privacy Apple says it will pull Messages and FaceTime if UK forces back-door access to its encryption Mark Frauenfelder

privacy Apple to scan iPhones for sexually explicit material involving children Rob Beschizza

politics Why AG Barr's use of Pensacola shooter case to rebuke Apple is so suspicious Xeni Jardin

security Schneier: "It's really too late to secure 5G networks" Cory Doctorow

politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow

crypto wars Debunking "ghost users": MI5's plan to backdoor all secure messaging platforms Cory Doctorow

security Australia just voted to ban working cryptography. No, really. Cory Doctorow

security Report: Chinese spies snuck tiny backdoor chips onto US corporate, government and military servers Cory Doctorow

scholarship Even if governments backdoor crypto, they still won't be able to spy on terrorists Cory Doctorow

Business An incredibly important paper on whether data can ever be "anonymized" and how we should handle release of large data-sets Cory Doctorow

security Real people don't (just) need encryption Cory Doctorow

security UK Tories say they'll exploit Manchester's dead to ban working crypto in the UK Cory Doctorow

trump America's top spy won't stick around to watch Donald Trump wield his doomsday device Cory Doctorow

privacy Russian bill mandates backdoors in all communications apps Cory Doctorow

law UK Parliament votes in Snoopers Charter, now it goes to the House of Lords Cory Doctorow

picks FBI may not need Apple's help with that iPhone after all, nevermind, maybe Xeni Jardin

security ISIS opsec: jihadi tech bureau recommends non-US crypto tools Cory Doctorow

security Apple-FBI crypto hearing was surprisingly hostile to FBI Director James Comey Xeni Jardin

apple Wanting it badly isn't enough: backdoors and weakened crypto threaten the net Meredith Whittaker and Ben Laurie

surveillance Rallies planned at Apple stores to protest the FBI's crusade to hack your iPhone Xeni Jardin