Researchers have developed code exploiting several vulnerabilities in PGP (including GPG) for email, and theorized many more which others could build upon. For users who have few—or even no—alternatives for end-to-end encryption, news of these vulnerabilities may leave many questions unanswered. Digital security trainers, whistleblowers, journalists, activists, cryptographers...

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 Finder...

After disabling the GPGTools plugin for Apple Mail, you will need to save encrypted messages as files on your hard drive in order to view them later o 1. Select the encrypted message. (Note: If you have followed the instructions for how to disable GPG in Apple Mail correctly...

On Thursday, EFF released a new version of Privacy Badger featuring a new, experimental way to protect your privacy on—and crucially, off—Facebook. It specifically targets link tracking, Facebook’s practice of following you whenever you click on a link to leave facebook.com. Download Privacy Badger What is link tracking...

EFF sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FBI and other Department of Justice agencies to get some straight answers about approximately 7,800 supposedly un-hackable cellphones. Law enforcement agencies say they have a problem–criminals all use encrypted devices, making those devices inaccessible to law enforcement. They call...