Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

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. India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

In the article Facebook: upload your nudes to stop revenge porn , written by Lisa Vaas on the aptly named site Naked Security (what else?), A hash of your most intimate picture is no more revealing than this example provided in the article: 48008908c31b9c8f8ba6bf2a4a283f29c15309b1. It may not be crazy as it sounds.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. Operational Security is typically a military process. It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. Don't do that.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. Similar initiatives were undertaken in Australia, India and Japan, all with the intent to roll these devices out within a relatively short amount of time. But we all know how security by obscurity works in the end.

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