surveillance Archives - TECHNOBABBLE https://technobabble.com.au/tag/surveillance/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:21:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Introducing a Novel Surveillance Tool Impacting Border Towns https://technobabble.com.au/2024/05/04/introducing-a-novel-surveillance-tool-impacting-border-towns/ Sat, 04 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000 https://technobabble.com.au/blog/2024/05/04/introducing-a-novel-surveillance-tool-impacting-border-towns/ This week, WIRED reported that a group of prolific scammers known as the Yahoo Boys are openly operating on major platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, and Telegram. Evading content moderation systems, the group organizes and engages in criminal activities that range from scams to sextortion schemes. On Wednesday, researchers published a paper detailing a new...

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]]> Turn THIS on if you use iCloud! https://technobabble.com.au/2024/05/03/turn-this-on-if-you-use-icloud/ Fri, 03 May 2024 14:13:00 +0000 https://technobabble.com.au/blog/2024/05/03/turn-this-on-if-you-use-icloud/ Thanks to powerful marketing, privacy is something we’ve come to immediately associate with Apple. But your iCloud is probably NOT as private as you think. Last year, Apple added E2EE for iCloud backups, with a tool called “Advanced Data Protection”. This setting means that your documents, photos, and other personal information in iCloud are kept...

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]]> The NSA cautions about potential AI advantage for US adversaries through private data mining. https://technobabble.com.au/2024/03/21/the-nsa-cautions-about-potential-ai-advantage-for-us-adversaries-through-private-data-mining/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://technobabble.com.au/blog/2024/03/21/the-nsa-cautions-about-potential-ai-advantage-for-us-adversaries-through-private-data-mining/ Electrical engineer Gilbert Herrera was appointed research director of the US National Security Agency in late 2021, just as an AI revolution was brewing inside the US tech industry. The NSA, sometimes jokingly said to stand for No Such Agency, has long hired top math and computer science talent. Its technical leaders have been early...

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