Yan Zhu

Technologist Fellow

Yan is a Technologist Fellow at EFF working on Let's Encrypt, HTTPS Everywhere, and other projects for encrypting the web. She is also a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group.

Email Address:

yan@eff.org

Twitter handle:

@bcrypt

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Deeplinks Blog by Cooper Quintin, Peter Eckersley, Yan Zhu, Yan Zhu | May 1, 2014

Help EFF Test Privacy Badger, Our New Tool to Stop Creepy Online Tracking

EFF is launching a new extension for Firefox and Chrome called Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger automatically detects and blocks spying ads around the Web, and the invisible trackers that feed information to them. You can try it out today: Privacy Badger is EFF's answer to intrusive and...
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Deeplinks Blog by Yan Zhu, Yan Zhu | April 8, 2014

Why the Web Needs Perfect Forward Secrecy More Than Ever

EFF has long advocated for websites to support HTTPS instead of plain HTTP to encrypt and authenticate data transmitted on the Internet. However, we learned yesterday of a catastrophic bug, nicknamed "Heartbleed," that has critically threatened the security of some HTTPS sites since 2011. By some estimates...
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Deeplinks Blog by Eva Galperin, Yan Zhu, Yan Zhu | March 13, 2014

New NSA Slides Reveal Tailored Access Run Amok

The NSA has seen the future of mass surveillance, and it appears they believe that the future lies in malware. Earlier this week, The Intercept reported on a series of slides and memos leaked by Edward Snowden describing the NSA's "more aggressive" approach to signals intelligence, which circumvents...
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Deeplinks Blog by Yan Zhu, Yan Zhu | February 26, 2014

Security Experts Call on Tech Companies to Defend Against Surveillance

Open Letter to Tech Companies Includes 10 Principles to Protect Users From NSA Sabotage In the past nine months, our trust in technology companies has been badly shaken. Today, in collaboration with prominent security researchers and technologists, EFF presents an open letter to technology companies, urging them to protect users...
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Help EFF Test Privacy Badger, Our New Tool to Stop Creepy Online Tracking

Why the Web Needs Perfect Forward Secrecy More Than Ever

New NSA Slides Reveal Tailored Access Run Amok

Security Experts Call on Tech Companies to Defend Against Surveillance

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