Blog
•
The EARN IT Act Is Here. Surprise, It’s Still Bad News.
Well, the dreaded day has come: the EARN IT Act was formally introduced today in the Senate Judiciary Committee. I wrote at length in January about the bill, wh…
Cybersecurity
Press
•
EARN IT Act Not Earning Much Support
"“Previously, the answer from Congress was ‘do nothing,’ both on passing an anti-encryption law -- something for which Congress has heretofore shown no app…
Press
•
The EARN IT Act Is a Sneak Attack on Encryption
"Riana Pfefferkorn, the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, outlined fears about the pr…
Get that thing off my car.
Ben explains why Apple may pay half a billion dollars to settle a class action suit, Dave has an update on last week's GPS tracking device story, and later…
Press
•
Can YouTube Quiet Its Conspiracy Theorists?
"“To me, a more interesting question is, ‘What effect does the promotion of conspiracy videos via YouTube have on people and society?’” Mr. Narayanan said…
Press
•
Three important forces, working in concert, we can't control
"“In our national context we’re on the side of having a fire hose of information,” says Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of policy and law at Penn State Law S…
Press
•
SMS a weak link in two-factor authentication: data guru
"Narayanan, who was participating in the Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, was responding to a prompt from panel…
Press
•
What the Ring hacks tell us about tech’s backward approach to security
"“I don’t think you have to completely trade off one for another,” Jen King, director of consumer privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanfor…
Blog
•
DOJ Plans to Strike Against Encryption While the Techlash Iron Is Hot
There’s a story in today’s Washington Post “Cybersecurity 202” newsletter that confirms that the Department of Justice is capitalizing on the techlash in order…
Press
•
'Building Side Doors Is Not Going to Help'
"“Crypto is really the elephant in the room for the Graham Blumenthal bill, it's a signal for Facebook and Signal to provide this method or be prepared…
Press
•
Experts: Florida County Should Have Reported 2016 Hack
"But a firewall isn't necessarily a "silver bullet that would protect them from everything," said Richard Forno, assistant director of the Un…
Press
•
The police want your phone data. Here’s what they can get — and what they can’t.
"“Basically, anything that a provider has that it can decode, law enforcement is getting it,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for…