It's been a long time since my last post.
Lots have happened since then, but I thought I'd summarize what looks to be the end of the saga of Smittestopp, the Norwegian Covid-app.
For more info, I recommend reading this and this post from the Peace...
Simula attempts to recover, rewrite history
Yesterday I came across a tweet from Lukasz Olejnik, sharing his work on privacy assessment in web standards – and data leakage via the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API in particular.
TLDR; It deals with a sort of side channel attack: A list of domains is...
... it's a starting point
We – the government appointed expert group – published our final public report last month (informally summarized by me in English here) on the Norwegian COVID-19 app "Smittestopp", ascertaining whether security and privacy is responsibly taken care...
Norwegian parliament passes mass surveillance bill
In this post I'll attempt to give a brief, but thorough introduction to privacy. This ambitious task is motivated in part by the staggering amount of people I've dealt with that lack a proper understanding of the subject – whether they be politicians,...
Summarizing the expert group report on the Norwegian COVID-19 app
Shady stuff in Google Chrome
Last night, I finally got my Alfa AWUS036ACH up and rolling on Kali 2019.4 running in Virtualbox.
Here's a very short how-to:
- Plug in your NIC
- Open the settings for your Kali VM
- Go to "Ports" => "USB"; Select "USB 3.0"
- Click the Icon with a plus-sign...