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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

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The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc.

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

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