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Clinton Hints At Tech Industry Compromise Over Encryption (huffingtonpost.co.uk) 345

Posted by Soulskill from the backpedaling-scheduled-for-this-afternoon dept.
An anonymous reader writes: At the Democratic presidential debate last night, Marques Brownlee asked the candidates a pointed question about whether the government should require tech companies to implement backdoors in their encryption, and how we should balance privacy with security. The responses were not ideal for those who recognize the problems with backdoors. Martin O'Malley said the government should have to get a warrant, but skirted the rest of the issue. Bernie Sanders said government must "have Silicon Valley help us" to discover information transmitted across the internet by ISIS and other terrorist organizations. He thinks we can do that without violating privacy, but didn't say how. But the most interesting comment came from Hillary Clinton. After mentioning that Obama Administration officials had "started the conversation" with tech companies on the encryption issue, one of the moderators noted that the government "got nowhere" with its requests. Clinton replied, "That is not what I've heard. Let me leave it at that." The implications of that small comment are troubling.

Submission + - BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX (forbes.com)

Submitted by Sparrowvsrevolution
Sparrowvsrevolution writes: For the last year Bram Cohen, who created the breakthrough file-sharing protocol BitTorrent a decade ago, has been working on a tool he calls DissidentX, a steganography tool that's available now but is still being improved with the help of a group of researchers at Stanford. Like any stego tool, DissidentX can camouflage users' secrets in an inconspicuous website, a corporate document, or any other, pre-existing file from a Rick Astley video to a digital copy of Crime and Punishment. But it uses a new form of steganography based on cryptographic hashes to make the presence of a hidden message far harder for an eavesdropper to detect than in traditional stego. And it also makes it possible to encode multiple encrypted messages to different keys in the same cover text.

Comment folders + wiki (Score 2) 356

by alexmagni (#35193116) Attached to: File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011?
I finally dealt with this problem once and for all in the following way. I found the best personal wiki out there (Zim: http://zim-wiki.org/), and wrote a simple python script (http://www.inrim.it/~magni/zimDMS.htm) that scans nightly my folder structure, keeping up-to-date my wiki. My wiki, therefore, is a perfect mirror of my folder structure, with the added bonuses that I can navigate to each folder, comment it, describe its content, insert images, insert links to other folders, and finally by a single click I can open it in the file manager. My ~ 15000 folders are managed perfectly...

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