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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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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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Untraceable communication — guaranteed
New untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees.
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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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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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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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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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On the Juniper backdoor
You might have heard that a few days ago, Juniper Systems announced the discovery of "unauthorized code" in the ScreenOS software that underlies the NetScreen line of devices... By Matthew Green.
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Apple's Tim Cook defends encryption. When will other tech CEOs do so?
It seems everywhere he goes these days, Apple CEO Tim Cook is out there forcefully and publicly defending his company’s decision to provide iPhone users with end-to-end text messaging and FaceTime encryption to protect against the constant threat of criminal hackers and foreign governments. The question is: when will other tech company leaders follow his lead? If we’re going to avoid having a horrible law banning encryption passed in the next year...
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Dutch government backs strong encryption, condemns backdoors
The move comes as other nations move to weaken encryption.
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The Long and Winding History of Encryption
The technology that keeps your text messages private had its start on the banks of the Tigris River, 3500 years ago. By Kaveh Waddell.
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Keybase - 4 Invites Available.
Get a public key, safely, starting just with someone's social media username(s). Lets bring this tribe back! I'm going to go to sleep and will add the first 4 requests I get.
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California wants to ban encrypted phones
A bill in the state assembly would prevent companies like Apple from selling its encryption-enabled iPhone on its own turf.
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How a Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning
A small email provider and its customers have almost single-handedly forced the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum in June. “This law was approved in September, and after the Paris attacks, we assumed privacy was dead at that point,” said Andy Yen, co-founder of ProtonMail, when I spoke with him on the phone.
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Why Apple Defends Encryption
The Intercept recently reported that Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a private meeting with White House officials and other technology leaders, criticized the federal government’s stance on encryption and technology back doors (see “Tim Cook Confronts the White House Over Encryption,” 14 January 2016). As it was a private meeting, we don’t know exactly what happened, and The Intercept is admittedly biased on this issue, but such statements would...
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The ISIS encrypted messaging app, hyped as a tool for plotting terrorist attacks, does not exist
After over a week of investigation, the Alrawi encryption app is nowhere to be found.
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ENCRYPT Act Introduced to Prevent States Banning Cell Phone Encryption
Representatives Ted Lieu, Blake Farenthold, Suzan DelBene, and Mike Bishop have joined to introduce bipartisan legislation that would prevent state and local governments from banning cell phone encryption outright.
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U.S. can't ban encryption because it's a global phenomenon, Harvard study finds
After a two-year campaign from the FBI, U.S. intelligence officials, and powerful politicians calling for backdoor access into Americans’ encrypted data, a new Harvard study argues that encryption is a worldwide technology that the United States cannot regulate and control on its own. The study, titled “A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products,” aimed to catalog all the encryption products available online today.
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FBI and police are losing the encryption war
Password cracking can now be done at a reasonable price with enormous computing resources. At the same time encryption is getting better, is used more widely, and brute force will lose in the long term.
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Congress tells FBI that forcing Apple to unlock iPhones is 'a fool's errand'
The Justice Department is on a “fool’s errand” trying to force Apple to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, lawmakers told FBI director James Comey on Tuesday. Lawmakers of both parties sharply challenged Comey as the House judiciary committee considered the FBI’s court order to unlock an iPhone owned by Syed Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, in December and was killed by law enforcement.
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