The Electronic Frontier Foundation retracted a blog post today highly critical of Verizon and the upcoming rollout of an app called AppFlash made by Evie Labs.
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Do no evil with Avira (or nasty HTTPS handshakes)
Researchers shows intercepting HTTPS traffic is nothing to sneeze at as it usually lowers user security. Makes you wonder why so many security companies do it. Avira does not.
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Digital Rights Advocates Call for Investigation Around W3C’s DRM Extension
Digital rights advocates are again pleading with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to reconsider standardizing DRM in Encrypted Media Extensions, a draft specification that would ultimately feed into HTML 5.
Privacy Watchdogs Vow to Fight ‘Dystopian’ Rule 41
Privacy watchdogs are blasting Rule 41, a proposed change to the federal criminal procedures, saying it would allow the government to hack into phones and seize computers remotely.
Experts Weigh-In Over FBI $1.3 Million iPhone Zero-Day Payout
Was the Federal Bureau of Investigation justified in paying over $1.3 million for a hacking tool that opened the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino terrorist?
Microsoft Wins Widespread Support in Privacy Clash With Government
Privacy advocates are cheering Microsoft’s lawsuit against the US government over data requests.
Mozilla Embraces Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in Firefox 42
Mozilla has pushed a feature in Firefox live that allows Firefox web browsers to block certain page elements while browsing privately.
Let’s Encrypt Hits Another Free HTTPS Milestone
Let’s Encrypt hit a milestone last night when it received the cross-signatures necessary to render its beta-and free-certificates trusted by all browsers.
First Let’s Encrypt Free Certificate Goes Live
Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone today when its first free and automated cert went live.
Latest APT 28 Campaign Incorporates Fake EFF Spearphishing Scam
An attack that uses the same path names, Java payloads, and Java exploit as one earlier this summer was found leveraging a fake EFF site.