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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 94 posts.
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You are committing a crime right now
Are you reading this blog? If so, you are committing a crime under 18 USC 1030(a) (better known as the “ Computer Fraud & Abus...
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Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you online
Web Extension version of the Firefox Lightbeam add-on - mozilla/lightbeam-we
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Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
[UPDATE 2/22/2012] It is important to note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. More information at the end of this post. On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will…
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Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Bogus story: no Chinese backdoor in military chip
Today's big news is that researchers have found proof of Chinese manufacturers putting backdoors in American chips that the military uses. T...
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"Adobe has released Adobe Photoshop CS6, which addresses these vulnerabilities"
Adobe applies hundreds of security processes and controls to help us comply with industry-accepted standards.
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Congress Must Act After US Government Admits To Warrantless Wiretapping
As Congress and the President rush to re-authorize the dangerous FISA Amendments Act (FAA)—the law shamefully passed after pressure to legalize certain portions of the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program—EFF has been sounding the alarm that Americans’ communications are still being...
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White House Deletes TSA Petition
At approximately 11:30 am EDT, the White House removed a petition about the TSA airport screening procedures from the White House
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Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software.
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'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`;' -- Stripe's Web Security CTF is Live
Today we're launching Capture the Flag: Web Edition, a security contest where you can try your hand at discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in mock web applications.
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A Tale of Two Pwnies (Part 1)
Just over two months ago, Chrome sponsored the Pwnium browser hacking competition. We had two fantastic submissions , and successfully bloc...
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A Tutorial on Anonymous Email Accounts
Tomorrow, as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers reforming the decades-old federal email privacy law, the personal Inboxes and love lives of senior military and intelligence figures may be on that august body's mind. When the FBI pored through the personal lives of CIA Director David Petraeus...
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How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One
Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturday. The outage was caused when we applied an overly aggressive rate limit to traffic on our network while battling a determined DDoS attacker.
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New Year's Resolution: Full Disk Encryption on Every Computer You Own
The New Year is upon us, and you might be partaking in the tradition of making a resolution for the coming year. This year, why not make a resolution to protect your data privacy with one of the most powerful tools available? Commit to full disk encryption on each of your computers. Many of us now...
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Gmail security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks
Posted by Eric Grosse, VP Security Engineering We are constantly on the lookout for malicious activity on our systems, in particular attem...