Encryption Under ‘Full-Frontal Nuclear Assault’ By U.S. Bills
Riana Pfefferkorn, the Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, who has investigated and analyzed t…
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Cyberattack Attribution and International Law
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing two men linked to China’s Ministry of State Security of a decade-long campaign…
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Success Stories
The theory behind cybersecurity information sharing is clear and uncontroversial, even if the details of what to share, how best to do it and who to share with…
The Senate’s twin threats to online speech and security
This is a cruel summer. The COVID-19 toll increases daily. Millions are out of work and risk losing their homes. The senseless loss of Black lives continues des…
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Police Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told Motherboard in an email, &qu…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 248: The Most Serious Threat To Section 230
Attacks on Section 230 are relentless and coming from all sides — so we've got another podcast all about the attempts to ruin the most important law on the…
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The EARN IT Act Threatens Our Online Freedoms. New Amendments Don’t Fix It.
On July 2, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a full-committee hearing at which it made significant changes to the pending EARN IT Act bill, S.3398, about whic…
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Is the U.S. Senate Trying to Steal Your Privacy While No One is Looking?
"Wide-ranging in its focus, an analysis from Riana Pfefferkorn of Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society shows that it “isn’t just aimed at Apple, Goog…
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Making Sense of EARN IT & LAED Bills' Implications for Crypto
"Given that many US government leaders have led decades-long history of opposition to private use of digital encryption, cybersecurity and privacy advocate…
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New bill stokes long-running encryption fight in Washington
"The bill is a “full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in all its forms,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity…
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New Republican bill latest in long line to force encryption backdoor
"The initial reaction by academics, cryptographers, technologists, and human rights advocates to the latest bill was swift and harsh. “This bill is the enc…
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A Republican Bill Would Weaken Encryption Just When We Need It Most
"Privacy advocates were skeptical that the federal government would be satisfied with just unlocking seized phones, though, and LAEDA’s requirement of lawf…