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- US internet bill seen as opening shot against end-to-end encryption https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/06/us-internet-bill-seen-as-opening-shot-against-end-to-end-encryption 5 comments
- Losing the Right to Encryption Means Losing Business | Internet Society https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/09/losing-the-right-to-encryption-means-losing-business/ 44 comments privacy
- I propose that internet services, such as the ones responsible for sending out news-related emails, have an option to also upload our public encryption keys, in case a user is using one of privacy-respecting email providers. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/fyh02d/i_propose_that_internet_services_such_as_the_ones/ 12 comments privacy
- Beware the Bait-and-Switch EARN IT Act: An Attack on Encryption, Privacy, and the Internet in General https://www.cyph.com/blog/beware-earn-it-act 3 comments privacy
- Encrypting SNI: Fixing One of the Core Internet Bugs https://blog.cloudflare.com/esni/ 24 comments linux
- NSA encryption plan (SIMON/SPECK) for ‘internet of things’ rejected by international body https://www.wikitribune.com/story/2018/04/20/internet/67004/67004/ 50 comments crypto
- Turkey blocks the world's largest encrypted email provider as part of internet crackdown https://gizmodo.com/turkey-blocks-encrypted-email-service-protonmail-1823802863 11 comments worldnews
- LEAKED: UK Plan for Mass Spying on Internet and Phones – and Encryption Backdoors http://ridethelightning.senseient.com/2017/05/leaked-uk-plan-for-mass-spying-on-internet-and-phones-and-encryption-backdoors.html 6 comments europe
- LEAKED: UK Plan for Mass Spying on Internet and Phones – and Encryption Backdoors http://ridethelightning.senseient.com/2017/05/leaked-uk-plan-for-mass-spying-on-internet-and-phones-and-encryption-backdoors.html 22 comments crypto
- TcpCrypt - Encrypting the Internet http://www.tcpcrypt.org/ 19 comments programming
- Russia begins collecting encryption keys while internet companies, like Facebook, stay silent http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/fsb-encryption-key 3 comments technology
- Everyday Internet Users Can Stand Up for Encryption — Here’s How https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/03/30/everyday-internet-users-can-stand-up-for-encryption-heres-how/ 8 comments linux
- Kazakhstan announces their plans to spy on all Internet traffic, encrypted or not, starting with January 2016. http://bgr.com/2015/12/04/spying-encrypted-internet-traffic/ 10 comments worldnews
- Jimmy Wales: "All major internet traffic is going to be encrypted very, very soon" http://factor-tech.com/feature/jimmy-wales-all-major-internet-traffic-is-going-to-be-encrypted-very-very-soon/ 37 comments technology
- Serious flaw in Internet’s key encryption method -- urgency for "virtually all Internet users to change their passwords." http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/flaw-found-in-key-method-for-protecting-data-on-the-internet/?_php=true&_type=blogs&hp&_r=0&gwh=523eeb0ed72a2d117622f1358cd3ba3b&gwt=regi&assettype=nyt_now 9 comments technology
- Schneier discovered NSA manipulation of internet encryption algorithms back in 2007 http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-users@openssl.org/msg71931.html 5 comments politics
- The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_brea.html 528 comments netsec
- Sprint runs on the government's behalf a a private, encrypted wiretapping backbone that is separated from the internet (wired 2007) http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/08/wiretap 4 comments technology
- WikiLeaks will release encrypted 'doomsday file' if Assange is detained or the website is permanently removed from the internet http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/wikileaks_assange_will_release_encrypted_tmdrdom0jfvw4z9rjwwlqo 26 comments worldnews
- [Xpost from r/Privacy] We’re ACLU, CDT, EFF, LGBT Tech and the Internet Society and we need your help in fighting the US EARN IT Act and standing up for strong encryption – AMA None 3 comments technology
- Rights Group Launches Encryption App to Help Iranians Survive Internet Crackdowns https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyvqaw/nahoft-rights-group-united-for-iran-launches-encryption-app-to-help-iranians-survive-internet-crackdowns 4 comments technology
- Putin gives FSB order to produce encryption keys to decrypt all data on the Internet. https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/07/07/putin-gives-federal-security-agents-two-weeks-to-produce-encryption-keys-for-the-internet 3 comments nottheonion
- Putin gives federal security agents two weeks to produce ‘encryption keys’ for the Internet https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/07/07/putin-gives-federal-security-agents-two-weeks-to-produce-encryption-keys-for-the-internet 7 comments privacy
- Feds Beg NY Times, Pro Publica Not To Reveal That They've Inserted Backdoors Into Internet Encryption http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130905/12484624418/feds-beg-ny-times-pro-publica-not-to-reveal-that-theyve-inserted-backdoors-into-internet-encryption.shtml 509 comments technology
- In light of recent events, two major German internet service providers will start encrypting customers' emails by default http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19915132&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.be%2F 25 comments worldnews
- Internet freedom organizations urges W3C to reject Encrypted Media Extensions http://www.fsf.org/news/coalition-against-drm-in-html 3 comments programming
- "legislation that would require all encrypted Internet communications, of any kind, to provide a means for U.S. law enforcement “wiretap” style monitoring" - see episode 268 http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm 16 comments programming
- The UK's secret blueprint with telcos for mass spying on internet, phones – and backdoors. Real-time full-blown snooping with breakable encryption. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/04/uk_bulk_surveillance_powers_draft/ 3 comments privacy
- Australia's Attorney-General's department wants new laws to force users and providers of encrypted internet communications services to decode any data intercepted by authorities. http://www.itnews.com.au/news/375286,attorney-generals-new-war-on-encrypted-web-services.aspx 25 comments technology
- ZenMate for Google Chrome encrypts and secures all browser activity. Your IP is hidden, your Internet unrestricted and your privacy protected. Access content like Hulu from anywhere in the world! https://zenmate.io/home 5 comments technology
- In protest - Go Dark on the 5th of July. Don't Google, don't Bing. Don't SMS, don't PM, don't Facebook. Turn off your phones, unplug your computers. Remind them we own the internet, and we will adapt, encrypt and outpace them. http://discussion.guardian.co.uk/comment-permalink/24731512 665 comments technology
- Thousands of email addresses and encrypted passwords, including those of defence, intelligence and police officials as well as politicians and Nato advisers, have been revealed on the internet following a security breach by Anonymous. http://m.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/08/hackers-expose-defence-intelligence-officials?cat=technology&type=article 17 comments worldnews
- First flaws in the Advanced Encryption Standard used for internet banking identified http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110817075424.htm 8 comments technology
- A study from Harvard largely refutes claims that wider use of encryption in software products will hamper investigations into terrorism and crime | It predicts that the continued expansion of Internet-connected devices will offer fresh opportunities for tracking targets. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3028042/harvard-study-refutes-going-dark-argument-against-encryption.html#tk.rss_all 16 comments technology
- Encrypted DNS Could Help Close the Biggest Privacy Gap on the Internet. Why Are Some Groups Fighting Against It? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/encrypted-dns-could-help-close-biggest-privacy-gap-internet-why-are-some-groups 9 comments politics
- Encrypted DNS could help close the biggest privacy gap on the Internet. Why are some groups fighting against it? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/encrypted-dns-could-help-close-biggest-privacy-gap-internet-why-are-some-groups 198 comments firefox
- Kim Dotcom wants to encrypt half of the Internet to end government surveillance (FULL RT INTERVIEW) https://rt.com/usa/news/kim-dotcom-interview-mega-673/ 623 comments technology
- The Conservatives are planning new laws to force some of the world's biggest internet companies including Google, Apple and Facebook to hand over encrypted messages from terror suspects http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/queens-speech/11634567/Google-and-Whatsapp-will-be-forced-to-hand-messages-to-MI5.html 6 comments privacy
- Obama and Cameron’s ‘solutions’ for cybersecurity will make the internet worse. Drafting policies to imprison people who share an HBO GO password? Eliminating end-to-end data encryption? They can’t be serious http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/17/cameron-obama-ban-encryption-improve-cybersecurity 1013 comments technology
- Interesting Firefox issue: Since today all Internet providers in Kazakhstan started MITM on all encrypted HTTPS traffic, they ask end-users to install a government-issued certificate authority. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567114 183 comments linux