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Comment Oh, (Score 4, Insightful) 181

You mean like the elliptic curve cryptography that they backdoored and then pressured the NIST in to backing so that millions of people's data was both available to them and also potentially at risk to any 3rd party to find out about it? The one that's specifically mentioned in the article?

"But the agency appears to have created its own back door into encrypted communications. The computer industry, both in the
United States and abroad, routinely adoptssecurity standards approved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). But in 2006, NIST put its seal of approval on one pseudorandom number generatorâ"the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator, or DUAL_EC_DRBGâ"that was flawed. The potential for a flaw was first identified in 2007 by Microsoft computer security experts. But it received little attention until internal NSA memos made public by Snowden revealed that NSA was the sole author of the flawed algorithm and that the
agency worked hard behind the scenes to make sure it was adopted by NIST. "

Yes, beneficial to society indeed...

Comment Sounds more like... (Score 1) 127

Now that we know how YOU do things we can steal what we want from the code giving ourselves a boost, and hand off the code to our military cyber warfare equivalent and figure out how to fuck your banks/stock market/whatever else we can get in to. Sounds like we'll be selling the rope to get hung by to me.

Submission + - Google threatened with fines by Dutch data protection agency (bbc.com)

waspleg writes: Google has been threatened with a fine of up to 15m euros (£12m) if it does not do a better job of protecting the privacy of Dutch citizens. The row has blown up over the way that Google combines data about what people do online in order to tailor adverts to their preferences.

Comment This is cool (Score 1) 160

But,

Are you unique?
Yes! (You can be tracked!)

47.07 % of observed browsers are Firefox, as yours.

3.74 % of observed browsers are Firefox 31.0, as yours.

19.73 % of observed browsers run Linux, as yours.

62.02 % of observed browsers have set "en"as their primary language, as yours.

15.47 % of observed browsers have UTC-5 as their timezone, as yours.

You have the only browser out of 26601 with this fingerprint.

Okay. Now what? Also 26601 "browsers" doesn't sound like a lot when you're talking about potential billions. Not a big sample. But what do you do now? I have my browser set to remember nothing, so you can't really track cookies across sites well or whatever.

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