Every year, EFF has lawyers with its Coders’ Rights Project on hand in Las Vegas at Black Hat, B-Sides and DEF CON for security researchers with legal questions about their research or presentations. EFF’s Coders’ Rights Project protects programmers, researchers,… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Security’
How Do We Stop Bad Use of Good Software?
Surya Remanan and Nidhyia Raj present their prototype at Hackathon Against Gender Based Violence in Ranchi on 26 January 2016Photo by Lisha Sterling When you are building a piece of technology intended to help people in crisis, it’s important to… Read More ›
The Bill of Rights at the Border: Fourth Amendment Limits on Searching Your Data and Devices
More than 325,000 people enter the United States via airports every day, with hundreds of thousands more crossing by land at the borders. Not only is that a lot of people, it’s also a lot of computers, smartphones, and tablets… Read More ›
Five Ways Cybersecurity Will Suffer If Congress Repeals the FCC Privacy Rules
Call your Congressmember now to save online privacy! Back in October of 2016, the Federal Communications Commission passed some pretty awesome rules that would bar your Internet provider from invading your privacy. The rules would keep Internet providers like Comcast and… Read More ›
EFF Launches Community Security Training Series
EFF is pleased to announce a series of community security trainings in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library. High-profile data breaches and hard-fought battles against unlawful mass surveillance programs underscore that the public needs practical information about online security…. Read More ›
Hey CIA, You Held On To Security Flaw Information—But Now It's Out. That's Not How It Should Work
Wikileaks today released documents that appear to describe software tools used by the CIA to break into the devices that we all use at home and work. While we are still reviewing the material, we have not seen any indications… Read More ›
Cryptographers Demonstrate Collision in Popular SHA-1 Algorithm
On February 23rd, a joint team from the CWI Amsterdam and Google announced that they had generated the first ever collision in the SHA-1 cryptographic hashing algorithm. SHA-1 has long been considered theoretically insecure by cryptanalysts due to weaknesses in the algorithm design, but this marks the first… Read More ›
Attorney General Nominee Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors
As the presidential campaign was in full swing early last year, now-President Trump made his feelings on encryption clear. Commenting on the Apple-FBI fight in San Bernardino, Trump threatened to boycott Apple if they didn’t cooperate: “to think that Apple… Read More ›
“Everyone Made Themselves the Hero.” Remembering Aaron Swartz
On January 18, 2012, the Internet went dark. Hundreds of websites went black in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). The bills would have created a “blacklist” of censored websites based on… Read More ›
The State of Crypto Law: 2016 in Review
This year was one of the busiest in recent memory when it comes to cryptography law in the United States and around the world. But for all the Sturm und Drang, surprisingly little actually changed in the U.S. In this… Read More ›