Note: The bulk of the research in this post was compiled prior to Attorney General Eric Holder’s surprise announcement that he is curtailing the federal equitable sharing program. The post may be updated as further ramifications of the policy decision become clear. “You follow drugs, you get drug…

A response to this article by Meredith Tax, along with a reply by Rafia Zakaria, is forthcoming. In the last email it sent to journalist James Foley’s parents, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) mentioned one person by name: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. “We have also offered prisoner exchanges to…

In the past few years, there has been a lot of press about HTTP proxies that transparently modify traffic to inject javascript for malicious purposes. There have been multiple presentations at DEFCON and blackhat about this topic and a variety of ways of exploiting it including: DDOS, credential…

Andre begleitet netzpolitik.org seit seinen Anfängen und bloggt seit 2007 mehr oder weniger regelmäßig mit. Seit 2012 ist dieses Hobby auch sein Beruf. Er hat in Berlin Sozialwissenschaften studiert und auch dort netzpolitische Themen bearbeitet. Er begleitet diverse Szene-Zusammenhänge wie AK…

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Thinkstock. In late July 2014, the information security world was on edge. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University—who work “closely with the (US) Department of Homeland Security”—were scheduled to give a talk at the Black Hat USA information security…

by Talib Kweli Full disclosure: I am an analog dude. I am “mature” enough to remember a time before the internet was prevalent in our daily lives. I dropped out of school to start my career before laptops replaced spiral notebooks. My first foray into cyberspace was visiting a chatroom on The Roots’…

I received a lovely email last night from Kathy Sierra after she saw her name repeatedly being mentioned in the context of EFF’s legal support of weev, particularly in the aftermath of our latest post on harassment. She also sent a statement of sorts that I am free to publish as I wish; Kathy’s…

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) The horrific murder of the editor, cartoonists and other staff of the irreverent satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, along with two policemen, by terrorists in Paris was in my view a strategic strike, aiming at polarizing the French and European public. The problem for…

“[Cheikh’s case] is merely an attempt to muzzle anyone who questions a system based on oppression by using religion as an instrument,” tweeted Mauritanian anti-slavery and racism activist Saidou Wane.

But the Paris attack was not yet another front in the “clash of civilisations”. The term civilisation in itself is meaningless in this context. What civilisation do the terrorists represent? It is understandable that, on the face of it, the attack highlights the perpetrators’ and the victims’…

In less than an hour of the dreadful shooting of 12 people at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, the politicians had already started to lie to their own public. John Kerry, US Secretary of State, declared that, “freedom of expression is not able to be killed by this kind of act of terror.” The…

This opens up scary possibilities. If Iran had reacted the same way when it’s nuclear facility was hit with the Stuxnet malware we likely would have all critiqued it. The global community would have not accepted “we did analysis but it’s classified so now we’re going to employ countermeasures” as an…

As the United States and Iran continue negotiating a possible breakthrough nuclear agreement, both sides are carrying concealed weapons that could be used if the talks collapse. The threats that underlie the bargaining are rarely discussed publicly, but both countries recognize the dangers ahead if…

Stand: 10.01.2015 15:44 Uhr Ex-V-Mann “Tarif” sagt, der Verfassungsschutz hätte nach seinem Hinweis 1998 den NSU stoppen können. Überprüfen lässt sich das nicht: Die Akten zu “Tarif” wurden vernichtet. Später wurden Teile davon rekonstruiert, doch wurden sie dem NSU-Ausschuss auch vorgelegt? Von…

Verizon, the US telecom giant, has approached AOL about a “potential acquisition or joint venture,” Bloomberg reports today, citing anonymous sources. While the companies overlap in several places, the most logical explanation for any possible deal is that Verizon sees mobile as the future of video,…

Tor Ekeland met his Client Number One at Trinity Place Bar, a downtown Manhattan watering hole built into an old bank vault, in 2011. The bar was across from Zuccotti Park, which was teeming with Occupy Wall Street protesters. Barricades lined the trash-strewn streets, but seated at the mahogany bar…

By Karen Sternheimer I have been to several concerts within the past year and have noticed that there are always at least a few people who use their phones to take videos during the concert, even if there is an explicit “no photography” rule in effect. For audience members, these video-takers are…

Welcome to a world where it's impossible to tell the difference between random hackers and governments. Davide Restivo/Flickr If anything should disturb you about the Sony hacking incidents and subsequent denial-of-service attack against North Korea, it’s that we still don’t know who’s behind any of…

Asking questions rather than giving orders would be a good start, but what I ultimately want is psychological visibility: to know that you see what I value and appreciate why I value it, even if your own values are different. I’ll have that when I hear that understanding echoed in non-hackers’…

Hyperfox is a security tool for proxying and recording HTTP and HTTPs communications on a LAN. Hyperfox is capable of forging SSL certificates on the fly using a root CA certificate and its corresponding key (both provided by the user). If the target machine recognizes the root CA as trusted, then…

There was no power. There was some looting. There were feral dog packs. There was an inoculation clinic in a school where people slept and cooked and tried to make sense of the new communal way of living. There was a smell of festive meats rotting in a thousand refrigerators. There was a man on a…

On 17 December 2011, Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea. Two days later, on 19 December 2011, I started my first scan of North Korean Internet space. I was curious to see if their new leader would result in change on their Internet. That was three years ago. I’ve been keeping an eye on…

Lebanon’s Ras Baalbak: ISIL’s next target? As South Korea blames North Korea for a recent slew of cyberattacks, two defectors share their experiences with Al Jazeera, shedding some light into the inner workings of the cyberwarfare programme in the communist country. Kim Heung-kwang, a trainer of…

We’ve come up with the menacing term “troll” for someone who spreads hate and does other horrible things anonymously on the Internet. Internet trolls are unsettling not just because of the things they say but for the mystery they represent: what kind of person could be so vile? One afternoon this…

In den USA ist das Thema Po­li­zei­ge­walt seit Jah­ren all­ge­gen­wär­tig. Doch auch in Deutsch­land ist Po­li­zei­ge­walt kein un­be­kann­tes Pro­blem: Im­mer häu­fi­ger tau­chen Vi­deos die­ser po­li­zei­li­chen Über­griffe ge­gen Bür­ger im In­ter­net auf, die auf den ers­ten Blick…

Like most girls in her neighbourhood in Tehran, Tahmineh is a virgin. In her world, virginity is still revered. For many men, a woman’s virginity is a non-negotiable prerequisite for marriage. Even among some of the richer classes that ostensibly live more “western” lives, partying with alcohol and…

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On the 5th of December I gave a talk at a journalists’ conference on what tradecraft means in the post-Snowden world. How can a journalist, or for that matter an MP or an academic, protect a whistleblower from being identified even when MI5 and GCHQ start trying to figure out who in Whitehall you’ve…

In February 2014 at the RSA Conference, my colleague George Kurtz and I presented a session titled “Hacking Exposed: Day of Destruction.” We walked through a historical timeline of destructive attacks – all the way back to the late 1980s – profiled them and even showed prototypes of significantly…

zurück zur Übersicht Meldungen Neue Studie zeigt: Interaktives Browser-Spiel schärft kritischen Blick Jugendlicher auf Glücksspiele Um Jugendliche für die Suchtgefahren von…

There seems to be nothing the broadband industry fears more than Title II of the Communications Act. President wants bans on blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization. AT&T, Comcast, TWC, Verizon join to oppose common carrier rules. Title II gives the Federal Communications Commission power to…

The scene could be straight from a science-fiction film: a vision of everyday life, but with one jarring difference that makes you realise you’re on another planet, or in a distant future era. A sports class is in full swing on the outskirts of Beijing. Herds of children charge after a football on…

This fall, Susan Wojcicki, the chief executive of YouTube, appeared on a panel at Vanity Fair’s inaugural technology conference in San Francisco. Sitting on the same stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts where Steve Jobs once introduced the iPad to the world, she discussed the future of the…

By Paul Mason / 20 December 2014 Paul Mason follows in the footsteps of Virginia Woolf in search of fictional character in the age of social media.I get on a train and there, eventually, is Eleni Haifa: about 22, massive hair and 5 ft tall. She is either Italian, Jewish, Arab, Turkish, Kurdish or…

By Rachel SymeIllustrations by Victor Kerlow Kim Kardashian and Kanye West wanted to marry at Versailles. They made a request to the French government: Let us wed like royalty, in the palace of the Sun King, among the gaudy gardens where Marie Antoinette swished around in satin, where a grand hall…

Geh nach Westen, in die Wüste. Nimm Feigen mit, Geld, ein Mobiltelefon. Ruhe dich tagsüber aus. Geh dem Sonnenuntergang entgegen. Geh durch die Nacht. Am dritten oder vierten Tag wirst du auf eine Straße gelangen. Frag da nach dem Weg in die Stadt. Frage und gehe, frage und gehe, bis du Khartum…

Justin Hall has been sharing his life online for over 20 years. Credit: Joi Ito / Wikimedia Commons A parent’s suicide, your sex life, a frustrating job – by now we’re used to the avalanche of personal information that spills out onto the Internet every day.A whole generation has grown up with the…

Bei TTIP geht es nicht um Handelsfreiheit, sondern um eine Umverteilung von Macht, weg von den Parlamenten, hin zur Exekutive und deren ungewählten Einflüsterern. Ein Kommentar Freihandel ist ein schönes Wort. Im Land der Exportrekorde und Schnäppchenjäger ist Handel ohnehin gut. Und dann auch noch…

There is a second torture report locked away somewhere at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The agency says the document is so sensitive that national security would be at risk if any details about it were publicly revealed. But last week, outgoing Senator Mark Udall of Colorado, in his final…

Today, 21 December 2014, WikiLeaks releases two classified documents by a previously undisclosed CIA office detailing how to maintain cover while travelling through airports using false ID – including during operations to infiltrate the European Union and the Schengen passport control system. This…