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SSL Search : Features - Web Search Help - 0 views

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    With Google search over SSL, you can have an end-to-end encrypted search solution between your computer and Google. This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party. This provides you with a more secure and private search experience.
Peter Ruwoldt

Australian-Records - Background Check, People Search, Court Records, Mugshots,Public Re... - 0 views

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    This information includes address history, phone numbers, possible aliases, neighbors, a criminal and civil records check, marriage records and much more! You can start your background checks with a name, maiden name, address or Social Security number. We search billions of current utility company records, court records, county records, change of address records, property records, business records and a variety of other public records and publicly-available records to find information for each background check.
Peter Ruwoldt

Mumbai police to look out for unsecured Wi-Fi connections-Mumbai-Cities-The Times of India - 0 views

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    MUMBAI: City policemen will be soon seen roaming in the streets with laptops in their hands in search of unsecured Wi-Fi connections. In an initiative taken by the Mumbai police, in the backdrop of terror mails sent before blasts and terror attacks, policemen will be sent to various locations in the city in search of unsecured Wi-Fi connections.
Peter Ruwoldt

Cyberwar - Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors - Series - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The Iranian government, more than almost any other, censors what citizens can read online, using elaborate technology to block millions of Web sites offering news, commentary, videos, music and, until recently, Facebook and YouTube. Search for "women" in Persian and you're told, "Dear Subscriber, access to this site is not possible."
Peter Ruwoldt

Business & Technology | UW team researches a future filled with RFID chips | Seattle Ti... - 0 views

  • The project is meant to explore both positive and negative aspects of a world saturated with technology that can monitor people and objects remotely. "What we want to understand," Borriello said, "is what makes it useful, what makes it threatening and how to balance the two."
  • Our objective is to create a future world where RFID is everywhere and figure out problems we'll run into before we get there,
  • For more than a year, a dozen researchers have carried around RFID tags equipped with tiny computer chips that store an identification number unique to each tag. Researchers installed about 200 antennas throughout the computer-science building that pick up any tag near them every second.
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  • The system can show when people leave the office, when they return, how often they take breaks, where they go and who's meeting with whom,
  • if people don't see the tags, it's easy to forget they are giving out information whenever they come within range of a reader.
  • how to make the technology useful while protecting privacy
  • The system is transparent, so each can tell if the other has checked his whereabouts.
  • Users can search the calendar to jog their memories about when they last saw someone or how, where and with whom they spent their time.
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      I can see these things being useful. Like the idea of transparency
  • have been designed to divulge more information than necessary, opening the door to security and privacy problems
  • There's no reason to have remotely readable technology in a driver's license," Borriello said. He recommends a system that requires contact with the surface of a reader, so the license-holder knows when information on his license is being read.
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      Ethical issues to choose the right technology for the problem. Good point
  • data from radio tags can be pieced together to offer a detailed profile of a person's habits without his or her knowledge.
  • People don't understand the implications of information they're giving out," Borriello said. "They can be linked together to paint a picture, one you didn't think you were painting."
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      Critical for people to be street smart. Important role for schools
  • Last year, the number of police requests for information from London's RFID-based transit card rose from four per month to 100
  • It's important to understand what the technology can do and we, collectively, have to decide what we're going to use it for
  • As soon as it becomes widely used, then it's more attractive and people start attacking it," showing its vulnerabilities, Borriello said. The trouble is "by that time, it's hard to change.
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      Good that someone is being proactive about this.
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    The project is meant to explore both positive and negative aspects of a world saturated with technology that can monitor people and objects remotely. "What we want to understand," Borriello said, "is what makes it useful, what makes it threatening and how to balance the two."
Peter Ruwoldt

Every Click You Make - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

  • companies involved say customers' privacy is protected because no personally identifying details are released.
  • Although common tracking systems, known as cookies, have counted a consumer's visits to a network of sites, the new monitoring, known as "deep-packet inspection," enables a far wider view -- every Web page visited, every e-mail sent and every search entered. Every bit of data is divided into packets -- like electronic envelopes -- that the system can access and analyze for content.
  • There's a fear here that a user's ISP is going to betray them and turn their information over to a third party
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  • uidelines for behavioral advertising have been outpaced by the technology and do not address the practice directly
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      Example of where law lags technology
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    The online behavior of a small but growing number of computer users in the United States is monitored by their Internet service providers, who have access to every click and keystroke that comes down the line
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Who is Hosting This? - 0 views

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    Who is hosting a domain?
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