Tag Archives: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Legal Victory of the Day: EFF Victorious In Fight Over Time-Zone Database

More good news from the Electronic Frontier Foundation in a suit brought against Alfred Olson and Paul Eggert (who maintain the timezone database at the National Institutes of Health) by software developers Astrolabe, Inc. The Time Zone Database (or tz … Continue reading

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Great Firewall Of…. T-Mobile?

I was lazily scrolling though my Google Reader feed thisĀ  afternoon when I saw a Tweet from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that caught my attentions Researcher reports T-Mobile UK is using #DPI and packet forgery to jam SMTPS email encryption … Continue reading

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Google Now Even More Secure

Google has begun using “forward secrecy” in it’s secure web-browsing to prevent hackers from storing and later decrypting your traffic to services such asĀ  searches, Gmail, Docs, and Google+ The forward secrecy enabled today requires that the private keys that … Continue reading

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