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23
Apr

Dual-booting Qubes and Ubuntu with Encrypted Disks

Qubes is my preferred operating system, but occasionally you need to run something else. It’s hard to get certain
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10
Apr
The Operating System That Can Protect You Even if You Get Hacked

The Operating System That Can Protect You Even if You Get Hacked

This was originally published on the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s blog. We wrote about the importance of the
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03
Apr

Ubuntu is finally taking privacy seriously

Update: A couple people have pointed out that the privacy changes won’t actually take affect in 14.04, which
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29
Dec

Two really simple things Microsoft can do to make Windows more secure against NSA

Thanks to Edward Snowden and journalists at Der Spiegel, today we learned about Tailored Access Operations (TAO), NSA’s world-
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02
Dec
How Mailpile can implement opportunistic PGP email encryption

How Mailpile can implement opportunistic PGP email encryption

For those wanting to decentralize the Internet and encrypt all the things, Mailpile is a hot topic. What’s Mailpile?
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15
Nov

Leaving EFF and joining a fearless team of journalists

I started working at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in March of 2011. I joined the tech team as EFF’s
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07
Nov
Canonical shouldn’t abuse trademark law to silence critics of its privacy decisions

Canonical shouldn’t abuse trademark law to silence critics of its privacy decisions

I run the website fixubuntu.com, a place to quickly and easily learn how to disable the privacy-invasive features
3 min read
19
Sep

HTML email, attachments, and flowed text in Enigmail

I’ve noticed that a lot of people who are new to GPG really don’t want to give up
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05
Sep

Don’t Succumb to Security Nihilism

You might have read today’s shocking Guardian and New York Times articles outlining the many ways that NSA and
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28
Aug

It’s 2013. We’re all being spied on. Why do security software websites not use HTTPS?

Update: This post made the frontpage of reddit and many of the comments are wrong. I took a moment to
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