internet watch foundation UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow
lessons of baltimore Learning from Baltimore's disaster, Florida city will pay criminals $600,000 to get free of ransomware attack Cory Doctorow
homomorphic encryption Private Join and Compute is Google's free/open source tool to allow "mulitparty computation" of encrypted data without decryption Cory Doctorow
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end-to-end encryption Zuckerberg announces a comprehensive plan for a new, privacy-focused Facebook, but fails to mention data sharing and ad targeting Cory Doctorow
extra terrible security A finance industry group is pushing an intentionally broken cryptography "standard" called ETS Cory Doctorow
darkmatter This is bad: the UAE's favorite sleazeball cybermercenaries have applied for permission to break Mozilla's web encryption Cory Doctorow
there is no alternative XKCD on the dishonesty implicit in the sharing options in social media Cory Doctorow
ghost users Debunking "ghost users": MI5's plan to backdoor all secure messaging platforms Cory Doctorow
headsetup Sennheiser's headphone drivers covertly changed your computer's root of trust, leaving you vulnerable to undetectable attacks Cory Doctorow
end-to-end principle The internet is made up of revolutionary technologies, but isn't revolutionary Cory Doctorow
encrypt everything Consumer Reports finds that D-Link's home camera sends unencrypted video without unique passwords Cory Doctorow