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…Nov 12, 2020Nov 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.Oct 11, 2020Oct 11, 2020
Alec MuffettSecurity Advisory: Tor Browser Leaks “Secure Cookies” Into Insecure Backend Channelsv1.0–27 July 2020, alec.muffett@gmail.comJul 27, 2020Jul 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…Jul 3, 2020Jul 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]”.Nov 7, 2019Nov 7, 2019
Alec MuffettOn the Latest Facebook Messenger Conspiracy Theory[context: I just posted this to a maillist that I participate in]Jul 29, 2019Jul 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.Jul 15, 2019Jul 15, 2019
Alec MuffettTips when mining Onion Addressesfor v2 and v3 onion addresses; updated 26 jun 2019Jun 26, 2019Jun 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 whileApr 27, 20192Apr 27, 20192
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…Apr 11, 2019Apr 11, 2019
