Daniel Oberhaus reports: The rectums of the world are clenched in fear after Italian infosec researcher Giovanni Mellini revealed just how easy it is to hack a Bluetooth-enabled butt plug in a blog post on Tuesday. The device in question is Hush by Lovense, which is billed by the company [Read More…]
Mark Sherman of AP reports: The Supreme Court is intervening in a digital-age privacy dispute between the Trump administration and Microsoft over emails stored abroad. The justices say Monday they will hear the administration’s appeal of a lower court ruling in favor of Microsoft. The court held the emails sought [Read More…]
Rainey Reitman writes: A key legal linchpin for the National Security Agency’s vast Internet surveillance program is scheduled to disappear in under 90 days. Section 702 of FISA—enacted in 2008 with little public awareness about the scope and power of the NSA’s surveillance of the Internet—supposedly directs the NSA’s powerful [Read More…]
FourthAmendment.com makes us aware of this opinion: An order compelling persons to provide fingerprints to unlock Apple devices doesn’t violation the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment. In re Search Warrant Application for [Name Redacted by the Court], 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 169384 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 18, 2017): The United [Read More…]