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FBI chief Comey: “We have never had absolute privacy”
FBI Director James Comey has some phones—650 of them, to be exact—that he'd really, really like to take a look at. Right now, the FBI can't read the data on those phones, because it's encrypted. For Comey, that's a problem. In remarks to the American Bar Association on Friday, he made it clear this is an issue he intends to bring up before Congress next year. While nothing other than the election will get politicians' attention during the next few months, Comey told the audience that he intends to gather data about how the problem of encryption...
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Free service protects your images through the use of blockchain technology
Blockai is a new, free online service that uses Bitcoin-inspired technology to keep tabs on when and where your photographs are being used online.
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Lawmakers Need To Learn More About Encryption Before Regulating It, Says U.S. House Report
The House Committee on Homeland Security issued a report called “Going Dark, Going Forward,” in which it found after more than 100 meetings and briefings with stakeholders impacted by the use of encryption that the whole encryption debate may be flawed. What they learned is that there’s no simple solution without “troublesome trade-offs” regarding encryption and “going dark.”
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Russian bill requires encryption backdoors in all messenger apps
Backdoors into encrypted communications may soon be mandatory in Russia. A new bill in the Russian Duma, the country's lower legislative house, proposes to make cryptographic backdoors mandatory in all messaging apps in the country so the Federal Security Service—the successor to the KGB—can obtain special access to all communications within the country. Apps like WhatsApp, Viber, and Telegram, all of which offer varying levels of encrypted security for messages...
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Non-US encryption is 'theoretical,' claims CIA chief in backdoor debate
No choice but to use American gear, grins spymaster
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Let's Encrypt FREE certificates now available on all Conetix Hosting • Conetix
Conetix is proud to offer Let’s Encrypt FREE SSL certificates on all our hosting plans. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certifica...
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Device used in Nazi coding machine found for sale on eBay
For codebreakers with the allied forces, it was more important a discovery than the Enigma machine, offering encryption for the Nazi command that, when cracked, would hasten the end of the second world war and lead to huge breakthroughs in modern computing. Less than 80 years later, for a thrifty woman in Essex, the “telegram machine” was little more than a dusty old gadget languishing in the garden shed. But after an eagle-eyed volunteer with the National Museum of Computing (NMC) spotted an ad on eBay this week, the extremely rare, military-issue Lorenz teleprinter has been saved and provides the latest piece in...
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Google Allo: new messaging app is latest to fight FBI over encryption
Google on Wednesday became the latest major technology company to join a standoff with the FBI over encryption. At its developer conference, the company announced that its new messaging app, Allo, would feature an “incognito mode” that offered end-to-end encryption. Such technology can make it difficult for law enforcement to recover messages during investigations even if they have a warrant. In Washington DC, the FBI director, James Comey, has lobbied...
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Announcing Certbot: EFF's Client for Let's Encrypt
EFF is proud to introduce Certbot, a powerful tool to help websites encrypt their traffic. Certbot is the next iteration of the Let's Encrypt Client; it obtains TLS/SSL certificates and can automatically configure HTTPS encryption on your server. It's still in beta for now, but we plan to release Certbot 1.0 later this year.
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Hitler's "unbreakable" encryption machine - and the Bletchley Park devices which cracked the code
The story of how Bletchley Park codebreakers decrypted top secret Nazi communications
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Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption by 7 Years
The director of national intelligence on Monday blamed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for advancing the development of user-friendly, widely available strong encryption. “As a result of the Snowden revelations, the onset of commercial encryption has accelerated by seven years,” James Clapper said during a breakfast for journalists hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. The shortened timeline has had “a profound effect on our...
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The FBI paid more than $1 million to crack the San Bernardino iPhone
FBI Director James Comey suggested Thursday that the bureau paid more than $1 million to access an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers, the first time the agency has offered a possible price tag in the high-profile case. While speaking at a security forum in London hosted by the Aspen Institute, Comey would not offer a precise dollar figure, saying only that it cost “a lot” to get into the phone. He said the cost of the tool was “more than I will...
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Let's Encrypt Reaches 2,000,000 Certificates
The Let's Encrypt certificate authority issued its two millionth certificate on Thursday, less than two months after the millionth certificate. As we noted when the millionth certificate was issued, each certificate can cover several web sites, so the certificates Let's Encrypt has issued are already protecting millions and millions of sites.
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Senate anti-encryption bill is itself a threat to national security
It's the bill that has everyone up in arms. In the wake of the dispute between Apple and the FBI over encryption, Congress has weighed in with its long-awaited response, and it was the definition of what people didn't want. The bill, released last week by Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), two leading senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee, would require tech companies and phone makers to decrypt customer data at a court's request.
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VICE Exclusive: Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerry’s Global Decryption Key
A high-level surveillance probe of Montreal's criminal underworld shows that Canada's federal policing agency has had a global encryption key for BlackBerry devices since 2010. The revelations are contained in a stack of court documents that were made public after members of a Montreal crime syndicate pleaded guilty to their role in a 2011 gangland murder. The documents shed light on the extent to which the smartphone manufacturer...
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Why The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam
FBI Director James Comey gave a speech this week about encryption and privacy, repeating his argument that "absolute privacy" hampers law enforcement. But it was an offhand remark during the Q&A session at Kenyon College that caught the attention of privacy activists: The thought of the FBI chief taping over his webcam is an arresting one for many. His comment Wednesday (which is around the 1:34:45 mark in this video) was in...
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Congress's New Encryption Bill Just Leaked, And It's As Bad As Experts Imagined
A leaked draft reportedly obtained by The Hill has provided our very first glimpse at that bill, which has been promised for months by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and Richard Burr (R-North Carolina). And despite multiple delays, it seems to be exactly as tone-deaf and poorly-considered as security and legal experts expected.
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Amnesty International Says Encryption Is A Basic Human Right
Is encryption a basic human right? Amnesty International believes so, becoming one of the latest to weigh in on the Apple v FBI case. In this world of digital communication, encryption is intrinsically tied to privacy and the right to free speech. Amnesty has speculated that undermining encryption as the FBI requested from Apple could potentially open a ‘Pandora’s Box’ for human rights.
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FBI Says It May Have Found Method to Unlock San Bernardino Attacker's iPhone
After meeting with President Raul Castro today, President Obama said in an exclusive interview with ABC News' David Muir that he believed the Cuban leader "truly" wanted change in the island nation and that Cuba would become "more prosperous" in the future. "For 50 years, they have used American aggression or interests in regime change as the excuse for why they had to guard against dissent inside of Cuba. ... As normalization occurs...
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Johns Hopkins researchers poke a hole in Apple’s encryption
Apple’s growing arsenal of encryption techniques — shielding data on devices as well as real-time video calls and instant messages — has spurred the U.S. government to sound the alarm that such tools are putting the communications of terrorists and criminals out of the reach of law enforcement. But a group of Johns Hopkins University researchers has found a bug in the company’s vaunted encryption, one that would enable a...
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