Submission + - Encryption Rights Community: Protecting Our Rights to Strongly Encrypt (google.com)

Submitted by Lauren Weinstein on Monday July 13, 2015 @11:07AM

Lauren Weinstein writes: Around the world, dictatorships and democracies alike are attempting to restrict access to strong encryption that governments cannot decrypt or bypass on demand.

Firms providing strong encryption to protect their users — such as Google and Apple — are now being accused by government spokesmen of "aiding" terrorism by not making their users' communications available to law enforcement on demand.

Increasingly, governments that have proven incapable of protecting their own systems from data thefts are calling for easily abused, technologically impractical government "backdoors" in commercial encryption that would put all private communications at extreme risk of attacks.

This new G+ community will discuss means and methods to protect our rights related to encrypted communications, unfettered by government efforts to undermine our privacy in this context.

Microsoft Sends Flowers To Internet Explorer 6 Funeral 151

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 05, 2010 @03:08PM from the sorry-about-your-loss dept.

Several readers have written with a fun followup to yesterday's IE6 funeral. Apparently Microsoft, in a rare moment of self-jest, took the time to send flowers, condolences, and a promise to meet at MIX. The card reads: "Thanks for the good times IE6, see you all @ MIX when we show a little piece of IE Heaven. The Internet Explorer Team @ Microsoft."

Why Time Flies By As You Get Older 252

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @11:03PM from the like-a-banana dept.

Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.

One Variety of Sea Slugs Cuts Out the Energy Middleman 232

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @03:04PM from the would-never-leave-the-house dept.

dragonturtle69 writes with this story, short on details but interesting: "These sea slugs, Elysia chlorotica, have evolved the ability to gain energy via photosynthesis. Forget about genetic modifications for sports enhancements. I want to be able to never need to eat again — or do I?"

ModSecurity 2.5 25

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @02:44PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Martijn de Boer writes "For a long time now Apache's webserver software has been serving up the Web. Because Internet usage is still growing every day, securing your growing number of servers has become very important. ModSecurity 2.5 has been written to illustrate and educate you the ease of use and inner workings of the ModSecurity module for the most widespread webserver." Read below for the rest of Martijn's review.

Comment Re:Proven to kill... (Score 1) 508

by ibecker on Saturday March 07, 2009 @03:53PM (#27106509) Attached to: Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Stem Cell Work

The mere fact that some faiths take a certain position on the issue is not a sensible reason to take the other side. Whatever you think of "Abrahamic Faiths" is irrelevant, as is the fact that it is a so-called "non-issue" in some parts of the world. The Chinese execute political dissidents; In some parts of India, a widow is expected to commit suicide at her husband's funeral; Muslims behead people for printing cartoons they don't like. These behaviors are sick, immoral, and *wrong*, and so are the cultures/religions that support them.

Western Civilization has rightly outlawed those barbaric practices, and we should do the same with the evil of using defenseless children as spare parts for those fortunate enough to have already been born.