Showing posts with label encryption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label encryption. Show all posts
15 February 2023

Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2023

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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the main area...
08 January 2018

Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2018

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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...
18 May 2017

Tell the UK Government: No Backdoors in Crypto

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The UK government seems to be pressing ahead with its idiotic plans to backdoor crypto. There is a (secret) consultation on the subject tha...
23 November 2013

Should Wikipedia Force All Users To Use HTTPS?

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It would be something of an understatement to say that encryption is a hot topic at the moment. But leaving aside deeper issues like t...

John Gilmore On How The NSA Sabotaged A Key Security Standard

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In Bruce Schneier's uplifting call to fix the Internet in the wake of key technologies being subverted by the US government, one o...

NSA's Crypto Betrayal: Good News for Open Source?

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Revelations from documents obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden that GCHQ essentially downloads the entire Internet as it enters and...
19 September 2013

Saudi Arabia Starts Clamping Down On Encrypted VoIP Services; US And UK Strangely Silent On The Moves

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Earlier this month, the messaging service Viber was blocked in Saudi Arabia . This was not entirely unexpected, since the authorities ha...

Is Encryption Effective Against Snooping? German Government Says No, Snowden Says Yes

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The revelations of Edward Snowden about the NSA's snooping of citizens both inside and outside the US are posing more questions than...
08 December 2012

German Court Holds Internet User Responsible For Passing On Unknown, Encrypted File

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A natural response to the increasingly harsh enforcement of laws against unauthorized sharing of copyright files is to move to encrypted ...
19 December 2011

Former Tunisian Regime Goes Beyond Spying On Internet Traffic... To Rewriting Emails & More

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Most people instinctively appreciate the dangers of government surveillance. But at least it's possible to be on your guard when you ...
06 December 2011

More Collateral Damage From SOPA: People With Print Disabilities And Human Rights Groups

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As people wake up to the full horror of what SOPA would do to the Internet and its users, an increasing number of organizations with very ...
19 October 2008

Madness Begets Madness

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This is where the madness of authoritarianism leads: Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a na...
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18 January 2008

No EU Snooping, Danke

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Heise online reports on a very bad idea: If things go the way the Conservative British MEP Christopher Heaton-Harris wants them to, interne...
25 May 2007

Even Google Nods

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Accessing Google Analytics to view some stats about this site, I received the following warning: "www.google.com" is a site that u...
07 December 2006

The Politicians' Big Disconnect

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According to heise online : the [German] Federal Ministry of the Interior declares the ability to search PCs without physical access to them...
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06 April 2006

Why VOIP Needs Crypto

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The ever-wise Bruce Schneier (whom I had the pleasure of interviewing a couple of years ago) spells out in words of one syllable why the h...
17 March 2006

Google's Grief, Open Source's Gain?

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The news that a judge has ordered Google to turn over all emails from a Gmail account, including deleted messages, has predictably sent a s...