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Warrantless surveillance comes to your phone

05/09/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside Nine out of 12 big telecoms in Canada deigned to reply to Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart with info about their disclosure of customer data to law enforcement in 2011. Law enforcement agencies made 1,193,630 requests for subscriber data in 2011 Or, one request every 27 seconds Three telecom providers alone disclosed information from 785,000 customer accounts […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: business, Canada, Conservatives, CSEC, cyber bullying, government surveillance, Jennifer Stoddart, privacy, privacy commissioner, RCMP, telcos

CSEC: Hackdom’s Sugar Daddy

09/20/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Nope, not a photoshop this time. It’s CSEC, the Canadian government’s version of the NSA, presenting a hacker conference for computer security enthusiasts this November in Quebec. [h/t Lux ex Umbra] Events scheduled for Hackfest Strikes Back include: Hide yo Apache, hide yo SSH cause they backdoorin’ everybody out there Bypassing Security Controls with Mobile […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Canada, Communications Security Establishment Canada, CSEC, encryption, Google, National Security Agency, online spying, privacy, Quebec, smartphones, U.S.

How to evade the British and Yank snoops

08/04/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) There’s no way to escape the overseeing PRISM eye of the US electronics intelligence service the NSA, right? Not entirely true. If you use American or British nodes to route your Internet traffic, odds are your every communication will be saved for days at least. Still, you don’t have to […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Britain, Canada, crime, government surveillance, internet, Julian Assange, National Security Agency, PRISM, privacy, U.S.

Microsoft: Team player

07/04/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside Feel free to drop by this Microsoft ad and give it a thumbs down. “At Microsoft, your privacy is our priority.” Indeed. About that … Guardian: How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism • Outlook.com encryption including Hotmail unlocked even before official launch • Skype worked […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Android, Apple, CIA, crime, Facebook, FBI, Google, government surveillance, internet, Microsoft, National Security Agency, PRISM, privacy, RCMP, Skype, twitter, U.S., Yahoo

Al Franken is a big fat criminal

06/12/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Technology and civil liberty experts knew PRISM was a very real possibility. I knew, and wrote about it last August. The National Security Agency (NSA) (star bad guy org. in the Will Smith movie Enemy of the State) has been collecting domestic Americans’ phone and Internet records since at least […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Al Franken, Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, crime, Edward Snowden, George Bush, Glenn Greenwald, government surveillance, internet, National Security Agency, PRISM, privacy, RCMP, U.S., U.S. politics

PRISM is just the beginning

06/10/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By David@Sixthestate.net As you may have heard, the Obama administration has been outed as ambitiously Big Brother-ish, overseeing a National Security Agency surveillance program which essentially scoops user data from every major online source — Facebook, Google, Skype, even Apple — and puts it into the world’s largest personal information database. (This, surprisingly, means Facebook […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, Barack Obama, crime, Facebook, Google, government surveillance, internet, National Security Agency, privacy, Skype, U.S.

Toew’s Internet surveillance bill walks again

07/12/2012 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Montreal Simon About a month ago I made this little photoshop, because I was sure that Vic Toews would try to use the Luka Magnotta case to peddle his internet snooping bill. For a Con zombie is a Con zombie, and there is nothing Toews wouldn’t do to stumble through our computers without a […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bill C-30, Canada, Canadian politics, internet, privacy, Vic Toews

iKnow Where You Were Last Summer

04/21/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

by Eric Pettifor So, it turns out that phones running the iOS 4 update of June, 2010 log date and location wherever their owners take them. The data sits there on the phone. It is not transmitted to Apple, so the charge cannot be made that Apple is actively spying on its customers. But do […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, computers, mobile phones, privacy, Steve Jobs

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

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By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

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Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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