Alec MuffettPerspective: “Lawful Access” to End-To-End Encrypted CommunicationQuestion: Would business and society suffer “harm” as a consequence of provision of “lawful access”, or “exceptional access”, for…4 min read·Nov 12, 2020----
Alec MuffettThe “Economic Opportunity Cost” Argument in favour of End-to-End Encryption (#e2ee) in 2020Governments continue, as they have for the past 30 years, to rail against the adoption of strong encryption.2 min read·Oct 11, 2020----
Alec MuffettSecurity Advisory: Tor Browser Leaks “Secure Cookies” Into Insecure Backend Channelsv1.0–27 July 2020, alec.muffett@gmail.com7 min read·Jul 27, 2020----
Alec MuffettDoHoT: making practical use of DNS over HTTPS over TorThis is the first document for a new project called DoHoT DNS, which I hope will grow to help people recoup some privacy in places where…9 min read·Jul 3, 2020----
Alec MuffettFor Mike Kelly, @mikekelly85So there’s this thread, by this guy, who is pitching that “WhatsApp isn’t open-source so it must be bad in [various hypothetical ways]”.4 min read·Nov 7, 2019----
Alec MuffettOn the Latest Facebook Messenger Conspiracy Theory[context: I just posted this to a maillist that I participate in]2 min read·Jul 29, 2019----
Alec MuffettMuffett’s commentary on draft-grover-add-policy-detection-00 #DoH #DNSoverHTTPSCondensed from a couple of emails I made, earlier today, regarding a document put in front of the Applications Doing DNS working group.3 min read·Jul 15, 2019----
Alec MuffettTips when mining Onion Addressesfor v2 and v3 onion addresses; updated 26 jun 20193 min read·Jun 26, 2019----
Alec MuffettWhy Every Privacy Activist Should Embrace* DNS-over-HTTPS[*]even if it means initially using Google or Cloudflare for DNS for a while3 min read·Apr 27, 2019--2--2
Alec MuffettHow to help dissidents with technology? “Lift all boats”.Chatting over a little whisky last night, a friend asked my opinion on how to help Chinese dissidents gain access to secure communication…3 min read·Apr 11, 2019----