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Derek Bruff

New Tech City: Bill Binney and Ladar Levison Talk Cryptography - WNYC - 0 views

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    Here's a podcast interview with Bill Binney and Ladar Levison, both featured in Citizenfour. Binney was the former NSA crypto expert we saw testifying in the film a couple of times, and Levison was the guy who ran the secure email service Lavabit that he felt compelled to shut down.
Derek Bruff

Cotton squares off against Apple CEO | TheHill - 0 views

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    Apple CEO Tim Cook was on 60 Minutes yesterday, reiterating his company's support for strong encryption. Today, Senator Tom Cotton called on Apple and other companies to install "back doors" for law enforcement agencies. I wonder if Tom Cotton has read the "Keys Under Doormats" report by Schneier, Rivest, Diffie, et al.
Derek Bruff

U.S. wants Apple to help unlock iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter - The Washington ... - 0 views

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    Heads up... big crypto story happening now.
Derek Bruff

Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants | Politics and Law - CN... - 0 views

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    Perfect timing for our discussion on Tuesday after break.
Derek Bruff

Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps for First Time Ever, Feds Say | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

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    First official confirmation that strong encryption is foiling government wiretaps.
Derek Bruff

Republicans are coming for your browsing histories, not your guns | VICE News - 0 views

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    Senator John McCain has filed an amendment that would allow the FBI to retrieve email metadata and web browsing history without warrants. He's proposing we expand use of National Security Letters, which get around the need for warrants and often come with gag orders, so that if you receive an NSL asking for data, you can't tell anyone about it.
Derek Bruff

Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People | W... - 1 views

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    "With end-to-end encryption in place, not even WhatsApp's employees can read the data that's sent across its network. In other words, WhatsApp has no way of complying with a court order demanding access to the content of any message, phone call, photo, or video traveling through its service. Like Apple, WhatsApp is, in practice, stonewalling the federal government, but it's doing so on a larger front-one that spans roughly a billion devices."
Derek Bruff

Art that shows us what mass surveillance actually looks like | Fusion - 0 views

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    Quote: What you are looking at is one of the many undersea cables that carries inside it, to put it simply, the magic of the Internet. This particular cable, which runs aground on the coast of Florida, has been tapped by the NSA according to Paglen's research. Paglen, an artist who has been documenting the physical footprint of surveillance for years, got scuba-certified in order to go diving "at several locations off the coast of Florida," he says, to find and photograph the cables.
andrewhaygood97

Military encryption's going open -- Defense Systems - 2 views

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    This makes me wonder how ethical it is for the NSA to be so heavily involved in cryptography internationally. Are they building a backdoor into these crytographic systems? If so, how ethical could that be?
Derek Bruff

5 Fun Facts From the Latest NSA Leak | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

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    Apparently, if you use strong encryption, the NSA pays more attention to you.
Derek Bruff

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications | UK news | gu... - 0 views

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    Hey, look, the British are reading our emails, too...
Derek Bruff

Another Salvo in the Second Crypto War (of Words) - Schneier on Security - 0 views

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    And here's Bruce Schneier on that story about Apple's encryption policies thwarting justice. If you read the first piece, you should also read this one.
j_olsen

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering - 4 views

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    This is an interesting cryptography blog by Matthew Green, a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University.
ftiet21

ellipticnews - 1 views

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    A blog, by multiple authors, about new results in elliptic curve cryptography.
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