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Dominic White

 

Information Security South Africa (ISSA) 2010

This is a cross-post from my other blogging home at SensePost.

Last week we presented an invited talk at the ISSA conference on the topic of online privacy (embedded below, click through to SlideShare for the original PDF.)

The talk is an introductory overview of Privacy from a Security perspective and was prompted by discussions between security & privacy people along the line of "Isn't Privacy just directed Security? Privacy is to private info what PCI is to card info?" It was further prompted by discussion with Joe the Plumber along the lines of "Privacy is dead!"

The talk, is unfortunately best delivered as a talk, and not as standalone slides, so here's some commentary:


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Tuesday, August 10. 2010
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Scroogle is Dead, Long Live GoogleSharing

Scroogle is no longer working for the second time this year (I archived the announcement at the end of this entry). The author claims Google deliberately killed the simple interface they were using. I've e-mailed to point out that Google Custom search works fine, but relying on Scroogle isn't going to cut it anymore. The obvious solution is to use GoogleSharing. However, not all devices support it due to the requirement of a Firefox plugin; my phone for example. After meeting Moxie I discussed the idea of including a search interface with the GoogleSharing server. The idea would be that <googlesharing server>:<port>/search would provide a plain HTTP interface to search through the server.

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Monday, July 5. 2010
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Avoid Cross-Site Tracking with Stainless.app (and others)

For years I've had a tinfoil dilemma. I know that companies trying to own the internet love dropping cookies, and then using those cookies to track you around the tubes. It started with the advertisers like DoubleClick who would drop their cookie, then rely on their distribution of banner ads. Every time your browser hit a page with one of their banner ads, it would send it's cookie along and help them track you around the internet.

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Monday, May 3. 2010
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Privacy Enhancing Techniques

Ritasha Jethva, our Privacy & Data Protection competency lead added some nice tips to a publicity piece that made it otherwise more useful than it would have been. I'm republishing them here along with some other stuff I've found of late.


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Monday, September 15. 2008
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