Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, CEO of Signal, as he defends centralization as a necessary condition for Signal's widespread adoption, and for its ease of use
we love seeing it take the spotlight. Signal will be the right tool for some people, but for those of you who want the highest level of security without having to put your phone number in a database, ...
150+ orgs, including Google and Facebook, back Tim Berners-Lee's Contract for the Web, pledging to guard the web from abuse or face removal from supporter list
The Web was designed to bring people together … John E Dunn / Naked Security : Sir Tim Berners-Lee publishes plan to save the web from ‘digital dystopia’ Tim Berners-Lee / New York Times : I Invented ...
Imagining the future where regulations of social media platforms didn't end harassment, extremism, or disinformation, and only made the platforms stronger
The way we regulated social media platforms didn't end harassment, extremism or disinformation. It only gave them more power and made the problem worse. Tweets: @javierpallero , @dangillmor , @xor , ...
Civil rights groups concerned as FOIA request shows cities' law enforcement adopted Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech without prior public discourse
It's Selling Facial Recognition To U.S. Cops Tristan Greene / The Next Web : Amazon's facial recognition is now aiding US law enforcement Nathan Yau / FlowingData : Amazon Rekognition for government s...
Investigation into the internal power struggle at Kaspersky Lab, which former staff say was won by managers with ties to Russian intelligence
Kaspersky Lab is under fire in the US over concerns that it could provide its clients' private — and at times secret — information to the Russian government. Tweets: @yashalevine Tweets: Yasha Levine ...
Sources: years after FBI began tracking Russian disinformation efforts and US intelligence agencies drew up counter operations, the US still equivocates
I don't have much faith in the Russians stopping any of their illegal activity, so the question becomes what have we done to make our infrastructure more secure and to impose costs on Russia? Cyber Co...
Norwegian hacker Einar Otto Stangvik on how he exposed Childs Play, a dark web pedophile forum that was hosted by Australian Police as part of a sting operation
ByDaniel Mützeltranslated byDaniel Stächelin — Einar Otto Stangvik talks with us about online child pornography … Tweets: @yashalevine and @troyhunt Tweets: Yasha Levine / @yashalevine : Think about...
Interview with Pavel Durov, Telegram creator, on US government-funded secure messaging apps, privacy, and the FBI's attempt to bribe his team into being moles
Yasha Levine / The Baffler :
Interview with Pavel Durov, Telegram creator, on US government-funded secure messaging apps, privacy, and the FBI's attempt to bribe his team into being moles
Yasha Levine / The Baffler : Tweets: @neuwaves , @neuwaves , @lucasjosh , @thebafflermag , @socraticgadfly , @timothys , @yashalevine , @thebafflermag , and @thebafflermag Tweets: Jordan Pearson / @n...
Sources: Google X plans Wing Marketplace, an online exchange for $6 drone deliveries from partner retailers and restaurants, amid troubled Project Wing efforts
Wednesday, December 7 Gina Hall / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Google in talks to launch drone food delivery service William White / InvestorPlace : Alphabet Inc (GOOG) News: X Wants to Create ‘W...