Tag Archives: Privacy

Bruce Schneier has an update on the NSA’s XKEYSCORE program. As usual with Schneier’s writing, it’s an interesting and informative read. What I liked most, though, was this observation at the end Ubiquitous encryption is the bane of listeners worldwide, … Continue reading →

This is the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 25 anniversary. ars technica celebrated that anniversary with a nice article on the EFF’s most influential cases from its first 25 years. The takeaway from the article is that the EFF has been fighting … Continue reading →

…you’ve got nothing to fear. For those of you who are as sick as I am of hearing that bit of tendentious nonsense floated by those who want to stick their noses into every aspect of your affairs, Jacques Mattheij … Continue reading →

This is why you must always resist government overtures to impose surveillance programs: You can never get rid of them. Despite expiration of the enabling legislation, the clear fourth amendment issues, and the lack of any productive results, the FISA … Continue reading →

Cory Doctorow has an interesting piece in The Guardian positing that in the commercial sphere, if not the world of spies, big data has run its course. I especially like this quote: The fact that the billions spent spying on … Continue reading →

The EFF has published its annual Who Has Your Back? report. The idea is that they look at those technology companies that deal with our private data and rate them on the following criteria Follows industry-accepted best practices Tells users … Continue reading →

LWN.net is reporting on a Debian bug report complaining that Chromium, Google’s open source version of their Chrome Browser, was downloading a binary blob after it started. The responsible Debian maintainers did not have access to the code for the … Continue reading →