HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites
EFF researchers have independently confirmed that healthcare.gov is sending personal health information to at least 14 third party domains, even if the user has enabled Do Not Track. The information is sent via the referrer header, which contains the URL of the page requesting a third party resource. The referrer header is an essential part…
How Seized Gadgets Fund Electronic Surveillance
“You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don’t know where the f*** it’s gonna take you.” This oft-cited wisdom comes from Detective Lester Freamon, a character in the classic HBO series The Wire, which tracked how an elite task force of (fictional) Baltimore…
Everybody Needs To Read PW Singer’s Book On Cybersecurity And Cyberwar
The recent Sony hacking scandal just proved what’s already been clear to a lot of people for years: cyberattacks are an ever-increasing threat, and we’re not ready. Luckily, a book released last year provides an excellent primer on this sort of situation: P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman’s Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know.…
