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Certificate authority trust breach exposes vulnerability in Internet's trust hierarchies
In late March 2015, there was a major security breach involving unauthorized digital certificates impersonating Google. This incident has far-reaching implications for how ordinary people decide who ...
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Wikimedia Foundation & rights groups sue NSA over mass surveillance
This post was originally published on March 16, 2015. Jimmy Wales' Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia, has announced its intention to file a lawsuit against the Nationa...
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No Wi-Fi, no problem: Hackers go low-tech to steal your data
This article was originally published on January 22, 2015. The risks of using an unprotected, unencrypted Wi-Fi network are well-documented. Anything you transmit becomes fair game for hackers — if ...
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Our thoughts on the EU’s "right to be forgotten" ruling
This post was originally published on May 16, 2014. On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice decided that Europeans have what they call the "right to be forgotten," meaning that companies like Googl...
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Why we should all care about metadata surveillance
This post was originally published on April 25, 2014. Hopefully, Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s surveillance of phone call metadata are still fresh in your minds. “But it’s just metadat...
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ExpressVPN and Heartbleed
This post was originally published on April 13, 2014. We'd like to give some more insight into how we dealt with the Heartbleed security bug that affected most of the Internet last week. The key point...
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