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AppleTV 6.0 requires Fairplay-DRM Airplay Sources
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How airline reservations are used to target illegal searches
One of the most detailed pictures to date of how the US government uses airline reservations to target illegal searches is provided by documents released recently by the US government as part of an agreement to settle a lawsuit brought by David House , an activist with the Pvt. Manning Support Network .
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Open Letter From UK Security Researchers
Dear Reader, The first set of publications based on Edward Snowden’s files were concerned with surveillance of internet communication h...
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Django Security Release - 1.5.4
Posted by James Bennett on Sept. 15, 2013
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Why you should not trust emails sent from Google
As you might know, Google is running a vulnerability reward program , where they award researchers monetary awards or a place in their Hall of Fame when they responsibly disclose vulnerabilities. With this in mind, I was scooping around on several Google services, including Google Scholar. As I recently started a PhD…
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Documents Shed Light on Border Laptop Searches
The case of David Miranda got a lot of attention around the world after UK authorities were accused of abusing an anti-terrorism law to evade the normal constitutional restrains on police power and question someone because of their political associations. Well, a very similar abuse of power appears to have happened…
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1Password and the Crypto Wars
A series of debates, civil disobedience, and cryptographic developments have come to be known as “The Crypto Wars”. Learn how 1Password can help you protect your data.
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PayPal Freezes Mailpile Campaign Funds
[ Update: PayPal have unfrozen the account, for now at least. Thank you for your support!]
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NSA Spying Documents to be Released As Result of EFF Lawsuit
In a major victory in one of EFF's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, the Justice Department conceded yesterday that it will release hundreds of pages of documents, including FISA court opinions, related to the government’s secret interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the law...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Dismisses the Importance of Privacy
Yesterday, the web was buzzing with commentary about Google CEO Eric Schmidt's dangerous, dismissive response to concerns about search engine users' privacy. When asked during an interview for CNBC's recent "Inside the Mind of Google" special about whether users should be sharing information with...
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Details Behind Today's Internet Hacks
At 1:19pm, a researcher noticed that the New York Times' website wasn't loading. We know the New York Times tech team, so we emailed to check in. Minutes later, the CTO of the NYT called us back.
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Deterministic Builds Part One: Cyberwar and Global Compromise
I've spent the past few months developing a new build system for the 3.0 series of the Tor...
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TextSecure: Forward secrecy for asynchronous messages
Traditionally, asynchronous messaging systems such as email have relied on protocols like PGP or S/MIME for cryptographic security. These protocols work the way most people are familiar with: one who wishes to receive encrypted email advertises a public key, and those wishing to send encrypted e...
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Court Opinion Finding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional to be released
Update: In response to EFF's FOIA lawsuit, the government has released the 2011 FISA court opinion ruling some NSA surveillance unconstitutional. For over a year, EFF has been fighting the government in federal court to force the public release of an 86-page opinion of the secret Foreign...
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Containers and Docker: how secure are they?
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’
The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization based in Charlottesville, Va.
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UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives
Fresh off the news that UK authorities detained the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald for nine hours yesterday, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger has published an extraordinary report of government pressure and intimidation that should send chills down the spine of anyone who cares about a free…
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Introducing FuzzDB
FuzzDB is an open source database of attack patterns, predictable resource names, regex patterns for identifying interesting server responses, and documentation resources. It's most often used testing the security of ...
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UK courts have not been forthcoming with access to website blocking orders
A few weeks ago, ORG published the website 451unavailable.
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Google confirms Java and OpenSSL crypto PRNG on Android are broken
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Deceptions, Misinformation, and Word Games Used to Mislead About Surveillance
It’s been two months since President Barack Obama first said that he welcomes a debate about NSA surveillance, which he once again reiterated last week at his press conference. Unfortunately, it’s very hard to have a real debate about a subject when the administration constantly and intentionally...
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Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Servers”
Update (10/16/2013): Google Fiber has made a change to their Acceptable Use Policy that clarifies that some non-commercial uses for running servers are permitted. We applaud Google for making this change, but note that there are still provisions to take issue with in the policy, such as the...