Collaborate Disseminate
China is intercepting texts from WeChat users living outside of the country, mostly from the U.S. Taiwan, South Korea, and Australia. NPR reports:
The popular Chinese messaging app WeChat is Zhou Fengsuo’s most reliable communication link to China. Th… Continue reading China Intercepts WeChat Texts From US and Abroad, Researcher Says
Last week the schedule for our weekly security column collided with the Independence Day holiday. The upside is that we get a two-for-one deal this week, as we’re covering two weeks worth of news, and there is a lot to cover!
[Petko Petrov], a security researcher in Bulgaria, was arrested …read more
My Applied Cryptography is on a list of books banned in Oregon prisons. It’s not me — and it’s not cryptography — it’s that the prisons ban books that teach people to code. The subtitle is "Algorithms, Protocols, and Source Code in C" — and that’s the reason. My more recent Cryptography Engineering is a much better book for prisoners,… Continue reading Applied Cryptography is Banned in Oregon Prisons
Chinese authorities are secretly installing surveillance apps on smartphones of foreigners at border crossings in the Xinjiang region who are entering from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, an international investigation revealed.
Xinjiang (XUAR) is an autonomo… Continue reading China’s Border Guards Secretly Installing Spyware App on Tourists’ Phones
By David Balaban
Is Internet filtering at the state level good or bad? As always, there are different opinions. I do not want to give a definite answer to this question now. On the one hand, the degree of filtering and the profile of filtering can be d… Continue reading National Censorship: Pros and Cons
The Tor Project has released the first stable version of the Tor Browser for Android. The release is referred to as version 8.5, mainly to prevent confusion: Tor Browser releases for Windows, macOS, and Linux are currently on that version. About Tor Br… Continue reading Official Tor Browser for Android available on Google Play
On Wednesday, the White House launched a new tool for people to use if they feel they’ve been wrongly censored, banned, or suspended on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. “No matter your views, if you suspect political bias caused such a… Continue reading White House Launches Tool To Report Political Bias On Social Media Sites
We continue our series covering privacy, anonymity & security on the internet with a look at encrypted SNI, explaining what it fixes, and what it doesn’t.
The post Privacy 2019: Fixing a 16 year-old privacy problem in TLS with ESNI appeared first o… Continue reading Privacy 2019: Fixing a 16 year-old privacy problem in TLS with ESNI
Protect your digital privacy with Silent Pocket’s product line of patented Faraday bags, phone cases, and wallets which will make your devices untrackable, unhackable and undetectable. Use discount code “sharedsecurity” to receive 15%… Continue reading All about VPN’s with Gaya Polat from vpnMentor
The meeting lasted 30 minutes, and touched on “the health of the public conversation on Twitter,” according to an internal Twitter email obtained by Motherboard. Continue reading Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey Attended Closed-Door Meeting With President Trump