[ PFIR ] YouTube removes influential conservative website's channel

2017-01-13 Thread PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List
YouTube removes influential conservative website's channel http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/01/13/youtube-removes-influential-conservative-websites-channel.html The YouTube channel of influential conservative politics and law website Legal Insurrection has been removed by the

[ PFIR ] Site shows when buildings in L.A. were built

2017-01-13 Thread PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List
Site shows when buildings in L.A. were built This is a pretty cool site. It appears to show when pretty much any building here in the County of L.A. was constructed. My spot checks of some known sites were correct. http://cityhubla.github.io/LA_Building_Age --Lauren-- REPORT Fake News Here! -

[ PFIR ] British ex-spy behind Trump dossier seen as a cool operator

2017-01-13 Thread PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List
British ex-spy behind Trump dossier seen as a cool operator http://m.startribune.com/british-ex-spy-behind-trump-dossier-seen-as-a-cool-operator/410660015/?section=world Christopher Steele, the one-time British spy who has compiled an explosive dossier on President-elect Donald

[ PFIR ] Israel Advances New 'Facebook Bill', Threatening Free Speech

2017-01-13 Thread PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List
Israel Advances New 'Facebook Bill', Threatening Free Speech https://globalvoices.org/2017/01/13/israel-advances-new-facebook-bill-threatening-free-speech/ The Israeli Knesset passed last week a first reading of a controversial new bill that would allow Israeli courts to

[ PFIR ] Wide Impact: Highly Effective Gmail Phishing Technique Being Exploited

2017-01-13 Thread PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List
Wide Impact: Highly Effective Gmail Phishing Technique Being Exploited https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/01/gmail-phishing-data-uri/ A new highly effective phishing technique targeting Gmail and other services has been gaining popularity during the past year among

[ PFIR ] Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview

2017-01-13 Thread PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List
Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview https://cloud.google.com/security/security-design/ Google has a global scale technical infrastructure designed to provide security through the entire information processing lifecycle at Google. This infrastructure provides

[ PFIR ] Critics attacked, history revised as China nationalism rises

2017-01-13 Thread PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List
Critics attacked, history revised as China nationalism rises https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/critics-attacked-history-revised-as-china-nationalism-rises/2017/01/13/6eff15a2-d9f9-11e6-a0e6-d502d6751bc8_story.html Across China, a retrograde strain of populist nationalism

[ PFIR ] WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages

2017-01-13 Thread PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List
WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other A security backdoor that can be used to allow Facebook and others to intercept and read

[ PFIR ] Breaking: AP Source: Trump aide in frequent contact with Russia envoy

2017-01-13 Thread PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List
Breaking: AP Source: Trump aide in frequent contact with Russia envoy http://www.news965.com/ap/ap/political/ap-source-trump-aide-in-frequent-contact-with-russ/ntYHs/ The official says the contacts happened on the day President Barack Obama expelled dozens of Russian officials