Day: December 8, 2023

Here’s a Warrant Showing the U.S. Government is Monitoring Push Notifications

Here’s a Warrant Showing the U.S. Government is Monitoring Push Notifications:

The letter does not disclose the legal mechanism used by governments to demand this data from Apple or Google. But the court record reviewed by 404 Media does include some specifics around push notification demands. Court Watch shared the record with 404 Media. The record is a search warrant application from May 2020 related to the investigation of a person suspected of theft or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds.

In the search warrant application for information associated with a specific Yahoo email account, an FBI Special Agent writes under a section of the record entitled “Background Information Regarding Provider Services” that when a user of a mobile app installs and launches an app, the app will direct the device to obtain a “Push Token.” This is “a unique identifier that allows the provider associated with the application […] to locate the device on which the application is installed.”

[If they can, they will…]

Daring Fireball: 23andMe Confirms Hackers Stole Ancestry Data on 6.9 Million Users

Daring Fireball: 23andMe Confirms Hackers Stole Ancestry Data on 6.9 Million Users:

In an email sent to TechCrunch late on Saturday, 23andMe spokesperson Katie Watson confirmed that hackers accessed the personal information of about 5.5 million people who opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature, which allows customers to automatically share some of their data with others. The stolen data included the person’s name, birth year, relationship labels, the percentage of DNA shared with relatives, ancestry reports and self-reported location.

Here’s a real shocker: 23andMe has updated their terms of service in attempt to prevent a class action lawsuit. Good luck with that.

[I never trusted them…]

Daring Fireball: Harvard, M.I.T., and Penn Presidents Under Fire After Dodging Questions About Antisemitism

Daring Fireball: Harvard, M.I.T., and Penn Presidents Under Fire After Dodging Questions About Antisemitism:

The reckoning has come for the bizarro-world political climate that’s taken hold at these universities in the last decade or two. This patently offensive equivocation — when the correct answer was obviously an unambiguous “Yes” — makes sense in the context of the insular far-left worldview where the oppressed are viewed as inherently just, but comes across as absurd to everyone living in the real world. All three of these elite university presidents are obviously utterly tone-deaf and detached from the real world.

[The disease has risen all the way to the top. Imagine substituting another race, creed, religion, etc. for the word “Jew”. I believe the answer would have changed. Thank goodness there were only a couple of these sorts of people teaching when I went to college. Most of my professors were/are brilliant. ]