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Cybersecurity Report: June 29, 2015

SiteLock

According to Wikileaks, the whistleblower website, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on French President Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande in 2006-2012, Wikileaks says. These files were said to derive from directly targeted NSA surveillance of the communications of multiple French leaders.

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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Schneier on Security

This is exactly the policy debate we should be havingĀ­not the fake one about whether or not we can have both security and surveillance. But adding that backdoor also decreases our collective security because the bad guys can eavesdrop on everyone. Barr makes the point that this is about "consumer cybersecurity," and not "nuclear launch codes."

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Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Schneier on Security

This is exactly the policy debate we should be having -- not the fake one about whether or not we can have both security and surveillance. But adding that backdoor also decreases our collective security because the bad guys can eavesdrop on everyone. I wrote about all this, and more, in 2013.).

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Spotlight Podcast: Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan on RSAā€™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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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

2002 ā€“ 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: CTO Zulfikar Ramzan on RSAā€™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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Tor vs VPNā€”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. But while both tools can enhance your online anonymity, they’re as different as apples and orang … onions. What is Tor?

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