Will you trust Kim Dotcom’s Mega with your email?
With three major secure email services down, Mega sees a market opportunity.
On Aug 12, 2013 by Curt Hopkins
All your good private email options are shutting down
Three major private email services have just shut their doors—right in the wake of new revalations of NSA spying on Americans’ emails.
On Aug 9, 2013 by Kevin Collier
Lavabit, Edward Snowden’s favorite secure email service, shuts down
“I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot,” wrote the site’s owner.
On Aug 9, 2013 by Curt Hopkins
NSA doesn’t “scan” emails, but it knows if you send anything interesting
The U.S. keeps insisting it’s not reading your emails. But if you email a terrorist keyword to someone abroad, it sure knows.
On Aug 8, 2013 by Kevin Collier
The Senate will let police read your old emails for 1 more month
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) knows it wasn’t a Democrat who put the hold on his bill.
On Aug 5, 2013 by Kevin Collier
NSA admitted XKeyscore a day before program was exposed
In a little-seen press release, the NSA acknowledged on Tuesday that it possessed the ability to track almost anyone’s Internet activity in real time.
On Aug 1, 2013 by Kevin Collier
U.S. admits NSA tracked email metadata until 2011
The NSA tracked who you emailed, who emailed you, and when. But not actually what you said.
On Jul 31, 2013 by Kevin Collier
After Snowden leaks, daily adoption rate of PGP encryption triples
Kristian Fiskerstrand cautions that more users trying it out now doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll adopt the practice permanently.
On Jul 31, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
NSA says it can’t actually search its own emails
The National Security Agency has come under fire for collecting loads of data, including email, from people worldwide. But, apparently, its own email system isn’t that great.
On Jul 23, 2013 by Joe Kloc
Here’s the step-by-step guide to NSA-proofing your email
Drew Crawford’s post points out that perhaps the biggest flaw in online security today is how little users understand of it.
On Jul 16, 2013 by Joe Kloc
Facebook might have released your phone number
The personal contact information for an estimated 6 million users was compromised recently, Facebook announced late Friday.
On Jun 21, 2013 by Michelle Jaworski
Texas enacts email privacy law
Though the new law is only applicable on the state level, some changes to federal law could be on the way too.
On Jun 19, 2013 by Cody Permenter
What the released Benghazi emails reveal about the White House
In an effort to silence critics, the White House this week released 100 pages of emails relating to the attack in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.
On May 16, 2013 by Justin Franz
Did you mean to send that email to me?
A case of mistaken identity. Well, several.
On May 15, 2013 by Janet Kornblum
A stroll through the coupon hall of shame
We’ve all been there. And probably are there still.
On May 8, 2013 by Janet Kornblum
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