privacy Signal's new "Sealed Sender" will hide your identity from Signal Cory Doctorow

Technology Senate GOP introduce bill to end 'warrant-proof' encryption, end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp is targeted Xeni Jardin

law Illicit THC dealers are raking in the bucks on Instagram: Report Xeni Jardin

cbp CBP searched 30,000 devices last year without warrant, up 4x from 3 years prior Xeni Jardin

censorship Alex Stamos on the security problems of the platforms' content moderation, and what to do about them Cory Doctorow

Business Facebook expects up to $5 billion FTC fine over privacy Xeni Jardin

Old school Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net Cory Doctorow

privacy What ephemeral messaging is good for Cory Doctorow

privacy You cannot opt out of Facebook's surveillance network Rob Beschizza

Business Facebook is working on a crypto coin for WhatsApp Xeni Jardin

Business Crypto CEO dies with the password to unlock $200+ million of customers' Bitcoin Xeni Jardin

News New privacy hires at WhatsApp: Nate Cardozo (EFF), Robyn Greene (Open Technology Institute) Xeni Jardin

stay safe out there Here's a must-read checklist of actions to increase online privacy and security Mark Frauenfelder

terrorism Fearing for their lives, 60,000 people have fled Nicaragua Seamus Bellamy

crypto wars Debunking "ghost users": MI5's plan to backdoor all secure messaging platforms Cory Doctorow

no you shut up White supremacist hate groups find approval in Trump's words Jason Weisberger

security Efail: can email be saved? Cory Doctorow

privacy Amazon doesn't like how Signal circumvents censorship Seamus Bellamy

web theory Amazon orders Signal to stop using AWS to defeat censorship Cory Doctorow

web theory The upside of big tech is Russia vs Telegram, but the downside is Cloudflare vs SESTA Cory Doctorow