---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <5480EA8B-AE4C-4680-A1AD-061C332FC4EE@roscom.com> Date: 28 Jun 2019 12:06:10 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Firefox Will Give You a Fake Browsing History to Fool Advertisers Firefox Will Give You a Fake Browsing History to Fool Advertisers Using the 'Track THIS' tool opens up 100 tabs at a time that will make you seem like a hypebeast, a filthy rich person, a doomsday prepper, or an influencer. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43j8qm/firefox-will-give-you-a-fake-browsing-history-to-fool-advertisers ***** Moderator's Note ***** The "Track THIS' tool isn't an app: it's a website with lots of pop-up links. You don't have to use Firefox, but you'll have to allow pop-ups. This is, of course, the next round of an unending arms race: if we can't stay below their radar, at least we can make lots of phantom blips appear on it. I picked "Doomsday Prepper," and we'll see how far down the rabbit hole it gets me. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <5B440116-3297-4239-997E-71BE497A6831@roscom.com> Date: 30 Jun 2019 09:07:46 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: The Worm That Nearly Ate the Internet It infected 10 million computers. So why did cybergeddon never arrive? By Mark Bowden Just over 10 years ago, a unique strain of malware blitzed the internet so rapidly that it shocked cybersecurity experts worldwide. Known as Conficker, it was and remains the most persistent computer worm ever seen, linking computers with Microsoft operating systems globally, millions of them, to create a vast illicit botnet, in effect, a black-market supercomputer. That much power controlled by its unknown maker posed an existential threat not just to any enterprise connected to the web, but to the internet itself. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opinion/sunday/conficker-worm-ukraine.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <B7FF9CAD-0F72-4A7E-BC86-99F087DC4631@roscom.com> Date: 30 Jun 2019 09:10:29 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: U.S. May Outlaw Messaging Encryption Used By WhatsApp, iMessage And Others, Report By Zak Doffman End-to-end encrypted messaging is a major issue for law enforcement - as the world shifts from easy to crack (for governments) cellular SMS messaging to various flavors of IP messaging, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal and Wickr, governments are exploring their options. The challenge is that such services are provided by technology companies, mostly based in the U.S., making them to a large extent out of reach from lawmakers elsewhere. The messaging services run "over the top," meaning they are not tied directly to the provider of the network or the phone. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/29/u-s-may-outlaw-uncrackable-end-to-end-encrypted-messaging-report-claims/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 01 Jul 2019