Category Archives: Mobiles
Mobile Security and the Economics of Ignorance
Commissioners and regulators must demand that device manufacturers either provide APIs that comply with Canadian law or change existing APIs in the face of prevalent privacy issues. Where neither of these conditions are met, OS vendors should be forced to suffer significant penalties. The only way to secure devices’ security and citizens’ privacy is to erode the economics of ignorance that application vendors and device manufacturers alike depend on to cheat Canadians out of their personal information. Continue reading
Review: Surveillance or Security?
In Security or Security? The Real Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies, Susan Landau focuses on the impacts of integrating surveillance systems into communications networks. Her specific thesis is that integrating surveillance capacities into communications networks does not necessarily or inherently … Continue reading
Distinguishing Between Mobile Congestions
In this post I suggest that the congestion faced by AT&T and other wireless providers has far less to do with data congestion than signal congestion, and that carriers have to own responsibility for the latter type of congestion. Continue reading
iPhone Promiscuity
In this short post I want to revisit two issues I’ve previously written about: the volume of information that the iPhone emits when attached to WiFi networks and its contribution to carriers’ wireless network congestion. Continue reading
