First POST: Messaging
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, April 30 2014
How Americans are(n't) responding to the dangers of the Heartbleed bug; mobile politicking's unconquered territory; how some of Silicon Valley is embracing the "nerd prom"; and much, much more. Read More
The Server Fights Back: Calyx Foundation Bakes in Security With Experiment
BY Sam Roudman | Thursday, February 13 2014
Secure communication online is possible; it’s still just really hard. Take for instance secure chat tools. Jabber (aka XMPP) is a chat protocol that has been a part of facebook chat and gchat over the years, but although it features a number of extensions that allow for encryption, there’s no guarantee they’ll get used, or that users will even know they exist. A server experiment by Nick Merrill at the Calyx Institute hints that the secret to greater adoption might be a matter of employing a behavioral insight enunciated by noted technology scholars DEVO in 1980: freedom of choice is what you got, freedom from choice is what you want. Read More
First POST: Exploitable
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, September 6 2013
Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: How the NSA is breaking the Internet; a peek at the inside of the GOP's new Data Center; campaign contributions in bitcoin; and much, much more. Read More
Middle Eastern Bloggers May Be Unprepared for Online Security Threats, Study Finds
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, August 2 2011
In the face of increasing threats to their safety and their ability to publish, bloggers in the Middle East don't have a firm grasp on how to protect themselves online, according to survey results released yesterday by ... Read More
Fear Not, Flathead County Residents: Your Government Data is Insured Against the Lulz
BY Nick Judd | Monday, June 27 2011
Flathead County, Montana, has secured insurance against its databases being hacked. In an age where Citibank and Sony Entertainment cannot protect their users' confidential data, it seems that no one, truly no one, can ... Read More