The Canadian government should take notice. With Bill C-13 now becoming the law, and Bill C-51 before the Parliament (another piece of legislation with huge implications for privacy and freedom of expression), I think it’s only a matter of time before the Canadian courts will have a hard look at…
This is a sad… one guy maintaining the GPG email encryption software? That’s ONE GUY IN THE WORLD OF 7 BILLION PEOPLE: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke
There is something disturbingly wrong with this: http://globalnews.ca/news/1803553/are-you-already-violating-the-feds-new-anti-terror-bill/ It takes less than half-hour to take online speech underground, using Tor and its hidden services. It can take months (if possible at all) of highly specialized computer forensic skills and very expensive equipment to track and make sense of the chatter underground…
This shouldn’t come as a surprise, given the previously disclosed Snowden documents: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cse-tracks-millions-of-downloads-daily-snowden-documents-1.2930120 https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/28/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance/ https://openmedia.ca/news/breaking-spy-agency-cse-monitoring-our-private-online-activities-massive-scale-and-sharing-sensitive
Saw Citizenfour at Cinecenta Victoria last night. For those who have been living under the rock, it’s a documentary about Edward Snowden’s revelations about the massive NSA spying on its own citizens (and elsewhere). You can watch the official trailer here: From film-making perspective, the film is so-so. I am not sure…