Until a week ago, WikiLeaks was a little known website that released information given to them by whistle-blowers in governments and corporations worldwide. With five full-time volunteers, WikiLeaks operated mostly on donations and relied on, according to a spokesperson for their site, around 800-1000 experts for “encryption, programming, and writing news releases.” (NYT) Several governments, [...]
It’s a known fact that Google collects, analyzes, and logs all of your Internet traffic and data that passes through them for advertising purposes. As GoogleSharing creator Moxie Marlinspike said: “Google thrives where privacy does not…If you’re like most Internet users, Google knows more about you than you might be comfortable with.” (via The Register). [...]
If you’ve been following the Google Hack by China at all you’ll know that the zero-day vulnerability codenamed Aurora (watch it in action on Praetorian Prefect) in Microsoft’s popular Internet Explorer web browser was the cause of the security breaches. After that information was brought out first Germany and now France has advised its citizens [...]