Collaborate Disseminate
End-to-end encryption is really neat, but it only encrypts *between* those who are doing the communicating.
Continue reading End-to-end encryption doesn’t stop the FBI reading your messages. Just ask Paul Manafort
The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account details. In the wake of … Continue reading Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?
Donald Trump’s Twitter feed @realDonaldTrump is a “public forum,” the court ruled. Continue reading Federal Court Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
U.S. lawmakers are preparing to block any attempt by President Donald Trump to significantly soften sanctions against the Chinese telecom giant ZTE. While Trump said Tuesday that a deal has yet to be finalized, members of Congress continued to take a hard line against the company, which the Commerce Department banned from accessing U.S. technology after it sold equipment to Iran and North Korea. Chinese President Xi Jinping has been pushing Trump to relax the U.S. stance while American lawmakers, intelligence agencies and military officials have been emphasizing the longstanding national security grievances against the Chinese firm. The reported deal would lift the American sales ban against ZTE. In light of all the criticism, Trump’s potential solution “is like a wet noodle,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said. The latest strike against ZTE — which admitted wrongdoing and blamed internal processes on failing to fire sanctions violators rather than intentional malice — sent shock waves through the […]
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Anonymous White House officials say Donald Trump uses two iPhones. Apparently, Trump doesn’t take enough security precautions on them, such as swapping them every 30 days, like Barack Obama used to do. Continue reading Trump’s iPhone Security Practices Are Awful
According to reports, US President Donald Trump hasn’t been following the advice of his security team, and is resisting their attempts to regularly check his iPhone to see if it has been hacked.
Continue reading Donald Trump’s smartphone security: an inconvenient truth
Employees even made a depressing breakup playlist for the occasion. Continue reading Cambridge Analytica Closed All Its Offices Today
The U.S. government is considering sanctions against Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab as part of a wider round of action carried out against the Russian government, according to U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the matter. The sanctions would be a considerable expansion and escalation of the U.S. government’s actions against the company. Kaspersky, which has two ongoing lawsuits against the U.S. government, has been called “an unacceptable threat to national security” by numerous U.S. officials and lawmakers. Officials told CyberScoop any additional action against Kaspersky would occur at the lawsuits’ conclusion, which Kaspersky filed in response to a stipulation in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act that bans its products from federal government networks. If the sanctions came to fruition, the company would be barred from operating in the U.S. and potentially even U.S. allies. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., authored legislation to ban Kaspersky, which was eventually introduced into the NDAA. In […]
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The Republican party has apparently created a series of domains to discredit and attack former FBI director James Comey. Meanwhile, Democratic party sympathizers appear to have created similar domains to counter the Republicans’ anti-Comey campaign. Continue reading Evidence Suggests the GOP Bought at Least 17 Anti-James Comey Domains
Comey’s book, ‘A Higher Loyalty’ serves to boost his profile and ego, not protect the American people. Continue reading James Comey Is Not the Hero the Left Is Looking For