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EFF delivers HTTPS Not Quite Everywhere
In the early hours of June 18 the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project released a beta of a Firefox extension dubbed “HTTPS Everywhere” with the intention of providing encryption of user...
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Anonymity On-line
We've covered Tor in LJ before (see Kyle Rankin's "Browse the Web without a Trace", January 2008), but that was some time ago, and this subject seems to be more timely with each passing day. Also, with...
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NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get flagged for...
A new story published on the German site Tagesschau and followed up by BoingBoing and DasErste.de has uncovered some shocking details about who more>>
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A Bundle of Tor
I don't know how many readers know this, but my very first Linux Journal column ("Browse the Web without a Trace", January 2008) was about how to set up and use Tor. Anonymity and privacy on the...
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Dolphins in the NSA Dragnet
There's an old quote from Jamie Zawinkski that goes: "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I'll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems." Even people like me who...
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Stuff That Matters
I'm writing this in a hotel room entered through two doors. The hall door is the normal kind: you stick a card in a slot, a light turns green, and the door unlocks. The inner one is three inches...
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Consent That Goes Both Ways
Whatever your opinions about Do Not Track, set them aside for a minute and just look at what the words say and who says them. Individuals—the people we call "users" (you know, like with drugs)—are the...
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A Machine for Keeping Secrets?
[I can't begin to describe all the things Vinay Gupta does. Fortunately, he does, at http://re.silience.com. more>>
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Privacy Is Personal
Try to nail two boards together with your bare hands. Can't be done. You need a hammer. But the power is not the hammer's. It's yours, because the hammer is your tool. As a tool, it becomes part of...
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Dealing with Boundary Issues
The other evening a bunch of us were sitting in a friend's living room while a series of photos scrolled across her TV. The photos were a screen saver served up by her new Apple TV box. Some of the...
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Protection, Privacy and Playoffs
I'm not generally a privacy nut when it comes to my digital life. That's not really a good thing, as I think privacy is important, but it often can be very inconvenient. For example, if you strolled...
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Open-Source Project Secretly Funded by CIA
It's fair to say that the interests of governments and the FOSS community are not always aligned. more>>
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Privacy and the New Math
Among the countless essays and posts I've read on the fight over crypto that's been going on between Apple and the FBI, one by the title above by T.Rob Wyatt in Medium stood out so well that I asked...
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The FBI and the Mozilla Foundation Lock Horns over Known Security Hole
The Mozilla Foundation and the FBI recently have clashed over security weaknesses. The FBI is aware of a weakness in the Tor browser that may affect Firefox—it's a weakness the FBI has exploited...
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Google's Abacus Project: It's All about Trust
Do you hate having to remember your password when you want to access a secure Web site? Well, that soon may be a thing of the past. more>>
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What's Our Next Fight?
We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom. Linux turns 25 in August 2016. Linux Journal turned 21 in April 2016. (Issue #1 was April 1994, the month Linux hit version 1.0.)...
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Doing for User Space What We Did for Kernel Space
I believe the best and worst thing about Linux is its hard distinction between kernel space and user space. more>>
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Tor 0.2.8.6 Is Released
The latest version of the Tor project was released this week, offering greater security and anonymity to individuals and organizations. Here's why you should care. more>>
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Progress on Privacy
The internet didn't come with privacy, any more than the planet did. But at least the planet had nature, which provided raw materials for the privacy technologies we call clothing and shelter. On the...
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