Category: Security

Mysterious attacker attempting to compromise internet’s DNS TLD registry

by Kevin Welch | Sep 14, 2016 | Security | 0

At our last meetup, we talked about how DNS works and what the implications of the US government...

Internet Code Ring (@jonl’s 1993 interview with Phil Zimmerman, creator of PGP)

by jonl | Dec 15, 2014 | Privacy, Security | 0

Discovered that this interview is no longer findable online, so I’m republishing it here. A...

November Meetup Recap — Security and Privacy on the Internet of Things

by Kevin Welch | Nov 25, 2014 | Events, Security | 0

Last Monday we welcomed three speakers from the Austin area to present on emerging security and...

November Meetup: Security and Privacy on the Internet of Things

by Kevin Welch | Nov 3, 2014 | Events, Security | 2

The Internet of Things continues to grow all around us. What challenges for security, privacy, and...

Encryption is for Everyone!

by jonl | Jun 7, 2014 | Privacy, Security | 0

EFF’s Jillian C. York gave this presentation (timed for “Reset the Net”) at the...

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: No Post-Arrest Cell Phone Searches Without Warrants

by Kevin Welch | Feb 26, 2014 | Privacy, Security | 1

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which is the state supreme court for criminal cases, issued...

Judiciary Committee May Study Cybersecurity Provision Before Implementing It As Part of PIPA

by jonl | Jan 13, 2012 | Activism, Security | 0

EFF-Austin just received this press release from the Computer and Communications Industry Association: Contact: Heather Greenfield 202-783-0070 ext 113 hgreenfield@ccianet.org Ed Black 202-783-0070 ext 110 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:...

Not a war on computing

by clb | Jan 11, 2012 | Privacy, Security | 0

Former EFF-Austin Director Cory Doctorow thinks that there’s a war on general purpose computing. Transcript at https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcript.md But it’s not as bad as all that....

DHS Searches and Seizures

by jonl | Jan 16, 2011 | Privacy, Security | 0

Loretta Sanchez, a California Democrat in the House of Representatives, is proposing a bill requiring Homeland Security to issue rules governing searches and seizures so that they are no longer able to operate completely in the...

Lessig on Broadband Policy, Cybersecurity and Copyright

by Matthew Henry | Apr 21, 2010 | Free Speech, Security | 0

Last week, Lawrence Lessig gave a fantastic presentation on how government policies for broadband, cybersecurity and copyright have been corrupted by special interest lobbying. Lessig does a great job explaining why...

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