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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Schneier on Security

Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Schneier on Security

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy­what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Tor vs VPN—What is the difference?

Malwarebytes

The Tor (The Onion Router) network protects users from tracking, surveillance, and censorship. Since 2006, development of Tor has been conducted by a nonprofit organization called The Tor Project. Your traffic is protected by multiple layers of encryption. What is Tor?

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

2002 – 2006: Origins of the Tor Project After onion routing was patented, additional computer scientists joined the original development team in 2002 and created the biggest project for onion routing yet: The Onion Routing Project, now commonly known as the Tor Project. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.

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Spotlight Podcast: Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan on RSA’s Next Act: Security Start-Up

The Security Ledger

» Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Taking a Risk-Based Approach to Election Security How NIST Is Securing The Quantum Era Episode 188: Crowdsourcing Surveillance with Flock Safety. Read the whole entry. »

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Spotlight Podcast: CTO Zulfikar Ramzan on RSA’s Next Act: Security Start-Up

The Security Ledger

» Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Taking a Risk-Based Approach to Election Security How NIST Is Securing The Quantum Era Episode 188: Crowdsourcing Surveillance with Flock Safety. Read the whole entry. »

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Bart Gellman on Snowden

Schneier on Security

Bart Gellman's long-awaited (at least by me) book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State , will finally be published in a couple of weeks. It's an interesting read, mostly about the government surveillance of him and other journalists. This isn't news; we learned about this in 2006.