I was hesitant to speak about contact tracing apps because so many people speak on the subject and the ratio of repeating the same cliches over and over is also high. Little insightful things are left to be said in this rather simple problem. But recently it emerged that a…
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I never thought it would come to this but this is a privacy analysis is of the “ctrl-f”. You know, the find-in-page functionality: when the user wants to find an occurrence of the word “cat”, control-f shortcut or the manual menu selection opens the find-in-page prompt. So exciting?
Perhaps not.…
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I wanted to steer clear from the topic of SARS-CoV-19. But it is now clear that thee global coronavirus epidemic/spread introduces an extraordinary situation, warranting special considerations for individual and organization, as well as collective cybersecurity.
We are all in this is due to a confluence of many related…
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Recently the US has conducted a process modeled over Eisenhower-era Red-Teaming designed to figure out how to tackle the Cold War era risks posed by Soviet Union. Just applied to cybersecurity.
Sounds exciting if not fuzzy? The report is now released and it is an extremely interesting strategic assessment. It…
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Over the past few years, waves of shocking privacy misuses, data breaches, and abuses have crashed on the world's biggest companies and billions of their users. At the same time, many countries have bolstered their data protection rules. Europe set the tone in 2016 with the General Data…
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