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Password Protection and Encryption Ethics

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After Lavabit, Silent Circle also shuts down its encrypted email service | PCWorld

Silent Circle also shuttered its encrypted email service a few hours after Lavabit shut down citing an ongoing legal battle.

Sad day for protecting your data communications with encryption.

Theres a great new encryption software that is available. 

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The Voynich Manuscript and It’s Place in Cryptographic History

The Voynich Manuscript came into popular cultural in 1912 when  Wilfrid Voynich (a Polish book dealer) purchased it. It is unclear from where he purchased it so it’s even more interesting when you consider that the vellum it was written on dates it somewhere between 1404–1438! That’s a good solid 500 years it was just floating around somewhere with no one really paying attention to it. It’s particularly remarkable because this codex was written in some unknown script and everyone’s best guess is that it was written in Northern Italy during the Renaissance. So, it’s not Italian?

We’ve put our worlds best–British and American codebreakers from both World Wars–on the task of decrypting this text and yet it is still undeciphered. It ranks right up there with Kryptos and Ricky McCormick’s encrypted notes. We just can’t seem to figure them out. However, looking at the diagrams and illustrations, our best guess is that it had to do with medicine. But if that’s the case, why encrypt it?

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Encryption backdoors - breaking WhatsApp and iMessage’s security to let the government stop Bad Things - sounds like a reasonable idea. Here’s why it isn’t.

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Silent Circle follows Lavabit in shuttering encrypted e-mail

Provider of software that encrypts communications says it ‘sees the writing on the wall,’ citing Lavabit closure in confirming a decision it had been mulling for weeks. Read this article by Steven Musil on CNET News.

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Edward Snowden’s guide to internet privacy

Snowden outlines a few quick and easy ways you can protect yourself, even if you’ve never heard of encryption or “opsec.”

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Mira Modi

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Diceware!

Diceware is an excellent way to create unhackable passwords. 6 randomly selected words from the list protects your accounts.