Science The new £50 notes will feature Alan Turing (whilst HMG proposes bans on Turing complete computers AND working crypto) Cory Doctorow
security EFF publishes an indispensable, plain-language guide to "cell-site simulators": the surveillance devices that track you via your phone Cory Doctorow
uk UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow
crime Learning from Baltimore's disaster, Florida city will pay criminals $600,000 to get free of ransomware attack Cory Doctorow
privacy Private Join and Compute is Google's free/open source tool to allow "mulitparty computation" of encrypted data without decryption Cory Doctorow
uk The Chinafication of the internet continues as the UK proposes blocking any service that hosts "illegal" or "harmful" material Cory Doctorow
privacy Zuckerberg announces a comprehensive plan for a new, privacy-focused Facebook, but fails to mention data sharing and ad targeting Cory Doctorow
lawful interception A finance industry group is pushing an intentionally broken cryptography "standard" called ETS Cory Doctorow
eff This is bad: the UAE's favorite sleazeball cybermercenaries have applied for permission to break Mozilla's web encryption Cory Doctorow
crypto wars Debunking "ghost users": MI5's plan to backdoor all secure messaging platforms Cory Doctorow
Business Sennheiser's headphone drivers covertly changed your computer's root of trust, leaving you vulnerable to undetectable attacks Cory Doctorow
surveillance The internet is made up of revolutionary technologies, but isn't revolutionary Cory Doctorow
security Consumer Reports finds that D-Link's home camera sends unencrypted video without unique passwords Cory Doctorow
