The first question Oliver put to Snowden in Moscow was: What did you hope to accomplish? Snowden answered that he wanted to show the world what the NSA was doing—collecting data on almost everyone. When Oliver showed him the interviews from Times Square, in which one person after another professed not to know who Snowden was, his response was, "Well, you can't have everyone well informed." Since all the celebrities used iPhones, early speculation centered on a massive data breach affecting Apple's iCloud service, a cloud-storage option for iPhone users. As your physical device runs out of memory, your photos, new files, music, and games are instead stored on a server at Apple, usually for a small monthly fee. Google offers a similar service for Android. Whenever I speak before large crowds—no matter the size of the room—I usually have one person who challenges me on this fact. After one such event I was challenged by a very skeptical reporter. Disable the auto synchronization. You might accidentally leave it open to others. Be vigilent when using a public terminal. Be careful when you’re using a shared service like family plan. Data can get synchronized and content from your past will also appear on another device. Set up multiple users if possible, and keep the administrative access to yourself. Of course, everyone has exes. You might even be suspicious if you dated someone who didn't. But no girlfriend wants to be confronted with evidence of those who have gone before her.

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Whether it’s a physical switch at a phone company or a digital switch, law enforcement does have the ability to eavesdrop on calls. Digital phones are more vulnerable to monitoring than traditional landlines. Social engineering has been around for millennia. But it’s evolved and developed dramatically. Learn its history and how to stay safe in this resource. Read More The Jennifer Lawrence story dominated the slow Labor Day weekend news cycle in 2014. It was part of an event called theFappening, a huge leak of nude and nearly nude photographs of Rihanna, Kate Upton, Kaley Cuoco, Adrianne Curry, and almost three hundred other celebrities, most of them women, whose cell-phone images had somehow been remotely accessed and shared. While some people were, predictably, interested in seeing these photos, for many the incident was an unsettling reminder that the same thing could have happened to them. In the twenty-first century, we can do better. And I mean much better, with longer and much more complex configurations of letters and numbers. That may sound hard, but I will show you both an automatic and a manual way to do this. The same is true of the many personal details about each and every one of us that are currently being collected and stored, often without our noticing. Most of us simply don't know how easy it is for others to view these details about us or even where to look. And because we don't see this information, we might believe that we are invisible to our exes, our parents, our schools, our bosses, and even our governments.But similar information about anyone can be found for a small lookup fee. And it's perfectly legal. FAQs Explore answers to commonly-asked questions from fans, clients, colleagues and everyone in between. In this book I'll make the case that each and every one of us is being watched, at home and out in the world—as you walk down the street, sit at a café, or drive down the highway. Your computer, your phone, your car, your home alarm system, even your refrigerator are all potential points of access into your private life.

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In one famous experiment, Cui reported that he could turn on the fuser bar, the part of the printer that heats the paper after the ink has been applied, and leave it on, which would cause the printer to catch fire. The vendor—not HP—immediately responded by arguing that there was a thermo fail-safe within the fuser bar, meaning the printer could not overheat. However, that was Cui’s point—he’d managed to turn that failsafe feature off so that the machine could actually catch fire. SMS text is proclaimed to be deleted within days by multiple carriers in the US. But traces can still be found and messages have been restored in the past. They are not as secure as you think. Jennifer Lawrence was having a rough Labor Day weekend. The Academy Award winner was one of several celebrities who woke one morning in 2014 to find that their most private pictures—many of which showed them in the nude—were being splashed about on the Internet.Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world. Social Media Perhaps you have broken no laws. You live what you think is an average and quiet life, and you feel you are unnoticed among the crowds of others online today. Trust me: even you are not invisible. At least not yet. The danger of living within a digital surveillance state isn't so much that the data is being collected (there's little we can do about that) but what is done with the data once it is collected. The problem is that if you know where to look, all that information is available to just about anyone. Technology is increasingly present in our lives, and this allows us to be more connected than ever before. However, the greater number of devices we use also means that there are more ways for people to access our personal information. The Internet of Things has created an array of smart products from cars to household appliances, and each one comes with its own unique vulnerabilities.