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• Better password security with Yubikeys

  Dec 3

  I am not a huge fan of passwords, but I happen to like passwords much more than I like biometric methods and other such things. However, getting a reasonable level of security with passwords does take some work, and a good memory. I have finally gotten...

• Without Encryption, No Democracy

  Dec 3

  Once upon a time, democracy was a fairly simple concept. One of the primary reasons why it worked so well was because people by default had privacy. But with the technological advances of the last fifty years it is clear that things are a bit more...

• Designing for misuse

  Nov 18

  When looking at our world it is clear things are getting more and more complex. And people are creating larger and larger systems and also many more systems on a smaller scale. People come up with great ideas of all kinds and go out and implement them...

• Can high-value targets still hide?

  Nov 16

  I have lately had a lot of conversations about privacy and surveillance. Most people seem to be OK with the argument that privacy is not dead and that we can fight back against mass surveillance. But then the question becomes - is it possible for a...

• Is privacy dead?

  Nov 14

  Something I hear more and more lately is the idea that privacy is dead. And I hear this primarily from friends in the tech industry. Personally I find the sentiment very problematic for a few reasons that I would like to outline here.

  First of all...

• Is Tor broken?

  Nov 11

  Over the last week or so the community has been a bit worried about the security of Tor. The reason for this is Operation Onymous that in a concentrated crackdown took down a number of illegal or problematic dark web sites, all of which were hidden...

• An interesting mistake

  Oct 29

  Yesterday Micah Lee published a story at The Intercept about how he communicated with Snowden before the leaks and how he was helpful in setting up secure communications for Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald. It is a really good article with lots of...

• E-mail Solutions

  Aug 21

  After my previous post about how e-mail is broken I wanted to spend a few minutes talking about several of the alternatives out there and what the tradeoffs are between them. I will not cover all of them, since new ones crop up all the time and many...

• Your Bad Security is Bad for Everyone

  Aug 19

  A pretty common thought about security is that you only need it for the high-security applications. We want high security for banks and identity management systems and things like that. But for our homes, we should be fine with not so much security...

• E-mail is broken

  Aug 14

  It is getting increasingly clear to the world that e-mail as a technology is utterly broken. We need something better and we need it soon. But why is e-mail so urgent compared to all the other things we could focus on? E-mail is by far the most successful...

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