US Privacy wins as the judge limits FBI’s searches without order

This week began a shock and just continued. In the small hours of Saturday night, Tiktok interrupted users’ access to the United States in front of The deadline is Sunday Which forced Apple and Google to remove the video sharing app from their app stores. While Tiktok was dark, US users were competing circle the ban on tiktok while several other unexpected applications They also saw their access to the Americans. By noon on Sunday, however, Access to Tiktok was already recovering in the US. Until Monday night, the newly adopted US President Donald Trump did it Signed an Executive Order to Delay the ban on Tiktok up to 75 days.

Tuesday Trump it got good to his promise to release Ross Ulbricht, deprived of the creator of Silk Way Dark Web MarketWhere users sell drugs, weapons and worse. Ulbricht has spent more than 11 years behind bars after being arrested by FBI in 2013 and later lifetimeS Trump’s decision to pardon Ulbricht is largely regarded as associated with the support he received from the libertarian cryptocurrency community, which the creator of the Silk Road is for a long time.

While the world enters the second era of Trump, Wired sat with Jen Isterleywho recently left his first place as director of the Cybibersecure and Infrastructure Security Agency to discuss the cyber -stimonys facing the United States and the uncertain future of CISA as a first -line guard against nation -state hackers and other threats to digital security, in front of which are upright.

Finally, we have detailed new studies that have revealed how many trivial errors there is revealed the Subaru system to track the location of their customers’ vehiclesS Researchers have found that they have access to a web portal for Subaru employees, which allows them to determine with an accuracy of up to one year location of a car – to the parking spaces they use. The gaps have already been corrected, but Subaru employees still have access to sensitive driver’s location data.

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A US judge in New York this week found that the FBI’s practice to seek data on US persons under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Monitoring Act without receiving an order is unconstitutional. FISA gives the US government the right to collect communications of foreign persons through ISPs and companies such as Apple and Google. Once this data was collected, the FBI could carry out “rear search” for information about citizens or US residents who communicated with foreigners and did it without first receiving an order. Judge Deari Hall found that these searches require an order. “The contrary would allow law enforcement agencies to accumulate communications storage according to Section 702-including those of US persons-who could later be sought on request without restriction,” the judge wrote.

The “problem” problem of the CloudFlare content network functionality of the company for Internet infrastructure or CDN can reveal the rough location of people using applications, including those intended to protect confidentiality, according to findings by an independent security researcher. CloudFlare has servers in hundreds of cities and more than 100 countries around the world. Its CDN works by cache internet traffic of people through its servers, and then delivers this data from the server closest to the location of a person. Security Researcher, which is called Daniel, finds a way to send an image to the goal of collecting the URL, and then use a specially created tool to make a request to CloudFlare to find out which data center has delivered the image – and by This way the condition or possibly the city in which the goal is located. Fortunately, CloudFlare tells 404 Media that he had eliminated the problem after Daniel reported it.

In one of his first moves, after Trump took office on Monday, the Ministry of Interior Security released all from the Agency’s advisory committees. This includes the Cyberblesity Review Council that investigated widespread attacks against US telecommunications system by China -backed Hacker Group Salt Typhoon. US authorities revealed in mid-November that Salt Typhoon has introduced itself into at least nine American telecoms for spy purposes, potentially exposing anyone using non-cripped calls and text messages to Beijing’s observation. While the future of CSRB remains uncertain, tell sources reporter Eric Geller that their investigation into Salt Typhoon attacks is practically “dead”.