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University Tracks Students' Movements Using WiFi, But Says It's OK Because It's Not Tracking Students
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2016-08-16 23:11
One of the many revelations from the Snowden files was that Canada's spy agency has been tracking people as they connect to WiFi in different public locations. And if Canada is doing it, you can be pretty sure the NSA and GCHQ are doing the same, since neither is known for being backward in using whatever means it can to snoop on huge numbers of people. Of course, you'd expect spy agencies to be up to these kinds of tricks, and you might also be unsurprised to learn that shops are also tracking you using your WiFi connection.
Firm pays $950,000 penalty for using Wi-Fi signals to secretly track phone users
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2016-06-23 06:50
A mobile advertising company that tracked the locations of hundreds of millions of consumers without consent has agreed to pay $950,000 (£640,000) in civil penalties and implement a privacy program to settle charges that it violated federal law.
Linksys WRT routers won’t block open source firmware, despite FCC rules
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2016-05-13 13:40
New rules that affect open source firmware on Wi-Fi routers will be implemented on June 2, but not all network hardware will prevent the loading of third-party software.
Linksys has been collaborating with chipmaker Marvell and the makers of OpenWrt to make sure its latest WRT routers can comply with the new rules without blocking open source firmware, company officials told Ars.
In the New Wireless Universe, You’re Finally at the Center
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2016-05-02 08:55
Project Fi just celebrated its first birthday, but it was conceived more three years ago, on Boxing Day 2012.
Why you probably shouldn’t be doing work on that in-flight Wi-Fi
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2016-03-01 00:40
There's a certain degree of doubt about whether it's possible to hack into an airplane's avionics from the in-flight Wi-Fi, as one security researcher claimed last year. But it's possible to do all sorts of things to fellow passengers—as USA Today columnist Steven Petrow recently found out. Following an American Airlines flight, Petrow was approached by a man who claimed to have gained access to the content of his e-mails, which showed communication with sources for a story Petrow was writing.
