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GoogleLocationHistory: Track Your Location History
GoogleLocationHistory is a latest app for the GoogleLatitude that allows you to track your location history and view your past locations on Google Maps or Google Earth. It tells you about your most frequent locations, trips you have made and even alert you when you are at a new place and a friend is nearby.
All the information is private [Unless someone with a warrant asks politely Bob] and can be deleted [But no one will (except the guilty!) Bob] using the history management feature. The app works on Mobile phones with GoogleLatitude as well as your iGoogle page. So if you ever wish to see where you were on a certain day, the app is gonna wonders for you. It is also a great way to make sure your account hasn’t been compromised by quickly glancing at all the locations and making sure there is no strange entry.
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How To Trace a Mobile Phone Location with Google Latitude
“It's for the children!” (“We'd also like the right to shoot jaywalkers on sight – it reduced recidivism.”)
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Police push to continue warrantless cell tracking
June 26, 2010 by Dissent
Declan McCullagh reports:
A law requiring police to obtain a search warrant before tracking Americans’ cell phones may imperil criminal investigations and endanger children’s lives, a law enforcement representative told Congress this week.
Obtaining a search warrant when monitoring the whereabouts of someone “who may be attempting to victimize a child over the Internet will have a significant slowing effect on the processing of child exploitation leads,” said Richard Littlehale of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. “If that is acceptable, so be it, but it is a downstream affect that must be considered.”
Littlehale’s remarks to a House of Representatives subcommittee come as an industry group called the Digital Due Process coalition is prodding politicians to update a mid-1980s federal law by inserting more privacy protections. The group includes Google, Microsoft, eBay, AT&T, the ACLU, and Americans for Tax Reform.
Read more on cnet.
Oh look! Now you can be cool, like the FCC! What is the political message here? Did one of the telecom giants threaten to withhold campaign contributions?
FCC Endorses Skype, Tweets That People Should Use It
Skype continues to get lots of love from random sources. Last week Google was dropping Skype into translations about free calling, although they later said it was an error.
But there’s no question about this endorsement of Skype by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. They suggest people use VoIP providers like Skype when traveling to avoid heavy mobile fees: “Use VoIP, like @skype, to avoid excess international charges on your cell phone bill. For more http://bit.ly/bDXABN #FCCworldtravel”
In the linked blog post the FCC also spreads the love around a little, adding links to Fring and Truephone.
For my Computer Security students. Interesting. Does this accurately report the FBI technique for “breaking” encryption? If so, it may explain how the consistently crack encrypted communications reported in the annual wiretap report, but suggests more about dumb criminals than sophisticated encryption.
FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives
Posted by kdawson on Saturday June 26, @02:37PM
benoliver writes to let us know that the FBI has failed to decrypt files of a Brazilian banker accused of financial crimes by Brazilian law enforcement, after a year of attempts. Five hard drives were seized by federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas, in Rio de Janeiro, during Operation Satyagraha in July 2008. (The link is to a Google translation of the original article in Portuguese.) The article in English mentions two encryption programs, one Truecrypt and the other unnamed. 256-bit AES was used, and apparently both the Brazilian police and the FBI tried dictionary attacks against it. No Brazilian law exists to force Dantas to produce the password(s).
(Related) ICQ is the biggest instant messaging service in Russia, makes sense that someone there would see it as valuable. AOL owns ICQ and apparently does not see them as valuable.
US Fears Loss of ICQ Honeypot
Posted by kdawson on Saturday June 26, @10:55PM
"US law enforcement bodies view the sale of instant messaging service ICQ to a Russian company as a threat to homeland security. In spring 2010, Russia's largest Internet investment company, Digital Sky Technologies, agreed to purchase the service for $187 million from AOL. The US is sure that most criminals use ICQ and, therefore, constant access to the ICQ servers is needed to track them down. As the system is based in Israel, American security service have had access. The article concludes, 'Lawyers [of unspecified nationality] say that to block the deal the US Committee on Foreign Investment needed to cancel it no later than within 30 days after the deal has been announced — so unless the rules are broken, nothing can be changed.'"
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