Well, here we go again. A ‘terrorist’ incident occurs and, right on cue, some clueless government minister is trotted out to moan about encryption in popular apps. This time it’s Amber Rudd, Home Secretary, who has been given the job of displaying just how ignorant politicians are on these matters. The incident, of course, was the attack by Khalid Masood in… Read more »
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is in the US trying to get President Barack Obama to help him stop people being beastly on the Internet. And he’s also using the opportunity to prove to the world, once and for all, that he hasn’t even the faintest idea how the Internet works. Cameron wants to ban messaging apps that use end-to-end… Read more »
» Listen or download now on the podcasts page » With the Internet now playing such as intrinsic part of our lives, identity management (IM) has entered a new world. As Daniel Raskin, VP of marketing at ForgeRock, explains in this interview, what was once a simple matter of allowing employees to authenticate themselves on a local network has moved out… Read more »
There’s been yet another revelation about Internet spying by US and UK intelligence agencies, thanks to the leaks by Edward Snowden, but this one has much larger implications for the information security community. According to a report published by The Guardian and New York Times newspapers, in conjunction with ProPublica, the NSA has succeeded in cracking the most common encryption… Read more »
» Listen or download now on the podcasts page » Silent Circle offers secure voice and text communications using peer-to-peer encryption. Until recently, it also offered secure email, but shortly after we interviewed Jon Callas, the firm’s CTO and co-founder, Silent Circle followed the lead of another secure email provider, Lavabit, and shut down that service. This was a reaction to… Read more »