The Importance of Strong Technical Communities and Partnerships in Africa
The recent outage in West Africa caused by submarine cable damage could have been a lot worse. A strong community ensured it wasn’t.
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Yahoo, spying, responsibilities, and possibilities
In breaking news we learned that ‘Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence’. Frankly, that is not at all surprising to me. It is a testimony that end-to-end encryption ...
Rough Guide to IETF 96: All Things Encryption
IETF 96 finds us back in Berlin still talking about how to strengthen the Internet by improving the deployment and use of encryption. For this installment of the IETF Rough ...
CrypTech Workshop at IETF 96 in Berlin
The CrypTech project has just completed a successful two-day workshop in advance of IETF 96 in Berlin that gathered the core development team and a select group of alpha testers to ...
Encryption and Content Filtering: Report from Madrid Chapters Meeting
Members from 22 European Internet Society Chapters in 20 countries gathered in Madrid on April 14, 2016 to discuss current public policy issues that affect the Internet. The meeting attendees ...
Enough about Apple and Encryption: Let's talk system security
I want to share a perspective on system security. My phone as a system The Apple/FBI case revolves around a phone. Think of your own phone now. When I look ...
From 30 March to 1 April, San Francisco will be the world's capital for discussions around freedom of expression, privacy, encryption, and many other issues related to rights in the ...
Let’s Encrypt hits 1 million certificates
Early last week, Let's Encrypt issued its one millionth certificate, a impressive achievement considering it only entered its public beta phase just over three months ago. Let's Encrypt is a new trusted ...
Let’s Encrypt certificates for mail servers and DANE – Part 2 of 2
In the first part of our blog on testing the Let's Encrypt certificates for mail servers and adding extra security with DANE TLSA records, we focused on how to deal ...
