Good News For Hackers

October 7, 2010

Good news for hackers: The U.S. government may soon require online communications services to water down their encryption techniques. The proposed legislation, which federal law enforcement and national security officials hope to present to Congress next year, would mandate that all services that can be used for online communications be capable of providing transcripts of their users’ emails or chats to the government if asked. The services would have to …

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Wi-Fi In The Sky

March 25, 2010

It is no big deal that I am writing this column on my laptop while flying from San Francisco to New York. People have done that for years. But as I write, I can send instant messages to colleagues at my office and surf the Web for research material. The Internet has arrived in the skies. And that, of course, is a big deal. I am a little behind the …

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Protecting Internet Freedom In Friendly Countries

March 4, 2010

In late 2006 some schoolchildren in Turin, Italy, filmed themselves bullying an autistic classmate. They then uploaded the clip to Google Video. No one at Google knew these children. No one at the company saw the video before it was posted. When Google was notified of the video’s existence, it immediately took it down and worked with the police to identify who had uploaded it. But last month, four Google …

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Time For A SecureNet

January 21, 2010

On an early spring day in north-central China two years ago, the People’s Liberation Army held a ceremony to mark the establishment of an information warfare militia unit. Local dignitaries were invited, and the county government noted on its Web site that the militia’s peacetime mission would be to “extensively collect information from adversary networks and establish databases of adversary network data.” In wartime, the militia’s assignment would be to …

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Civil Cyberwar In Iran

June 17, 2009

As Iran’s hard-line government struggles to put down post-election protests, we may be seeing the first example of a civil war fought in cyberspace. On the streets the situation is nowhere near civil war, at least not yet. Though crowds reported to be in the hundreds of thousands marched Monday in Tehran to protest the allegedly rigged re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the opposition has been nearly entirely nonviolent. One …

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