On September 11, the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, thousands of spies, police officers, prosecutors, and surveillance profiteers will gather in Washington D.C. for a spying technology extravaganza known as ISS World Americas. On its website, the event organizers describe ISS...
Yesterday, Senators Wyden (D-OR) and Paul (R-KY) and Representatives Polis (D-CO), Farenthold (R-TX), Smith (D-WA), and Beyer (D-VA) introduced legislation to protect digital privacy from the prying eyes of DHS employees at US borders. The legislation would require warrants for searches of US citizens’ and...
In a February 20, 2017 letter to DHS Secretary John Kelly, Oregon democrat and ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee Ron Wyden voiced alarm at media reports of Customs Border Patrol (CBP) agents demanding device and social media passwords of travelers at...
Earlier this week, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told Congress the Trump administration may soon require that visitors to the United States provide their social media passwords and internet activity history to DHS agents before entering the country. In response to a...
In 2015, the ACLU of Massachusetts published a report on student privacy which included this troubling revelation: Many schools in the Commonwealth tell students they have “no expectation of privacy” when it comes to their digital information at school and on school...
A lot of people are wondering what to do right now. The answers are the same as they were in October: organize and secure your digital papers and effects. Now perhaps more than ever in recent memory, the action is at the state...
“Use Tor. Use Signal,” has become a joke in the infosec community. It’s the canned response to questions from non-tech experts about how to protect their privacy in the digital age. But it’s the canned response for good reason. Signal, an encrypted messaging...
Can the police seize your cell phone simply because they suspect you’ve committed a crime? Can law enforcement get a warrant to rifle through your digital life on the basis of a hunch, or because their prior experience tells them that people...
The FBI has published a request for information (RFI) for a “Tactical Mesh/mobile ad hoc network (MANET) solution… to improve bandwidth utilization, provide higher quality surveillance data transmissions, and mitigate potential security threats.” The mesh network will serve as an alternative to commercial...
AJ+ made this short, informative video explaining how cell-site simulators (also known as “IMSI catchers” and “stingrays”) work. Share it with your friends and family, and make sure you tell them to download Signal onto their smartphones. The free, easy to use,...