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Edward Snowden has revealed new information concerning the cryptographic capabilities of the NSA and GCHQ (TheGuardian, ProRepublica, leaking documents…). The CryptoGirl was bound to look into that topic 😉 Let’s go straight to the point and answer simple questions. Is cryptography unsecure? No, I don’t think so. Basically, cryptography is maths (prime numbers, finite fields, polynomials…), and […]
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Six years ago, two Microsoft cryptography researchers discovered some weirdness in an obscure cryptography standard authored by the National Security Agency. There was a bug in a government-standard random number generator that could be used to encrypt data. The researchers, Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson, found that the number generator appeared to have been built with […]
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Two months ago, when we reported that the NSA has successfully inserted illegal access protocols into the Android OS, thus granting it back door access into nearly three quarters of all cell phones, the news was met with skepticism and resistance: how could an open-sourced architecture be so frail and open to penetration was the most common […]
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UK mobile providers, including O2 and its reseller GiffGaff, areblocking commercial VPN providers that help to secure sensitive communications from criminals, hackers and government spies. In particular, O2/GiffGaff block IPREDator, my favorite VPN service. The carriers claim that because these services could be use to bypass their Internet censorship tools — switched on by default, a regime […]
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(see story here) “The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” — John Gilmore If your employer or corrupt, undemocratic, dictator-based government uses a filtering service such as Secure Computing’s SmartFilter to block access to BoingBoing.net — or anything else online — you can try the following workarounds: Distributed BoingBoing mirrors everything on BoingBoing.net at random […]
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Nokia Deal Could Mark the Last Chapter for Microsoft Sep 06, 2013 – 12:37 PM GMT By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson As a value investor I used to spend a great deal of time in Microsoft hell – on one hand there was the company with enormous cash flows, an incredible return on capital, a huge moat, a cash-rich […]
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Member Exclusive! $99 communication software package free for members Skype Contact Explorer The Skype Contact Explorer is a companion for Skype that installs in Windows 7, 8, XP, Server x. The companion is a powerful communication tool allowing you to maximize your Skype account when using as your primary means of communication. Send messages […]
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Global Intel Hub is building a global private network, or “private internet.” Members will first login to the VPN through a secure connection, and then the VPN will manage both inbound and outbound traffic (when going outside the network, to the public internet, traffic will first go through the VPN). What benefits will this have […]
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It is convenient that in a recent post [9]covering the latest historic Verizon M&A deal we showed a spaghetti chart, created by the WSJ [10], of the US telecom space because it lays roughly how many current subscribers that other US telecom giant, AT&T, has. [11] The reason for this is that according to the latest revelations from the […]
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Internet communication has evolved drastically, yet email still remains the foundation of communication for business and personal use. Based on the fact that it survived being overtaken by a number of other means, it looks like email will be the primary use for communications for the foreseeable future. Recent revelations about the NSA Prism program […]
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