Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
This is a modified version of an article first published by Danny O’Brien on EFF’s Deeplinks blog on 25th October 2013. See the original article. One of the trends we’ve seen is how, as the word of the NSA’s spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can […]
In the Silk Road Case, Don’t Blame the Technology
The man alleged to be “Dread Pirate Roberts,” the founder and operator of the Silk Road—an online marketplace where bitcoins were traded for a range of goods and services, including drugs — was arrested by the FBI in San Francisco this week. The criminal complaint, provides many details about how the site and its users […]
Perfect Forward Secrecy: an Important Web Privacy Protection
This is a modified version of an article first published by Parker Higgins on EFF’s Deeplinks blog on 28th August 2013. See the original article. When you access a Web site over an encrypted connection, you’re using a protocol called HTTPS. But not all HTTPS connections are created equal. In the first few milliseconds after […]
XKeyscore: collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’
Edward Snowden’s latest leak confirms the existence of an NSA program that allows analysts to search through vast databases about internet user’s activity without any prior authorisation. This program, known as XKeyscore, is the NSA’s “widest-reaching” surveillance system for tracking activity on the Internet. As Snowden told The Guardian back in June: “I, sitting at my desk,” […]
Online surveillance: what is the Australian government hiding?
EFA has suspected since the existence of the NSA’s global internet surveillance program PRISM was revealed recently by whistleblower Ed Snowden, that Australian intelligence agencies have been receiving information from this program about Australians. Australian intelligence agencies have a long-established close working relationship with their counterparts in the US and other Anglosphere countries under an […]
