Cell phone privacy guide for Android
The Pirate Party of Canada has a nice list of applications and add-ons for Android phones which enhance security and privacy. It boils down to Use Cyanogenmod. Install applications from the alternative...
View ArticlePolice “decrypts” your phone
CNET has an interesting article about how warrants to access suspects mobile phones are handled by two of the big mobile OS providers; Apple and Google. Focusing on Apple, the article mentions cases...
View ArticleNSA surveillance – business as usual
This week saw two interesting, and supposedly shocking, stories about the scale of the US government’s Internet surveillance. Starting Thursday with the news that the phone operator Verizon had been...
View ArticlePrivacy – A great opertunity for Free software, and funny news
It has been an entertaining week in the privacy and security headlines. Since the NSA stories broke last week, protecting ourselves from state surveillance suddenly became mainstream. We’ll see if that...
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PRISM – the effect
Another week with NSA and PRISM news has gone by, and now the reactions and comments start to take on more substance and show that people have had to the time to reflect on the various issues, rather...
View Article30 years of GNU
It’s been 30 years since Richard Stallman announced his project to create a free alternative to Unix. The world has changed a lot since then, the Internet had changed and grown enormously, and Free...
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Trends: Snowden didn’t change public’s behaviour
For all the NSA documents revealed by Snowden, and for all the news headlines stressing the gravity of the situation, it seems the general public has not changed their behaviour much. At least that...
View ArticleAnother assault on privacy by GCHQ
Recently, it was revealed by IT Security Guru that the British intelligence agency GCHQ had demand a backdoor into the secure email service PrivateSky by CertiVox. At the end of 2012, GCHQ made the...
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anonabox : a Tor hardware router
Update: This project turned out to be too good too be true, at least for now. Wired has a brief article on the problems of the project, and why it was canceled by Kickstarter. However, as the developer...
View ArticleReview: No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald
In his latest book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald gives a brief summary of the events since Edwards Snowden first contacted him 1 December 2012, up until UK government’s harassment of David Miranda...
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Let’s Encrypt TLS certificate setup for Apache on Debian 7
Through Let’s Encrypt, anybody can now easily obtain and install a free TSL (or SSL) certificate on their web site. The basic use case for a single host is very simple and straight forward to set up as...
View ArticlePrivacy attacks and government surveillance continue
At the Symantec Government Symposium on Tuesday, FBI director James Comey said he “can’t resist talking about encryption and going dark”, and will continue an “adult” discussion into 2017. What’s...
View ArticleExpanding police and surveillance powers across Europe
In January, two interesting and thorough reports on expanding police and surveillance powers across Europe were published: Amnesty International published a 70 page report which summarizes its research...
View ArticleFacebook shattered
The last week has been devastating for Facebook, with revelations about the Cambridge Analytica data abuse, but also uncontrolled access to people’s private information and friend networks by thousands...
View ArticleRichard Stallman response to the Facebook scandal
In an opinion piece in The Guardian, Richards Stallman shares his view on the latest Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal. He is definitely in a position to say “I told you so”, and both he and...
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