Alistair Croll

#Eurosphere “Europe’s top court says UK surveillance rules are unconstitutional…

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Europe’s top court says UK surveillance rules are unconstitutional Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow   Last July, the European Court of Jutice’s Advocate General ruled that the UK’s mass surveillance regime was unconstitutional, triggering an appeal to the ECJ itself, which has affirmed that under European law, governments cannot order retention of all communications data; they … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: It took 40 minutes to be hacked for Unsecured Internet of Things gadgets…

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Unsecured Internet of Things gadgets get hacked within 40 minutes of being connected to the net Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The Atlantic’s Andrew McGill set up a virtual server on Amazon’s cloud that presented to the internet as a crappy, insecure Internet of Things toaster; 41 minutes later, a hacked IoT device connected to it … Read more