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Help EFF Continue the Fight Against Warrantless Wiretapping!

2008-07-10 14:18:03 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...EFF has been fighting against telecom immunity, and we need your help to bring the fight to the next level: http://secure.eff.org/wiretapping Two and a half years ago, EFF sued AT&T on behalf of its customers, seeking to hold the telecom giant responsible for its craven complicity in the White Houses illegal warrantless wiretapping program....
 
Tags: eff, eff sued att, fight, warrantless, immunity, retroactive immunity, congress, congress completely, att
 
 
 
 
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ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking

2008-07-02 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the U.S. Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users
 
Tags: mobile phone users, electronic frontier foundation, aclu, federal court, eff, department, records, justice, agency
 
 
 
 
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EFF files surveillance lawsuit against NSA, Bush, Cheney

2008-09-18 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other government officials, alleging that an NSA electronic surveillance program continues to illegally spy on U.S. residents
 
Tags: president george bush, national security agency, electronic frontier foundation, nsa, government officials, lawsuit, eff, spy, filed
 
 
 
 
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Are we going to need TSA backdoors to encryption

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2008-06-15 09:36:00 by HASH0x8b63d64 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...EFF) and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) have filed briefs with the court asking them to strike down a lower courts ruling that granted the government these broad powers to confiscate laptops As the article points out here in the US there was quite an uproar about China "slurping" laptops from people on travel there, but...
 
Tags: personal data, data, confidential data, government, laptop, court, border laptop, 9th circuit court, border
 
 
 
 
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Are we going to need TSA backdoors to encryption

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2008-06-15 10:36:00 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...EFF) and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) have filed briefs with the court asking them to strike down a lower courts ruling that granted the government these broad powers to confiscate laptops As the article points out here in the US there was quite an uproar about China "slurping" laptops from people on travel there, but...
 
Tags: personal data, data, confidential data, government, laptop, court, border laptop, 9th circuit court, border
 
 
 
 
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Sorry CharlieCard, Your Security Model Is Broken

2008-08-09 14:57:40 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...EFF is appealing the injunction which is blocking the students from speaking about the results of their testing A telling quote from Kurt Opsahl, staff attorney at the EFF gets to the heart of the issue Courts have found that the First Amendment covers these things. We believe that this is a protected speech activity. When you discuss...
 
Tags: security, security researchers, valid security approach, system, encryption system, boston subway system, discuss security issues, court system, security systems
 
 
 
 
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MBTA Hacking Injunction Lifted

2008-08-20 05:49:55 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...EFF, lifting the injunction issued on August 9th to prevent the three MIT students from presenting their findings at DEFCON 16 . In summary The lawsuit claimed that the students planned presentation would violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by enabling others to defraud the MBTA of transit fares. A different federal judge, meeting...
 
Tags: mbta, students, students publicly, defcon presentation, defcon, mbta hackers, presentation, mit students, judge
 
 
 
 
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Disk-Encryption Security Flaw Revealed: Not 'Minor'

2008-02-21 05:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Princeton and EFF researchers demonstrate they can recover an encryption key from RAM after a computer has gone into standby mode, and even after a few minutes without power
 
Tags: standby mode, eff researchers, encryption key, recover, princeton, minutes, power, computer, ram
 
 
 
 
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Protecting Yourself From Suspicionless Searches

2008-05-02 13:59:00 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
EFF: HOWTO keep your laptop from being searched at the border
 
Tags: laptop, howto, border, eff
 
 
 
 
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FBI agrees to withdraw National Security Letter served on Internet Archive