Nokia does a man in the middle attack on your secure mobile browsing
Gigaom reports on a major security issue at Nokia, first announced in the “Treasure Hunt” blog. Their Asha and Lumia phones come with something they call the “Xpress Browser”. To improve the browser...
View ArticleDark alleys of the Internet not actually the dangerous parts.
For years I have been telling people to be especially careful when they venture into the dark back alleys of the Internet. My thinking was that these more “wild west” areas would be home to most of the...
View ArticleThe Privacy Blog Podcast – Ep.7: Blacklisted SSL Certificates, Social Media...
Welcome to episode 7 of The Privacy Blog Podcast. In April’s episode, we’ll be looking at the blacklisting of SSL certificate authorities by Mozilla Firefox – Specifically, what this complex issue...
View ArticleJapanese ask sites to block "abusive" TOR users.
Wired reports on a move by the Japanese government to ask websites to block users who “abuse” TOR. I assume that TOR is being used as an example, and it would apply to any secure privacy tool. The...
View ArticleShanghai getting more relaxed great firewall
The South China Morning Post reports that the ban on Facebook, Twitter, the New York Times, and many other sites, will be lifted, but only in the Shanghai free-trade zone. The information came from...
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New Russian law requires data to be stored inside Russia
Continuing the pattern of Internet restrictions I talked about before, Russia has passed a new law requiring Internet companies to keep the personal data of Russians in data centers within the...
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More proof that the web security model is totaly broken
Fake Google Digital Certificates Found & Confiscated On July 2, Google engineers discovered unauthorized certificates for Google domains in circulation. They had been issued by the National...
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Brazil enforcing ban on Anonymity
A Brazilian court is enforcing a constitutional ban on anonymity by requiring Apple and Google to remove Secret, an anonymous social network chatting app from their app stores. Microsoft is being...
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Russia accelerates requirement for local Internet control
On September 24, the Russian Duma passed a bill moving the date on which all Internet services must host local data locally from Sept 1, 2016 to Jan 1, 2015. That is an effectively impossible timeline...
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The Looming End of Network Neutrality and How to Protect Yourself
Let’s get this out right up front. I am a strong advocate for network neutrality. ISPs like Comcast say that these regulations strangle innovation, and that all the concerns about how they might abuse...
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