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A year after terrorist attacks, phone privacy laws unchanged – but watch out for Trump

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Dec

2016

One year ago, 14 people were killed and 22 injured by a husband-and-wife pair of domestic terrorists who attacked a training session of government employees in San Bernardino, Calif. Although the perpetrators were killed in a gun battle with law enforcement within hours of the attack, the FBI’s interest in one terrorist’s iPhone precipitated a […]

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Hacker Lexicon: What Is Perfect Forward Secrecy?

29

Nov

2016

Encryption keeps your secrets, until it doesn’t. When you use an encryption tool like the venerable software PGP, for instance, your most sensitive communications are only as secure as a single, secret piece of data known as a private key. If that key gets stolen, it’s not just all your future messages that have been […]

Category Access control Privacy protection Written by Wired 0 Comments

Securing Communications in a Trump Administration

28

Nov

2016

Susan Landau has an excellent essay on why it’s more important than ever to have backdoor-free encryption on our computer and communications systems. Protecting the privacy of speech is crucial for preserving our democracy. We live at a time when tracking an individual — a journalist, a member of the political opposition, a citizen engaged […]

Category Access control Mobile security Written by Schneier 0 Comments

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