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Today, Congress finally showed it's willing to fight the FBI on encryption
It took a while, but FBI director Jim Comey got a little bit of the grilling he has earned in the FBI vs. Apple case. Freedom of the Press Foundation's Trevor Timm writes on today's House Judiciary...
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As FBI war on crypto intensifies, Facebook, Google, WhatsApp to intensify use...
In response to the FBI's attack on Apple's use of encryption-based security methods, some of the biggest names in technology are reported to be planning an expanded use of encryption for user data that...
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Iran: We snarfed up “13,000 pages of data” from detained Navy sailors' devices
The government of Iran claims to have obtained “thousands of pages of information” from devices used by the U.S. Navy sailors briefly detained in January. (more…)
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Paris terrorists used disposable burner phones to hide plans. No evidence of...
"Everywhere they went, the attackers left behind their throwaway phones." Buried in the New York Times story Mark poked fun at earlier for its Crypto Panic vibe, a confirmation of sorts that there's...
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FBI may not need Apple's help with that iPhone after all, nevermind, maybe
In a surprising turn of events, the U.S. government on Monday paused its battle with Apple over an iPhone, and what may be its greater goal of mandating “backdoors” in consumer encryption. On Monday...
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Justice Department to drop 'FBI vs. Apple' case, because they've unlocked the...
The #FBIvsApple legal case may be over, but the fight over security, privacy, and the right to live free of surveillance has just begun. The Justice Department is expected to drop its legal action...
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Security flaws found in 3 state health insurance websites
Federal investigators have discovered major security vulnerabilities in the state health insurance websites for California, Kentucky and Vermont that could allow criminals to access sensitive personal...
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Turns out the U.S. military really is dropping “cyber bombs” on ISIS
There's been an awful lot of talk about “cyber pathogens” and “cyber bombs” lately from the mouths of American officials discussing terrorism, and how we will vanquish it. President Obama mentioned...
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Brazil judge orders WhatsApp blocked for 72 hours, affecting 100 million people
A state judge in the Brazilian state of Sergipe has ordered all mobile phone operators in the country to block Facebook-owned WhatsApp for 72 hours, nationwide. Those five telecom providers put the ban...
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Tales from the ransomware "support line"
An article at News From the Lab (pdf) has 30 pages of copy from the support chat of a ransomware app: desperate pleas from victims for their files back, or, failing that, discounts on the unlock fee....
View ArticleReal people don't (just) need encryption
Earlier this month, UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd idiotically insisted that "real people" don't need encrypted messaging apps; but as foolish a statement as that was, there was a kernel of truth to it....
View ArticleUsing structured encryption to search protected photos in the cloud
In a recent presentation at the Real World Crypto symposium, researchers affiliated with Brown University and a startup called Pixek presented their work developing an app that encrypts photos at the...
View ArticleAmazon doesn't like how Signal circumvents censorship
Signal is an encrypted messaging app for smartphones and desktops that I and a lot of other folks use on a daily basis to communicate with discretion and security. I like it so much that I've moved...
View ArticleAustralia may have just backdoored your mobile phone
A really bad new law in Australia gives police the right to force companies like Apple to 'backdoor', or create encryption circumvention alternatives, in all their products. The issue has been...
View ArticleMongodb's plan to limit breaches: "Field Level Encryption"
Many large-scale data-breaches involve attackers gaining access to administrators' database logins; from there, they can clone the whole database and plunder it at will; but leading nosql database...
View ArticleEFF publishes an indispensable, plain-language guide to "cell-site...
In 2012, the Wall Street Journal first reported on a mysterious cellphone surveillance tool being used by law-enforcement; years later, we learned that the origin of this report was an obsessive...
View ArticleYou have the right to remain encrypted
“You have the right to remain silent.” We’ve heard the Miranda warning countless times on TV, but what good is the right to remain silent if our own cellphones testify against us? Imagine every...
View ArticleAttorney General William Barr wants to backdoor Facebook's WhatsApp
Disgraced Trump administration Attorney General William Barr and his counterparts in the British and Australian governments plan to push Facebook for an encryption backdoor for WhatsApp and other...
View ArticleWoman discovers 'secret' coded message in John Milton poem 'Paradise Lost'
A young Massachusetts woman who recently graduated from Tufts University is convinced that she has found a 'secret' encoded message in “Paradise Lost,” the poem by John Milton. The Boston Globe reports...
View ArticleThe FBI doesn't need Apple to give it a backdoor to encryption, because it...
Once again, the FBI is putting pressure on Apple to help them break into the phone of a mass shooter. And once again, Apple has been largely resistant to the effort. Which is good, because a government...
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