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Using data from cellphone locations in Kenya, analysts are better able to predict how malaria will spread.

Oops.

Perfect timing for our discussion on Tuesday after break.

Has the government been reading your email, Facebook posts, tweets, etc.? Yes, yes they have.

First official confirmation that strong encryption is foiling government wiretaps.

"Cryptocat allows you to instantly set up secure conversations. It's an open source encrypted, private alternative to invasive services such as Facebook chat."

"Cryptocat allows you to instantly set up secure conversations. It's an open source encrypted, private alternative to invasive services such as Facebook chat."

Warrantless wiretapping in Canada?

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.

"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."

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.

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?

This resource provides access to articles, news, and blog posts regarding military embedded systems, often using cryptography. One article referenced the cryptography used to secure "Data at Rest" and the length at which this information should be held secure. Is it ethical to keep this information from the public when safety is no longer a concern? At what point should these well-kept secrets become accessible?

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

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