Apple makes it hard to check if iPhones were stolen
Seems like Apple has removed the Activation Lock tool that allows users to check whether a phone is Activation Locked from iCloud.com. The tool allowed to check the serial [...]
Communication
Half of Americans think their cybersecurity is worse than 5 years ago
Just under half of Americans — 49 percent — think their personal information is less secure than it was five years ago, according to a new report from the Pew Research [...]
Court ruling stands: US has no right to seize data from world’s servers
An evenly split federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that it won’t revisit its July decision that allowed Microsoft to squash a US court warrant for e-mail stored on its [...]
Facial recognition will replace passports in Australia
Australia has started implementing biometric facial, iris and fingerprint recognition in airports, allowing passengers to go through without showing a passport or even [...]
Do you want anonymous or recorded talks and searches?
I’m asking you because you can have both of them untracked and unrecorded! If you thought, that it’s harder to escape from Google’s and Bing’s and Yahoo’s prying [...]
Act now: the 4 most unhealthy tech-trends of today
In our minds the future is either a bright cosy place full of sunshine or an oppressive regime of mad dictators with an army equipped with cutting edge technology all lined [...]
Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger. UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks [...]
10 SciFi movie predictions came true
Hollywood’s always predicting our futures technologies in such bulky way, that it’s a miracle they don’t predict everything we have today. Dozens of movies [...]
China to crack down on censor-busting services
The nation’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has announced plans to “clean up” unauthorised internet connections. The 14-month campaign will [...]
How artificial intelligence can be corrupted to repress free speech
The internet was supposed to become an overwhelming democratizing force against illiberal administrations. It didn’t. It was supposed to open repressed citizens’ [...]
The Cyber-Secret Futurist 