Moxie Marlinspike Leaving Twitter Security Team

Twitter has been collecting a lot of security talent in the last year or so, but now a major piece of the company’s security team is leaving. Moxie Marlinspike, the creative security and privacy researcher who founded Whisper Systems, which was acquired by Twitter in 2011, said on Friday that he ...

Chris Soghoian on Lessons from the Bin Laden Raid and Cyberwar

Chris Soghoian has made a name for himself as a security and privacy researcher and has been the bane of government agencies and organizations prone to being somewhat less than upfront about their security and privacy practices. In this video from the Personal Democracy Forum in New York this wee...

How The Free Market Fails Privacy-Conscious Consumers

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part podcast with security researcher Chris Soghoian. It’s a truism that the pace of technological change outstrips society’s ability to grasp the impact of that change. For the most part, the consequences of this are benign and the remedies...