EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers: “Via: EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until...Read More

Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls: “Via: Wired: A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear. The device tricks the phones into disabling encryption and records call details and content...Read More

Feds Admit Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images: “Via: Wired: For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that...Read More