politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy is looking for engineering, social science, law, and policy "visitors" for interdisciplinary one-year positions Cory Doctorow
law Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials Cory Doctorow
privacy The top FBI lawyer who tried to force Apple to backdoor its crypto now says working crypto is essential to public safety and national security Cory Doctorow
happy mutants BBC launches a Tor hidden service mirror to help people evade their countries' censoring firewalls Cory Doctorow
infosec After banning working cryptography and raiding whistleblowers, Australia's spies ban speakers from national infosec conference Cory Doctorow
surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow
privacy Gawker's new owners demand right to search journalists, ban encrypted email and institute dress code Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Fascinating, accessible guide to cryptographic attacks, from brute-force to POODLE and beyond Cory Doctorow
security William Barr's terrible, stupid idea to ban working crypto is slightly less terrible and stupid than earlier ideas Cory Doctorow
Science The new £50 notes will feature Alan Turing (whilst HMG proposes bans on Turing complete computers AND working crypto) Cory Doctorow
security EFF publishes an indispensable, plain-language guide to "cell-site simulators": the surveillance devices that track you via your phone Cory Doctorow
uk UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow
security Learning from Baltimore's disaster, Florida city will pay criminals $600,000 to get free of ransomware attack Cory Doctorow
privacy Private Join and Compute is Google's free/open source tool to allow "mulitparty computation" of encrypted data without decryption Cory Doctorow
