NSA Warns Smartphones Leak Location Data
The agency known for its own questionable surveillance activity advised how mobile users can limit others’ ability to track where they are. Continue reading NSA Warns Smartphones Leak Location Data
Category Archives: Mobile phone
An HDMI Monitor From Your Phone
Digital video has proceeded to the point at which we have near-broadcast-quality HD production capabilities in the palm of our hand, and often for a surprisingly affordable price. One area in which the benefits haven’t quite made it to our wallets though is in the field of small HD monitors …read more
5 Tips to Stay Private and Secure During a Protest
In episode 125 for June 15th 2020: Our top 5 tips for staying private and secure during a protest. ** Show notes and links mentioned on the show ** Privacy And Security While Protesting https://silent-pocket.com/blogs/news/privacy-and-security-while-pr… Continue reading 5 Tips to Stay Private and Secure During a Protest
Quantum Security Goes Live with Samsung Galaxy
Quantum encryption, which has been touted as “unhackable,” debuts with Samsung, SK Telecom in a world’s first. Continue reading Quantum Security Goes Live with Samsung Galaxy
Cellular Tracking Used During COVID-19 Pandemic
As most in the technology community know, nation states have a suite of powerful tools that can be used to trace and monitor mobile phones. By and large, this comes up in discussions of privacy and legislation now and then, before fading out of the public eye once more. In …read more
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Covid-19 Privacy Poll: Phone Tracking, Public Health and Surveillance
Is sacrificing your personal privacy worth flattening the coronavirus infection curve? Weigh in on our Threatpost poll. Continue reading Covid-19 Privacy Poll: Phone Tracking, Public Health and Surveillance
Retrotechtacular: Mobile Phones 1940s Style
We think of the mobile phone — well, what we would call a cell phone — as something fairly modern. Many of us can still remember when using a ham radio phone patch from your parked car would have people staring and murmuring. But it turns out in the late …read more
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The Smallest Cell Phone Picture
Mobile phones are the photography tool for most of us, but they are a blunt tool. If you love astrophotography, you buy a DSLR and a lens adapter. Infrared photography needs camera surgery or a special unit. If you want to look closer to home, you may have a microscope …read more
The Smallest Cell Phone Picture
Mobile phones are the photography tool for most of us, but they are a blunt tool. If you love astrophotography, you buy a DSLR and a lens adapter. Infrared photography needs camera surgery or a special unit. If you want to look closer to home, you may have a microscope …read more
RemoteXY Simplifies Arduino Control
[Labpacks] wanted to build a robot car controlled by his phone. As a Hackaday reader, of course you probably can imagine building the car. Most could probably even write a phone application to do the control. But do you want to? In most cases, you are better off focusing on …read more