investigators | business fraud | criminal defensePrivacy and NSA's three hop query
Aug.12.2013
President Obama continues to talk reform after pervasive and ongoing criticism of the bulk surveillance of U.S. citizens revealed by Edward Snowden. One of the more interesting points is the creation of a public advocate who would defend a citizens’s right to privacy in the court. Yet the administration’s defense of the current system, where supposedly limited information is seized--the widely discussed “three hop query”--ignores a basic tenet of investigative research: data trees allow the identification of millions of people in a 2-3 hop query.
Facebook leaked data all over internet--including non-users
Apr.12.2013
Security researchers who revealed Facebook's shadow profiles vulnerability are claiming that Facebook leaked massive amounts of data, including private phone numbers and other personal data--despite what Facebook told its users.
Facebook had announced the fix of a bug that inadvertently exposed the private information of over six million Facebook users. In addition, Facebook apparently is collected non-user phone numbers and email addresses and then matched the data to people. Here is the technical explanation of how data gets merged over several sets of databases, and unique links are discovered.
Knowing the information industry, I expect that this data will be for sale very shortly.
Facebook had announced the fix of a bug that inadvertently exposed the private information of over six million Facebook users. In addition, Facebook apparently is collected non-user phone numbers and email addresses and then matched the data to people. Here is the technical explanation of how data gets merged over several sets of databases, and unique links are discovered.
Knowing the information industry, I expect that this data will be for sale very shortly.