The revelations around the NSA’s secret spying program have thrust the issue of online surveillance into the public consciousness like never before. Over the coming years it’s reasonable to expect more people will start using privacy tools, such as Virtual Private Network services, to protect their online data from surveillance. But as a previous post…

iTnews Australia recently published an interesting article about a leaked security audit of the security and intelligence firm Strafor. These are the guys whose trove of juicy emails was hacked and leaked (and from whom more than 79,000 credit card details were stolen) courtesy of LulzSec, a hacker group loosely associated with Anonymous. The forensic…

‘I have nothing to hide, so why worry?’ or so many people think. If you are so sure, then please email me the username and password for all your email and social media accounts… I didn’t think so! Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing and many people get them confused. We all know…

Article 12 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his hono(u)r and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.” In fact, Amendment 4 of…

Every July 4th Americans celebrate their independence from British rule, usually a patriotic display of flags, plenty food and fireworks, an excuse for a long weekend, BBQs and getting drunk. What started out as a great plan, a democracy like never before, has suddenly come to a screeching halt, worst of all ,with the most…