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IRS says it will get a warrant before using cell-site simulators

02

Dec

2015

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is drafting a policy to restrict the use without a warrant of cell-site simulator technology to snoop on the location and other information from mobile phones. The head of the IRS, John Koskinen, wrote in a letter that the agency was drafting a policy that would mirror an earlier Department […]

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Tor alleges FBI paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to hack hidden services

13

Nov

2015

The Tor Project is alleging that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) paid Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers $1 million to attack Tor’s hidden services last year. The attack appears to have indiscriminately targeted several users at once and not just those suspected of criminal activity, Tor said in a Nov. 11 post adding there […]

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Apple webcam spyware artist investigated by Secret Service

11

Jul

2011

The US Secret Service has confiscated computer equipment from a Brooklyn artist who installed unauthorised software on computers at two New York Apple stores. 25-year-old Kyle McDonald installed software onto MacBooks and iMacs, that automatically took photographs every minute of Apple customers as they started at the computers they used in the Apple stores. These […]

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