SCOOP: ICE's Homeland Security Investigation signed a $3 million contract with Magnet Forensics, which makes phone hacking tech for law enforcement agencies that is "essential to mission of protecting national security & public." Magnet Forensics makes the phone unlocking system Graykey. We also found other recent contracts for the same technology for HSI in Charlotte and Detroit.
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ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech | TechCrunch
Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement arm of ICE, adds phone-unlocking tech made by Magnet Forensics to its arsenal of technology u...
Everyone has their own threat models, so I don't want to make broad, sweeping recommendations here, but if you use Protonmail to talk to sources, you should read this story. The way Protonmail handled this whole thing is quite bad. No transparency, dismissing the story as being "blown out of proportion."
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Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency
The journalists were reporting on suspected North Korean hackers. Proton only reinstated their accounts after a public outcry.
NEW: The two Harvard students who doxed random people with Meta Ray-Ban glasses are launching "always-on" AI-powered smart glasses that listen, record, and transcribe, everything happening around them. The glasses don't have an indicator that shows people around them that they are being recorded. [@evacide](
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 ) is not a fan: "Normalizing the use of an always-on recording device, which in many circumstances would require the user to get the consent of everyone within recording distance, eats away at the expectation of privacy we have for our conversations in all kinds of spaces.”
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Harvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch
After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a st...