Should’ve listened to Edison: After the arrest of Pavel Durov—the Telegram CEO—comes news of domestic extremists using the chat app to organize.

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Ongoing European Union quest to break end-to-end encryption (E2EE) mysteriously disappears.

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Straya strikes back: Musk’s mob declines to answer questions, breaking law dunundah.

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Fake Pr0n Hint: Sextortionists stealing your innocent pictures to make AI nudes.

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Déjà vu: Yet again, they’re tugging on the “think of the children” strings. But you can’t make math illegal.

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Within a few years of Bitcoin’s arrival, academic security researchers — and then companies like Chainalysis — began to tear gaping holes in the masks separating Bitcoin users’ addresses and their real-world identities. They could follow bitcoins on the blockchain as they moved from address to address until they reached one that could be tied to a known identity. In some cases, an investigator could learn someone’s Bitcoin addresses by transacting with them, the way an undercover narcotics agent might conduct a buy-and-bust. In other cases, they could trace a target’s coins to an account at a cryptocurrency exchange where financial regulations required users to prove their identity. A quick subpoena to the exchange from one of Chainalysis’ customers in law enforcement was then enough to strip away any illusion of Bitcoin’s anonymity...

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Apple recently announced that it will start scanning devices individuals have purchased from Apple for both images that constitute child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) and for text messages or communications that are “inappropriate for minors.” Thus, the drives and folders of tens of millions of innocent adults and children will be examined by the Cupertino..

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New legislation being introduced by Sen. Lindsay Graham ostensibly to prevent the spread of child porn and other child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) may have the effect of prohibiting the kinds of good security practices that prevent unauthorized access to medical records, credit card records, bank records and other personal information, and may make the..

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One of the perennial issues facing courts is the extent to which the government can compel an individual to decrypt the contents of a file, a computer or a server. Jumping into the fray, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, on Nov. 20, considered the case of a child pornography suspect whose seized computer was encrypted with..

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A law designed to protect minors from child pornography was used to prosecute a Maryland high school student for sexting During the 2016-17 school year, a high school student with the initial S.K. posted in a group chat for her cell phone a one-minute video of herself performing fellatio on some unknown male. In other..

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