Re-factoring the Crypto Debate
Backdooring crypto debates are dangerously US-centric; ignoring the role of authoritarian states and how even this tightly scoped debate would put human righ...
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Cyberpunk Standards
The future of technology requires a dramatic shift from the present to place ownership and control back in the hands of consumers
We have always been at war with crypto
This now exists (and will be updated) as a github repository!
Entropy Story-time: From Claude Shannon to Equifax
A review of a review, and a lot of discussion of password security, chaos, and entropy.
The PGP Hotel: Let’s talk about public keys
I’ve been working on a new way to explain email encryption; I’d appreciate feedback on this approach.
Power to the Users
Cross-posted from the USABLE blog <p>Three years ago, I led a digital security training for independent media in Kyiv during the peak of the EuroMa...
New GPG Keys!
I am transitioning both my professional and personal GPG keys.
Cylons, Open Source, and Security
This has all happened before. This will all happen again.
On Piracy
Software licensing limits are a bigger human rights problem than software piracy is a cost.
What Good Are Secure Communications Tools if No One Uses Them?
It was the second day of digital security training, and I was losing the room.
A Recent History of Back Doored Encryption, in 4 links
This is partially a footnotes section from last week’s Crypto Saves Lives post, but every week brings new stories, and this week was a doozy.
Encryption saves lives
There are many great arguments to protect truly private communications from a human rights perspective, and specifically through a Constitutional lens
Let’s talk about Organizational Security.
SAFETAG is a project that myself and another colleague have spent countless hours building out to really focus on working with small non-profits on assessing...
5 Headlines about buzzfeed you never expected to read!
Buzzfeed’s writers al have PGP keys
Time to Ideate!
Pivot-Twist-Dev takes the classic “pivot-twist” approach for idea pitches of taking a familiar concept and twisting it in a new way to the international deve...