Stories about: EFF

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    How do I jailbreak my iPhone? 14/02/2012 08:00:00

    Have you ever looked at someone's iPhone home screen, and noticed that it has five icons in the dock? Or maybe you've seen a classic console emulator running on an iPad? Don't go looking for these apps on the App Store--these features and more are only possible with a hack called jailbreaking.
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    Twitter's country-specific blocking brings hazards and hope 28/01/2012 12:28:27

    Twitter's move to comply with government requests and block tweets in specific countries could blunt its edge as a political tool, but there may be an upside in helping to unmask censorship, some privacy experts said Friday.
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    Twitter stalking case dismissed by Maryland judge 16/12/2011 17:09:22

    A U.S. judge in Maryland dismissed on Thursday a criminal case against a person who was charged with stalking a religious leader on Twitter, upholding "a tradition of protecting anonymous speech, particularly anonymous political or religious speech".
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    EFF proposes new method to strengthen Public Key Infrastructure 22/11/2011 23:57:13

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is proposing an extension to the current SSL chain of trust that aims to improve the security of HTTPS and other secure communication protocols.
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    Advertisers can't be trusted to self-regulate on data collection, says EFF 16/11/2011 01:53:18

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) doesn't think that the digital advertising industry can efficiently regulate itself and has issued a statement saying that the self-regulatory principles for multisite data recently published by the Digital Advertising Alliance will suffer from a lack of enforcement.
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    US Judge upholds investigators' access to Twitter data 11/11/2011 17:18:00

    A District Judge in the U.S. upheld Thursday an earlier order that Twitter must provide certain types of information of account holders to government investigators working on the WikiLeaks case, and declined to unseal records that could provide information on whether the prosecutors had tried to get similar information from other Internet companies.
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    EFF, ACLU file lawsuits over Patriot Act data collection 27/10/2011 07:54:13

    Two civil liberties groups have filed lawsuits asking the U.S. Department of Justice to detail its collection of electronic data and other information under the 10-year-old counterterrorism law, the USA Patriot Act.
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    Amazon Silk offers increased security on open Wi-Fi networks 20/10/2011 02:22:26

    The cloud-based design of Amazon's Silk browser has positive security side effects because it encrypts all traffic between users and websites, especially important when connected over unprotected Wi-Fi networks where session hijacking attacks can occur easily, the company said.
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    Amazon's Silk browser raises privacy, security eyebrows 30/09/2011 06:39:00

    Amazon's new Silk browser has raised some eyebrows among privacy and security experts.
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    EFF inspects encryption tool for Adium, Pidgin IM clients 23/09/2011 23:27:41

    The digital watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) lent a technical hand to fix security problems in a tool used to encrypt instant messenger conversations using the Adium and Pidgin programs.
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    New Patent Law Offers Few Pros, Many Cons 21/09/2011 04:28:00

    The America Invents Act has been widely described as the biggest reform of American patent law in some 50 years, and that's certainly true. An overhaul of our patent system was long overdue, and there have been high hopes as to what it could accomplish.
 
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