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The EFF Announces the End of Life for HTTPS Everywhere

The EFF has announced the end of life for their HTTPS Everywhere program. This might seems like a bad thing but it isn’t. The EFF says that their browser extension is no longer needed because all the major browsers now … Continue reading

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The NSA, Ciphers, and Backdoors

For many years, we’ve been living in a sort of golden age of digital encryption. This is no longer of interest just to the military or other federal agencies that want to secure their data. Indeed, our economy depends upon … Continue reading

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FIDO and The End of Passwords

Eight years ago, I wrote about FIDO, a proposal to replace passwords with a secure way of signing onto sites and applications. Of course, anyone can propose a new, better protocol for a security problem but implementing it and getting … Continue reading

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Guess Who Was Responsible for the Missouri SSN Leak

Back in October of last year Irreal recounted the hilarious but sad tale of the Missouri governor trying to press charges against the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for discovering, notifying the state, and then reporting on the fact that a state … Continue reading

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How To Avoid Search Warrants

Last week, DuckDuckGo tweeted that they have had zero search warrants since their founding in 2008. That’s because they don’t log their users’ searches so there’s no useful information for law enforcement to demand access to. Contrast that to Google … Continue reading

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Prosecuting the Press

As you all know, Irreal doesn’t think very highly of journalists and the press. What Irreal likes even less is know-nothing politicos who nevertheless feel fully qualified to opine and pass judgment on technical matters. The Congressional hearings on social … Continue reading

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The Technical Problems with Apple’s CSAM Scanning

I’ve written several posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) about Apple’s planned CSAM scanning project but those posts have always focused on how Apple was betraying their long held promise to protect our privacy and not allow random … Continue reading

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Apple and Backdoors

In the ongoing Apple CSAM saga, Irreal has mostly been concerned with Apple’s betrayal of their promise to protect their users’ privacy but there’s also the issue the long term security consequences of Apple’s decision. We’ll take a look at … Continue reading

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Malware Using “Exotic” Languages

I tagged this post Security but it might just as well have been tagged Humor. ZDNet is reporting that malware authors are using “exotic” languages to avoid detection by the antivirus folks. If, like the majority of the technical press, … Continue reading

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On Passwords and SolarWinds

By now everyone knows about the major breach of the U.S. Government (and probably others) that had its genesis in an exploit that gave attackers access to the SolarWinds build chain. Some are reporting that the problem was a leaked … Continue reading

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