SpiderOak's Warrant Canary Died

BoingBoing has the story. I have never quite trusted the idea of a warrant canary. But here it seems to have worked. Presumably, if SpiderOak wanted to replace the warrant canary with a transparency report, they would have written something explaining their decision. To have it simply disappear i...

Three of My Books Are Available in DRM-Free E-Book Format

Humble Bundle sells groups of e-books at ridiculously low prices, DRM free. This month, the bundles are all Wiley titles, including three of my books: Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies, and Cryptography Engineering. $15 gets you everything, and they're all DRM-free. Even better, a portion of...

Nate Cardozo, Attorney with EFF Talks Encryption at RSA Conference 2018

Threatpost’s Tom Spring talks to crypto expert Nate Cardozo, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation at RSA Conference 2018 about the U.S. government’s current position on device encryption and law enforcement’s use of iPhone passcode cracker called GreyKey...

Two New Papers on the Encryption Debate

Seems like everyone is writing about encryption and backdoors this season. "Policy Approaches to the Encryption Debate," R Street Policy Study 133, by Charles Duan, Arthur Rizer, Zach Graves and Mike Godwin. "Encryption Policy in Democratic Regimes," East West Institute. I recently blogged about...

Motherboard Digital Security Guide

This digital security guide by Motherboard is very good. I put alongside EFF's "Surveillance Self-Defense" and John Scott-Railton's "Digital Security Low Hanging Fruit." There's also "Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights Defenders." There are too many of these...

FBI Increases Its Anti-Encryption Rhetoric

Earlier this month, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a speech warning that a world with encryption is a world without law -- or something like that. The EFF's Kurt Opsahl takes it apart pretty thoroughly. Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray said much the same thing. This is an ide...

Telcos Singled Out for Prioritizing Government Requests for Data Over Privacy

Telecommunications giants don’t seem to have any interest in shaking their legacy of complicity with government requests for user data. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s latest Who Has Your Back report singles out AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Comcast as its lowest performers, saying that the...

The Dangers of Secret Law

Last week, the Department of Justice released 18 new FISC opinions related to Section 702 as part of an EFF FOIA lawsuit. Of course, they don't mention EFF or the lawsuit. They make it sound as if it was their idea. There's probably a lot in these opinions. In one Kafkaesque ruling, a defendant w...

Cloudflare Shares National Security Letter It Received in 2013

Thanks to the lifting of a gag order, on Tuesday security firm Cloudflare was finally able to post a National Security Letter it received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation back in 2013. Cloudflare’s counsel Kenneth R. Carter acknowledged the lifting of the order and said the letter is part...

EFF Blasts DEA in Ongoing Secret 'Super Search Engine' Lawsuit

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is accusing the Drug Enforcement Agency of improperly withholding documents in a court case that hopes to reveal details about the government’s controversial surveillance program known as Hemisphere. The EFF, which is suing the DEA as part of a Freedom of...

Third-party service side of the drain: Let's Encrypt leaked 7 6 1 8 name User email address-bug warning-the black bar safety net

! Let's Encrypt translated into Chinese called“let's encrypt”, in fact, this is one for the majority of the site free-issued SSL/TLS certificates of the project. Let's Encrypt the backing is not small, at the moment it is by the Linux Foundation managed to initiate the project of organizations...

California Kills Phone Decryption Bill

Civil liberty groups and tech firms are celebrating the defeat of a controversial California bill that would have forced phone makers to decrypt their devices by court order. The proposed legislation, AB 1681, died when lawmakers refused to give the bill a vote. But opponents of the bill, who...

More than 1 Million Websites Install Free SSL Certificate (and Counting...)

Let's Encrypt has achieved another big milestone by issuing 1 million free Transport Layer Security TLS SSL Certificates to webmasters who wish to secure the communications between their users and domains. Let's Encrypt – operated by the Internet Security Research Group ISRG – is an absolutely...

EFF Alerts - External URLs, MIT license, Suspicious files vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application EFF Alerts published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

It's Now Legal to Jailbreak Smart TV, Smartphone Or Tablet

In our previous article, The Hacker News reported that the EFF had won its battle over the limits that were put on a car's copyrighted software, allowing car owners to fiddle with their car's software. EFF has participated in the rulemaking procedure held by the United States copyright office DMC...

Let's Encrypt Project issues its First Free SSL/TLS Certificate

Last fall the non-profit foundation EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation launched an initiative called Let's Encrypt that aimed at providing Free Digital Cryptographic Certificates TLS to any website that needs them. Today, Let's Encrypt – a free automated Open-source Certificate Authority CA – has...

AT&T Facilitated NSA Surveillance Efforts

Telecommunication giant AT&T facilitated, to a larger degree than any other provider, the National Security Agency’s surveillance reach beyond domestic telephone data collection to email and Internet traffic, companion New York Times and ProPublica articles said on Saturday. It’s probably the...

Privacy Badger 1.0 Released With Support For EFF Do Not Track Policy

The EFF has released the 1.0 version of Privacy Badger, its browser extension that blocks the hidden trackers used on many sites to follow users around the Web. The extension has been out in beta form for several months and has drawn praise from privacy advocates for its ability to block trackers...

WhatsApp Ranked Worst at Protecting Your Privacy and Data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released its annual report card of tech companies for 2015 based upon how much they keep your personal data secure from government snoops. And the Worst Companies Award goes to… 1. At&T 2. WhatsApp 3. Verizon Yes, you heard right! WhatsApp is one of the thre...

Free Encryption Project to issue First SSL/TLS Certificates Next Month

Let's Encrypt, a project aimed to provide free-of-charge and easier-to-implement way to obtain and use a digital cryptographic certificates SSL/TLS to secure HTTPS website, is looking forward to issue its first digital certificates next month. With Let's Encrypt, any webmaster interested in...