Thanks for an interesting article!

Personally I think that this is a prime example of the cultural difference in intelligence work between the US and the old Soviet Union, and it’s creating trouble today.

To compress the reasoning: the US, with the success of Magic and Ultra in WWII the US went all…

I find the idea behind the video series on encryption absolutely vital, as one of the undeniable realities of the current debate on encryption and privacy, is that the large majority of people still don’t care enough about encryption, privacy or mass surveillance.

WhatsApp encryption — what does it mean for you?

Yesterday WhatsApp flipped a switch and gave over a billion users end-to-end encryption for all their messages — text, images, voice and videos. But what does that actually mean for ordinary users?

Dan Gillmor says that if our news sources persist in using unattributed sources, we should out them.

Actually, he calls it “lying” on their part.

But it makes me think he hasn’t kept up with the double bind, cat and mouse game that every journalist who touches an area that involves national security…