Tag Archives: Privacy

I Have Nothing To Hide

Jamie Zawinski links to a frightening response to a post on Reddit that offered the usual tripe about not caring about government surveillance because “I have nothing to hide.” The responder purports to be living in an Arab country that … Continue reading →

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EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed suit in Federal Court on behalf of 19 organizations. The suit asks that the court rule that the NSA mass surveillance violates the first, fourth, and fifth amendments to the U.S. Constitution and … Continue reading →

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The Other Side

In my The Good Guys and Bad post, I had harsh words for Microsoft’s collaboration with the NSA and FBI. I still find their actions over the top and inexcusable but there is another side to the story. Declan McCullagh … Continue reading →

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GPG Tutorial

If you aren’t already using GPG (or one of its OpenPGP brethren) you should start. Happily, Alan Eliasen has a nice tutorial on how to set up and use GPG. The tutorial covers everything you need to use GPG in … Continue reading →

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The Good Guys and Bad

There’s a tiny ISP in Utah, USA. It has a sole proprietor and very limited resources. Still, it does what few others are willing or able to do. For the last 15 years, Xmission has refused to honor any request … Continue reading →

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AT&T: All Your Data Are Belong To Us

Editorial Note: In the aftermath of the NSA revelations, I’ve been writing more and more posts on privacy and ways to help secure it. From this post on I will use the tag “Privacy” to mark these. AT&T, my wireless … Continue reading →

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