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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. Vamosi: So let's first ground ourselves in a common definition of what is and what is not stalkerware. So one of the definitions in that definition of stalkerware.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. But claiming the service is "hack-proof", that's something I definitely have an issue with.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

In the 1950s we started to get early operating systems, and these included supervisory programs that helped manage the data coming in and going back out. And it also goes a little bit further and I've been talking actually to members of Congress about this. So it's because the data you want to look at over long periods of time.