Riding Across Baja At Night
They say never to ride a motorcycle through Baja at night. But, following a hurricane that wiped out much of its east coast, sometimes needs must. The trip computer on my GPS told me that we had less than 45 minutes until the sun set. We had departed Catavina (a desolate town in the middle…
Tech News
Justin W. Coffey
Why Are ISPs Removing Their Customers’ Email Encryption?
Recently, Verizon was caught tampering with its customer’s web requests to inject a tracking super-cookie. Another network-tampering threat to user safety has come to light from other providers: email encryption downgrade attacks. In recent months, researchers have reportedISPs in the US and Thailand intercepting their customers’ data to strip a security flag—called STARTTLS—from email traffic.…
Privacy & Security
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews - EFF