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- Announcing the Washington, DC Cryptoparty!
On 14 October 2012, HacDC will be hosting the first #cryptoparty in Washington, DC . Everyone in the DC metroplex who is concerned about privacy, anonymity, surveillance,
- HacDC: Privacy, anonymity, and operational security.
On Saturday, 8 October 2011 I will be at HacDC giving an impromptu class on personal privacy, online anonymity, and operational security for activists. I will be talking a
- A day late and a dollar short, but we're the ones who'll pay.
For nearly twenty years in the United States a law called CALEA ( Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 ) has been on the books. To summarize, CALEA se
- The people said "No more!" and the TSA said "Shut your pie holes!"
First, I'd like to give special thanks to I/Oerror who's been keeping a hawk's eye on this. I found a couple of the articles for this post on his Twitter feed during my da
- The walls are closing in.
Every couple of days - usually on the weekends - I force myself to go on a media fast. If I can get away with it, I don't watch television, I don't look at my RSS feed rea
- If they want to see any more, I want a nurse to be present.
It seems that the controversy over full body x-ray backscatter scanners hasn't died down yet. Since word got out that the TSA was, in fact, saving images from the machines
- An interesting development in the Lower Marion School District surveillance case.
For a couple of months now I've been following the Lower Marion High School laptop surveillance case in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. If the story's been dropped from your c
- TSA archives full-body scans at airports.
A couple of years back the Transportation Security Agency started deploying full body scanners at some airports around the country which use millimeter wave radar to scan
- Updated privacy policy.
I've updated my blog's privacy policy to take into account some things that my web hosting provider does differently than I did when I ran my own web server. If you're cur
- Kindle highlights may be used by Amazon.
If you're anything like me, at some point you started to run out of room for your dead-tree editions and started downloading e-books. While you no longer have the tactile
- DCLUG presentation: Tor
I'll be giving a presentation on Tor for the Washington DC Linux Users' Group the evening of 19 May 2010. The LUG meeting will start at 1900 EST5EDT (7:00pm) and run until
- NOVALUG presentation: Anonymity and Tor.
Confirmation's just hit the NOVALUG website - I will be presenting at the next meeting on 10 April 2010 on the topic of anonymity technologies in general and Tor in partic
- MySpace selling user data on the open market.
MySpace , one of the biggest and best known social networking websites on the Net has announced that they'll be putting volumes of their users' data for sale on the open m
- More from the Lower Merion School District.
A couple of days ago word hit the newswires that a high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania had been using the laptops issued to its students to spy on them . Word's gott
- Information exposure in Google Buzz.
Regular users of Gmail have no doubt noticed the new entry just below their Inbox tag called Buzz - if you haven't yet, chances are you will soon. From what I can tell it
- Conversation with a Facebook insider.
It seems as if Facebook is everywhere these days. Less involved than Livejournal or Blogger but packing a little more substance than Twitter , Facebook is a great way to g
- Blips from the future.
While doing some research for another entry I stumbled across a pair of articles in my daily news feed scan that jumped out at me because they seem thematically appropriat
- Firefox plug-ins I have known and loved.
It's been said that the killer app that made the Net as ubiquitous as it is today is the web browser, with e-mail running a close second. Just about everyone uses a browse
- Privacy, anonymity, and security, part the first.
Longtime readers of my weblog are no doubt familiar with my preoccuptation with security, which lead to my working in that field of endeavour, and also my interest in pers
- Boot loaders and securing dual-booting portable systems.
If you've been following the news media for the past year or so, stores have been cropping up with frightening regularity about travelers who are detained at the border wh
- Bruce Schneier on the false dichotomy between privacy and security.
If I ever get around to having children, I might name my first boy after Bruce Schneier because he's got a lot more on the ball than I ever will. This time around, Schneie
- Hushmail rolls over on some of its users.
For years, the webmail service provided by Hushmail has been an example of weak anonymity and privacy: They don't ask for much to set up an account, they will happily auto
- Fun and games in the dark.
If you've read my website for any length of time, you're probably aware of the fact that I am very much a privacy advocate - I think that it is none of anyone's business w
- Microsoft patents the end-all-be-all of spyware; open source community gears up in response.
A couple of days ago it came to light that Microsoft, everyone's favorite software powerhouse took out a patent on what very well could be the spyware to end all spyware -
- Another wiki appears on the Tor darknet.
Someone Out There has set up a new wiki on the Tor network for exchanging and cataloging links. It's admittedly a little thin right now on content, but the more that word
- A significant blow to anonymity - E-Gold indicted!
E-Gold is an online bank which allows customers to anonymously deposit money into an account and transfer it electronically to other accounts on financial networks around
- Cryptome taken offline without reason.
Cryptome is one of the longest-running websites on the Net for information related to personal privacy, whistleblowing and other sorts of information that make the people
- Tor has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code project!
Tor, The Onion Router is a well-known net.privacy project that has been the subject of a grassroots development project for a couple of years now. The EFF has made room fo
- ADVISE - The TIA Project Strikes Back.
Back in 2003, the US Government formed a project called TIA - Total Information Awareness, with a logo that made about half of the country cringe in fear, anger, and disgu
- College professor asked to stop using and teaching Tor.
Paul Cesarini of Bowling Green State University is an assistant professor of visual communication and has been using Tor (The Onion Router - an anonymisation system for ne
- Privacy Policy
The Apache web server maintains logs of all accesses - every PHP page, every HTML page, every image file, every JavaScript snippet gets logged with your IP address, like s
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