Category: eavesdropping

How home assistants ruined us, an explanation

Post author By Randall
Post date December 31, 2019
Categories In ads, Advertising, alexa, Amazon, apple homepod, av, bad password, badpassword, data security, eavesdropping, echo, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Google Assistant, Google Home, Home, infosec, Internet, internet of shit, Internet Of Things, iot, Lg, opinion, Samsung, Security, services, siri, smartthings, spying, Tech, veracode, vizio

[ad_1] Understandably, everyone is doing their introspection right now; their year- and decade-end summaries of what was most dreadful in tech, and what lead to this mess we’re all in. I can assure you that one of the key factors is what we have come to call The Internet of Shit and how we’ve embraced […]

Huawei allegedly developed a spy-friendly phone network for North Korea

Post author By Randall
Post date July 22, 2019
Categories In China, eavesdropping, gear, Huawei, kang song, koryolink, Mobile, north korea, orascom, panda international information technology, Politics, spying, surveillance, Tech, vimpelcom

[ad_1] It’s well-established that Koryolink enables spying on users, although the new details suggest the system is more elaborate than previously thought. While it’s known that the network is highly restrictive for locals (who can’t make international calls or reach the internet) and loosened for visitors (barred from local calls and the state intranet), the […]

Apple disables its walkie-talkie Watch app due to vulnerability

Post author By Randall
Post date July 11, 2019
Categories In Apple, applewatch, eavesdropping, gear, Mobile, Security, Tech, vulnerability, walkietalkie

[ad_1] We were just made aware of a vulnerability related to the Walkie-Talkie app on the Apple Watch and have disabled the function as we quickly fix the issue. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and will restore the functionality as soon as possible. Although we are not aware of any use of […]