EFF Sues Texas A&M University For Violating PETA's Free Speech Rights By Blocking Group From Its Facebook Page
Houston, Texas—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued Texas A&M University on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for blocking comments on its official Facebook page that mention PETA by name or use certain words to criticize the university’s use of dogs in muscular dystrophy experiments.The school,...
Keep Old Recordings From Getting a New and Confusing Copyright Law
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...
Victory in Alasaad for Our Digital Privacy at the Border
Government searches of cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices without a warrant when we cross the U.S. border may violate the First and Fourth Amendments, according to a powerful ruling by a federal court last week in a civil rights lawsuit brought by EFF and the ACLU.It is...
Not So Pretty: What You Need to Know About E-Fail and the PGP Flaw
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...
Disabling PGP in Outlook with Gpg4win
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 Outlook requires running the Gpg4win installer again so that you can choose not to have the GpgOL plug-in on...
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...
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 the...
Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now
UPDATE: Enigmail and GPG Tools have been patched for EFAIL. For more up-to-date information, please see EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense guides.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...
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...
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,...
