Is Blackphone the First NSA-Proof Phone? Nick Kolakowski, January 15, 2014 4 min read The Blackphone. Against a black background. In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about National Security...
Snapchat Search Warrants Suggest All Data is Vulnerable Nick Kolakowski, October 16, 2013 3 min read At this point, the truly paranoid might as well take a rock to their smartphone. This year’s revelations about...
Will the Feds Harm the Cloud Computing Industry? Nick Kolakowski, August 9, 2013 5 min read PRISM and other federal surveillance programs could end up costing the U.S. cloud-computing industry billions of...
Lavabit, Silent Circle Email Shutdown: What’s Next? Nick Kolakowski, August 9, 2013 6 min read Lavabit's message. On August 8, anyone attempting to login to Lavabit found the secure email service’s homescreen...
Keeping Your Data Private from the NSA (and Everyone Else) Nick Kolakowski, June 12, 2013 12 min read The EFF's handy visualization of potential eavesdroppers. Last week, The Guardian and The Washington Post published...
Facebook’s Poke, Snapchat Highlight Issues with Secure Communications Nick Kolakowski, December 28, 2012 3 min read Facebook's Poke can vaporize messages between users. In Ye Olden Days before the creation of the Web, disposing of...