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PacketFence is a fully supported , trusted , Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, powerful guest management options, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices; PacketFence can be used to effectively secure networks small to very large heterogeneous networks. http://www.packetfence.org/home.html

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slight paranoia: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings

Dropbox , the popular cloud based backup service deduplicates the files that its users have stored online. http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-user-privacy-for.html
Today, we are proud to present world’s first tool to facilitate forensic analysis of BlackBerry devices by enabling access to protected data stored on users’ BlackBerries. One of the reasons of BlackBerry high popularity is its ultimate security . http://blog.crackpassword.com/2010/09/smartphone-forensics-cracking-blackberry-backup-passwords/

Smartphone Forensics: Cracking BlackBerry Backup Passwords « Advanced Password Cracking – Insight

from the wow dept This story is almost too crazy to believe. WIPO, the UN agency that more or less acts as the global IP maximalist agenda-setter , is now being accused of defying UN sanctions, by shipping computers and servers to North Korea . http://www.techdirt.com/index.php

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On August 18, 2010, Facebook announced its new location product, Facebook Places.

Facebook Places: Your Friends Are Here, But What About Your Privacy? | ACLUNC dotRights

http://dotrights.org/facebook-places-your-friends-are-here-what-about-your-privacy

Open Source Center - Login

The Open Source Center (OSC) is the US Government's premier provider of foreign open source intelligence. https://www.opensource.gov/public/content/login/login.fcc?TYPE=33554433&REALMOID=06-df999c10-394e-1008-828a-846b34500cb3&GUID=&SMAUTHREASON=0&METHOD=GET&SMAGENTNAME=bluecoatdmz01&TARGET=$SM$https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eopensource%2Egov%2FopensourceDMZ*%2F%3Fcfru%3DaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub3BlbnNvdXJjZS5nb3Yv
http://ai.arizona.edu/research/terror/ Introducing: The Dark Web Forum Portal As part of its Dark Web project, the Artificial Intelligence Lab has for several years collected international jihadist forums.

Dark Web Terrorism Research : Research : Artificial Intelligence Laboratory : Eller College of Management : The University of Arizona

Searching the Searchers with SearchAudit - Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=132007 Search engines not only assist normal users, but also provide information that hackers and other malicious entities can exploit in their nefarious activities.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection

Deep packet inspection - Wikipedia

Uit Wikipedia, de vrije encyclopedie Bij Deep packet inspection (DPI) wordt elektronisch dataverkeer tussen zender en ontvanger inhoudelijk geanalyseerd. Dit gaat verder dan de inspectie van afzender- en ontvangeradres zoals routers dat voor het verder leiden van de gegevens noodzakelijkerwijs moeten doen.
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Google Agonizes on Privacy as Advertising World Vaults Ahead - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413553851854026.html#project%3DWTKGOOGLE%26articleTabs%3Darticle

What They Know - WSJ

Marketers are spying on Internet users -- observing and remembering people's clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal's What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people's computers by the 50 most popular U.S. websites, plus WSJ.com.

Put your pants back on: Chatroulette logging IP addresses, screengrabbing users - Boing Boing

Pantsless videocreeps (and anyone who puts a premium on privacy), beware: Chatroulette founder Andrey Ternovskiy recently announced on the official Chatroulette company blog that they've been logging data about users: Recently I decided to seriously look into issue again, and I've had a breakthrough. Luckily we all live in a real world, and we can easily apply the laws of a real world even on an internet application.

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Phishing is an attempt by an individual or group to solicit personal information from unsuspecting users by employing social engineering techniques.
Aviation officials have questioned the need for such a strong permanent police presence at airports, suggesting they were there simply "to make the government look tough on terror". One senior executive said in his experience, the officers were expensive window-dressing.

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