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 […]
Thinking of using a VPN? Check the privacy policy first
With new threats to online freedoms appearing with frightening regularity (from SOPA to ACTA, and from the TPP to the recent PRISM scandal), it’s logical to assume internet users will increasingly turn toward privacy tools to protect their online data over the coming years. While the free-to-use TOR platform remains the most popular way to […]
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,” […]
Saturday 6th July – National Day of Action: Protect our Privacy
The privacy of all Australians is at threat like never before. These threats include: The US’ global surveillance apparatus, including PRISM Federal Police are accessing phone and internet records up to 1,000 times per week, without warrants Other government and non-government agencies, including the RSPCA and Victorian Taxi Directorate are also regularly accessing phone and internet records, […]
Folsom PRISM Blues: Nine reasons you don’t have “nothing to hide”
By Sean Rintel, The University of Queensland & EFA Board Member. This article (with different images) was originally published on 11th June 2013 in: In the wake of former CIA employee Edward Snowden’s revelations of the PRISM NSA mass surveillance, people are once again asking why the general public should care if they’ve got […]