ChadKing.com Archives: January 2005
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22 January 2005
Harvard’s Data Security Nightmares
Want to keep a university IT systems administrator up at night? Publish an article in the campus newspaper (and the online version, of course) on how to hack the system. That’s apparently what happened at Harvard University yesterday.According to the article, until recently any Internet user could follow a simple, three-step procedure to access the [...]
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20 January 2005
Beware of the “Evil Twin”
UK researchers recently warned wireless network users to beware of counterfeit wireless access points that might steal personal information and other data. Dubbed “Evil Twins,” these wireless access points are placed in public areas by hackers to fool users into thinking they are legitimate. Once a user logs in, the hackers can intercept information crossing [...]
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14 January 2005
Eye in the Sky
A New York federal judge recently determined that the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment to track a vehicle is equivalent to visually watching the vehicle travel. The rationale? The defendant had “no expectation of privacy in the whereabouts of his vehicle on a public roadway.”Perhaps there was no expectation of privacy, but the [...]
