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Posted on December 4, 2014

Shhh… Russian Police to Award $37,000 for Gadgets That Could Hack iPhones

Now is that a better chance of winning than Russian roulette?

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Titles Starting With “Shhh…” Are My Short Musings & Commentaries

  • Whistleblowing and Internal Monitoring/Investigations
  • Shhhcretly Exclusive: Edward Snowden’s Warning Cry
  • Shhh… A Corona?!
  • Shhh…. Ghosn Debunks Reports on Escape Route
  • Shhh… A Cyber-Geopolitical Threats 2019 Roundup
  • Shhh… Updates on Edward Snowden & the Snowden Refugees
  • Shhh… The Matrix, With Mozilla
  • Shhh… Fancy Having A Live Flight Tracker?
  • Shhh… 10 Famous Spies
  • Shhh… One Lucky Chinese: Former Military Officer Bags Suspended Death Sentence in Graft Case
  • Shhh… Crafty Hackers Into Insider Trading
  • Shhh… UK's Spies, Lords & Predators
  • Shhh… British MPs to Court: Stop the Police & GCHQ Spying on Them
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks: NSA Spying on Japan
  • Shhh… Duncan Campbell – Global Spying Program ECHELON & the Decades-long Cosy NSA-GCHQ Relationship
  • Shhh… The Chinese Version of All the President's Men
  • Shhh… The Cost of Watching Julian Assange
  • Shhh… Google: No to Global ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Order
  • Shhh… The Intercept: A Summer Reading List
  • Shhh… 10 Secret Facts about the CIA
  • Shhh… Spies Vs Silicon Valley
  • Shhh… Microsoft's Wi-Fi Sense Can Make You the 'Hotspot'
  • Shhh… The Snowden Official Teaser Trailer
  • Shhh… The 5 Most Powerful Families That Secretly Control The World
  • Shhh… US-Canada Border – Secret Deal Between Canada’s Spies and Border Guards
  • Shhh… Impact Team: Cheating Spouses Panic As Adultery Site Ashley Madison Hacked
  • Shhh… Hacked By Your Cyber-security Firm?
  • Shhh… Email Spams Dip First Time in Twelve Years
  • Shhh… The 5 Most Dangerous Hackers Of All Time
  • Shhh… Minds.com: A Social Media Network to Stop NSA Surveillance?
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks: TISA Corporate Takeover Plot
  • Shhh… SPIEGEL: US Attack on Press Freedom
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks: NSA Has Spied on German Chancellors for Decades
  • Shhh… US Government Hacks at OPM Exposed More Than 21Million People
  • Shhh… FBI, DEA & US Army Bought Italian Spyware
  • Shhh… Hacking Team: When Hackers Get Hacked
  • Shhh… Russian Parliament Paved Way for "Right to be Forgotten"
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks: NSA’s Been Bugging Top Brazilian Political and Financial Targets
  • Shhh… XKEYSCORE – The NSA Insight Into Everything We Do Online
  • Shhh… China Passes New National Security Law
  • Shhh… What Message is the US Sending to France with Bulk Data Collection to Resume Following WikiLeaks' Espionnage Élysée Expose?
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks: US Also Had a Decade-long Policy of Economic Espionage Against French Companies
  • Shhh… US Data Hack May Be 4 Times Larger Than the Government Has Admitted
  • Shhh… French Asylum Offer to Snowden & Assange as Ultimate US Contempt
  • Shhh… French Former Foreign Minister Roland Dumas: Shocked But Not Surprised With NSA Eavesdrops on French Presidents
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks' "Espionnage Élysée" – François Hollande on Emergency Meeting Following Claims US Spied on 3 French Presidents
  • Shhh… Google Chrome Secretly Downloading Audio Listeners & Eavesdropping on Users Without Consent
  • Shhh… China Changing Course on Foreign Policy?
  • Shhh… Italian Prosecutors Seek to Indict 297 People in Bank of China (Milan) Fraud
  • Shhh… Top 10 Sites Hidden by Google Earth
  • Shhh… Snowden Supports Apple’s Public Stance On Privacy
  • Shhh… French Ultimatum Clicking on Google Over "Right to be Forgotten" Ruling
  • Shhh… 2 Years Post-Snowden Review
  • Shhh… Conspiracy Theories on Latest Snowden Claims?
  • Shhh… From NSA to Police Surveillance
  • Shhh… Hackers Target Database of Chinese with Ties to US Government
  • Shhh… William Binney: Everyone Under Surveillance
  • Shhh… 10 Ways the NSA Spies On US
  • Shhh… Latest Cyberattacks on US Government a Hoax – To Restore NSA Surveillance?
  • Shhh… Snowden Documents: NSA Secretly Expands Cybersurveillance
  • Shhh… FBI Operate Surveillance Planes – With Fictitious Names and Video & Cellphone Technologies
  • Shhh… Live Q&A with Snowden
  • Shhh… US Senate Approves Bill to Reshape NSA Surveillance
  • Shhh… What About Snowden Now with NSA Surveillance on Hold?
  • Shhh… NSA Surveillance on Hold as Senate Blocks Temporary Extensions
  • Shhh… Everything Google – Key Announcements at the Google 2015 I/O Developer Conference
  • Shhh… Fancy Revenge by Stalking Your Identity Thief?
  • Shhh… William Binney on NSA's "Dark Secrets"
  • Shhh… The Internet of Things – Google's New Patent for a Creepy Wi-fi Connected Toy
  • Shhh… USA Freedom Act Fails Again – Senators Reject Bill to Scrap NSA Bulk Collection
  • Shhh… Rand Paul's 10-Hour Filibuster to Derail the Winding Down of NSA Surveillance
  • Shhh… Fraudulent Practices at Fake Cancer Charities
  • Shhh… US Charges 6 Chinese Nationals for Industrial Espionage
  • Shhh… Bruce Schneier on How We Sold Our Souls & Privacy to Internet Giants
  • Shhh… Brett King on FinTech & the Death of the Retail Banking Branches
  • Shhh… US Congress on Track to End NSA's Bulk Phone Collection Program?
  • Shhh… Jack Barsky – The Spy Among US
  • Shhh… Former CIA Officer Sentenced for Leaks to NYT Reporter
  • Shhh… Spy Game: The Thais, the Israelis & the Wiretapping Devices
  • Shhh… NSA Rats Exposed – The "Facebook-NSA Queen" & Mysterious Death of Dave Goldberg
  • Shhh… Court Rules NSA's Phone Data Collection Illegal
  • Shhh… NSA Have More Data Than They Can Handle
  • Shhh… North Korea Exposes Two South Korean Spies
  • Shhh… Profile: Michael G. Vickers, the Retiring Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
  • Shhh… AirBus Plans Legal Actions Against NSA/BND Spying Claims – NSA Involved in Industrial Espionage
  • Shhh… NSA Too Late With "Snowden-Proof" Cloud Storage
  • Shhh… Julian Assange: Snowden Better Off in Russia Than Iceland
  • Shhh… Obama Now Understands (Loss of) Privacy Pains?
  • Shhh… Mangfall Kaserne in Bad Aibling – Surveillance-Proof Site for German Intelligence BND to Cooperate with the NSA
  • Shhh… Anonymous: CyberSecurity Bill's a Scam
  • Shhh… The Protecting Cyber Networks Act Gets Greenlight from Congress
  • Shhh… The Perils of Popular News Sites
  • Shhh… New Google Security Chief – In Search of Balance with Privacy
  • Shhh… New Zealand & US Plotted to Spy on China
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks' Latest Stunt: The Sony Archives
  • Shhh… FaceBook Blames "Bug"
  • Shhh… Google's EU Antitrust Troubles Explained
  • Shhh… Spy On Spies – A New Breed of Spies
  • Shhh… China's Powerful "Great Cannon" to Censor the Internet
  • Shhh… Shutting Down Network of 12,000 Computers Used by Cyber-criminals
  • Shhh… Data Breach – What Happens to those Data?
  • Shhh… Turning the White House into a Russian House?
  • Shhh… Edward Snowden on John Oliver's ‘Last Week Tonight’
  • Shhh… Emails Reveal Cozy Google-NSA Relationship on Previously Denied High-Level Policy Discussions
  • Shhh… Google Did the Right Thing to Cut Off China's Certificate Authority CNNIC to Protect the Internet
  • Shhh… Did Obama Know What He's Doing When He Signed the new Executive Order on Cybercrimes?
  • Shhh… Facebook Violates EU Law as it Tracks Everyone Including Logged Out Users and Visitors
  • Shhh… Richard Stallman: Why Facebook is Mass Surveillance
  • Shhh… Why You Should Forget Facebook for Good?
  • Shhh… The "Secret" App – Parents Should Beware How Kids Are Keeping & Sharing Secrets Through Anonymous Posts that Aren't Really Anonymous
  • Shhh… The Why's, How's and What's of Hacks into Health Insurance Companies Like Anthem and Premera
  • Shhh… The USB-C Makes those new MacBooks More Vulnerable
  • Shhh… Apple Still Wants to Find You Even When Location Services are Switched Off
  • Shhh… Anatomy of a Hack – What Should You Do After You're Hacked?
  • Shhh… Windows 10 – "Windows Hello" Biometric Authentication Technology has Potential Serious Security Loopholes
  • Shhh… Department of the Internet: How the Government Has Taken Over Our Lives
  • Shhh… Snowden's Privacy Apps and Programs
  • Shhh… Live Recording: Microsoft Phone Support Scam at Work
  • Shhh… Hidden Spy Cameras at Denver Post Offices
  • Shhh… Bruce Schneier on His New Book "Data and Goliath"
  • Shhh… What Can You Do If Airport Checkpoints Demand for Your Smartphone Password?
  • Shhh… Fujitsu Can Detect Faces in Blurred Security Videos
  • Shhh… ProtonMail: Email Privacy and Encryption
  • Shhh… How Come Obama Suddenly Understood & Explained to China Why Backdoors into Encryption is Really Bad?
  • Shhh… How to Make Yourself Invisible to Facial Recognition with the New "Privacy Glasses"?
  • Shhh… US Pressures Forced PayPal to Punish Mega (& MegaChat) for Encrypted Communications & Keeping Our Privacy
  • Shhh… NSA Demands on Crypto Backdoors Led to US-China Spat on Backdoors & Encryption
  • How to Cope With File-Encrypting Ransomware Risks (After US Offer $3mn Award for GameOver Zeus creator Evgeniy Bogachev)?
  • Shhh… NSA Want Framework to Access Encrypted Communications
  • Shhh… Security Experts Not Convinced By Gemalto's Swift "Thorough" Investigations into NSA-GCHQ SIM Card Hacks
  • Shhh… Out of Africa: Spies & Leaked Intelligence from the New "El Dorado of Espionage"
  • Shhh… Snowden's Girlfriend at the Oscars for CitizenFour
  • Shhh… Doll Hack? New Wi-fi Connected "Hello Barbie" Risks Inviting Pedophiles Into the Barbie World
  • Shhh… Solutions to NSA & GCHQ Hacks into SIM Cards to Eavesdrop on Mobile Phones Worldwide?
  • Shhh… Pre-installed Superfish Malware Leaves Lenovo Computers Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
  • Shhh… Simple Solutions to NSA's Embedded Spyware in Hard Drives
  • Shhh… Snowden at the ALCU Hawaii’s Davis Levin First Amendment Conference
  • Obama's Still On the Wrong Frequency On Cybersecurity Issues
  • Shhh… New Search Engine Memex to Reach the Other 95% of the Web (And Dark Web) that Google Missed
  • Shhh… China to Boost Cyber-Security with the World's First Quantum Communications Network – QC Satellite to Follow Next Year
  • Shhh… Spy Alert: Your Smart TV Watches You – Just Like Your Computer
  • Edward Snowden & Hervé Falciani Knew Each Other Before Their Respective Exposé?
  • The Flawed "Right To Be Forgotten" Ruling on Google Cannot and Should Not be Globalized
  • Shhh… Martin Jacques on Understanding the Rise of China
  • Shhh… US in Long Battle As China Request Source Code From Western Technology Companies
  • US-China Spat on Intrusive Rules – And Actual Intrusions
  • From Apple With Love – Granting Chinese Security Audits Leaves More Deep & Profound Implications Than Betrayal of Apple Die-Hards
  • Shhh… Why (Obama & Cameron) the NSA is Breaking Our Encryption and Why We Should Care
  • Shhh… Obama & Cameron: Here’s How Low-Tech Encrypted Communications Work – With Just a Pen & Paper – Which You Can’t Decrypt
  • Shhh… How to Register for Kim Dotcom's End-to-End Encrypted Voice Calling Service "MegaChat"
  • Shhh… China's Block to VPN Services Has Global Impacts
  • Shhh… Snowden: iPhone has Secret Surveillance Spyware that Can Be Remotely Controlled
  • Obama: Why is Your Blackberry Super-Encrypted & You Want to Ban the World from Using Encryption?
  • Shhh… Blackberry to Cameron & Obama: Encryption Ban a Gift to Hackers & Cyber-Criminals
  • Shhh… Obama to Support Cameron on Encryption Ban – Knowingly Betray Our Privacy and Security
  • Shhh… Mark Cuban on Social Media Mistakes and Self-Destruct Messaging Apps Cyber Dust
  • Shhh… List of 3,500 Spy Names sold by German Double Agent
  • Shhh… Paris Attacks: Dangerous Precedence & Irreversible Damages with Cameron's Pursuit of “Safe Spaces” & Ban on Encrypted Online Messaging Apps
  • Shhh… CENTCOM Hack: Snowden on Why US Pay the Price for Deprioritizing Cyber Defense
  • Shhh… CENTCOM Hack More Than Just Twitter Feed & YouTube Channel
  • Shhh… Online Privacy: How to Track & Manage Our Digital Shadow
  • Shhh… Facial Recognition & Risks: FBI to Photograph All Americans
  • Shhh… Facial Recognition & Risks: Encoding Your Photos with Photoscrambler
  • Shhh… Facial Recognition & Risks: How Much Is Your Face Worth?
  • Shhh… Get a New Home Router – 12 Millions Vulnerable to "Misfortune Cookie" Hacks
  • New US Sanctions on North Korea – Comparing Sony & the World’s Biggest Data Breaches
  • The Rafael Hui Case Amplifies Flaws in Hong Kong's Background Checks & Vetting System
  • Shhh… The WikiLeaks' CIA Travel Guide
  • Shhh… A Feasible Strategy Despite Severe Innate Phone Security (Eavesdropping) Flaws Like SS7
  • Are You Unique – How to Check Your Browser Fingerprints & Online Privacy?
  • Shhh… US Federal Court: Warrantless Surveillance Footage in Public Areas is an Invasion of Privacy
  • Shhh… The FBI Unmasking of TOR Users with Metasploit
  • One Question on the Sydney Siege: Why didn't the Snipers Shoot Earlier?
  • Shhh… Dick Cheney on "Full of Crap" Torture Report
  • Shhh… John Brennan on the Torture Report
  • Shhh… Michael Hayden on the Senate’s CIA Interrogation Report
  • The US Senate Intelligence Committee & CIA Interrogation Report – A Closer Look at the Tortures at Guantanamo Bay
  • Life-Saving Gadgets like Bulletproof Bags and Shields for Schools & the Workplace
  • Shhh… New Surveillance Gadget – GPS Shoes for Kids
  • Shhh… 10 Surveillance Technologies to Watch
  • Shhh… Russian Police to Award $37,000 for Gadgets That Could Hack iPhones
  • Shhh… DOJ Uses 18th Century Law to Make Apple Unlock Encrypted iPhones
  • Shhh… USB Thumb Drives Everywhere
  • Shhh… Glenn Greenwald with James Risen on "Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War"
  • Shhh… How to Prevent Someone from Knowing When You've Seen Apps Messages
  • Shhh… Views on the "Don't Spy On US" Campaign
  • Shhh… The West Wing on Privacy Issues Today – Back in 1999
  • Shhh… How to Contact US Senators Who Block NSA Surveillance Bill & Disregard Our Privacy
  • Shhh… Assange to Appeal Swedish Court Decision After Ecuador Guarantees Indefinite Asylum
  • Shhh… Lawsuit After Proof of British Police Spying on Reporters for Years
  • Shhh… Putin Put Russian Spies on the Spree
  • Shhh… The Puppet Master Putin & Russia’s Escalating Spy Operations
  • Shhh… US Senate Vote Falls Short of Curbing NSA Surveillance
  • Shhh… We Can Now Hear & See Wi-fi?
  • Shhh… WikiLeaks' Cousin AfriLeaks – A New Anonymous Whistleblowing & Open Data Platform for Africa
  • Shhh… Rethinking Snowden – A "Limited Hangout" CIA Operation?
  • Shhh… A Personal Gadget to Block Wireless Surveillance Devices Like Drones & Google Glass
  • Shhh… "Quiet Zone" for the perfect holiday?
  • Shhh… Hotel Cyber Blues
  • Shhh… List of Celebrities & Intellectuals in Support of Snowden

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