Tor Browser is a privacy-focused web browser that routes traffic through the Tor network to obscure a user’s identity and destination—and that design has direct implications for Linux security teams. It’s built to limit tracking, resist surveillance,...
A Web site that searches for audio and video files also can be used to access unsecured multimedia files on some personal computers. The search engine of Scour Inc. of Beverly Hills not only looks through public sections of the . . .
Members of the Internet Advertising Bureau met Wednesday for a privacy forum where a quartet of industry players fired a warning shot at Web companies. The message: People are worried, politicians are aware of it, and laws are coming. So, be . . .
Internet-service providers and privacy advocates are concerned about the implications of a new electronic surveillance system devised by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with some providers vowing to resist if they are asked to install it on their networks. . . .
The FBI's newest e-mail surveillance tool is simply a logical extension of its existing wiretapping technology and does not pose any new privacy threat to rank-and-file Internet users, the FBI contended today in response to a critical news report about its . . .
"There's no clear law that authorizes Carnivore," said ACLU associate director Barry Steinhardt. "But the FBI and the Justice Department ... will argue that there's no clear law that prohibits it. And Congress needs to put some real limits on what . . .