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Deeplinks Blog by Soraya Okuda, Starchy Grant, Bill Budington | May 13, 2018

Disabling PGP in Apple Mail with GPGTools

Researchers have developed code exploiting several vulnerabilities in PGP (including GPG) for email. In response, EFF’s current recommendation is to disable PGP integration in email clients. Disabling PGP decryption in Apple Mail requires deleting a “bundle” file used by the application. Your existing keys will remain available on your...

Deeplinks Blog by Starchy Grant, Soraya Okuda, Bill Budington | May 13, 2018

Disabling PGP in Thunderbird with Enigmail

Researchers have developed code exploiting several vulnerabilities in PGP (including GPG) for email. In response, EFF’s current recommendation is to disable PGP integration in email clients. Disabling PGP decryption in Thunderbird only requires disabling the Enigmail add-on. Your existing keys will remain available on your machine. First click on...

Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien, Gennie Gebhart | May 13, 2018

Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now

UPDATE (5/14/18): More information has been released. See EFF's more detailed explanation and analysis here. A group of European security researchers have released a warning about a set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME. EFF has been in communication with the research team, and can confirm...

Deeplinks Blog by Stephanie Lacambra, Jennifer Lynch | May 11, 2018

Senator Wyden Demands Answers from Prison Phone Service Caught Sharing Cellphone Location Data

Do you use Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile? If so, your real-time cell phone location data may have been shared with law enforcement without your knowledge or consent. How could this happen? Well, a company that provides phone services to jails and prisons has been collecting location information on...

Deeplinks Blog by David Ruiz | May 10, 2018

The Secure Data Act Would Stop Backdoors

A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right. The bipartisan Secure Data Act would stop any government agency or court order from forcing a company to build backdoors into encrypted devices and communications. This welcome piece of legislation reflects much of what the community of encryption researchers, scientists, developers...

Press Release | May 10, 2018

Hearing Monday: EFF Asks Appeals Court To Rule Copyright Can't Be Used To Control the Public's Access to Our Laws

Washington, D.C.-On Monday, May 14, at 9:30 am, EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry will argue in court that the public has a right to access, copy, and share the law—and industry groups that helped develop certain legal rules can't inhibit that right by claiming ownership in those rules. EFF represents...

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | May 10, 2018

FanFlick Editor: an entry in the Catalog of Missing Devices from an EFF supporter

You wonderful EFF supporters keep on coming up with great new entries to our Catalog of Missing Devices, which lists fictional devices that should exist, but don't, because to achieve their legal, legitimate goals, the manufacturer would have to break some Digital Rights Management and risk retaliation under Section...

Event | May 23, 2018

Food Futures: Using Art, Design, Biology + Technology to Restore our Damaged Food System

Eyebeam, A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: What: Food Futures: Using Art , Design, Biology + Technology to Restore our Damaged Food System (and maybe the planet, too): Super storms, drought, abundant chemical and fertilizer overuse, ozone depletion, fossil...

Event | May 19, 2018

Internet Tools For Digital Activism led by Surya Mattu and Ari Melenciano

This month’s Eyebeam Exchange focuses on tools that help us both understand the internet and use it for purposes of activism.

Event | May 14, 2018

AFTERCARE: Presented with Topical Cream and ICP

Join Eyebeam for a celebratory bash after the free, day long symposium Vision and Technology: Toward a More Just Future.

Event | May 14, 2018

Vision and Technology: Toward a More Just Future

VISION AND TECHNOLOGY: toward a more just future addresses the implications of visuality, representation, and privacy in the age of surveillance and big data.

Press Release | May 10, 2018

EFF and ACLU Can Proceed With Legal Challenge Against Warrantless Searches of Travelers' Smartphones, Laptops

Boston, Massachusetts—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the ACLU of Massachusetts won a court ruling today allowing their groundbreaking lawsuit challenging unconstitutional searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border to proceed—a victory for the digital rights of all international travelers. EFF and ACLU...

Deeplinks Blog by Sophia Cope | May 9, 2018

Fourth Circuit Rules That Suspicionless Forensic Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border Are Unconstitutional

In a victory for privacy rights at the border, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today ruled that forensic searches of electronic devices carried out by border agents without any suspicion that the traveler has committed a crime violate the U.S. Constitution. The ruling in U.S....

Event | May 18, 2018

EFF at Maker Faire Bay Area 2018

Join EFF at the 13th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area! The event spans three days, from Friday afternoon to Sunday. Part science fair, part county fair, and part something entirely new, Maker Faire is an all-ages gathering of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers, science clubs, authors, artists, students...

Event | May 21, 2018

Discussion Hosted by TA3M Portland

A local organization in the Electronic Frontier Alliance (not EFF) will host this event: Breaking Telco Monopoly Power through Public Ownership of Infrastructure We have a problem with federal telecommunications policy in the U.S. The problem is that federal regulators have decided that, instead of regulating, they...

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Disabling PGP in Apple Mail with GPGTools

Disabling PGP in Thunderbird with Enigmail

Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now

Senator Wyden Demands Answers from Prison Phone Service Caught Sharing Cellphone Location Data

The Secure Data Act Would Stop Backdoors

Hearing Monday: EFF Asks Appeals Court To Rule Copyright Can't Be Used To Control the Public's Access to Our Laws

FanFlick Editor: an entry in the Catalog of Missing Devices from an EFF supporter

Food Futures: Using Art, Design, Biology + Technology to Restore our Damaged Food System

Internet Tools For Digital Activism led by Surya Mattu and Ari Melenciano

AFTERCARE: Presented with Topical Cream and ICP

Vision and Technology: Toward a More Just Future

EFF and ACLU Can Proceed With Legal Challenge Against Warrantless Searches of Travelers' Smartphones, Laptops

Fourth Circuit Rules That Suspicionless Forensic Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border Are Unconstitutional

EFF at Maker Faire Bay Area 2018

Discussion Hosted by TA3M Portland

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