Tag Archives: Privacy

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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Nothing to Hide? Lose your Curtains.

Posted on 2016-01-10 by jcs

“If you don’t have anything to hide, why do you have curtains on your bedroom window?” — Kontra (@counternotions) December 27, 2015 It may seem facile but it makes a legitimate point: there’s a difference between secrecy and privacy. As … Continue reading →

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Channeling George Orwell

Posted on 2016-01-04 by jcs

Karl Voit brings us a message from George Orwell: A message from George Orwell to everyone on the Internet: https://t.co/aDgmlCRTCz #privacy #videos #mustsee — n0v0id (@n0v0id) January 2, 2016

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Surveillance Karma

Posted on 2016-01-03 by jcs

Remember a year ago when the CIA was shown to have spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee? Senator Dianne Feinstein, a vocal apologist for NSA snooping, was beside herself demanding investigations into the nation-threatening lawlessness on the part of the … Continue reading →

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I Have Nothing to Hide is the Wrong Way to Thing about Surveillance

Posted on 2016-01-02 by jcs

Moxie Marlinspike, whom I’ve written about before, has a nice article on Wired about Why I Have Nothing to Hide is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance. In the first place, you have no idea of whether you have … Continue reading →

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The EFF Talks Encryption

Posted on 2015-12-27 by jcs

Everyone interested in the encryption wars knows that the EFF has done yeoman’s service defending our right to have access to strong, uncompromised encryption. Certain parts of the government hate this and insist that they need—for our own good, of … Continue reading →

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We Don’t Care About No Stinkin’ Keys

Posted on 2015-12-26 by jcs

In a world in which the FBI is intent on bullying tech companies into giving them “golden keys” that they can use to unlock encrypted communications, the TSA’s compromise of their own golden keys (used to open luggage for inspection) … Continue reading →

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A Demonstration of How Hard Cryptography Is

Posted on 2015-12-22 by jcs

In the battle over whether the government should require backdoors in cryptography products, the primary objection from those who actually know what they’re talking about is that we’re not smart enough to safely build in backdoors. That point is often … Continue reading →

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Comey Dissembles (Again)

Posted on 2015-12-20 by jcs

After Paris and San Bernadino, FBI director James Comey has stepped up his “We’re Going Dark” roadshow, telling everyone who will listen how encryption is making it impossible to stop terrorists. In a Washington Post op-ed, Jihadists are making their … Continue reading →

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