Tag Archives: Privacy

Rickrolling the FBI

Posted on 2016-03-05 by jcs

I found this way funnier than I should have. Apple finally complies with the FBI via #reddit pic.twitter.com/HhlDJk7LK0 — Scott Kerr (@scott_kerr) February 23, 2016

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Journalists and Their Coverage of FBI/Apple

Posted on 2016-03-02 by jcs

This is why my “Note to journalists” in today’s earlier post was necessary: State of tech coverage: published AFTER the FBI Director corrects his earlier lie about not seeking a precedent: pic.twitter.com/mVkXT4P3eL — Kontra (@counternotions) March 2, 2016

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Judge Orenstein Rules

Posted on 2016-03-02 by jcs

By now you will have heard that Federal Magistrate Judge James Orenstein of the Eastern District of New York has ruled in case parallel to the San Bernardino case involving the FBI and Apple. At issue in the San Bernardino … Continue reading →

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Apple Responds

Posted on 2016-02-28 by jcs

Irreal readers are certainly aware of the latest drama playing out between the FBI and Apple. The FBI applied, ex parte, to a federal magistrate for an order compelling Apple to assist the FBI in breaking into an iPhone 5C … Continue reading →

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Privacy versus Law Enforcement

Posted on 2016-02-22 by jcs

#AppleVsFBI pic.twitter.com/5aSx2shARm — Jayson E. Street (@jaysonstreet) February 21, 2016

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Still Think You Have Nothing to Hide?

Posted on 2016-02-18 by jcs

How about sexually explicit pictures from your webcam? Would you like to keep those private? As they point out in the article, the GCHQ capturing random pictures from the webcam is eerily reminiscent of the telescreens in Orwell’s 1984. But … Continue reading →

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Why Indeed?

Posted on 2016-02-13 by jcs

In a world where 16yo's can empty out FBI&DHS sensitive data, remind me again why we should let these agencies collect and keep our secrets. — Emin Gün Sirer (@el33th4xor) February 13, 2016

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The Piper Sends its Bill to the NSA

Posted on 2016-02-07 by jcs

The NSA has been playing fast and lose with its duty to secure our communications by arranging for backdoors to be inserted into our cryptographic protocols. Everyone familiar with the situation is convinced that the NSA diddled with the Dual_EC_DRBG … Continue reading →

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More Backdoor Silliness

Posted on 2016-02-06 by jcs

Benjamin Wittes over at Lawfare has posted a particularly silly idea for forcing vendors to install encryption backdoors: simply withdraw CDA §230 protection from any company that does not provide an unencrypted copy of any data they carry. The CDA … Continue reading →

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We Need More of This

Posted on 2016-01-26 by jcs

I love this. We definitely need more of it. My only suggestion is to make it longer. Making these busy bodies suffer is a moral imperative.

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