Tag Archives: Criminals

Android App Aims to Allow Wiretap-Proof Cell Phone Calls

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 27, 2010
Worried about the NSA, the FBI, criminals or cyberspies electronically eavedropping on your private phone calls? There may be an untappable app for that. On Tuesday, an independent hacker and security researcher who goes by the handle Moxie Marlinspike and his Pittsburgh-based startup Whisper Systems launched free public betas for two new privacy-focused programs on [...]
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Meet the face of Big Brother in New South Wales

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 3, 2010
Source: The Daily Telegraph THE State Government is quietly compiling a mathematical map of almost every adult’s face, sharing information that allows law enforcement to track people by CCTV. Experts said yesterday few people realised their facial features were being recorded in an RTA database of drivers licence photos that the Government has allowed both [...]
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Geert Wilders’s party wins seat in Dutch elections

By Gideon Swift | Published: March 4, 2010
The Dutch far-right, anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders has won major gains in local elections in the Netherlands, with preliminary results today indicating he may dominate the political scene in the run-up to the general election in three months. Yesterday’s poll, 10 days after the centrist coalition government collapsed, was seen as a gauge of the [...]
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Proposed Canadian Law Would Let Police Snoop On What You Do Online

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 19, 2009
It’s not exactly Big Brother and the overall intentions seem to have the public’s best interests at heart. But many are very uncomfortable about a proposed new law introduced in the House of Commons on Thursday that could affect anyone using the Internet in Canada. The bill, with the unwieldy name of "An Act Regulating [...]
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UK set for cyber security centre

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 15, 2009
The Government is to launch a national cyber security centre to help protect the UK from online attacks. The centre will advise Whitehall departments and companies on defending against hacking by foreign powers, organised criminals and terror groups, the Guardian has reported. It will form the centrepiece of the new national security strategy to be [...]
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