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snowden masterclass A Public Service: a comprehensive, comprehensible guide to leaking documents to journalists and public service groups without getting caught Cory Doctorow
carrie lam Hong Kong bans makeup and masks so facial recognition cameras can identify protesters Cory Doctorow
cat and mouse games Researchers think that adversarial examples could help us maintain privacy from machine learning systems Cory Doctorow
boycott linkedin learning Linkedin to libraries: drop dead Cory Doctorow
The Doctor A thoughtful interview with David Tennant about the loss of anonymity Seamus Bellamy
per-device factory calibration In less than one second, a malicious web-page can uniquely fingerprint an Iphone, Pixel 2 or Pixel 3 without any explicit user interaction Cory Doctorow
dark markets Dark markets have evolved to use encrypted messengers and dead-drops Cory Doctorow
securedrop Job opening: senior security engineer to work on SecureDrop and protect whistleblowers Cory Doctorow
brass horn Indie UK mobile carrier announces a Tor-only SIM that blocks unencrypted data Cory Doctorow
usenix security Award-winning security research reveals a host of never-seen, currently unblockable web-tracking techniques Cory Doctorow
market concentration Talking the hard questions of privacy and freedom with the Yale Privacy Lab podcast Cory Doctorow
reidentification attacks Stylistic analysis can de-anonymize code, even compiled code Cory Doctorow
real names policies UK security minister proposes "Digital IDs" to enforce online civility Cory Doctorow
Yoweri Museveni Uganda's unenforceable social media tax is augmented by a biometric requirement for SIM card purchases Cory Doctorow
monero Attacks that unmask anonymous blockchain transactions can be used against everyone who ever relied on the defective technique Cory Doctorow
data privacy day Happy Data Privacy Day! A turning point for anonymity, privacy, and the tools that deliver them Gabriella Coleman