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.
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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...
Updates
You know what hasn’t gotten an update in a while? This blog! What else? The cute kittens of digital security over at icanhazdigitalsecurity
Of Tor and Condoms
I am far from the first to compare digital security practices to safer sex practices; Jillian York even rapped about it on stage at re:publica in 2014
Do you trust your tools?
Let’s actually talk about how you might have trust in a software project, using Tor as an example.
Of BBQ, Open Source, and Heartbleed.
There’s a point here about heartbleed and security — I promise.
A Senate response to The Day We (Fought) Back
Senator Cruz’s office’s response to my personal note about surveillance
The promises of a decentralized currency
I once rented a part of a house that had been, well, not fully cleaned out from the previous occupants… A bit of digging uncovered a fascinating tale of cros...
Kyiv on #Jan25
I spent this past week in Kiev. You may have heard something about the protests, and possibly even about some of the policy changes and new laws that sparke...
Distributed Solutions for Distributed Attacks
Let’s rewind back to the 90s. Denial of service was a very, very different thing then
Jam Echelon Day, Redux
(Or, how to remind anyone snooping your email of your fourth amendment rights)
Commercial OLPC Sales‽ Five years late, but great!
I’m glad that OLPC has finally released what was originally put out as the vapourware-ish XO-3 concept