Update on proposed UK "snooper's charter"
Last year we looked at the United Kingdom’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill (known as the snooper's charter"), and criticized the requirement for vendors to install "back doors" into their software…
Last year we looked at the United Kingdom’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill (known as the snooper's charter"), and criticized the requirement for vendors to install "back doors" into their software…
Blockchain technology is starting to get attention in banking circles, as its tremendous potential for banking transactions becomes apparent. It was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto (a nom de plume -…
We've written numerous posts that emphasise the importance of being able to maintain our privacy on the Internet, particularly when it comes to government attempts to mandate "backdoors" into encryption…
France has joined the Netherlands in rejecting mandatory encryption backdoors in software products. We recently examined the UK's draft "snoopers charter" that includes this as a requirement. The French digital…
We've just released edtFTPj/PRO 5.0, adding support for TLS 1.2. At the start of the new year, it's interesting to look back over the release history of edtFTPj/PRO. Amazingly, it's…
Hard disk encryption prevents access to your confidential files if your PC or laptop is stolen. Without disk encryption, retrieving your files from a stolen machine is trivial - your…
Some former NSA and CIA officials have recently made some good points about why use of strong encryption should not be curtailed or crippled. They point out that companies desperately…
We looked at the UK's draft Investigatory Powers Bill recently, looking at the complex issue of secret government-mandated "back doors" into encryption software. But this isn't the only problem with…
We recently posted about the VTech hack, in which millions of user account details were stolen from the Chinese toymaker. We noted that account passwords were hashed using MD5, making…
For anyone with young children, VTech is a familiar name, a logo enblazoned on numerous toys cluttering up the house. VTech is a Chinese company, and in November, VTech's servers…