If you have disabled the PGP plugin from your mail client and saved a copy of an encrypted email to your desktop, this guide will help you read that message in as safe a way as possible given what we know about the vulnerability described by EFAIL.1. Open the start...

After disabling the GpgOL plugin, you will need to save encrypted messages as files on your hard drive in order to view them later on.1. Select the encrypted message.2. Right-click the file ending in “.asc”, then click “Save As.”3. Click on “Desktop” to choose where you will save the...

After disabling Enigmail, you will need to save encrypted messages as files on your hard drive in order to view them later on.These instructions will work on most desktop operating systems.1. Select the encrypted message.2. Click on the hamburger menu (the three horizontal lines).3. Hover over “Save As” on...

Back in early 2013, the podcasting community was freaking out. A patent troll called Personal Audio LLC had sued comedian Adam Carolla and was threatening a bunch of smaller podcasters. Personal Audio claimed that the podcasters infringed U.S. Patent 8,112,504, which claims a “system for disseminating media content”...

Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA 1201) makes it illegal to get around any sort of lock that controls access to copyrighted material. Getting exemptions to that prohibitions is a long, complicated process that often results in long, complicated exemptions that are difficult to use. As part...

The newest version of the Music Modernization Act, S. 2823, added in provisions from the bill known as CLASSICS, turning a largely great bill into a bad one. We have to tell the Senate to reject this version of the bill.S. 2823 was introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch on...

UPDATE: Enigmail and GPG Tools have been patched for EFAIL. For more up-to-date information, please see EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense guides.Don’t panic! But you should stop using PGP for encrypted email and switch to a different secure communications method for now.A group of researchers released a paper today...