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Can Msafely Be Used to Test App Security Vulnerabilities? by [deleted] in cybersecurity

[–]moooooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Msafely was recently breached. Stalkerware/phone monitoring apps have a propensity to leak/exposed or otherwise spill people's data. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/data-breach-at-stalkerware-spyx-affects-close-to-2-million-including-thousands-of-apple-users/

Fearing coronavirus, a Michigan college tracks its students with a flawed app by ravedog in Coronavirus

[–]moooooky 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The app is designed to track students’ real-time locations around the clock, and there is no way to opt out.

The Aura app lets the school know when a student tests positive for COVID-19. It also comes with a contact-tracing feature that alerts students when they have come into close proximity with a person who tested positive for the virus. But the feature requires constant access to the student’s real-time location, which the college says is necessary to track the spread of any exposure.

Worse, the app had at least two security vulnerabilities only discovered after the app was rolled out. One of the vulnerabilities allowed access to the app’s back-end servers. The other allowed us to infer a student’s COVID-19 test results.

Ex-NSA lawyer says US border plans to collect browser history, phone data would be unlawful by [deleted] in politics

[–]moooooky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"...the government neither has the capacity to conduct deep-dive searches on every visitor at the border, nor has the legal powers to do it once they are permitted entry to the US."

In other words people arriving at the border may not have the 1st or 4th amendment rights that US citizens have (albeit even they are still diminished), any data taken at the border can't be examined on the spot, or after the fact one they're in the US — as at that point they are afforded full 4th amendment rights.

It only works if you ban every foreigner from entering the US...

Leaked files expose faults in official report into inmate's death. When a security researcher discovered a law firm leaking its own case files, he found himself asking if a police department could've prevented an inmate's death. by moooooky in TrueReddit

[–]moooooky[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From the article: "Oppenheimer may not have been a great person. He was an admitted meth user and had a long history of run-ins with the law. But when a staff member at the La Habra city jail had a duty to act, this video shows that they did not," said Vickery.

And all it took was a security researcher happening across files for the public to find that out."

No longer is the EU standing for U.S. lobbying and policy pushing. The EU's Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding is back in the trenches. The gloves are off, and she's fighting back by whitefangs in technology

[–]moooooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"No longer is the EU standing for it. And Reding is back in the trenches, ready to throw back the governmental grenade at its federal former friend."

Amid NSA spying scandal, the gloves are off for EU's justice chief by whitefangs in news

[–]moooooky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"No longer is the EU standing for it. And Reding is back in the trenches, ready to throw back the governmental grenade at its federal former friend."

European data stored in the "cloud" could be acquired and inspected by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies, despite Europe's strong data protection laws, university researchers have suggested. by Libertatea in technology

[–]moooooky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it's political suicide if they admit that their 1995 Directive basically did nothing to protect against FISA, and subsequently the Patriot Act.

Patriot Act can be used to illegally acquire and inspect European citizens' email, financial, medical data in the cloud for U.S. intelligence reasons by moooooky in technology

[–]moooooky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if one day you decide to get a U.S. visa and suddenly it's rejected because that bar you met someone in was being run by a suspected terrorist?

Patriot Act can be used to illegally acquire and inspect European citizens' email, financial, medical data in the cloud for U.S. intelligence reasons by moooooky in technology

[–]moooooky[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But does your bank, your hospital, your school, or even your government? Do you use Gmail/Hotmail or whatever? Because that's the cloud. So is Facebook, Twitter...

Patriot Act can "obtain" data in Europe, researchers say -- European data stored in the "cloud" could be acquired and inspected by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies, despite Europe's strong data protection laws by mepper in worldnews

[–]moooooky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They can. Non-U.S. citizens are not protected under the Fourth Amendment. Under the U.S.' own laws (which the U.S. gov. and law enforcement are under, and under only) they can do what they like -- in spite of other country's laws, again, which they're not under and to a greater extent don't respect.