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Van Hollen, Raskin, Flowers, twenty other MD candidates respond to MCCRC/Peace Action questionnaire

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Thomas Nephew

Twenty three candidates for Senate and 3d, 6th, and 8th Congressional District Representative seats have responded to a 13 part questionnaire circulated by MCCRC and Peace Action Montgomery.  The questionnaire and links to election pages and candidate questionnaire pages can … Continue reading →

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Now that was an EPIC crypto-party

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Thomas Nephew

Better late than never: here’s a report back from the “crypto party” hosted by Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Public Citizen on Friday, October 25th in the offices of Public Citizen in connection with the “Stop Watching Us”rally against … Continue reading →

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Protect Your Digital Privacy: People Power with PGP

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Bill Day

If one were looking for an example of how one person was able to change the world for the better with technology, one need look no farther than Philip Zimmerman. Zimmerman earned his place in history in 1991, when he … Continue reading →

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Protect Your Digital Privacy: Email Pt. 1 (S/MIME)

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Bill Day

Using encryption for correspondence in America is older than the country and as American as apple pie, so much so that Thomas Jefferson even invented an encryption device during the Revolution and later used it for dispatches while he was … Continue reading →

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Protect Your Digital Privacy: WiFi

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Bill Day

Coffee houses have a historical caché as the place where revolutions are born, but today they are also one of the easiest places for the authorities or others to eavesdrop on your electronic communications. Broadband wireless, or WiFi, is not … Continue reading →

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Protect Your Digital Privacy: Passwords

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Bill Day

In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith finally comes undone and betrays the person about whom he cares most when he is confronted with the thing of which he is most afraid. No matter how otherwise secure an encryption algorithm is, … Continue reading →

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