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EFF Asks Ninth Circuit Appeals Court To Strengthen Privacy Protections Of Smart Phones At The Border Warrantless Border Searches of Phones, Laptops, Are Unconstitutional San Diego, California—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to require federal agents to obtain a warrant before conducting highly intrusive searches of electronic devices at the border by requiring federal agents to obtain a warrant if they want to access the contents of travelers’ phones. “The Ninth Circuit four years ago issued an important ruling requiring officials to show they have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to forensically search digital devices. While that was an improvement over the government’s prior practice of conducting suspicionless searches, the court didn’t go far enough,” said EFF Staff Attorney Sophia Cope. “We are now asking the Ninth Circuit to bar warrantless device searches at the border.” “Our electronic devices contain...

Dark Caracal: Good News and Bad News Yesterday, EFF and Lookout announced a new report, Dark Caracal , that uncovers a new, global malware espionage campaign. One aspect of that campaign was the use of malicious, fake apps to impersonate legitimate popular apps like Signal and WhatsApp. Some readers had questions about what this means for them. This blog post is here to answer those questions and dive further into the Dark Caracal report. First, the good news: Dark Caracal does not mean that Signal or WhatsApp themselves are compromised in any way. It only means that attackers found new, insidious ways to create and distribute fake Android versions of them. (iOS is not affected.) If you downloaded your apps from Google’s official app store, Google Play, then you are almost certainly in the clear. The threat uncovered in the Dark Caracal report referred to “ trojanized ” apps, which are fake apps that pretend to look like real, trusted ones. These malicious spoofs often ask for e...

At the recent Schneider Electric International Colo Club meeting in London I had an interesting conversation with one of our customers who noted that we’re raising a generation of kids who will find it quite normal to talk to their houses. “I’m on the way home, set the oven to 350°F, and put an extra chill on a beer.” It’s not hard to extrapolate from that to an era where we talk to our cars, office buildings and who knows what else (hopefully still to each other). Just think about how much data we’ll be generating to make such scenarios possible, as it all stems from Internet of Things (IoT) technology where an awful lot of “things” are generating enormous amounts of data. The reason I brought this up in my talk at the Colo Club is that it’s all about growth: growth in data, which fuels growth in demand for data centers and growth in colocation provider revenue, at least for those providers that can effectively deal with it. Check out my presentation below. It’s clear to us at Sc...