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Snapchat Scam – Nothing is Deleted, its all a Lie

Thursday, May 16, 2013

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/05/09/snapchats-dont-disappear/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

The House Built in the Middle of a River

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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http://www.odditycentral.com/travel/ultimate-privacy-the-house-built-in-the-middle-of-a-river.html#more-33430

‘Zerocoin’ Add-on For Bitcoin Could Make It Truly Anonymous And Untraceable

Saturday, April 13, 2013

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/12/zerocoin-add-on-for-bitcoin-could-make-it-truly-anonymous-and-untraceable/

Privacy 101: Skype Leaks Your Location

Thursday, April 4, 2013

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http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/privacy-101-skype-leaks-your-location/

WinPoker Becomes First Major Gambling Operator To Adopt Bitcoin

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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By Jon Matonis Forbes Wednesday, March 13, 2013 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/03/13/winpoker-becomes-first-major-gambling-operator-to-adopt-bitcoin/ WinPoker in Curaçao announced that it will now begin accepting bitcoin as a deposit ...

The Implausibility of Secrecy

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/03/on_secrecy.html

Being detected through VPN : privacy

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1a393b/being_detected_through_vpn/

Cypherpunk rising: WikiLeaks, encryption, and the coming surveillance dystopia | The Verge

Friday, March 8, 2013

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http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/7/4036040/cypherpunks-julian-assange-wikileaks-encryption-surveillance-dystopia

Bitcoin Exchange Deal Repatriates Assets To U.S.

Friday, March 8, 2013

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By Jon Matonis Forbes Saturday, March 2, 2013 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/03/02/bitcoin-exchange-deal-repatriates-assets-to-u-s/ Although the deal for Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange and CoinLab to partner on U.S. customer business was broke...

US Police Forensic Tools Can Collect Suspects’ Smartphone Data without Warrant, ACLU Says

Monday, March 4, 2013

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http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/us-police-forensic-tools-can-collect-suspects-smartphone-data-without-warrant-aclu-says-5574.html

Tabletop Bitcoin ATM Is Huge for Payment Privacy

Monday, March 4, 2013

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By Jon Matonis American Banker Wednesday, February 27, 2013 http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/tabletop-bitcoin-atm-is-huge-for-payment-privacy-1057110-1.html It looks like a high school science project, but this countertop machine may be a bu...

The Cashless Utopia Mirage

Friday, March 1, 2013

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By Jon Matonis Forbes Sunday, February 24, 2013 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/02/24/the-cashless-utopia-mirage/ David Wolman's article The Anonymity Fantasy gets off on the wrong foot by claiming to know what we all "deserve" or "w...

PANOPTICON: The documentary about your privacy

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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PANOPTICON: The documentary about your privacy Watch this video on YouTube.

Silent Circle And Vertu Partner On $10,000 Phone

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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By Jon Matonis Forbes Thursday, February 21,2013 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/02/21/silent-circle-and-vertu-partner-on-10000-phone/ Can a $10,000 smartphone buy happiness? Probably not. But it can buy privacy and state-of-the-art en...

Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/23/2126246/firefox-will-soon-block-third-party-cookies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed The initial response from the online advertising industry is unsurprisingly hostile and blustering, calling the move ‘a nuclear first strike.

The Privacy Price To Cross The Border

Monday, February 25, 2013

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/02/21/the-privacy-price-to-cross-the-border/

Coinbase: Swapping Bitcoin Privacy for Banking Convenience

Sunday, February 24, 2013

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By Jon Matonis PaymentsSource Tuesday, February 19, 2013 http://www.paymentssource.com/news/swapping-bitcoin-privacy-for-banking-convenience-3013278-1.html I've always had this nagging feeling about Coinbase’s exchange service and I just couldn't ...

If your Fly is Down, Cops Don’t Need Warrant for Cavity Search

Friday, February 22, 2013

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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/21/1343231/cellphone-privacy-in-canada-encryption-triggers-need-for-warrant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

If your Fly is Down, Cops Don’t Need Warrant for Cavity Search

Friday, February 22, 2013

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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/21/1343231/cellphone-privacy-in-canada-encryption-triggers-need-for-warrant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

SuperGenPass: A Better Password Generator

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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http://supergenpass.com/

Five tools to protect your privacy online

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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http://www.sovereignman.com/personal-privacy/five-privacy-tools-10859/

KeePass, the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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http://keepass.info/

B of A Snubs Two Gun Makers as Banking Becomes Politicized

Sunday, February 17, 2013

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By Jon Matonis American Banker Tuesday, February 12, 2013 http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/bank-of-america-snubs-gun-makers-as-banking-becomes-politicized-1056597-1.html In one of the more memorable scenes from Michael Moore's B...

Finance Without Fingerprints

Saturday, February 16, 2013

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American Banker aired this encouraging financial privacy video on Friday, February 15, 2013: Physical cash is on its way out and won't be missed, but even in an all-digital future the option of anonymous, untraceable consumer payments must rem...

Pressure Increases On Silent Circle To Release Application Source Code

Monday, February 11, 2013

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By Jon Matonis Forbes Wednesday, February 6, 2013 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/02/06/pressure-increases-on-silent-circle-to-release-application-source-code/ With the recent announcement of the new Silent Text product arriving in Appl...

The Best Parenting App Is Against The Law

Saturday, February 2, 2013

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/why-the-best-parenting-app-is-against-the-law

5 Security Holes Almost Everyone’s Vulnerable To

Thursday, January 31, 2013

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http://lifehacker.com/5980126/5-security-holes-almost-everyones-vulnerable-to

How-to stop getting tracked in your Browser.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

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http://fixtracking.com/

Identifying People from their Writing Style

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/identifying_peo_3.html

Users Scramble as GitHub Search Exposes Passwords, Security Details

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/01/users-scramble-as-github-search-exposes-passwords-security-details/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: wired/index (Wired: Top Stories)

Google Tells Cops to Get Warrants for User E-Mail, Cloud Data

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/google-says-get-a-warrant/

Schneier on Security: Thinking About Obscurity

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/thinking_about_1.html

Silent Circle Adds Android For Encrypted Voice And Video Calls

Monday, January 21, 2013

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By Jon Matonis Forbes Wednesday, January 16, 2013 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/01/16/silent-circle-adds-android-for-encrypted-voice-and-video-calls/ Silent Circle announced today that they have released Silent Phone for Android users...

Anonbin.com – anonymous data sharing

Thursday, January 17, 2013

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http://www.anonbin.com/

Terms of Service as a Security Threat

Thursday, January 10, 2013

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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/terms_of_servic.html

German privacy regulator orders Facebook to end its “real name” policy

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

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http://www.itworld.com/security/328387/german-privacy-regulator-orders-facebook-end-its-real-name-policy

Bitcoin’s Greatness Not Realized By Succumbing To Regulation

Saturday, December 15, 2012

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By Jon Matonis Forbes Sunday, December 9, 2012 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/12/09/bitcoins-greatness-not-realized-by-succumbing-to-regulation/ Last Thursday's news that French company Paymium and their exchange division, Bitcoin-Ce...

Reasonable Expectation of Privacy | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project

Saturday, December 8, 2012

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https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacy

The SSD Project | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project

Saturday, December 8, 2012

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https://ssd.eff.org/

No warrant, no problem: How the government can still get your digital data

Saturday, December 8, 2012

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/no-warrant-no-problem-how-the-government-can-still-get-your-digital-data/

Who’s Watching the N.S.A. Watchers? – Giving in to the Surveillance State

Thursday, December 6, 2012

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/whos-watching-the-nsa-watchers.html?_r=0

Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers

Thursday, December 6, 2012

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-charged-for-child-porn-transmitted-over-his-servers/

Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It

Thursday, December 6, 2012

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http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/18/1839230/google-bans-online-anonymity-while-patenting-it?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=facebook

Is Facebook Lack of Privacy Stressing You Out?

Thursday, December 6, 2012

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/are-your-facebook-friends-stressing-you-out-yes/265626/

Why Support The Bitcoin Foundation

Thursday, November 22, 2012

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By Jon Matonis Bitcoin Foundation Monday, November 19, 2012 https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=41 Since the nonprofit Bitcoin Foundation launched in September 2012 I have been asked many times by potential sponsors, "Why would our organizatio...

What’s Your Bitcoin Strategy? WordPress Now Accepts Bitcoin Across The Planet

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

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By Jon Matonis Forbes Friday, November 16, 2012 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/11/16/whats-your-bitcoin-strategy-wordpress-now-accepts-bitcoin-across-the-planet/ Best CEO Toni Schneider in 2007 I awoke to incredible news this morning....

New Wickr App Enables Secure, Self-Destructing Text Messages

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

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http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-wickr-app-enables-secure-self-destructing-text-messages-062812

Facebook Scans All Chats and Posts For Suspected Criminal Activity

Friday, July 13, 2012

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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/13/1247257/facebook-scans-chats-and-posts-for-criminal-activity?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Slashdot/slashdot (Slashdot)

RePress: WordPress Plugin that Operates as Website Proxy System

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

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https://all4xs.net/why/

Cisco locks customers out of their own routers, only lets them back in if they agree to being spied upon and monetized

Friday, July 6, 2012

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http://boingboing.net/2012/07/03/cisco-locks-customers-out-of-t.html

Ruby SSL Cheatsheet

Friday, July 6, 2012

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https://github.com/augustl/ruby-openssl-cheat-sheet

CEO of Sonic.net: We Delete User Logs After Two Weeks. Your Internet Provider Should, Too.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/06/22/ceo-of-internet-provider-sonic-net-we-delete-user-logs-after-two-weeks-your-internet-provider-should-too/2/

Paypal Restores Account of BitTorrent Friendly VPN

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

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http://torrentfreak.com/paypal-restores-account-of-bittorrent-friendly-vpn-120626/

New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/anonymous-online-speech-ban/

Friendika: The internet is our social network.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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http://friendica.com/

6 Google Chrome remixes worth trying

Friday, February 3, 2012

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http://www.infoworld.com/print/184923

Facebook Responsible for 1/3 of Divorces in UK

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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http://www.itproportal.com/2012/01/02/facebook-responsible-third-divorces-uk/

WhisperSystems’s Android Crypto Apps on GitHubProfile

Friday, December 23, 2011

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https://github.com/whispersystems

Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-travelers-carrying-digital-devices

Tomb :: The Crypto Undertaker

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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http://dyne.org/software/tomb/

DOJ: Lying on Match.com needs to be a crime

Friday, November 18, 2011

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57324779-281/doj-lying-on-match.com-needs-to-be-a-crime/

On Pseudonymity, Privacy and Responsibility on Google+

Saturday, August 27, 2011

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http://www.marrowbones.com/commons/technosocial/2011/07/on_pseudonymity_privacy_and_re.html Protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse. Allowing dissenters to shield their identities frees them to express critical, minority views . . . Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in [...]

Covert Channels in Computer Network Protocols Bibliography

Friday, August 19, 2011

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http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/szander/cc/cc-cnetworks-bib.html

The New, Super Duper, Undeletable, Web Cookie

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/08/new_undeletable.html

How Blackberry, not Twitter, fuelled the fire under London’s riots

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/how-blackberry-not-twitter-fuelled-the-fire-under-londons-riots/

Anonymization of your Data is Hard

Friday, May 27, 2011

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http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/anonymize-data-limits.html

How I Got a Database Containing 35.000.000 Google Profiles in One Month

Thursday, May 26, 2011

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http://blog.cyberwar.nl/2011/05/verified-google-allows-mass-downloading.html

Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/

5 “Microsoft Skype” Alternatives for Linux Users

Friday, May 20, 2011

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http://www.itworld.com/unified-communications/166637/5-skype-alternatives-linux-users

Dev: Twitter’s Shit Sandwich

Friday, May 20, 2011

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http://daringfireball.net/2011/05/twitter_shit_sandwich

Infographic: Anonymous or Transparent: Which Side Are You On?

Friday, May 20, 2011

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http://mashable.com/2011/05/19/anonymous-transparent-infographic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: Mashable (Mashable)

Loosely Managed Digital Currency Could Be Avenue for Crime That’s Hard to Block

Saturday, April 30, 2011

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http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=5907.msg87859#msg87859 “Money laundering is a pejorative term to begin with because it insinuates that the participants do not have certain inherent rights to financial privacy. The Jews “laundered” their money to Switzerland in order to escape Hitler’s holocaust. Come on, people! Financial privacy is a fundamental human right that has been consistently eroded and violated [...]

Pandora Music Mobile App Transmits Gobs Of Personal Data

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/pandora-mobile-app-transmits-gobs-personal-data-040611

The Diceware Passphrase Home Page

Monday, April 11, 2011

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http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

Obama Wants To Read Your Email Without A Warrant

Monday, April 11, 2011

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http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/the-obama-administration-wants-to-read-your-email-without-a-warrant The US Obama Administration is resisting an effort to extend 4th Amendment protections to electronic mail storied on third-party servers, such as services like Gmail and Yahoo. As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Communications Privacy [...]

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