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Encryption

Representatives Garcia and Wagner introduce EARN IT Act to the House

Posted on Oct 5, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act (EARN IT Act) is now on the House of Representatives floor. The bill (full text) was submitted by Representatives Sylvia…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Russia wants to outlaw TLS 1.3, ESNI, DNS over HTTPS, and DNS over TLS

Posted on Sep 22, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media has released a draft law which outlines plans to outlaw TLS 1.3, ESNI, DNS over HTTPS, and DNS over TLS.…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

Researchers were able to figure out which American phone numbers use Signal

Posted on Sep 17, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Privacy flaws in contact discovery have led to a research team being able to enumerate all American Signal users. Enumeration means that using the contact discovery built into the Signal…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance

Welcome to the quantum Internet, with privacy guaranteed by the laws of physics

Posted on Sep 11, 2020 by Glyn Moody

Quantum computing is gradually moving from the realm of science – and even science fiction – to become a practical technology that is being used in real-life contexts. Three years…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The privacy perils of using a mesh network – and why we urgently need one that is robust and open source

Posted on Sep 2, 2020 by Glyn Moody

One of the reasons why protecting privacy is so hard is that our data is vulnerable in so many ways as it flows across the Internet. Threats can come from…

Categories: Censorship, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Act now to protect encryption and make sure that there is no EARN IT Act passed

Posted on Jun 30, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A new anti-encryption bill proposed by Senator Graham will face a key vote this week, and activists are working to make sure that the bill does not pass. The bill…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments

The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act shows that politicians still don’t understand encryption

Posted on Jun 24, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Three Senators, including the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have introduced a new anti-encryption bill called the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act. The bill was introduced by Senate…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News

To work together with law enforcement, Zoom won’t provide end-to-end encryption for free users

Posted on Jun 3, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has admitted that he won’t provide end-to-end encryption to free users in favor of being able to work with law enforcement. It has previously been discussed…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News

Private Internet Access announces another year of Let’s Encrypt sponsorship

Posted on Apr 24, 2020 by Private Internet Access

Private Internet Access is proud to announce a second year of Silver Sponsorship of Let’s Encrypt. Private Internet Access believes that every website should be served encrypted over HTTPS for…

Categories: Announcements, Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, VPN

Unpatched bug in iOS 13.3.1 and later stops VPNs from encrypting all connections

Posted on Mar 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

An ongoing security vulnerability in iPhones and iPads is keeping VPN applications from doing their job. For iOS versions 13.3.1 and later, this bug remains unpatched and has been rated…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, VPN
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