encryption
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Dumb Human Errors Can Undermine The Security Of Encrypted Communication Apps
You might think that because you use an expensive secure phone or encrypted messaging app like Signal your privacy is guaranteed. Sadly, you may have overestimated the abilities of the humans at each end, whose screw-ups when using the schemes can render them redundant.
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Hillary Clinton’s Plea For Silicon Valley To Disrupt ISIS Is Misguided Nonsense
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton called on Silicon Valley companies to work at “disrupting ISIS” at a speech this Sunday.
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Crypto Is For Everyone — And American History Proves It
Over the last year, law enforcement officials around the world have been pressing hard on the notion that without a magical “backdoor” to access the content of any and all encrypted communications by ordinary people, they will be totally incapable of fulfilling their duties to investigate crime and protect the public. EFF and many others…
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Your Self-Encrypting Hard Drive May Use Encryption That Really Sucks
Self-encrypting hard drives are a bright idea, allowing you to back up data safe in the knowledge that nobody else can sift through it. Unless, that is, the encryption system is easy to crack — which a new security study had found can be the case.