Nick Pearson, an EFF member and founder of IVPN.net, wrote a thorough article for TechDirt on precisely what sort of privacy VPN providers can and cannot offer customers. I’ve been using AirVPN for a couple years now, and there are two basic forms of privacy I’m trying to achieve. First, I do not want people…
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An article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation from back in November 2012 notes that Canonical has begun incorporating easy-to-install full disk encryption beginning with Ubuntu 12.10. When you install Ubuntu, now there’s a checkbox to “Encrypt the new Ubuntu installation for security.” Users who are new to GNU/Linux and just making the switch can easily…
This ad leaves a lot of nuance out, but is still a clever depiction of the cryptographic strength of 2048-bit cert.
Nice talk from 28C3 on methods that arms race between governments and Tor developers.
CrypTweet is an attempt to create a tool to encrypt Twitter DMs. Unfortunately, pretty much as soon as it was released it faced an enormous backlash for a number of implementation errors. The author frankly admits to the numerous problems on the CryptTweet website now and says the tool is only for experimental purposes. Personally,…
This paper by four security researchers on the effects of whole disk encryption on forensic investigations garnered a lot of press after it suggested that the increasing use of full disk encryption tools is hampering some investigations. According the paper’s abstract (emphasis added), The increasing use of full disk encryption (FDE) can significantly hamper digital…