March 2017 - Unencrypted

What are cookies?

28 Mar , 2017 , 12:05 Linus Nyman

Poor Leonard has a hard life – he forgets things. And by things I mean absolutely everything. Leonard has something called anterograde amnesia, which means that he is incapable of creating new memories. The good news for Leonard is that […]

Internet of Things (IoT),Privacy,Vulnerabilities

The Internet of (Spying) Things – adult edition

18 Mar , 2017 , 16:57 Linus Nyman

Last week I wrote about Internet-enabled toys (for kids) that ended up having serious vulnerabilities (the toys, not the kids). Internet of Things, or IoT, toys have been in the news again recently, but this time the spotlight was on […]

Data breach,Internet of Things (IoT),Privacy,Security,Vulnerabilities

Internet-enabled toys: vulnerabilities expose children’s data

14 Mar , 2017 , 12:31 Linus Nyman

Germany recently banned the doll ”Cayla.” It was considered a privacy risk, with one of the goals of the ban being to “protect the most vulnerable in our society”. What’s all this about, then? Cayla is a smart doll, in […]

CloudPets, haveibeenpwned, Hello Barbie, VTech

Encryption,Security,Useful add-ons

Useful browser add-ons, part 2: HTTPS Everywhere

4 Mar , 2017 , 12:04 Linus Nyman

Communication requires a common language, in our case English. For your browser to be able to show you this blog, your browser and the computer this blog is stored on also need a common language. That language is called HTTP […]

Electronic Frontier Foundation, HTTPS Everywhere, Tor Project