Privacy

You really can get anything from someone if you promise them fake pr0n. Thousands of tumblr users have had their accounts compromised, by a tumblr phishing scam that uses the term "adult content" to get you to enter your login info. It's actually working.

Bioware's Neverwinter Nights forum server was hacked, putting the personal data of 18,000 users at risk. Don't worry, you only have to panic if you received an email.

In the wake of the high-profile hacking of Sony's PSN, SEGA has now announced that users of SEGA Pass have had their personal data stolen. This includes names, emails, birthdays and encoded passwords.

Samsung stands accused of putting keylogging software on their retail laptops. Samsung, not surprisingly, denies this... eventually.

Slavoj �i�ek says that Wikileaks is hated not because of the secrets it has revealed, but because it exposed the cynicism of a system that has long stopped believing in the values it imagines itself to uphold. It's a problem not only for diplomacy and governance, but for the eroding distinction between public and private life.

In 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation fought copyright monopolies, walled-garden mobile phone formats, and privacy invasion in the social media, helping keep the Internet safe�even for 8-bit nostalgia. Video after the jump.

With Julian Assange now free on bail in England, we should ask what the plight of his forsaken source has to say about the Wikileaks moment.

For some people, the easy way out just doesn’t cut it. You could make a good argument that it would have been much easier just to get a curtain that comfortably fit in front of the whole window, or find some blinds that would scare people away. Even a shower curtain would work. But it’s the principle of the thing! ...

As Facebook strives to quell their privacy woes, more and more risks to our security are unveiled. This time, it’s the fact that deleting photos doesn’t actually delete your photos. Deleting your photos on Facebook is simple, you just click the delete photo link. Sounds easy enough. But what Facebook doesn’t want you to know is that even when you ...

Do you constantly feel like you’re being watched? The most likely reason is because most of the time, you are being watched. Whether you’re browsing the net or just walking down the street enjoying an italian sub, big brother’s network of surveillance grows stronger and more vast everyday. While you’ll be happy to know that your paranoid delusions aren’t 100% ...