privacy Canada's Mounties use a 6-year-old "interim policy" to justify warrantless mass surveillance Cory Doctorow

privacy EFF and ACLU sue Trump administration over warrantless border device searches Cory Doctorow

makers In an engineering paper, bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy overlay Cory Doctorow

security Hiding malware in boobytrapped replacement screens would undetectably compromise your mobile device Cory Doctorow

News Samsung and Foxconn to back cable-free phone tech by Tony Fadell of iPod and Nest fame Xeni Jardin

security It's not hard to think of ways to outsmart Stingray-detector apps Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Why we openly hate our cords Rob Beschizza

Gadgets First known US example of a gas-pump skimmer that uses SMS to exfiltrate data Cory Doctorow

privacy China forces Xinjiang Uyghurs to install mobile spyware, enforces with stop-and-frisk Cory Doctorow

Business Investigators into mass murder of Mexican student teachers were attacked with NSO's government spyware Cory Doctorow

crime Turns out it's super-easy to commandeer wireless towers Andrea James

surveillance China orders mobile app stores to remove VPN apps Cory Doctorow

videos Mozilla's new Android browser blocks ads and trackers Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Binky: a fully automated social network that doesn't require you to be sociable Cory Doctorow

Business Chinese Apple employees and contractors sold users' private data for as little as $1.50 Cory Doctorow

police Police now routinely crack and extract all phone data from arrestees Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Netflix app will no longer run on rooted Android devices Cory Doctorow

Gadgets What's inside a phone that's designed to fit inside your rectum? Cory Doctorow

security Mobile phone security's been busted for years, and now 2-factor auth is busted too Cory Doctorow

surveillance Even by North Korean standards, the DPRK's Ullim tablet is creepily surveillant Cory Doctorow