Tag Archives: media

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: Browser Security

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Bill Day

The Revolution Will Be Facebooked It might seem hard to believe that Ben Ali’s Tunisian dictatorship tried to nip the Arab Spring in the bud by stealing Facebook passwords. Yet as the revolution spread by message and image on the … Continue reading →

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A response to the Washington Post

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Thomas Nephew

The Washington Post has an unsigned editorial supporting the bag search program in today’s paper, titled “Bag checks, reality checks” in print, and “Metro’s bag checks: Necessary nuisance for a real threat” online. Their arguments are familiar: there have been … Continue reading →

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Media relay Taborn’s “be observed” statement

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Thomas Nephew

Local news outlets are beginning to take note of Metro Transit Police Chief Taborn’s statement reported here last week — that Metro bag search refusers would “be observed” by law enforcement, including possibly by the FBI and Department of Homeland … Continue reading →

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