Security / Privacy

Credit to Author: Klint Finley| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Nearly four years after Brave proposed paying users to surf the web, that vision is finally coming to the iPhone.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:28:18 +0000

At WIRED25 the internet infrastructure chief talks about doing the hard calculus of pulling support from controversial sites—and why that’ll happen again.

Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

It’s much harder than it should be to get your name off of data broker and people-search sites, but it’s possible. 

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Keybase exists to keep things safe online. And it doesn’t use 2FA to do it.

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:08:17 +0000

Flock Safety boasts that its cameras caused a dramatic drop in crime in one Georgia county, but experts say it’s not so simple.

Credit to Author: Zeynep Tufekci| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Both. Yes, authoritarians have co-opted tech. But the story is far from over.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:32:07 +0000

Twitter funneled two-factor authentication phone numbers into their ad targeting platform—but they weren’t the only ones.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000

The road to routing all Domain Name System lookups through HTTPS is pocked with disagreements over just how much it will help.