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Podcast Episode: Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap

Computer security and the lack of computer security is a fundamental issue that underpins much of how the Internet does (and doesn't) function. Many of the policy issues that EFF works on are linked to security in deep ways including privacy and anonymity, DRM, censorship, and network neutrality.

EFF works directly on a wide range of security issues including increased deployment of cryptographic protocols through projects like Certbot; improving the security of those protocols; offering legal assistance to researchers through our Coders' Rights Project; offering practical security advice to activists through the surveillance self-defense project; and working on the development of new security standards.

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Encrypting the Web

The web has largely switched from non-secure HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol. All web servers use one of these two protocols to get web pages from the server to your browser. HTTP has serious problems that make it vulnerable to eavesdropping and content hijacking. HTTPS fixes most of...
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Surveillance Self-Defense

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Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's online guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
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Coders' Rights Project

EFF's Coders' Rights Project protects programmers and developers engaged in cutting-edge exploration of technology. Security and encryption researchers help build a safer future for all of us using digital technologies, but too many legitimate researchers face serious legal challenges that prevent or inhibit their work. These challenges come from laws...

Security Updates

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Deeplinks Blog by Alexis Hancock, Karen Gullo | May 28, 2020

Паспорта иммунитета представляют угрозу нашей приватности и информационной безопасности

После ослабления во многих странах карантинного режима разговоры вокруг COVID-19 стали касаться условий возвращения к работе, возобновления занятий в школах и возможности поездок за границу.Несколько стран (Великобритания, Италия, Чили, Германия) и американский штат Калифорния выразили заинтересованность в создании так называемого «паспорта иммунитета» — системы, требующей от граждан предоставить доказательство иммунитета...

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Deeplinks Blog by Adam Schwartz | May 20, 2020

Право пациентов с COVID-19 на приватность во время карантина

Правительства по всему миру используют технологии слежения для мониторинга соблюдения пациентами COVID-19 режима домашней изоляции. Примерами использования таких технологий служат ручные и ножные браслеты с функцией GPS, мобильные приложения для отслеживания локации и приложения, требующие периодически отсылать властям селфи с места карантина.Все эти методы слежения нарушают фундаментальные права человека. Также...

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Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | May 18, 2020

Security Expert Tadayoshi Kohno Joins EFF Advisory Board

EFF is proud to announce a new addition to our crack advisory board: security expert and scholar Tadayoshi Kohno. A professor at University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Kohno is a researcher whose work focuses on identifying and fixing security flaws in emerging technologies,...

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