eff This is bad: the UAE's favorite sleazeball cybermercenaries have applied for permission to break Mozilla's web encryption Cory Doctorow

crypto wars Installing a root certificate should be MUCH scarier Cory Doctorow

Business Sennheiser's headphone drivers covertly changed your computer's root of trust, leaving you vulnerable to undetectable attacks Cory Doctorow

Business CEO of Trustico emails 23,000 HTTPS private keys, triggering panicked mass-revocation Cory Doctorow

Business 4-10% of encrypted web connections are man-in-the-middled and intercepted Cory Doctorow

security Cheating Chinese certificate authorities, caught by Certificate Transparency, will get the death penalty Cory Doctorow

Business Google: Chrome will no longer trust Symantec certificates, 30% of the web will need to switch Certificate Authorities Cory Doctorow

security Chrome is about to start warning users that non-HTTPS sites are insecure Cory Doctorow

surveillance UAE surveillance contractor is recruiting an army of foreign hackers to break into its citizens' devices Cory Doctorow

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tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

surveillance What you need to know about police drone surveillance at protests against police brutality Thom Dunn

News WHO says 'evidence emerging' airborne COVID-19 spread may be a threat indoors Xeni Jardin

art How a Black woman turned quilting into a surprisingly radical art form Thom Dunn

Science This is how some snakes can fly David Pescovitz

covid 39,327 new Covid cases on America's worst day yet for new infections Rob Beschizza

racism White lawyer who spat on black high schooler charged with hate crime Mark Frauenfelder

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coronavirus A majority of Americans wouldn't rush to get a Covid-19 vaccination, poll finds Carla Sinclair

News Meet Rahul Dubey, 'absolute legend' who sheltered ~70 protestors inside his home for 8 hours overnight Xeni Jardin