When we tell you to apply updates we are not telling you to mend your ship. We are telling you to keep bailing before the water gets to your neck.
Quinn Norton discusses the bleak reality of data security.
Read more: Everything Is Broken — Medium
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18% of online adults have had important personal information stolen such as their Social Security Number, credit card, or bank account information. That’s an increase from the 11% who reported personal information theft in July 2013.
21% of online adults said they had an email or social networking account compromised or taken over without their permission.The same number reported this experience in a July 2013 survey.
Encryption may seem a stretch as a press freedom issue, far from what concerned the Founding Fathers when they enshrined the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Yet a free press operates best when the public can make reading decisions without fear that their government — or anyone capable of doing them harm — is looking over their shoulder.
Why Silicon Valley’s NSA deal helps them, but not you
Ever since leaked NSA documents first started popping up this summer, the battle against NSA surveillance has proceeded on multiple fronts: legislators pushing for new laws, journalists pushing for new stories, and tech companies fighting to regain users’ trust. Yesterday, one of the major fronts closed down. Since July, tech companies had been putting pressure on the Department of Justice, fighting for the right to say more about their interactions with law enforcement. Yesterday they made peace, reaching a settlement and withdrawing a class action suit that had drawn in some of the most powerful companies in America. On this front at least, reformers have likely gotten all they’re going to get.
There are a lot more stories to come, a lot more documents that will be covered. It’s important that we understand what it is we’re publishing, so what we say about them is accurate.
It is time for the world’€™s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance.AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo have joined together to demand serious change regarding global governmental surveillance. In a huge move of creating a coalition of tech superpowers, the group calls for reform in Washington and abroad in response to the last six months of NSA, governmental surveillance revelations.
In an interview with the Washington Post published Nov. 15, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the department is conducting a “a comprehensive review of all criminal cases in which the government has used evidence gathered through its warrantless surveillance program” and that they “will be, where appropriate, providing defendants with information that they should have so they can make their own determinations about how they want to react to it.”
Read more on the Washington Post.
The big reason this matters is that he transferred a link, something all of us do every single day, and ended up being charged for it.
Jennifer Lynch, staff lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discusses the charges against Barrett Brown, a journalist who has been in jail for over a year on 12 counts related to identify theft after linking to “files [that] contained revelations about close and perhaps inappropriate ties between government security agencies and private contractors.”
A Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison Over a Link - NYTimes.com
(Source: The New York Times)
No password is more important than the one for your email.
Casey Frechette. Frechette shares 14 more guidelines for staying secure online in a post on best practices for Poynter.
Read more: 15 things journalists (and everyone) need to know about digital security | Poynter.
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