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.my domains hacked: Why SSL is more important than ever

By keith
In Security & Privacy
3 Min read

MyNic is the organization responsible for managing the .my Top Level Domain, which means every website address that ends with a .my is under their administration. These centralized control centers act as giant targets for hackers, but for the most part, they’re protected better than Fort Knox–or they should be. Yesterday, a hacker going by the name Tiger-M@te successfully manage to...

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Should the government use Microsoft products?

By keith
In CyberLaw, Security & Privacy
4 Min read
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[box icon=”chat”] I don’t think the US government should use operating systems made in China for the same reason that most governments shouldn’t use operating systems made in the US and in fact we just got proof since Microsoft is now known to be telling the NSA about bugs in Windows before it fixes them. -Richard Matthew Stallman founder of Free Software Foundation (Techbytes...

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Part 3: PRISM and Upstream

By keith
In CyberLaw, Security & Privacy
5 Min read
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Initially I wrote about PRISM and how a lot of people felt it was a tool to intercept communication in flight to companies like Google and Facebook, however slightly more details have emerged to debunk that claim. However, it’s of paramount importance that we understand what people are saying. No one is denying that communications aren’t being intercepted on their way to Google...

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PRISM and Tempora

By keith
In CyberLaw, Security & Privacy
5 Min read
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As Edward Snowden begins to look for more ‘accommodating’ countries who wouldn’t mind playing host to a man that currently is more wanted than Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Kim Kardashian combined, more details slowly begin to emerge about PRISM, painting an ever clearer picture of the extent of the program both Stateside and abroad. Each individual piece of information...

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Fair Usage Policy: Data caps and Torrent filters

By keith
In Keith's Favorite Post, Malaysia
6 Min read
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This article is really more a continuation from yesterdays piece about how unfair the Fair usage policies in Malaysia are. In my view telcos complaining about 15% of customers using 70% of their traffic is just ludicrous behaviour–it’s the cost of doing business. This is akin to a restaurant owner offering a buffet and then complaining that 15% of his customers are fat men who eat the...

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Maxis and TM Fair Usage Policies : Are they fair?

By keith
In Copyright and Censorship, Malaysia
5 Min read
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Every six months, the great people over at Sandvine release their Global Internet Phenomenon report, which seeks to make sense of global internet traffic across the different regions of the world, and every six months I learn a lot from just gleaning through it. For instance most of the traffic in the US continues to point to just one website–Netflix, which also explains the drop in...

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How secure are the webpages of Malaysian Banks and Telco

By keith
In Malaysia, Security & Privacy
7 Min read
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I’ve almost been fascinated by the fact, that our money in the bank these days are secured not by steel doors or armed guards, but rather by cryptography and the encryption keys that enable them. To put it in the simplest form  your money in the bank is protected by a number–that’s what an encryption key essentially is. A long binary number of 1’s and 0’s that...

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What is PRISM?

By keith
In Copyright and Censorship, CyberLaw, Keith's Favorite Post, Security & Privacy
7 Min read
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There’s a controversy brewing in the land of the free, one that will have implications for Americans, but also Malaysians and nearly every citizen of the world. We may look back at the moment Mr. Snowden leaked controversial (and ugly) slides about a program called ‘PRISM’ as the start of a pivotal moment in internet history, a moment where we either begun a massive campaign to...

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Security Offences Bill vs. Universal declaration of Human Rights

By keith
In CyberLaw, Keith's Favorite Post, Malaysia, Security & Privacy
2 Min read
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This is what Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. This is what security offences bill in Malaysia says: (1) Notwithstanding any other...

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