Using a VPN may subject Americans to warrantless government surveillance.
We need much more transparency — and stricter limitations on how the government can use this data to bypass Americans’ privacy rights.
VPN users in the U.S.: Did you know that using a VPN may subject you to foreign intelligence spying? freedom.press/digisec/blog...
Signal gives you a way to stop this in Settings > Notifications > Notification Content
New from 404 Media: Microsoft has terminated an account associated with VeraCrypt, the popular and long-running piece of encryption software. This means can no longer receive updates on Windows, the developer told me. Little explanation given by Microsoft www.404media.co/microsoft-ab...
A heavily redacted document describing ICE’s requirements for digital forensic and encrypted device exploitation tools.
ICE is requesting quotes to expand its arsenal of “digital forensics” tools — software and hardware that allow their HSI agents to access encrypted devices. This (heavily redacted) RFQ closes out April 10. ICE paid $13 million in FY25 for Cellebrite tools and training.
I found this discussion with the @eff's executive director, Cindy Cohn, really inspiring. Whether fighting for free speech or against surveillance, underneath is a fight about optimism. What kind of Internet do WE want? www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkC1...
"It depends."
— Ancient Security Proverb
this feels like “incognito mode” in that masking features only protect some info from some people & I’m not sure everyone intuits that
I work with journalists who use CapCut for video editing and their terms of service says you are giving them an "unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable (including sub-licensable), perpetual, worldwide license" — so, there’s that. www.capcut.com/clause/terms...
A primary purpose of the First Amendment is to enable the press to publish what it will and the public to read what it chooses, free of any official proscription. Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech. That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years. It must not be abandoned now.
BREAKING
The Trump DoD’s policies that exiled the Pentagon pool violated the 1st and 5th Amendments, a federal judge ruled.
Speaking of a free press, the judge wrote: “That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years. It must not be abandoned now.”
Ruling buff.ly/HiQDDvL
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Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
A second iOS exploit has been found in the wild, again used by Russian spies to infect websites and hack visitors' iPhones. This one works on iOS 18, and appeared in a very reusable form, so will likely proliferate.
If you haven't updated your iPhone, now's the time. www.wired.com/story/hundre...
When federal actors want cell site location information, they usually need a warrant. On the other hand, they simply purchase the data from commercially available services that don't require a warrant.
Come on. What are we doing here? www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Kash Patel refused to deny that the FBI is buying up Americans' location data. This is a shocking end run around the 4th amendment and exactly why we need to pass real privacy reforms NOW.
I guess the plan didn’t have… legs
This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.
Contempt for others leads to immolation of the self
It takes engineering hours to remove a feature. Even if few people use it, why go out of your way to remove it? Meta’s hurting its users. And for what? www.theverge.com/tech/894752/...
Yo this is suppppper important people. so much misinfo swirling about Proton.
1) email content was not shared but account data was
2) as the article here says PROTON IS NOT ANONYMOUS
3) Proton emails are only e2ee when both users are using Proton Mail.
Well I got all bent out of shape about Proton Mail. There are valid use cases for these tools but users should know what the service can and can't protect. freedom.press/digisec/blog...
Part of the issue is that all email leaks metadata — who spoke to who and when. Even this subject line could be pretty revealing. You can also compromise your privacy by emailing someone who doesn’t use Proton. If you want to keep a conversation private, email is somewhat limited.
Well I got all bent out of shape about Proton Mail. There are valid use cases for these tools but users should know what the service can and can't protect. freedom.press/digisec/blog...
Signal's recent disclosure of how little it could share in response to a grand jury subpoena is pretty telling. Its defaults are very strong. But if you want to go further, we have a guide on really how to really maximize its privacy settings. freedom.press/digisec/blog...
Signal recently released another grand jury subpoena which, as always, basically had nothing interesting to turn over in response. For the requested phone numbers they could only provide the account creation timestamp. signal.org/bigbrother/d...
Signal's recent disclosure of how little it could share in response to a grand jury subpoena is pretty telling. Its defaults are very strong. But if you want to go further, we have a guide on really how to really maximize its privacy settings. freedom.press/digisec/blog...
Signal recently released another grand jury subpoena which, as always, basically had nothing interesting to turn over in response. For the requested phone numbers they could only provide the account creation timestamp. signal.org/bigbrother/d...
"We made sand think."
I mean, no, we didn't. But let's say we did — what a very rude to do to those innocent computers.
