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Tag Archives: Encryption
House passes bill requiring police to get a warrant to search cell phones
It appears Rhode Island government has done something correctly for a change. The Providence Journal is reporting that the House has passed a bill requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching the contents of a suspect’s mobile phone. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged America, Big Brother, cell phones, Encryption, Free Speech, General Assembly, Mobile Phones, Privacy, Providence, Republicans, Rhode Island, RI, security, security vulnerabilities, warrant, warrantless wiretapping
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Chances Are Your Password Sucks
This isn’t the first time I’ve posted about how badly most users are at selecting a password; nor do I think it’ll be the last. Recently the.. ahem.. “Adult Entertainment” site YouPorn was hacked and the user names and passwords … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged e-mail, Encryption, hacking, Password, Passwords, Privacy, security, security vulnerabilities, stupid people, User, User Name
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Security Win of the Day
Yesterday Mozilla wrote on their official security blog that they will no longer allow root Certificate Authorities (CAs) to issue Subordinate CAs which can easily be used to perform man-in-the-middle attacks against end users. Earlier today we sent an email … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Certificate Authorities, DNS, domain names, Encryption, Free Speech, HTTPS, Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla, Privacy, security, security vulnerabilities, SSL, subCA, Subordinate CAs, technology
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TERRIBLE COURT RULING OF THE DAY: No Encryption Protection
In a ruling that seems to fly in the face of Fifth Amendment protections a federal judge ordered a defendant in a mortgage scam case to decrypt the hard drive in a device that was seized by law enforcement. District … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Hardware, Technology
Tagged Censorship, data protection, Encryption, Fifth Amendment, Judge Robert Blackburn, Privacy, Ramona Fricosu, security
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Great Firewall Of…. T-Mobile?
I was lazily scrolling though my Google Reader feed this 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
Posted in Technology
Tagged Big Brother, Censorship, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Encryption, OpenVPN, Privacy, SMTPS, SSH, SSL, T-Mobile, T-Mobile UK, VPN
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Iran goes [more] Orwellian, Bans Encryption & VPN
Iranian leadership has followed the example of Pakistan and banned the used of Encryption and VPN technology in order to “combat a “soft war” being waged by Western countries against Iran (read: make it easier for the Iranian government to … Continue reading
Posted in Political, Technology
Tagged Big Brother, Censorship, Encryption, Free Speech, Iran, Tor, VPN
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