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Navigating the Tails 6.8 Update: What It Means for Security-Minded Users

As digital privacy and security concerns increase, operating systems that safeguard user anonymity and data privacy have gained greater prominence. One such operating system is Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System). ...
Oct 09, 2024
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Google Chooses Passkeys Over Passwords: Examining the Security Benefits for Linux Users

In a bold move towards a future without traditional pas...
Sep 26, 2024
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24.Key Code Esm H115

Tails 6.6 Released: Unpacking Key Features & Updates

Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) offers hope t...
Aug 15, 2024
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10.FingerPrint Locks Esm H115

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John Perry Barlow: Content Crusader

John Perry Barlow: Content Crusader

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When John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor founded the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org) in 1990, they envisioned a short-lived nonprofit organization. All it would take, they thought, is one court case to ensure that emerging digital media would receive the same constitutional protection of expression that's extended to traditional ink and paper works.. . .

Security in a World Without Secrets

Security in a World Without Secrets

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Security and privacy are at a major turning point in our society. The events of September 11 catalyzed an already rapidly growing trend in the gathering of personal and enterprise information, made possible by advancing technologies. . . .

Security risks hamper the SIP initiation

Security risks hamper the SIP initiation

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Doubts over security and privacy must be overcome before enterprises can benefit from the session initiation protocol (SIP). Gunter Ollmann, principal security consultant at ISS, said bringing so many standards under one protocol could be risky.. . .

Privacys new platform

Privacy's new platform

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The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) will soon change all that. Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), P3P is a specification that standardizes privacy policy generation and enables browsers and plug-ins to translate sites' policies into point-and-click user interfaces.. . .

Privacy comes under attack

Privacy comes under attack

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Now at the start of 2002, British surveillance laws are at risk of infringing what are seen by some as basic human rights. Huge demands have been placed on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to stockpile traffic data on customers under the new Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill (ATCS),. . .

U.S. prepares to invade your hard drive

U.S. prepares to invade your hard drive

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A bill before Congress would mandate built-in copy-protection on all digital devices. But even technology experts who really want to protect intellectual property think it's a lousy idea. If you think techies hate Microsoft, try asking them about Hollings -- Sen. Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings. . .

Europe stumbles on Echelon spy network

Europe stumbles on Echelon spy network

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The European Parliament published its damning report on Echelon last summer, but public apathy and institutional bureaucracy are stifling further action Nearly seven months after the European Parliament adopted a report that recognised the existence of Echelon, an international spy . . .

Pretty Geeky Privacy

Pretty Geeky Privacy

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More and more people want powerful, easy-to-use encryption software, but the commercial world isn't providing it. Can open source deliver? But online security, just like everything else, is subject to the ebb and flow of capitalism -- and the relentless releases . . .

Judge: FBI must cough up Carnivore info

Judge: FBI must cough up Carnivore info

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Privacy advocates have won another round in their fight to gain access to more information about the FBI's Carnivore e-mail surveillance system. A federal judge this week ordered the FBI to expand its search for records about Carnivore, also known as . . .

Piracy-prevention bill sparks hot debate

Piracy-prevention bill sparks hot debate

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Several government and industry leaders this weekend criticized proposed legislation that calls on hardware makers to help protect Hollywood's interests, saying lawmakers should not decide the tech industry's "winners and losers." Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.; Les Vadasz, president of Intel Capital; . . .

New Zealand Interception Laws To Cover ISPs

New Zealand 'Interception' Laws To Cover ISPs

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New Zealand telecommunications network operators and Internet service providers will be legally obligated to install a system that will allow police or the secret service to eavesdrop on phone calls or e-mail messages, the New Zealand government has confirmed. . . .

CIA Web Site Cans Cookies After Report

CIA Web Site Cans Cookies After Report

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A Web site operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) today discontinued marking visitors with a unique identification tag, or "cookie," after a non-profit group complained about the practice. The use of "persistent" cookies at the CIA's Electronic Reading Room . . .

CIA Web Site Tracks Visitors With Cookies

CIA Web Site Tracks Visitors With Cookies

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Web site operated by the Central Intelligence Agency is marking visitors with a unique identification tag or "cookie" that violates federal privacy guidelines and the agency's own privacy policy., according to Public Information Research, a non-profit group. The CIA's Electronic . . .

Cryptome dishes the Dirt

Cryptome dishes the Dirt

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Controversial spying and bugging software, Dirt, exposed by vnunet.com last summer, was revealed to be a bit more than vapourware when it turned up on a Dutch website last week. Dirt first hit the headlines last May, when it emerged that . . .

Privacy software makes post 9-11 comeback

Privacy software makes post 9-11 comeback

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Zero Knowledge Systems has added a low-cost surfing plug-in for Windows Internet Explorer that lets you bypass much of the junk that online advertisers and spammers use to build up user profiles. WebSecure costs $49.95 and it works by encrypting and rerouting traffic through ZKS' proxy servers.. . .

D.I.R.T. Spyware Exposed on Web

D.I.R.T. Spyware Exposed on Web

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A closely-held software package designed to allow law enforcement agencies to secretly monitor a suspect's computer turned up on an anonymous Web site in the Netherlands Wednesday, along with user manuals, financial information, contracts and invoices apparently stolen from the company . . .

Is Online Privacy Under Attack?

Is Online Privacy Under Attack?

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A member of the ACLU goes against a member of the DOJ to discuss this issue. "Several years ago, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy stirred up a storm of controversy when he declared, "You have zero privacy." The Sept. 11 terrorist . . .

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