Article Internet Surveillance 
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 25, 2021
Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used for things like tracing VPN activity. At a high level, netflow data creates a picture of traffic flow and volume across a network.
Schneier on Security
MAY 21, 2019
Interesting article about how traditional nation-based spycraft is changing. Basically, the Internet makes it increasingly possible to generate a good cover story; cell phone and other electronic surveillance techniques make tracking people easier; and machine learning will make all of this automatic.
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Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
News articles talk about " spy trains ," and the possibility that the train cars might surreptitiously monitor their passengers' faces, movements, conversations or phone calls. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance. This is a complicated topic.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 21, 2022
News article : It’s not clear whether the security flaws were intentional or not, but the report speculated that proper encryption might interfere with some of China’s ubiquitous online surveillance tools, especially systems that allow local authorities to snoop on phones using public wireless networks or internet cafes.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 29, 2018
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, news articles and commentators have focused on what Facebook knows about us. But for every article about Facebook's creepy stalker behavior, thousands of other companies are breathing a collective sigh of relief that it's Facebook and not them in the spotlight. A lot, it turns out.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 28, 2020
The article goes on to talk about Juniper Networks equipment, which had the NSA-created DUAL_EC PRNG backdoor in its products. At the end of 2015, the maker of internet switches disclosed that it had detected malicious code in some firewall products. And if it’s still putting surveillance ahead of security.
Malwarebytes
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Schools in the US have been using surveillance software to keep an eye on their students, and such software has grown significantly in popularity since the COVD-19 pandemic closed campuses nationwide. In fact, they worry that such surveillance could backfire. Source: The CDT).
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