Mastodawn

🔔 Oh no, Ron's at it again! Apparently, we're all going to be "shocked" by what the #NSA is doing with Section 702, but let's be honest, the real surprise would be if they weren't #snooping. 🙄 Now, back to pretending this is news! 📢
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/12/the-wyden-siren-goes-off-again-well-be-stunned-by-what-the-nsa-is-doing-under-section-702/ #Section702 #privacy #news #RonAgain #shocked #reaction #HackerNews #ngated

The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702

Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public “will be stunned” to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you&#8…

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Gravitas Feb 4

Taking your computer to the repair shop? BE VERY AFRAID!

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/kPCJqYyoLYHfyiEbuYc165

Taking your computer to the repair shop? BE VERY AFRAID!

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Olly 👾Feb 1

🛰️ Satellite Snooping reveals Sensitive Unencrypted Data.

In an era where running a website without HTTPS is shunned, and everyone wants you to encrypt your DNS queries, you’d expect that the telecommunications back-ends are secured tightly as well. Especially the wireless bits between terra firma and geosynchronous communication satellites. But as recently discovered by US researchers, the opposite is actually true.

https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/

#unencrypted #IP #traffic #flows #satellite #snooping #space #tech #engineer #media #news

mclovin Dec 15

#memes #cartoon #camera #binoculars #privacy #snooping

This is a new era of surveillance

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 24

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

A man always is to be himself the judge of how much of his mind he will show to other men; even to those he would have work along with him. There are impertinent inquiries made: your rule is to leave the inquirer uninformed on that matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed; but precisely as dark as he was!

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22409…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #discretion #impertinence #innerself #privacy #privatelife #snooping #trueself

Techdirt Oct 15

Study: The World’s Satellite Data Is Massively Vulnerable To Snooping

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/15/study-the-worlds-satellite-data-is-massively-vulnerable-to-snooping/

Study: The World’s Satellite Data Is Massively Vulnerable To Snooping

For many many years, experts have warned about massive longstanding flaws in Signaling System 7 (SS7, or Common Channel Signaling System 7), a series of protocols used by cellular network…

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Steve Dustcircle 🌹Sep 11, 2025

#Google facing $425.7 million in damages for nearly a decade of improper #smartphone #snooping

https://apnews.com/article/google-smartphone-surveillance-verdict-damages-c93e0150089fd47ec396f1d0abacb4a8

Google faces millions in damages for tracking people's online activity

A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 million smartphones operating in the United States between July 1, 2016, through Sept. 23, 2024. Google had denied that it was improperly tracking the online activity of people who thought they had shielded themselves on privacy controls and says it will now appeal the jury's verdict.

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