New NSA Datacenter online
A year ago the whistleblower W. Binney published information about the planned new NSA datacenter in Bluffdale (Utah). This datacenter will be the largest NSA datacenter worldwide and it will be at...
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Information leaks by search plug-ins
If you were using the JonDoFox profile for Firefox you will find search plug-ins installed by default and search plug-ins installed by JonDoFox in the list of search engines:The search plug-ins...
View ArticleCookieless Cookie Fake Test
Last time we got some hints about a cookieless cookie test. Some JonDonym user were afraid of being tracked by the test with ETags and want to know our opinion about the Firefox add-on Self-Destructing...
View ArticleThunderbird 24.1 and TorBirdy
If you were running Thunderbird 24.1 with TorBirdy you have to update to TorBirdy 1.2 (strongly recommended). This version is not available on the Mozilla add-on website at the moment but it is...
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New documents provided by Snowden/Greenwald show the elite of nations collaborating with the NSA.The "five spying eyes" are the well known inner circle of USA, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New...
View ArticleA Right to Privacy
A Brazilian and German UN initiative seeks to apply the right to privacy in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to online communications. All states are called "to respect...
View ArticleThe Hidden Operating System...
... in your SmartphoneEvery smartphone or other device with mobile communications capability (e.g. 3G or LTE) actually runs not only the end-users operating systems (Android, iOS, PalmOS). Aside from...
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Kein No-Spy-Abkommen
Es wird kein No-Spy-Abkommen geben, erklärte die US-Sicherheitsberaterin S. Rice bei Gesprächen in Berlin (Heise.de berichtete). Natürlich bekommt man kein No-Spy-Abkommen, wenn man die Chefetage der...
View ArticleAndroid Remote Code Execution
For secure operating systems "remote code execution" is a serious bug, for Android it is a feature.In the paper Execute This! (PDF) researchers of UC Sante Barabara (US) and University Bonn (Germany)...
View ArticleImprovements in Face Recognition
If a human will see two photos with unknown persons he will recognize the same person right 97.53 percent of the time. Facebook's AI research group developed the software DeepFace which was right 97.25...
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OpenSSL Bug
Some small remarks about the OpenSSL bug CVE-2014-0160 related to JonDonym:JonDonym services: JonDonym services (mix cascades, JonDos payment instance, infoservices) and our software (JonDo,...
View ArticleUpdate about FBI's NGI
In October 2011 we wrote about the start of the Next Generation Identification Database (NGI) of the FBI. New documents published by EFF.org show that the FBI is on the way toward a fully operational...
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NSA and Tor
Half a year ago in October 2013 the Guardian published the NSA presentation "Tor stinks" and we know, the NSA collects all IPs of Tor clients and Tor user get special attention of NSA. Slide 23 of the...
View ArticleUK Data Retention and Investigation Powers Bill
In April 2014 European Court of Justice (CJEU) struck down the UK’s existing laws on communications monitoring because it breached EU privacy laws.A new data retention law was prepared and will pass...
View ArticleUnperfect e-mail spam by PerfectMoney
Thoughout the last months, we got a lot of e-mails concerning a payment service called „PerfectMoney“. In these mails, a lot of „customers“ tell us their „interest“ in using this service to pay for...
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