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Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | July 24, 2019

EFF Extensions Recommended by Firefox

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Earlier this month, Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 68, which includes a curated "list of recommended extensions that have been thoroughly reviewed for security, usability and usefulness." We are pleased to announce that both of our popular browser extensions, HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy ...

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Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington, Alexis Hancock | December 13, 2018

How HTTPS Everywhere Keeps Protecting Users On An Increasingly Encrypted Web

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Way back in 2010, we launched our popular browser extension HTTPS Everywhere as part of our effort to encrypt the web. At the time, the need for HTTPS Everywhere to protect browsing sessions was as obvious as the threats were ever-present. The threats may not be as clear now, but...

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Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | February 24, 2017

Cryptographers Demonstrate Collision in Popular SHA-1 Algorithm

On February 23rd, a joint team from the CWI Amsterdam and Google announced that they had generated the first ever collision in the SHA-1 cryptographic hashing algorithm. SHA-1 has long been considered theoretically insecure by cryptanalysts due to weaknesses in the algorithm design, but this marks...

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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | October 3, 2016

Tell HP: Still a long way to go to make up for breaking our printers

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Last Monday, we published our open letter to Hewlett-Packard CEO Dion Weisler, and more than 10,000 of you promptly stepped up to sign it, telling the company that you agree that it is absolutely unacceptable for a company to send out deceptive "security" updates that...

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Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | April 7, 2016

WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to its Over One Billion Users

End-to-end encryption has just gone massively mainstream. In an update on March 31st, the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp quietly pushed an update adding end-to-end encryption enabled by default to its chat and call functionality. They announced the change publicly on Tuesday, allowing the app's over 1 billion monthly...

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Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | September 21, 2015

Symantec Issues Rogue EV Certificate for Google.com

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On Friday, Google reported on its online security blog the faulty issuance of a certificate for google.com and www.google.com by Symantec, a prominent Certificate Authority. This misissuance is significant not only because it represents a breach in the core Internet trust mechanism; it was also the first of its...

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Deeplinks Blog by Adi Kamdar, Ranga Krishnan, Steve Bono | August 1, 2014

Your Wireless Router Is Broken—Help Us Fix It At DEF CON

As part of our Open Wireless Movement, we set out to create router software that would make it easier for people to safely and smartly share part of their wireless network. Protecting hosts, so their security is not compromised because they offer open networks, is one of the goals...

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