Several people objected to the claim that "Scotland Yard says HTTPS is terrorism" by asserting that Scotland Yard is following the law to the letter. Maybe they are, but that…
In a new level of dumb, Germany and France are demanding strong encryption for all citizens at the same time as they demand this strong encryption to be breakable. They…
Earlier this week, BitDefender demonstrated the TeLeScope technique, which allows an attacker to decrypt TLS communication between a target and a virtualized server. TLS stands for Transport Layer Security and…
As US authorities decide they have the right to seize any data, the mandatory privacy suite expands: full-disk encryption goes from optional to very recommended, in addition to using a…
Freedom of Speech is not just the freedom to say whatever you want. It's the freedom to say those words to somebody. It follows that strong encryption is not just…
It didn't take long after the Paris terror attacks for police state hawks to demand more police powers. Bans on encryption have been suggested, as well as regulation of bitcoin…
The European Parliament just adopted a report that goes way further in the right direction than anything seen before from any legislative body. It condemns mass surveillance in the strongest…
Edward Snowden's greatest fear was that his sacrifice would have no effect. To the contrary, it's having an effect throughout the entire Internet - and the biggest effect in the…
Late 2014, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced a small software utility called "Let's Encrypt", aimed at website administrators. It reduces the time and skill required to encrypt a website from…
WhatsApp starts encrypting all conversations end-to-end. Would Facebook really allow WhatsApp to throw away the business value in a 19-billion acquisition? Of course it wouldn't. This demonstrates that the snoop…