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Edward Snowden: Clinton’s Call for a ‘Manhattan-Like Project’ Is Terrifying
Clinton’s Big Brotherish proposal at Saturday’s Democratic debate was both troubling and vague. By Tim Dickinson.
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Hillary Clinton Says She Wants a Manhattan Project for Encryption. The Fuck?
Hillary Clinton suggested that tech companies work together with the government to create a “a Manhattan-like project” at tonight’s Democratic national debate. The Manhattan Project, if you a need a refresher, was a research and development collaboration between the US, UK, and Canada to develop weapons during World War II, culminating in the development of the atomic bomb. It was initially a secret military project. Over a hundred civilians died working on it.
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MIT invents untraceable SMS text messaging system that is even more secure than Tor
Computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new SMS text messaging system that is untraceable and apparently even more secure than the Tor anonymity network, in order to create truly anonymous communications. In July, researchers from MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) succeeded in cracking a security vulnerability affecting the Tor anonymity network to make it possible to identify hidden servers with up to 88% accuracy.
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Obama Hints at Renewed Pressure on Encryption, Clinton Waves Off First Amendment
Citing San Bernardino, President Obama and Hillary Clinton are upping pressure on social media sites and tech companies that provide end-to-end encryption. By Dan Froomkin.
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Untraceable communication — guaranteed
New untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees.
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TrueCrypt is safer than previously reported, detailed analysis concludes
Fraunhofer Institute gives clean bill of health to crypto tool used by millions.
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Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections
Soon, you may see a warning in Gmail that tells you that an email has arrived over an unencrypted connection. Gmail already defaults to using HTTPS for the connections between your browser and its servers, but for the longest time, the standard practice for sending email between providers was to leave them unencrypted. If somebody managed to intercept those messages, it was pretty trivial to snoop on them.
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Is a new basis for all cryptography at hand?
“Indistinguishability obfuscation” is a powerful concept that would yield provably secure versions of every cryptographic system we’ve ever developed and all those we’ve been unable to develop. But nobody knows how to put it into practice.
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Opinion: Why we all have a stake in encryption policy
Rapid advances in technology could soon turn science fiction notions of effortless encryption into a reality. But ensuring that we can trust that technology will take more public vigilance against government and corporate eavesdropping.
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Edward Snowden: we may never spot space aliens thanks to encryption
The US government whistleblower Edward Snowden believes encryption might make it difficult or even impossible to distinguish signals from alien species from cosmic background radiation. On Friday night, Snowden appeared from Moscow on the astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk podcast, via a robot video link called a “beam remote presence system”.
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Why the U.S. Doesn’t Deserve a Back Door to Your Data
While the increasing regularity of both computing and security breaches makes Clapper’s concerns very real, the approach the intelligence agencies want to take is sorely inadequate. While they spent a long time discussing deterrence and surveillance, Clapper et al. practically ignored the most crucial and central aspect of fighting cyberattacks: security.
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The Man Who Wants To Encrypt Everything
Founder of Kryptnostic, Matthew Tamayo-Rios. He claims to have created the first practical application for fully homomorphic encryption, a “holy grail” for securing data.
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They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
For nearly 250 years, this book concealed the arcane rituals of an ancient order. But cracking the code only deepened the mystery. By Noah Schachtman.
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The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended
In its attempt to destroy information, GCHQ may not have realized it was creating other important information: exactly what it was doing and why.
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Mozilla Thunderbird and end-to-end email encryption – should this be a priority?
In the last few weeks, I’ve had several interesting conversations concerning email encryption. I’m also trying to develop some concept of what areas Thunderbird should view as our special emphases as we look forward. The question is, with our limited resources, should we strive to make better support of end-to-end email encryption a vital Thunderbird priority?
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The Internet Is Going Dark
Jeb Bush’s conclusions regarding encryption are fundamentally flawed, because they ignore one simple inevitable fact. The Internet is going dark. What does “going dark” mean? It means that because we are arriving at the dawn of a new era — an era defined by the pervasiveness and ubiquity of strong encryption on a global scale — all intercepted Internet traffic will soon be unreadable.
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Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Tuesday that encryption makes it harder for law enforcement to track down “evildoers” — and called for a “much better, more cooperative relationship” with Apple, Google, and other tech companies that are building uncrackable private communication apps into their new products.
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How the ANC sent encrypted messages in the fight against apartheid
This is how ANC operatives sent encrypted messages to one another in the final years of apartheid.
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xkcd: Public Key
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
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How Dangerous Is End-to-End Encryption?
If it were possible, would proponents of “backdoor” access to encrypted communication also favor equivalent access to the private thoughts in our brains? By Conor Friedersdorf.
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