Your Rights Online Stories for 2017

EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS 214
Kansas Swatting Perpetrator 'SWauTistic' Interviewed on Twitter 434
Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails 321
Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests 156
Louisana Police Bust an Infamous Nigerian Email Spam Scammer 66
Call of Duty Gaming Community Points To 'Swatting' In Wichita Police Shooting 681
Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One 57
Facebook's Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts To Stay Up 171
300,000 Users Exposed In Ancestry.com Data Leak 43
That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You're Watching on TV 98
Two Romanians Charged With Hacking Washington DC Police Surveillance Cameras Days Before Trump's Inauguration 47
Chrome Extension with 100,000 Users Caught Pushing Cryptocurrency Miner 47
A Manager of the Exmo Bitcoin Exchange Has Been Kidnapped In Ukraine 82
Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time 111
Italian Clothing Company Defeats Apple, Wins the Right To Use Steve Jobs' Name 172
People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking 368
Web Trackers Exploit Flaw In Browser Login Managers To Steal Usernames 76
FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say 174
Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted 94
Some Sonos and Bose Speakers Are Being Hijacked To Play Ghostly Sounds 41
Russia Is Accusing the US of 'Direct Interference' In Its Elections 195
Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns 242
Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' 92
Beware: 'Digmine' Cryptocurrency Bot Is Spreading Via Facebook Messenger 96
The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Every Public Tweet On January 1st 79
Net Neutrality Complaints Rise Amid FCC Repeal 183
China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years 73
Man Threatened Company With Cyber Attack To Fire Employee and Hire Him Instead 151
12 Days In Xinjiang - China's Surveillance State 132
Republican's 'Net Neutrality' Proposal Called 'Bait and Switch' 121
Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables 175
Court Throws Out Grsecurity Libel Lawsuit Against Bruce Perens 48
UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes 144
65% of Washington DC's Outdoor Surveillance Cameras Infiltrated by Romanian Hackers 85
Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? 186
Lithuania Calls On EU To Stop Adjusting Clocks For Daylight Savings 170
Amazon Acquires Connected Camera and Doorbell Startup 'Blink' 18
Comcast May Have Enrolled Thousands in a Near-Worthless Protection Program Without Their Consent 52
Man in China Sentenced To Five Years' Jail For Running VPN 42
'Username or Password is Incorrect' Security Defense is a Weak Practice 249
Russian Hackers Targeted More Than 200 Journalists Globally 72
Snowden's New App Haven Uses Your Smartphone To Physically Guard Your Laptop 134
Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit After Admitting To Slowing Down Old iPhones 244
AnyDVD Supports UHD Blu-Ray Ripping, While Devices Patch Security Holes 68
Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says 137
Security Firm Keeper Sues News Reporter Over Vulnerability Story 73
Windows 10 Facial Recognition Feature Can Be Bypassed with a Photo 95
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook To Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads 340
Youbit Shuts Down Cryptocurrency Exchange After Second Hack, Files For Bankruptcy 68
Cable TV's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming 143
Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises 244
The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right 260
Republican Lawmaker Introduces Net Neutrality Legislation 350
France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 259
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? 304
Cloud-Based Repository Leak Exposes 123 Million American Households 62
The White House Is Temporarily Shutting Down Its Petition Website 153
Your Phone May Send You 'Blue Alerts' To Warn You When Local Police Are In Danger 318
'Loapi' Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Is Causing Phone Batteries To Bulge 55
Chinese Backdoor Still Active on Many Android Devices 30
Facebook Will Use Facial Recognition To Tell You When People Upload Your Picture 80
New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms 183
Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False 363
Venezuela Will Force Bitcoin Miners To Register With the Government 152
WhatsApp Ordered To Stop Sharing User Data With Facebook 119
CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC 177
'There Will Be a [Senate] Vote' To Reinstate Net Neutrality, Schumer Says 278
Ban Sale of Mini Mobiles, Says Justice Minister 192
Ajit Pai Taunts Net Neutrality Critics. Mark Hamill Taunts Ajit Pai 346
Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers 119
Microsoft Releases a Preview of OpenSSH Client and Server For Windows 10 144
Windows 10 Bundled a Password Manager with a Security Flaw 48
The US Military Admits It Spent $22 Million Investigating UFOs 166
Facial Recognition Algorithms -- Plus 1.8 Billion Photos -- Leads to 567 Arrests in China 168
Here's the Letter Alleging Uber Spied on Individuals For Competitive Intelligence 37
An Anonymous Bitcoin Millionaire Is Donating Their Fortune To Charities 98
Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed 307
ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality 232
Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million 151
One of Australia's Richest Men Lost $1 Million To Email Scam 84
CIA Captured Putin's 'Specific Instructions' To Hack the 2016 Election, Says Report 535
A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built To Outperform Bitcoin 186
DOJ Confirms Uber Is Being Investigated For Criminal Behavior 34
Lawmakers Are Fighting For Net Neutrality 215
Attackers Deploy 'Triton' Malware Against Industrial Safety Equipment 30
EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime 175
Fortinet VPN Client Exposes VPN Creds; Palo Alto Firewalls Allow Remote Attacks 32
FCC's Own Chief Technology Officer Warned About Net Neutrality Repeal 152
Author of BrickerBot Malware Retires, Says He Bricked 10 Million IoT Devices 149
Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services 208
Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code 113
Maker of Sneaky Mac Adware Sends Security Researcher Cease-and-Desist Letters 87
Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty 33
Net Neutrality Protests Move Online, Yet Big Tech Is Quiet 71
No Matter What Happens With Net Neutrality, an Open Internet Isn't Going Anywhere, Says Former FCC Chairman 177
What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? 130
Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government 468
Searchable Database of 1.4 Billion Stolen Credentials Found On Dark Web 72
SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO 43
Why Google and Amazon Are Hypocrites 245
129 Million Americans Can Only Get Internet Service From Companies That Have Violated Net Neutrality 143
France To Ban Mobile Phones In Schools 191
President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon 307
How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web 116
German Intelligence Warns of Increased Chinese Cyberspying 75
HP Laptops Found To Have Hidden Keylogger 116
FCC Refuses Records For Investigation Into Fake Net Neutrality Comments 164
Touting Government/Industry 'Partnership' on Security Practices, NIST Drafts Cybersecurity Framework Update 15
San Diego Comic-Con Wins Trademark Suit Against 'Salt Lake Comic Con' 117
Autocratic Governments Can Now 'Buy Their Own NSA' 109
"The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" 289
Reporter Regrets Letting Amazon's Delivery People Into His House 114
People Keep Finding Hidden Cameras in Their Airbnbs 167
People Who Can't Remember Their Bitcoin Passwords Are Really Freaking Out Now 202
Zero-Day iOS HomeKit Vulnerability Allowed Remote Access To Smart Accessories Including Locks 39
'Process Doppelganging' Attack Bypasses Most Security Products, Works On All Windows Versions 126
Chrome 63 Offers Even More Protection From Malicious Sites, Using Even More Memory 63
Twitter Says It Accidentally Banned A Bunch Of Accounts 25
Bangladesh Bank, NY Fed Discuss Suing Manila Bank For Heist Damages 29
ISP Disclosures About Data Caps and Fees Eliminated By Net Neutrality Repeal 281
Bank of America Wins Patent For Crypto Exchange System 52
Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate 101
Inside Oracle's Cloak-and-dagger Political War With Google 86
Keylogger Found On Nearly 5,500 WordPress Sites 83
Victims of Mystery Attacks In Cuba Left With Anomalies In Brain Tissue 233
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit That Claims Google Paid Female Employees Less Than Male Colleagues 257
Warrantless Surveillance Can Continue Even If Law Expires, Officials Say 68
FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People 207
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain Copyright To My Kids? 327
NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen 79
Facebook and YouTube Are Full of Pirated Video Streams of Live NFL Games 231
Yahoo Sues Mozilla For Breach of Contract -- So Mozilla Counter Sues Yahoo 112
'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' 588
US Says It Doesn't Need a Court Order To Ask Tech Companies To Build Encryption Backdoors 249
Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering 47
ISPs and Movie Industry Prepare Canadian Pirate Site Blocking Deal 86
Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device 251
Trump Is Looking at Plans For a Global Network of Private Spies 481
A Popular Virtual Keyboard App Leaks 31 Million Users' Personal Data 65
Gizmodo: Don't Buy Anyone an Amazon Echo Speaker 259
State Board Concedes It Violated Free Speech Rights of Oregon Man Fined For Writing 'I Am An Engineer' 178
Cloudflare's CEO Has a Plan To Never Censor Hate Speech Again 395
Gamer Streams Pay-Per-View UFC Fight By Pretending To Play It 75
Not Even Free TV Can Get People To Stop Pirating Movies and TV Shows 221
PayPal Says 1.6 Million Customer Details Stolen In Breach At Canadian Subsidiary 24
FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' 347
Apple, Google CEOs Bring Star Power as China Promotes Censorship 38
Should Apple Share iPhone X Face Data With App Developers? 66
How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping 283
Dell Begins Offering Laptops With Intel's 'Management Engine' Disabled 140
Massive Financial Aid Data Breach Proves Stanford Lied For Years To MBAs 116
Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France 233
Free Game Company Sues 14-Year-Old Over 'Cheats' Video -- Claiming DMCA Violation 239
Drone Pilot Arrested After Flying Over Two Stadiums, Dropping Leaflets 108
Volunteers Around the World Build Surveillance-Free Cellular Network Called 'Sopranica' 77
Tesla Proves To Be Too Pricey For Germany, Loses Tax Subsidies 121
Blockchains Are Poised To End the Password Era 129
Homeland Security Claims DJI Drones Are Spying For China 82
Was Your Name Stolen To Support Killing Net Neutrality? 128
Netflix Is Not Going to Kill Piracy, Research Suggests 158
House Panel Advances Bill on Key Surveillance Measure 70
Disney Sues Redbox, Hoping To Block Digital Movie Sales 285
Democrat Senators Introduce National Data Breach Notification Law 162
System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops 149
Australian Man Uses Snack Bags As Faraday Cage To Block Tracking By Employer 193
Facebook Judge Frowns on Bid To Toss Biometric Face Print Suit 39
An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo 454
Google Faces Lawsuit For Gathering Personal Data From Millions of iPhone Users 35
Coinbase Ordered To Report 14,355 Users To the IRS 141
EPA Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Has a Range of 310 Miles 283
Facebook's New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' 302
FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media 193
Sensitive Personal Information of 246,000 DHS Employees Found on Home Computer 59
This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence 186
Apple Accuses Qualcomm of Patent Infringement in Countersuit 34
Three Quarters of Android Apps Track Users With Third Party Tools, Says Study 46
A Supreme Court Case This Week Could Change US Digital Privacy Standards 74
MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password 237
Uber Trained Employees on How To 'Impede, Obstruct or Influence' Ongoing Legal Investigations, Ex-employee Says 62
New NSA Leak Exposes Red Disk, the Army's Failed Intelligence System 67
HP Quietly Installs System-Slowing Spyware On Its PCs, Users Say 127
Researchers Identify 44 Trackers in More Than 300 Android Apps 87
White House Weighs Personal Mobile Phone Ban For Staff 113
Comcast Hints At Plan For Paid Fast Lanes After Net Neutrality Repeal 308
Reddit, Twitter, and 200 Others Say Ending Net Neutrality Could Ruin Cyber Monday 88
Justices Ponder Need For Warrant For Cellphone Tower Data 200
Tim Wu: Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality 251
Petition Calls for Ouster of FCC Chairman Pai 174
Big Tobacco Loses 11-Year Fight, Forced To Broadcast 'Dangers of Smoking' Ads 274
FBI Failed To Notify 70+ US Officials Targeted By Russian Hackers 94
Russia and The US Fight Over Who Gets To Extradite A Hacker 98
Patent Trolls Are Losing More. Will America's Supreme Court Change That? 127
Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality' 257
Should Brokers Use 'Voice Prints' For Stock Transactions? 64
Bloomberg Op-Ed: The Internet 'Already Lost Its Neutrality' 171
Is Sharp's Robot Vacuum Cleaner Vulnerable To Remote Take-over? 42
Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips 103
Imgur Confirms Email Addresses, Passwords Stolen In 2014 Hack 38
More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked 177
AT&T, Comcast Lawsuit Has Nullified a City's Broadband Competition Law 74
Legislators Take Aim At Star Wars Battlefront II, EA Over 'Gambling In Games' 72
Pornhub Owner May Become the UK's Gatekeeper of Online Porn 95
Data Breach Hits Australia's Department of Social Services Credit Card System 32
Regulators Question Google Over Location Data 19
Google and Apple Order Telegram To Nuke Channel Over Taylor Swift Piracy 37
There's Now a Dark Web Version of Wikipedia 20
EU Lawmakers Back Exports Control on Spying Technology 35
Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent 553
'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality 183
Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results 83
We'll Never Legalize Bitcoin, Says Russian Minister 55
Uber Is Under Investigation By Multiple States Over a 2016 Data Breach 25
FCC Ignored Your Net Neutrality Comment, Unless You Made a 'Serious' Legal Argument 279
Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed 279
Net Neutrality Advocates Plan Protests For December 7 at Verizon Stores 151
How a Wi-Fi Pineapple Can Steal Your Data (And How To Protect Yourself From It) 46
$31 Million In Tokens Stolen From Dollar-Pegged Cryptocurrency Tether 63
Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? 354
Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker 35
FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws 280
Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People's Data 32
FCC Announces Plan To Repeal Net Neutrality 331
Iranian 'Game of Thrones' Hacker Demanded $6 Million Bitcoin Ransom From HBO, Feds Say 34
Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community 500
To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet 196
Skype Vanishes From App Stores in China 37
Google Collects Android Users' Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled 196
Trump Administration Tightens Scrutiny of Skilled Worker Visa Applicants 263
Over 400 of the World's Most Popular Websites Record Your Every Keystroke 263
Why Hackers Reuse Malware 27
US Sues To Block AT&T Purchase of Time Warner 64
10-Year-Old Boy Cracks the Face ID On Both Parents' IPhone X 300
Net Neutrality is Essentially Unassailable, Argues Billionaire Barry Diller 82
'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware 72
Musk-Backed 'Slaughterbots' Video Will Warn the UN About Killer Microdrones 252
Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone 450
EFF Beats 'Stupid' Patent Troll In Court 70
FOSS Community Criticizes SFLC over SFC Trademark War 64
The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers 578
Massive US Military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open In AWS S3 Buckets 85
FCC Approves Next-Gen ATSC 3.0 TV Standard 158
Germany Bans Children's Smartwatches 44
Why is this Company Tracking Where You Are on Thanksgiving? 98
Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year 235
Bluetooth Hack Affects 20 Million Amazon Echo, Google Home Devices 40
FCC Repeals Decades-Old Rules Blocking Broadcast Media Mergers 146
Jack Dorsey Responds To Serial Killer Who Found His Victims Through Suicidal Twitter Posts 73
New EU Consumer Protection Law Contains a Vague Website Blocking Clause 45
Federal Extreme Vetting Plan Castigated By Tech Experts 160
Firefox Will Block Navigational Data URIs as Part of an Anti-Phishing Feature 70

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