Tag Archives: Privacy

The government that claims it can safely manage backdoor keys to our communications has once again demonstrated its fecklessness at securing sensitive data. Sans Newsbites is reporting that several license plate reader cameras were exposed online. In some cases, the … Continue reading →

Edward Snowden cuts through the baloney and reminds us of the real meaning of Metadata. "Metadata" means records about your private activities and associations. It's an activity dossier. The novelty is in the lack of warrants. — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) … Continue reading →

Governments are fond of telling us not to worry about their wholesale collection of phone records because, after all, it’s just metadata. Mike Rogers even tried to press the point that since the records contained only phone numbers they couldn’t … Continue reading →

Here’s some good news. It’s a little old now but still worth noting. Huge #cryptowars victory: after just one day of public outcry, India withdraws dangerous anti-encryption proposal http://t.co/RjTA5le3kR — Kevin Bankston (@KevinBankston) September 22, 2015 The Indian government has … Continue reading →

A nice followup to Blaze’s tweet that encryption was a problem in only four cases last year. I'll bet burglars wore gloves to avoid leaving fingerprint evidence a lot more than four times last year. Time for a war on … Continue reading →

Perhaps this will help. Remember yesterday when I wrote about the MI5’s Andrew Parker assuring us that “MI5 is not about “browsing the lives” of the public? Here’s what they do when they think no one’s watching: The Intercept reports … Continue reading →

Andrew Parker, head of MI5 and Britain’s representative of the international cabal of nosey Parkers1 who wish to scrutinize every bit of our on-line activities—for our own good, of course—is complaining to the BBC about how hard it is to … Continue reading →

Would be too snarky for me to point out that these are the same people who want us to give them our crypto keys? — matt blaze (@mattblaze) September 24, 2015

The Washington Post has an interesting article by Ellen Nakashima and Andrea Peterson on the Obama’s administration’s support for strong encryption. Nakashima and Peterson are reporting that the administration is backing away from seeking a legislative mandate that technology companies … Continue reading →

I.F. Stone famously told us that “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” It’s easy to write that off as tin foil hat fodder but, in truth, the facts support him. The latest such … Continue reading →