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Where the Silk Road ends: Feds arrest 'Dread Pirate Roberts,' alleged founder...
What users who attempt to connect to the Silk Road marketplace see now (HT: Adrian Chen) Looks like the government shutdown didn't stop federal agents from shutting down the most popular "deep web"...
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NSA and UK intel agency GCHQ target online anonymity tool Tor, according to...
Despite the fact that online anonymity tool Tor was developed with US government funds, the NSA really does not like Tor. Top-secret documents leaked to the Guardian by former US intelligence...
View ArticleThe downfall of Silk Road, and with it, the so-called Dark Net
From Adrian Chen's Gawker long-read about that recent bust of the web's biggest online illegal drug marketplace: The lesson of the Silk Road takedown isn't that Ulbricht was sloppy about security. It's...
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Detailed analysis of Syria's network censorship with logs from Blue Coat's...
In Censorship in the Wild: Analyzing Web Filtering in Syria [PDF], researchers from INRIA, NICTA and University College London parse through 600GB worth of leaked logfiles from seven Blue Coat SG-9000...
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Jake Appelbaum reads his Homeland afterword, with bonus Atari Teenage Riot...
Two of my friends contributed afterwords to my novel Homeland: Aaron Swartz and Jacob Appelbaum. In this outtake from the independently produced Homeland audiobook (which you can get for the next week...
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TAILS: Snowden's favorite anonymous, secure OS goes 1.0
TAILS -- The Amnesiac Incognito Live System -- is a highly secure operating system intended to be booted from an external USB stick without leaving behind any trace of your activity on either your...
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Tor: network security for domestic abuse survivors
Michael from Beta Boston writes, "The privacy protections offered by tools like Tor aren't just for journalists and spies; they're important for everyone. Almost every modern abusive relationship has...
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Edward Snowden hosted a cryptoparty and ran a Tor exit node
Before Edward Snowden went on the run and effected the first-ever leak of documents from the NSA, he threw a cryptoparty in Hawai'i, coordinating with Runa Sandvik from the Tor Project and Asher Wolf...
View ArticleThe Tor challenge: run a Tor node for great justice
EFF, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Free Software Foundation and The Tor Project have launched The Tor Challenge, a campaign to encourage people to run Tor nodes. "Tor is a powerful tool that helps...
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Seven things you should know about Tor
Tor (The Onion Router) is a military-grade, secure tool for increasing the privacy and anonymity of your communications; but it's been the subject of plenty of fear, uncertainty and doubt. The...
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If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance
In a shocking story on the German site Tagesschau (Google translate), Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz report on the rules used by the NSA to decide who is a "target" for surveillance. Since...
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"Personal Internet security" is a team sport
My latest column in Locus magazine, Security in Numbers, looks at the impossibility of being secure on your own -- if you use the Internet to talk to other people, they have to care about security,...
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Own your crypto-extremism with the Torrorist tee
Celebrate yesterday's news that the NSA classes all Tor users as "extremists" and targets them for indefinite, deep surveillance...with fashion! (more…)
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EFF unveils secure, sharing-friendly, privacy-minded router OS
As promised, the Open Wireless Movement's new sharing-friendly, privacy-minded router operating system was unveiled at HOPE X in New York last weekend. (more…)
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Honorable spies anonymously leak NSA/GHCQ-discovered flaws in Tor
Andrew Lewman, head of operations for The Onion Router (TOR), an anonymity and privacy tool that is particularly loathed by the spy agencies' capos, credits Tor's anonymous bug-reporting system for...
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Comcast blocks Tor (updated)
"Users who try to use anonymity, or cover themselves up on the internet, are usually doing things that aren’t so-to-speak legal; we have the right to terminate, fine, or suspend your account at...
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Tor Browser goes 4.0
The 4.0 version of the secure, anonymized, private browser disables SSL3 (in deference to the POODLE attack) and uses new transports that are intended to defeat the Great Firewall of China and other...
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Which crowdfunded privacy routers are worthy of your trust?
After the spectacular rise and fall of Anonabox, a kickstarted $45 router that was supposed to protect your privacy but had its campaign yanked for not being entirely forthright with backers, a spate...
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Random Darknet Shopper: Internet art randomly spends $100/wk of Bitcoin in...
It's part of a Swiss gallery exhibit called The Darknet: From Memes to Onionland, where all the random junk the algorithm buys (from ecstasy to fire brigade master-keys to boxed Tolkien sets) are...
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Tor Project declares solidarity with harassed colleague
Roger Dingledine from the Tor Project writes, "One of our colleagues has been the target of a sustained campaign of harassment for the past several months. We have decided to publish this statement to...
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