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Promote free speech via Tor, earn a slapdown
[I wrote this a few years ago, but it is still relevant, perhaps even more so now -PD] I’ve been a privacy advocate for a long time; back in the mid-90s I’d wear my PGP ‘munition’ T-shirt while walking around the Boston common, both to support Phil Zimmerman’s defense fund and to enact my own […]
The Death of Trust
The tl;dr: Assume that anything you do online is being recorded by the government. I had a conversation this past week with one of my students who was interested in some of the operational aspects of anonymity; he wanted to know to what extent either Tor or a VPN or both would protect his identity […]
I still think WhatsApp has a security problem
Last week The Guardian ran a story that claimed a backdoor was embedded in Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service. Bloggers went nuts as we do when it looks like there’s some nefarious code lurking in a popular application, and of course Facebook is a favorite target of everybody. I tweeted my disdain for WhatsApp moments after reading […]
Why FBI vs Apple is so important
On the face of it, the situation is pretty straightforward: The FBI has an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, it is currently locked with a passcode, and they want Apple to assist in unlocking the phone. Apple has stated that they don’t have that capability, and that to comply with the […]
TMO, EFF, and Net Neutrality
I’ve been watching T-Mobile’s new Binge-On (BO) offering for a few weeks now as it gains more and more headlines. Today TMO CEO John Legere went on a rant directed at the Electronic Freedom Foundation (of which I am a member) and their recent analysis of the service. TMO and Legere say that Binge-On is […]