Associate's Mind

Show Notes: National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace The US Government’s plans for your anonymity and identity online. I’ll leave you with this video presentation of the NSTIC (which oddly feels as though it was prepared by Aperture Laboratories):  

Show Notes: https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/scotusjones.pdf – US v. Jones Holding Tom Goldstein, Reactions to Jones v. United States: The government fared much better than everyone realizes, SCOTUSblog (Jan. 23, 2012, 4:07 PM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/01/reactions-to-jones-v-united-states-the-government-fared-much-better-than-everyone-realizes/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz_v._United_States – No right to privacy in public http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_v._Riley – no right to to privacy from police observation from public airspace http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/ -Relaxing drone [...]

  Here’s another video, this time dealing with claiming fifth amendment privilege in the face of being compelled to give up your passwords. Details on these cases can be found at these links. https://www.eff.org/cases/us-v-fricosu https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/OpinionDoe22312.pdf

  It’s a little rough around the edges, but here is a video on encryption, US border crossings, and electronic devices. It’s based off of this post from about year ago about the USA v. Cotterman case. I put it together as an experiment as I think video probably has a larger reach than 3000 word breakdowns [...]

There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he always treats it with respect, even when he is drunk. The telephone is a fetish. -Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953) Now more than ever, telephones are black holes of information. [...]

  In last week’s post on Criminal Activity and Your IP address, I outlined how people use TOR (The Onion Router) in order to conceal their IP address in order to maintain a certain level of anonymity online. But a bare bones use of the TOR system is not actually as secure as it should [...]

Click here Here’s a screenshot of mine below: Pretty accurate. Fortunately, you can opt out at the above page as well. Even better, you could go to the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt out tool here and opt out from dozens of advertising tracking services at once. H/T: Hacker News

  The Ninth Circuit has held that it is the right of the United States government to seize a digital device at a border crossing*, transport it to a secondary location, and retain the data from the device indefinitely until it can be accessed. It has been true for awhile that any device, any data, [...]

Via Internet Cases: “In Purvis v. Commissioner of Social Sec., 2011 WL 741234 (D.N.J., Feb. 23, 2011), the question before federal judge Susan Davis Wigenton was whether the plaintiff had been wrongfully denied Social Security benefits. Ultimately the judge determined that the question of whether plaintiff’s asthma made her disabled needed to go back to [...]

From the EFF Deeplinks blog, in the matter of US v. Warshak: As the Court held today, Given the fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication [like postal mail and telephone calls], it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser Fourth Amendment protection…. It follows that email requires strong protection under the [...]