Encrypting an Android device is a good idea if there's sensitive data stored on it locally. Encrypting it is easy, but there's a few things to keep in mind.
Encryption ethics: are email providers responsible for privacy?
Ex-National Security Agency (NSA) employee Edward Snowden’s various leaks – the most recent being a slide showing that the NSA infected 50,000 of computer networks with remote-controlled spyware – confirm…
UPDATE: Encrypt the Web Report: Who's Doing What | Electronic Frontier Foun
UPDATE: This page has been moved, and this copy is no longer being updated. For more recent developments, see the latest version of our Encrypt the Web report. We’ve asked the companies in our Who Has Your Back Program what they are doing to bolster encryption in light of the NSA’s unlawful...
Public vs. Private – Should Student Work Be Public On the Web?
10+ years ago, filters and blocking tools were banning access to most blogs and web publishing services in schools around the world. In fact, this is exactly why The Edublog Awards were started – to showcase the excellent work being done with blogging in schools – hoping it would begin to break down these barriers...
Update 2: TrueCrypt audit results released (PDF) Update: the TrueCrypt project unexpectedly shut down on 28 May 2014. A mirrored copy of TrueCrypt.org is available on Andryou.com. The home page of …
NSA leaks on Canadian surveillance coming, Greenwald says
Glenn Greenwald — the journalist who, through his source Edward Snowden, revealed a massive domestic and foreign spying operation by the U.S. National Security Agency — says documents outlining Canadian surveillance will be published.
Adobe breach hit more than 150 million usernames and passwords
It seems like we may be closing in on the total size of Adobe's password security breach, and it's big. Really big. According to a report by Paul Ducklin