is Actually Thriving Online. Mentions social
#steganography, using slang to hide messages in plain sight
http://prod2.wired.com/2014/03/privacy-is-dead
The Face Behind Bitcoin – Newsweek
April 5, 2014The Face Behind #Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto, hiding in plain sight w. >$100M. Interesting to read his strenuous denial
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html
Predicting Social Security numbers from public data
March 27, 2014QT:{{”
Such findings highlight the hidden privacy costs of widespread information dissemination and the complex interactions among multiple data sources in modern information economies (11), underscoring the role of public records as breeder documents (12) of more sensitive data.
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What Surveillance Valley knows about you | PandoDaily
March 17, 2014What #Surveillance Valley knows about you: A LOT – eg info sold to insurers on recent weight gains & illegal drug use
http://pando.com/2013/12/22/a-peek-into-surveillance-valley
Uniquely Me! » American Scientist
February 24, 2014What’s a unique ID for a person & how companies are hacking into your browser history to construct one. Uniquely Me!
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/uniquely-me
Interesting mention of PGP
Russia Plans to Extend Snowden Asylum, Lawmaker Says – NYTimes.com
January 25, 2014Russia Plans to Extend #Snowden Asylum. It says ironically “US has created a Big Brother system” nyti.ms/1eNfw9C HT @startpointmedia
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