Category: Privacy

Malte Spitz in Germany explains how the phone companies tracked everything he did, where he went, every step he took. The EU required data retention collect an enormous amount of information about each phone user, later ruled unconstitutional. But they are still recording the data. This a blueprint for surveillance of society. If this had been present in 1989 the STASI (secret police) could have tracked everyone that was protesting and the Berlin wall would have never fallen.

Malte Spitz in Germany explains how the phone companies tracked everything he did, where he went, every step he took. The EU required data retention collect an enormous amount of information about each phone user, later ruled unconstitutional. But they are still recording the data. This a blueprint for surveillance of society. If this had been present in 1989 the STASI (secret police) could have tracked everyone that was protesting and the Berlin wall would have never fallen.

Malte Spitz in Germany shares what he learned by obtaining the phone records required to be maintained by the government. If you think NSA collecting this information is harmless, check this out.

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Social engineering (security) is a term used to describe ways people manipulate others into divulging security information they would otherwise not share. It can be used to trick into changing passwords or banks giving out account numbers etc. One method is to create a story that make the person you are trying to get information from believe your are in desperate straights and they need to bend the rules.
Learn about this technique here in Wikipedia.

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