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Why UK police love Uber: The company shares its data with them
Uber has won a long court battle to be able to operate in London. And through this saga, one of the company’s supporters has come as a surprise: UK police. The reason for this support is that, accor...
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A ransomware attack on a hospital has caused a woman’s death
This post was originally published on September 29, 2020. A woman in Germany has died after a ransomware attack forced a hospital to temporarily shut down its emergency facilities. The incident, which...
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5 ways to hide your browsing history from ISPs
Whether you like it or not, your internet activity must first pass through your internet service provider (ISP) before it reaches any websites or apps. If you trust your ISP, you may be fine with this...
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Surveillance capitalism: How every ‘like’ adds to your data for sale
Search for something innocuous like a pair of shoes, protein powder, or vacation ideas, and you know what happens next: Ads about similar products or services follow us around as we navigate the web. ...
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How a Tesla employee saved the company from a ransomware attack
This post was originally published on September 15, 2020. The FBI recently announced the arrest of Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, charged with a conspiracy to recruit an employee of Tesla ...
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A researcher hacked satellite internet connections with $300 equipment
This post was originally published on September 9, 2020. Satellite internet connections are a necessity in areas where broadband or cellular internet is unavailable. They’re commonly used by workers...
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Notorious eavesdropper NSA issues guide to hiding your location data
This post was originally published on September 2, 2020. You couldn’t make this up if you tried. The National Security Agency (NSA)—yes, the same organization that started a massive illegal survei...
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The social contract of the internet is under threat. That’s a problem
In the age of big tech, a small number of platforms have a leviathanic reach across the interwebs. We might be forgiven for thinking that this is the way things were meant to be. But that couldn’t b...
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The history of the internet, when it was invented, and how it got to where it is today
The internet has become an integral part of our lives more rapidly than anyone could have ever imagined. In the late 1990s, it seemingly appeared out of nowhere and took the world by storm. Today, bei...
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Interview: Encryption expert Riana Pfefferkorn on the erosion of online free speech
This post was originally published on August 20, 2020. Riana Pfefferkorn is the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS), a technology...
