News / General Articles
- 27-06-2017: Encrypted chat app Telegram warned by Russian regulator: 'comply or goodbye'. [The Register]
- 28-06-2017: Telegram will register with Russia but won't share secure data. [Engadget] [BBC News]
- 26-06-2017: Crypto War 3: Five Eyes and G20 nations plan renewed assault on encryption. [THG]
- 20-06-2017: Mexico 'spied on journalists, lawyers and activists'. [BBC News]
- 19-06-2017: Backdoor backlash: European Parliament wants better privacy. [The Register]
- 18-06-2017: How to browse the web and leave no trace. [Gizmodo]
- 16-06-2017: Governments breaking encryption still a bad idea. [NZ Herald]
- 15-06-2017: Germany looking to introduce anti-encryption laws. [The Register]
- 14-06-2017: Tails OS hits version 3.0, matches Debian's pace but bins 32-bit systems. [The Register] [THG]
- 09-06-2017: Tor Browser 7.0 works harder to protect your anonymity on its own. [Engadget]
- 09-06-2017: Afrinic shuts down IP address shutdown over internet shutdowns. [The Register]
- 08-06-2017: All the ways Facebook tracks you. [Gizmodo]
- 07-06-2017: Surveillance intermediaries. [Schneier]
- 01-06-2017: Passwords at the border. [Schneier] [EFF PDF]
- 01-06-2017: How to clean up your social media presence. [Lifehacker]
- 30-05-2017: Defend yourself against ISP tracking in an Trump-era free-for-all. [The Register]
- 28-05-2017: How to spring clean your digital clutter to protect yourself. [Wired]
- 26-05-2017: Theresa May wants to force tech giants to curb extremist content. [Engadget]
- 25-05-2017: A clever new way to protect your data at the border could also add risk. [Wired]
- 25-05-2017: Venezuela increases internet censorship and surveillance in crisis. [The Register]
- 11-05-2017: A rare look at the archives of the German secret police. [Wired]
- 05-05-2017: Turkish court backs censorship of Wikipedia. [Engadget]
- 04-05-2017: Politicians who voted to sell out your online privacy get their faces plastered on billboards. [Gizmodo]
- 03-05-2017: How to deal with encryption hypocrites. [Wired]
- 30-04-2017: Secure messaging app showdown: WhatsApp vs. Signal. [Lifehacker]
- 29-04-2017: Turkish authorities block Wikipedia without giving reason. [BBC News]
- 28-04-2017: Dark patterns: the ways websites trick us into giving up our privacy. [Gizmodo]
- 19-04-2017: A 10-step guide to using public WiFi. [Network Computing]
- 15-04-2017: Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet”. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 14-04-2017: Using a web ad blocker may identify you – to advertisers. [The Register]
- 13-04-2017: How to set up your own complete free VPN in the cloud. [Lifehacker]
- 12-04-2017: TCP/IP headers leak info about what you're watching on Netflix. [The Register] [HardOCP] [MJKranch PDF]
- 11-04-2017: No perfect way to protect privacy. [Stuff]
- 10-04-2017: How HTTPS website security is making the Internet safer from snoopers. [Gizmodo]
- 10-04-2017: Internet Society to G20 nations: The web must be fully encrypted. [The Register]
- 08-04-2017: Internet privacy explained for people who have never thought about internet privacy before. [Gizmodo]
- 07-04-2017: Good luck finding a safe VPN. [Engadget]
- 06-04-2017: Best VPN service: Private Internet Access. [Lifehacker]
- 06-04-2017: The biggest misconception about VPNs. [Lifehacker]
- 05-04-2017: Microsoft finally reveals what data Windows 10 collects from your PC. [HardOCP] [PCWorld] [THG] [ExtremeTech]
- 04-04-2017: Sir Tim Berners-Lee stands up for end-to-end crypto. [The Register] [The Verge] [ExtremeTech] [Wired] [Gizmodo]
- 05-04-2017: Berners-Lee explains why you should not use a VPN. [Stuff]
- 31-03-2017: How not to protect your privacy online. [Gizmodo]
- 31-03-2017: How to hide online better than the Director of the FBI. [Gizmodo]
- 30-03-2017: Europe will go all in for crypto backdoors in June. [The Register]
- 29-03-2017: Want to protect your privacy? Open a tab and make some noise. [Wired]
- 01-04-2017: Generating a bunch of 'Internet noise' isn't going to hide your browsing habits. [Lifehacker]
- 20-03-2017: Man jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives loses appeal. [Ars Technica] [HardOCP] [The Register] [BBC News]
- 14-03-2017: Naming computers endangers privacy. [The Register]
- 13-03-2017: Facebook bars use of its social data for surveillance tools. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [NZ Herald] [Stuff] [THG] [BBC News]
- 17-03-2017: Facebook's big "first step" to crack down on surveillance. [Wired]
- 10-03-2017: Time for journalists to encrypt everything. [Wired]
- 10-03-2017: Print out the EFF's border search pocket guide before you travel internationally. [Lifehacker] [EFF, PDF]
- 10-03-2017: Germany surveillance: Security trumps privacy as video bill passed. [BBC News]
- 09-03-2017: How to stop devices spying on you. [Stuff]
- 03-03-2017: How to snoop-proof any phone or tablet. [Gizmodo]
- 02-03-2017: Mass spying isn't just intrusive, it's ineffective. [Wired]
- 28-02-2017: Protect your online privacy with the 5 best VPNs. [ExtremeTech]
- 27-02-2017: Google abandons 'End-To-End' email encryption project, invites community to take it over. [THG] [Wired]
- 24-02-2017: Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick shows you how to go invisible online. [Wired]
- 17-02-2017: The privacy enthusiast's guide to using Android. [Lifehacker]
- 13-02-2017: Erasing yourself from the internet is nearly impossible. [Stuff]
- 10-02-2017: Crossing border security? Here's how you protect your data. [Graham Cluley] [Zdziarski]
- 15-02-2017: Want to protect your data at the border? Delete it. [The Verge]
- 09-02-2017: The Tor Project's ooniprobe allows you to participate in the vigil against internet censorship. [Android Police] [Gizmodo]
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5-Eyes Spying- 26-07-2017: US spies hacked our phones over the air, claim pipeline protesters. [The Register]
- 24-07-2017: NZ spies surveilled Kim Dotcom for 2 months longer than admitted. [Ars Technica]
- 18-07-2017: ISPs barred from telling users they’re under FBI investigation. [Engadget] [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 14-07-2017: US border agents: We won’t search data “located solely on remote servers”. [Ars Technica] [The Register]
- 14-07-2017: UK GCHQ can crack end-to-end encryption says Australian Attorney General. [The Register]
- 12-07-2017: More on the NSA's use of traffic shaping. [Schneier] [TCF] [Russ White]
- 11-07-2017: DoJ: FBI didn’t need warrant for stingray in attempted murder case. [Ars Technica]
- 31-05-2017: Man gets 180 days in jail for not handing over his iPhone PIN. [Engadget] [HardOCP] [Miami Herald] [Stuff]
- 25-05-2017: UK ministers to push anti-encryption laws after election. [The Register]
- 23-05-2017: Apple reveals it received at least one secret FBI request for user data. [Gizmodo]
- 23-05-2017: Wikimedia is clear to sue the NSA. [Engadget] [Gizmodo] [Ars Technica] [THG]
- 23-05-2017: US Immigration & Customs is using Stingray to track illegal immigrants. [Schneier] [Gizmodo]
- 23-05-2017: Senator demands answers after ICE uses 'Stingray' to arrest immigrant. [Gizmodo]
- 23-05-2017: Two rulings go against the NSA. [The Register]
- 19-05-2017: Federal agents used a Stingray to track an immigrant's phone. [Engadget] [Gizmodo]
- 19-05-2017: NSA abandons "About" searches. [Schneier]
- 18-05-2017: Australian privacy commissioner flags new data mining rules for government agencies. [The Register]
- 17-05-2017: The US Senate is using Signal. [Schneier] [Engadget] [THG] [The Verge]
- 16-05-2017: NSA brute-force keysearch machine. [Schneier] [The Intercept]
- 09-05-2017: I side with the 'bad guys' on encryption. [Stuff]
- 03-05-2017: ACLU says demanding US citizens unlock phones at the border is unconstitutional. [The Verge]
- 04-05-2017: US Intelligence “transparency report” reveals breadth of surveillance by NSA, others. [Ars Technica]
- 04-05-2017: FBI's disturbing hacking powers challenged in court. [Gizmodo]
- 03-05-2017: FBI director Comey backs renewed push for decryption law. [Engadget]
- 01-05-2017: Who is publishing NSA and CIA secrets, and why? [Schneier]
- 30-05-2017: CIA tracked leakers with bad Web beacon trick. [The Register]
- 28-04-2017: NSA ends spying on messages Americans send about foreign surveillance targets. [Ars Technica] [The Register] [HardOCP] [NSA] [Wired] [Engadget] [BBC News]
- 28-04-2017: Australian Federal Police accessed metadata without warrant, broke law. [The Register]
- 24-04-2017: FBI allays some critics with first use of new mass-hacking warrant. [Ars Technica]
- 20-04-2017: The DEA is buying cyberweapons from Hacking Team. [Schneier] [Motherboard]
- 19-04-2017: We're spying on you for your own protection, says NSA, FBI. [The Register]
- 18-04-2017: Rights warrior to US Homeland Security: stop asking people for their passwords. [The Register]
- 11-04-2017: Notes on the FCC and privacy in the US. [Russ White] [CircleID] [Shelly Palmer]
- 08-04-2017: 'Shadow Brokers' give away more NSA hacking tools. [Engadget] [Schneier] [BBC News] [The Verge] [Ars Technica] [NZ Herald]
- 14-04-2017: Major leak suggests NSA was deep in Middle East banking system. [Wired] [Engadget]
- 14-04-2017: Leaked NSA point-and-pwn hack tools menace Win2k to Windows 8. [The Register] [Engadget] [Ars Technica]
- 15-04-2017: Microsoft has already patched the NSA's leaked Windows hacks. [The Verge] [Engadget] [Ars Technica] [BBC News]
- 21-04-2017: Script kiddies pwn 1000s of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools. [The Register]
- 26-04-2017: NSA backdoor detected on >55,000 Windows boxes can now be remotely removed. [Ars Technica]
- 07-04-2017: Judge invalidates FBI mass hacking warrant over jurisdiction, particularity issues. [THG]
- 05-04-2017: NY court slaps down Facebook's attempt to keep accounts secret from search warrants. [The Register]
- 04-04-2017: New bill would crack down on border phone searches without warrants. [The Verge]
- 03-04-2017: More stingray action in Canada, perhaps foreign this time. [PocketNow]
- 03-04-2017: FBI paid Geek Squad ‘informants’ to search computers for illegal material. [The Verge] [Gizmodo]
- 18-05-2017: Judge: don't gripe if you hand your PC to Geek Squad and they rat you out to the Feds. [The Register]
- 30-03-2017: How many NSA spy hubs are scooping up your Internet data? [Ars Technica]
- 28-03-2017: US Customs sued for information about border phone searches. [The Register]
- 27-03-2017: FBI's facial recognition database is dangerously inaccurate. [Engadget]
- 26-03-2017: UK wants backdoor for WhatsApp encryption. [The Register] [BBC News] [HardOCP] [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [NZ Herald]
- 27-03-2017: Encryption is a good thing. [Graham Cluley]
- 27-03-2017: UK digital minister praises 'crucial role' of encryption. [The Register]
- 22-03-2017: Congress is about to give away your online privacy. [Wired]
- 22-03-2017: The Senate prepares to send Internet privacy down a black hole. [Wired]
- 23-03-2017: Senate agrees to let carriers use your data however they want. [Engadget] [Lifehacker] [The Register] [Engadget]
- 28-03-2017: VPNs won't save you from Congress' internet privacy giveaway. [Wired]
- 28-03-2017: For sale: Your private browsing history. [Ars Technica]
- 30-03-2017: What is a VPN? [Lifehacker]
- 30-03-2017: Post-FCC privacy rules, should you VPN? [Krebs]
- 04-04-2017: FCC privacy rules repealed, but ISPs' "fairness" argument is weak. [THG]
- 05-04-2017: VPNs might not be all that secure. [NZ Herald]
- 22-03-2017: Police 'persistently' breach data protection laws with police tech. [The Register]
- 21-03-2017: UK Home Office admits it's preparing to accept EU ruling on surveillance. [The Register]
- 14-03-2017: FBI’s methods to spy on journalists should remain classified, judge rules. [Ars Technica]
- 14-03-2017: NSA routinely monitors Americans' communications without warrants. [The Intercept]
- 12-03-2017: How the FBI used Geek Squad to increase secret public surveillance. [HardOCP] [OC Weekly]
- 10-03-2017: The Wikipedia for spies - and where it goes from here. [Wired]
- 10-03-2017: The US auto-scanned visitors' social media profiles -- it didn't work properly. [The Register]
- 08-03-2017: FBI boss: 'Memories are not absolutely private in America'. [The Register] [Engadget]
- 02-03-2017: US Congress to NSA: How many Americans do you illegally spy on? [The Register]
- 01-03-2017: Republicans want to let ISPs secretly sell your data. [Gizmodo]
- 24-02-2017: Palantir and the NSA. [Schneier] [The Intercept]
- 24-02-2017: Overhaul of legislation on spy agencies to go ahead. [NZ Herald]
- 22-02-2017: NSA using cyberattack for defense. [Schneier]
- 17-02-2017: UK Snoopers' Charter gagging order drafted for London Internet Exchange directors. [The Register]
- 22-02-2017: LINX members vote no to constitution tweak. [The Register]
- 16-02-2017: GPS act aims to stop warrantless smartphone tracking done with cell-site simulators. [THG]
- 12-02-2017: American Spies: how we got to age of mass surveillance without even trying. [Ars Technica] [American Spies]
- 08-02-2017: US visitors may have to reveal social media passwords to enter country. [Ars Technica] [The Verge] [Gizmodo] [The Register]
- 22-02-2017: What to do when border officials ask for your passwords. [Ars Technica]
- 01-02-2017: Secret documents reveal Trump inherits FBI with vast hidden powers. [The Intercept]
- 30-01-2017: DC police surveillance cameras were infected with ransomware before inauguration [Ars Technica]
- 28-01-2017: Twitter discloses two far-reaching FBI data requests. [Engadget]
- 20-01-2017: CIA boss wants a big database of surveillance on citizens and foreigners. [The Register]
- 16-01-2017: Cloudflare's experience with a National Security Letter. [Schneier] [Cloudflare] [TechCrunch]
- 13-01-2017: Obama expands the NSA's ability to share data with other agencies. [Engadget] [Wired] [Ars Technica] [Gizmodo]
- 11-01-2017: FBI takes gag out of CloudFlare's mouth after three-year legal battle. [The Register] [THG] [Engadget]
- 06-01-2017: Australia telcos warn: Opening metadata access will create a 'honeypot' for lawyers. [The Register]
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