20 Years Later, Mass Crypto Pioneers Vindicated By Google And Apple
With Apple and Google both announcing default encryption for phones, we've hit a landmark pivot point. It used to be that encryption was a novelty for geeks. Now, big players…
Rick Falkvinge
Rick is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy. Additionally, he has a tech entrepreneur background and loves good whisky and fast motorcycles.
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With The Copyright Industry Disliking VPNs In Public, You Know They’re Doing Good
A lot of news popped up about VPNs this week, all of them concerning how the copyright industry doesn't like them. That's when you know VPNs are serving a good…
New Catastrophic Privacy Leak Highlights How Nudes Are Nothing
A criminal group has obtained personal details for one of Sweden's largest anonymous forums. Done to scare, intimidate, and out political opponents discussing under protection of anonymity, the collateral damage…
The Fappening – Who Was At Fault? Everybody, Especially The NSA
It's now been 48 hours since the biggest leak of private nude photos of celebrities in history, an event dubbed "The Fappening". Details are starting to appear about what had…
Privacy, Like Vaccination, Is Primarily A Collective Benefit – Not An Individual One
Privacy isn't there for the purpose of protecting people who want to do wrong. Privacy is a more than a random civil right: it is a safeguard in a democratic…
The “Yo” App Demonstrates How Metadata Is Private Data
An app that sends "Yo!" to your friends. That's all it does. Hacked up in eight hours, in the top-five apps, valued at 10 million dollars. What's interesting is that…
Why A “Right To Be Forgotten” Is Really Really Bad For Privacy
The European Court of Justice has famously ruled that Google must abide by a new "Right To Be Forgotten" and stop showing links to stories on request from the people…
Privacy And The Electric Monk
Many believe several contradictory things about privacy. If we could figure out why this is, we could solve a lot of problems with governments disrespecting fundamental civil liberties, and worse,…
When Privacy Of Information Transport Was Attacked 70 Years Ago
The privacy of how you receive information is just as sensitive, and just as fragile, as the information itself. This may seem counterintuitive, but there are several examples to prove…
First Rule Of Censorship Club Is You Don’t Talk About Censorship Club
So it's happened again. Every time law enforcement anywhere gets the ability to censor websites, it always gets applied overbroadly, way beyond the original prescribed scope, and each and every…