Ok, yeah, it sounds like a drastic title, but it is.
Just in case you are wondering if you are reading a baby stealer’s blog, I’m going to invade my own privacy a bit just to explain how it all went.
There are two things you’ll know about me after this:
Continue reading How to steal a newborn baby and close somebody else’s bank account
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I’ve been a client of a bank for around 2 years. All in all I’m pretty happy, but so far every bank I’ve worked with is falling short on the security side for their home banking systems.
Continue reading What happened when I tried contacting the security team of my bank?
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Primer post bilingüe, con la esperanza que llegue a otras personas en Argentina y los ayude a usar su home banking de manera más segura.
Hace unos 2 años que soy cliente de un banco. En general estoy muy contento, pero hasta ahora todos los bancos por los que he pasado dejan un poco que desear en cuanto a la seguridad de sus sistemas de home banking.
Continue reading ¿Qué paso cuando quise comunicarme con el equipo de seguridad de mi banco?
SciFi movies, meaningless fiction designed to merely entertain us? Or a revenue oriented projection of tin foil hat conspiracy theories?
Those questions above sound like an introduction to a cheesy UFO TV show, but I have honestly asked that to myself lately, so I thought I should give it a try and write those ideas down.
Continue reading Conspiracy, the Media, and our ability to sleep at night
It was a busy week in privacy, we’ve got all the buzzwords lined up: liberation tech, malware, security advisory, cryptocurrency, data leaks, questionable surveillance, man in the middle, mass surveillance and more! Are you going to miss this set of privacy happenings?
I’m a big big fan of out of the box ideas. On the one hand because it’s plain fun, but on the other hand because I think that with the developments of the digital world from the past year or so we need something different, a radical new approach to data distribution.
Keeping a blog updated and working a bit more than full-time and trying to have a life outside of computers has proved to be quite a challenge. Nonetheless things still happen, and if it happened there’s a link for it. So here we are. First things first, let me start this unorthodox set of happenings with the thing that kept me busy the most.
Continue reading Digital Privacy Happenings (July 16 and 22 week)
Welcome to the weekly delivery of links that are highly likely to tag you as an internet extremist by the NSA if you click them!
A branch of the widely known Sony in India made use of this capability last week.
Little news reached my eyes this week, but some quite interesting (and sad) news nonetheless.
This time focusing on elliptic curve cryptography, Microsoft gives us their point of view of how such a library should be done.
Lets talk about Python.
Given its nature, doing secure software in Python is naturally easier and safer. The main thing in favor of it, especially if we compare it to JavaScript, is that its interpreter is most of the times the same (CPython 2.7). While when dealing with JavaScript, each browser is its
own different world.
So, lets get down to business. I’ll follow the same structure as before.
