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Crypto-Santa: use onion routing to anonymize gifts at your Xmas party
Dmytri writes, "Add a crypto wrinkle to your Kris Kringle! Make your Secret Santa even more secret with the magic of Onion Wrapping!" (more…)
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Automating remote BIOS attacks
Legbacore's upcoming "digital voodoo" presentation will reveal an automated means of discovering BIOS defects that are vulnerable to remote attacks, meaning that your computer can be compromised below...
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Hacktivist sees too much, FBI lock him up on child-porn charges, produce no...
Matthew DeHart, a veteran from a multi-generational military/intelligence family, ran a Tor hidden service server for his Wow guildies, members of his old army unit, and whistleblowers. (more…)
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John Scalzi and Tor Books sign 13 book, 10 year, $3.4M deal
A decade after Tor published his first novel, Scalzi's committed to writing 10 adult and 3 young adult novels for Tor over the next ten years. (more…)
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The Tor Project is hiring a new executive director
So, an EFF activist gig isn't for you and neither is deputy director of the Free Software Foundation: how about executive director of the Tor Project, which maintains The Onion Router, a crucial piece...
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Free six-part course on encrypting email and securing your network sessions...
Jeff sez, "Tuts+ has made my six part introduction to PGP encryption, email and networking privacy available to readers for free." (more…)
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Kilton Library's Tor node is back online
Kilton, New Hampshire's public library was the first library in the USA to offer an Tor node on its computers, giving its patrons a technological assist in maintaining their privacy and anonymity --...
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HOWTO use Tor Messenger, the new, super-secure/private chat app
It's still in beta, but Tor Messenger from the Tor Project has security and privacy baked in by design, and it's the easiest method yet devised to use OTR (Off the Record), the gold standard in secure...
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Did the FBI pay Carnegie Mellon $1 million to identify and attack Tor users?
Wow. @CarnegieMellon is America's Shanghai Jiaotong. https://t.co/UAtaAgJvJh— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) November 11, 2015 Documents published by Vice News: Motherboard and further reporting by Wired...
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The Tor project is soliciting donations in its first fundraising drive
The nonprofit foundation that oversees development on Tor, the anonymity and privacy tool, has launched its first ever major cash fundraiser, seeking support for its crucial work. (more…)
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French Ministry of Interior wants to ban open wifi, Tor
A leaked memo from the Ministry sets out new bills it would like to see introduced into the French Parliament as early as next month, setting out an ambitious plan to block privacy tools, something...
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French PM defies Ministry of Interior, says he won't ban open wifi or Tor
Despite the French Ministry of Interior's demands to crack down on Internet anonymity, Prime Minister Manual Valls has gone on record saying he won't allow such a thing to pass: (more…)
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The Tor Project has a new executive director: former EFF director Shari Steele!
Shari Steele, who served as the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation for 15 years and built the organization from a six-person shoestring operation that didn't even have an office...
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Watch Tor traffic flow around the world
Tor, the internet anonymity network you can use to hide your activity from prying eyes, is beautiful in blue. Torflow is a visualization of the vast amounts of traffic streaming between its many nodes,...
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The Torist: a literary journal on the darknet
The Torist is a newly launched literary journal, edited by University of Utah Communications associate professor Robert W Gehl and a person called GMH, collecting fiction, poetry and non-fiction. It...
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NH bill would explicitly allow libraries to run Tor exit nodes
Inspired by the Library Freedom Project's uncompromising bravery in the face of a DHS threat against a town library in Kilton, NH, that was running a Tor exit node to facilitate private, anonymous...
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First-ever Tor node in a Canadian library
Library workers at Western University's Graduate Resource Centre in London, Ontario, had a workshop from Alison Macrina, the library organiser whose Library Freedom Project won a battle with the US...
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Security-conscious darkweb crime marketplaces institute world-leading...
If you are a seller on Alphabay -- a darkweb site that sells "drugs, stolen data and hacking tools," you'll have to use two-factor authentication (based on PGP/GPG) for all your logins. (more…)
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Ransomware gets a lot faster by encrypting the master file table instead of...
In just a few short years, ransomware -- malware that encrypts all the files on the computer and then charges you for a key to restore them -- has gone from a clever literary device for...
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