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Richmond Observer honored with 13 awards in N.C. Press Association contest – The Richmond Observer

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RALEIGH The Richmond Observers dynamic duo brought home a bakers dozen accolades from the N.C. Press Associations 2022 Editorial and Photojournalism Contest.

Managing Editor William R. Toler and Sports Editor Kyle Pillar received a combined 13 certificates at the NCPAs annual awards banquet held Thursday evening at the Hilton Raleigh North Hills.

Their awards included three first-place, four second-place and six third-place wins in eight categories.

Toler and Pillar swept the Sports News Reporting category, with Toler taking first and third place his first-ever awards for sports coverage and Pillar winning second place.

The winning entries were:

Toler and Pillar also placed second and third, respectively, in headline writing.

Pillars other awards included a first-place win for Sports Coverage, as well as second and third in both Sports Enterprise Reporting and Sports Feature Writing.

In the Sports Coverage win, judges commented: Great prep sports coverage. Kyle Pillar is the sportswriter you want covering your schools games.

Toler earned first place in City/County Government Reporting for a series of stories on the controversy surrounding the rezoning and air quality permit for a proposed biochar plant outside of Hamlet.

Other awards included third place in Best Video and Breaking News Coverage. The latter was for a story about a man who was fired within hours after he was caught using a racial slur on a home doorbell camera while trying to schedule family portraits.

I am extremely proud of our team here at the RO, said Co-publisher Charlie Melvin. We really do have the dream team.

The RO competed against 15 other internet-only publications in the NCPAs online division, a mixture of community and special interest news organizations, and tied with Carolina Public Press for the second-most awards in the division. NC Health News had the most with 16.

All entries had to be from October of 2020 through February of 2022, and were judged by members of the Iowa Newspaper Association. There were more than 4,000 entries submitted to the contest by more than 125 publications and news organizations.

The ceremony was hosted, once again, by UNC-TVs Shannon Vickery and awards were handed out by NCPA Past President Sandra Hurley, regional publisher for a group of newspapers in the Mount Airy area.

State Sen. Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick, was honored with the William C. Lassiter First Amendment Award, which is presented to a non-journalist who has worked to keep government open and accessible to citizens and the press, and who actively defends the principles of the First Amendment and the publics right to know.

The RO, founded in 2017 by Kenny Melvin and Lance Jenkins, has won 32 awards since joining the NCPA in 2019.

Nights like this make all the late nights, road trips and time away from home worth it, Pillar, who is also a teacher at the Ninth Grade Academy, said in a Facebook post late Thursday night, thanking his wife and publishers Kenny and Charlie Melvin. Most of all, thank you Richmond County for allowing me to be your sports editor. Its truly a privilege to cover our student-athletes, families and community.

Pillar has won 16 awards in the past three years and Tolers work has been recognized with 31 accolades by both the NCPA and Associated Press since moving to Richmond County in 2014.

Click here to read about the 2021 awards.Click here to read about the 2020 awards.

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Its All Political: Julian Assange Appeals His Extradition – Countercurrents.org

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Julian Assanges legal team has taken its next step along their Via Dolorosa, filing an appeal against the decision to extradite their client to the United States to face 18 charges, 17 based on the odious US Espionage Act of 1917.

Since his violent eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy in April 2019, much to the delight of the national security establishment and its media cheerleaders, Assange has been held captive at Her Majestys Belmarsh Prison awaiting his fate. In a facility reserved for the countrys most hardened criminals, Assange has had to face the COVID-19 pandemic, isolation, limitations on visits, restrictions on regular access to legal counsel, and a stroke. Warnings about his declining health by health professionals have been coldly ignored. The agenda is attritive, one of prolonged, even lethal process.

Along this potted judicial road, Assange chalked up a qualified success before District Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser on January 4, 2021, who held that he would be at serious risk of suicide occasioned by the effects of Special Administrative Measures and confinement in the ADX Florence supermax facility in Colorado. This was deemed oppressive within the meaning of the US-UK Extradition Treaty. The most obvious aspect of the prosecution its self-evidently political nature was given little thought.

Since then, the US government has won each round of legal sparring. Outrageously, the High Court agreed with the prosecutors in December last year that diplomatic assurances on how Assange would be treated on being extradited no SAMS, no ADX Facility, even the prospect of seeking a return to Australia to serve the balance of any sentence could be trusted as fair and ingenuous. It mattered not one jot that these were made after the original extradition trial and smacked of opportunistic calculation. The blinkered reasoning of the judges also ignored how US officials had, in the spring of 2017, chewed over the proposed assassination of an Australian subject on British soil. (At stages, abduction was also floated through the ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency.)

Other gaping defects were also put to one side: the revelations of US-directed surveillance efforts of the London Ecuadorian embassy while Assange was in residence; and the fact that a hefty portion of the indictment is based on fabricated testimony from the adventurous conman, embezzler and convicted paedophile Sigurdur Siggi Thordarson.

On appeal to the Supreme Court, Assange found a legal body fixated with one aspect of the case: whether assurances made by the US government were worth any weight at all. No other blotches and glaring defects mattered. As matters unfolded, the judges were not even willing to delve into the case. In the cool words of the Deputy Support Registrar delivered on March 14, The Court ordered that permission to appeal be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law.

It all fell to the UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to act upon what had been a monumental miscarriage of justice. But blocking the extradition request was too much to expect from an individual who has shown a deep and abiding affection for the national security state. In July, the Home Office merely reiterated the point the view that the UK courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr Assange.

On August 26, Assanges legal team filed his Perfected Grounds of Appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court. The claims stretch back to the original decision of January 4 last year and focus on the seminal points that make the case scandalous. They include the claim that Assange is being prosecuted and punished for his political opinions (s. 81(a) of the Extradition Act); that he is being prosecuted for speech protected by Article 10 of the Human Rights Act, incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights; that the request itself violates the US-UK Extradition Treaty and international law because it comprises political offences; that the US government has misrepresented core facts of the case to the UK courts; and that the extradition request and its surrounding circumstances constitute an abuse of process.

The application also makes the claim that Patel erred in approving the extradition order on grounds of specialty and because it violates Article 4 of the US-UK Extradition Treaty. Article 4 stipulates that extradition will not be granted where the competent authority of the Requested State determines that the request was politically motivated. As Julian Assanges wife, Stella, stated, overwhelming evidence had emerged since the previous ruling proving that the United States prosecution against the publisher is a criminal abuse.

From the issue of ailing health, deemed a primary consideration in the lower courts approach to Assange, the focus now turns upon the entire raison dtre of the case. Assange, through provocative publishing, came to be seen as an agent of political disruption and disorder. An informed populace is, as governments have found out, a dangerous thing.

In giving the rules of the sordid game away exposing the atrocities, the abuses of power, the bankruptcy of unrepresentative politics the Australian founder of WikiLeaks became the most prominent political target of the US imperium. Journalism and activism have, in Assange, combined, his case nothing if not political. It remains to be seen if the competent authority, to use the words of the poorly drafted, ill-weighted Extradition Treaty, agrees.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com

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Stella Assange and Farida Bemba Nabourema to join line-up of speakers at Plan Forum in Lugano on October 28th and 29th – The Cryptonomist

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Today, the Plan Forum, hosted by Tether Operations Limited (Tether), the technology company supporting the blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalization (USD) and the City of Lugano, announced new headlining expert speakers for its upcoming conference. The Forum will feature blockchain industry leaders along with influential experts in global financial markets and the Bitcoin ecosystem at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano on October 28th and 29th.

Joining the already stellar list of speakers to discuss how Bitcoin is disrupting the world on both social and economic levels as well as the important topic of individual freedoms is Stella Assange, lawyer and wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; Gabriel Shipton, film producer and brother of Julian Assange; Milena Mayorga, ambassador of El Salvador to the United States; Fadi Elsalameen, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute; and Farida Bemba Nabourema, human rights activist and founder of the Faure Must Go movement in Togo.

In addition to exciting speakers and panels, participants can look forward to a unique virtual reality experience following the footsteps of Julian Assange and an opportunity to reflect on freedom of speech. Participants will virtually navigate the places where Assange has lived for the past 10 years: from Ecuadors embassy in the United Kingdom, to the Belmarsh maximum security prison in London where Assange is currently detained.

Thanks to the Assange family, there will also be a preview of the documentary film that Shipton produced. Titled Ithaka, an intimate portrait of the struggle of Julians father, John, to free his son.

The Plan forum in Lugano will feature keynote speeches, interviews and panel discussions and offers a unique opportunity for dialogue with key experts in the field and networking with other participants. The panels and conversations will focus on the complex Bitcoin ecosystem and an in-depth look at its different components: bitcoin is a word used globally to define a digital currency that can be bought, kept or exchanged; whereas Bitcoin also defines the technological protocol that allows digital transactions to take place.

The Bitcoin ecosystem is based on certain fundamental principles that will be explored in depth during the forum: the right to privacy, inclusion and freedom (individual freedom, freedom of speech and financial freedom). Lugano thus promotes an open dialogue in line with the Swiss tradition of supporting individual freedoms. A commitment, therefore, also by the institutions that guarantee these freedoms.

Confirmed and already announced speakers include cypherpunk and computer scientist Nick Szabo; Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream; Jameson Lopp, CTO of CASA; Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, co-founders of El Zonte Capital; and Peter McCormack, host of What Bitcoin Did Podcast and president of Real Bedford FC; Paolo Ardoino, CTO of Bitfinex/Tether; Samson Mow, architect of the Bitcoin bond; Prince Philip Karageorgevitch of Serbia and Yugoslavia; Jimmy Song, Bitcoin developer and expert; Frank Chaparro, publisher of The Block; John Carvalho, CEO of Synonym; Indira Kempis, Mexican senator; Sandeep Nailwal, Co-founder of Polygon; and more.

Program information, speakers and registration to the Plan Forum can be found at the official website.

Lugano Plan is a joint initiative of the City of Lugano and Tether dedicated to the integration of Bitcoin technology in Lugano, from small economic transactions at local businesses to the payment of taxes in cryptocurrencies.

Lugano is the economic capital of southern Switzerland, strategically located between the metropolitan areas of Milan and Zurich. Set in an exceptional natural environment and scenic landscapes, Ticinos garden city is a sought-after tourist destination and a great place to live and work. Lugano is home to a major financial center as well as hubs of pharmaceuticals, commodities trading and fashion activities and more recently has developed an ecosystem for technological innovation and blockchain. A university city since 1996, Lugano boasts globally competitive research institutes and infrastructures, including the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center.

Among the safest cities in Switzerland, Lugano, in addition to a pleasant Mediterranean climate, offers business-friendly legislation and excellent infrastructure combined with the political stability typical of Switzerland.

Tether is the preeminent stablecoin and a pioneer for financial freedom and innovation. Created in October 2014, Tether has grown to become the most traded cryptocurrency, surpassing that of all rival offerings combined. Tether is disrupting the legacy financial system by offering a more modern approach to money by introducing fiat currency-digital cash to bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, Liquid Network, Omni, Tron, Algorand, and Solana blockchains, as well as smart contract platform, Avalanche, Tether makes a significant contribution to a more connected ecosystem. Tether combines digital currency benefits, such as instant global transactions, with traditional currency benefits, such as price stability. With a commitment to transparency and compliance, Tether is a fast and low-cost way to transact with money.

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How to share large files for free and with encryption – Gearrice

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Share large files Its something weve all had to do at some point. And there are many ways to do it. employing physical formats or directly via Internet. Precisely, today there are a number of services, free and paidwhich are used to store files of different sizes or only to share them temporarily.

Whether its a photo album, a video, a picture-packed presentation, or a collection of documents, there are tons of ways to send them to someone without cluttering their inbox or reaching for a memory card or thumb drive. The services we recommend below are intended to be agile, simple and comfortable. And, by the way, secure by encryption.

You choose what you want to share, upload it to the chosen service, indicate who to send it to or you generate a link to share and, finally, you share said link. No more. No prior registration or checkout. Although you have that possibility if you require additional features. Lets see the most suitable if you dont want complications.

If Dropbox was the first to offer online storage, WeTransfer was the first to bet on share large files temporarily. It is not about keeping those files for a long time. Only long enough so that whoever has to receive them can download them and voila.

As simple as accepting their terms of service, upload the file in question and send it. To do this, you will only have to indicate the email address that will receive the download link and a message so that the person in question know its you Who sent you that file? Best of all, you have to register. And you can send free up to 2 GB.

If you want to send up to 200 GB or more, you will have to go through the checkout. By monthly subscription. To the paid version we must add more functions such as a password or a specific expiration date for the uploaded file. But pay or not for WeTransferby default the files disappear after 7 days. And for your safety, use TLS encryption Y AES-256.

On this occasion, pCloud Transfer is another service to share large files temporarily. Although it also offers its own cloud storage. But in the case that concerns us, without registration and free of charge we will have the possibility of send up to 5GB per file.

Then its a matter of choosing if you want to get a download link and share it however you want or send an email with that link to the address you set up. Accompanied by your own address and a message. Nothing more than that. Perfect for occasional file sharing.

Optionally, you can encrypt the file by clicking on Encrypt your Files. This will allow you to add a password. Needed to download the file. For the rest, both pCloud What pCloud Transfer they employ AES 256-bit encryption during and after the transfer. That and TLS/SSL protection.

With the same philosophy of simple, comfortable and free, Transfer Now offers us to share large files of up to 5 GB per transfer. Theyll be avalaible for 7 days and then they will disappear from their servers. And for extra security, transfers are done over HTTPS and you can include a password. All of that for free.

The shipping process is the same as the previous services. The page itself explains it in three steps. first you select what files to send. Then you fill in the form to generate the link to share or send it by email to one or more people at a time. And finally, start the transfer and wait to upload the file and send the link to download it.

One of the most recommended services to share large files is Smash, service that I talked about in a previous article. Available in an online version and also with its own mobile applications, it stands out for several reasons.

First because it is as simple as the previous tools. You upload the file or folder, choose where to send it and thats it. But, in addition, it turns out that you can send files the size you want. As it is. Unlimited. The fine print? If the file is larger than 2 GB it will be in a download queue. The only drawback is that this will make it possible for the file to take longer to download. But that will depend on many factors.

In addition to the no size limit, and no need to register, it has a preview of images, videos and/or audios. Also will notify you if it has been received the email and the file has been downloaded. And if youre worried about securityoffers protection with passwordencrypted with SSL/TLS and AES 256-bit.

From Valencia comes Internet Senda practical, fast and secure system for share large files up to 5 GB. You upload it, share the link, or send it by email, and you can forget about it. All from the web browser, available for any connected device.

And if what you want is to keep your files longer in the cloud, you can use its main service. For free, it gives you the right to store up to 10 GB. And if you need more space, you can contract 20 GB, 200 GB or 2 TB. In all cases, the files are encrypted.

As a curiosity, Internxt and Internet Send They use a blockchain or block chain system, which implies encrypting information in a decentralized manner. That is to say, what is private and secure. Whats more, when you upload the file, it is automatically encrypted before uploading. To do this, it uses the AES 256-bit algorithm. You will find more information at this link.

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Don’t Wait: Get Into the Encryption Habit Now – Williston Daily Herald

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An encrypted ZIP file can have two correct passwords here’s why – BleepingComputer

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Password-protected ZIP archives are common means of compressing andsharing sets of filesfrom sensitive documents to malware samples to even malicious files (i.e. phishing "invoices" in emails).

But, did you know it is possible for an encrypted ZIP file to have two correct passwords, with both producing the same outcome when the ZIP is extracted?

Arseniy Sharoglazov, a cybersecurityresearcher at Positive Technologies shared over the weekend a simple experiment where he produced a password-protected ZIP file called x.zip.

The passwordSharoglazov picked for encrypting his ZIP was a pun on the 1987 hitthat's become a popular tech meme:

Nev1r-G0nna-G2ve-Y8u-Up-N5v1r-G1nna-Let-Y4u-D1wn-N8v4r-G5nna-D0sert-You

But the researcher demonstrated that when extracting x.zipusing a completely differentpassword, he receivedno error messages.

In fact, using the different passwordresulted in successful extraction of the ZIP, with original contents intact:

pkH8a0AqNbHcdw8GrmSp

BleepingComputer was able to successfully reproduce the experiment using different ZIP programs. We used both p7zip (7-Zip equivalent for macOS) andanother ZIP utility calledKeka.

Like the researcher's ZIP archive, ours was created with the aforementioned longer password, and with AES-256 encryption mode enabled.

While the ZIP was encrypted with the longerpassword, using either password extracted the archive successfully.

Responding toSharoglazov'sdemo, a curious reader,Rafaraised an important question, "How????"

Twitter userUnblvrseems to have figured out the mystery:

When producing password-protected ZIP archives with AES-256 mode enabled, the ZIPformat uses the PBKDF2 algorithm andhashes the passwordprovided by the user, ifthepassword is too long. By too long, we mean longer than 64 bytes (characters), explains the researcher.

Instead of the user's chosen password (in this case "Nev1r-G0nna-G2ve-...")this newly calculatedhash becomes the actual password to the file.

When the user attempts to extract the file, and enters apassword that is longer than 64 bytes ("Nev1r-G0nna-G2ve-..."), the user's input willonce again be hashed by the ZIP application and compared against the correct password (which is now itself a hash). Amatch would lead to a successful file extraction.

The alternative password used in this example("pkH8a0AqNbHcdw8GrmSp") is in fact ASCII representation of the longer password's SHA-1 hash.

SHA-1 checksum of "Nev1r-G0nna-G2ve-..." =706b4838613041714e62486364773847726d5370.

This checksum when converted to ASCII produces:pkH8a0AqNbHcdw8GrmSp

Note, however, that when encrypting or decrypting a file,the hashing process only occurs if the length of the password is greater than 64 characters.

In other words,shorter passwords will not be hashed at either stageof compressing or decompressing the ZIP.

This is why when picking the long "Nev1r-G0nna-G2ve-..." string as the password at the encryption stage, the actualpassword being set by the ZIP program is effectively the (SHA1) hash of this string.

At the decryption stage, if you were to enter "Nev1r-G0nna-G2ve-...," it will be hashed and compared against the previously stored password (which is the SHA1 hash). However, entering the shorter "pkH8a0AqNbHcdw8GrmSp" password at the decryption stage will have the application directly compare this value to the stored password (which is, again the SHA1 hash).

TheHMAC collisions subsection of PBKDF2 on Wikipedia provides some more technical insight to interested readers.

"PBKDF2 has an interesting property when using HMAC as its pseudo-random function. It is possible to trivially construct any number of different password pairs with collisions within each pair,"notes the entry.

"If a supplied password is longer than the block size of the underlying HMAC hash function, the password is first pre-hashed into a digest, and that digest is instead used as the password."

But, the fact that there are nowtwo possible passwords to the same ZIP does not represent a security vulnerability,"as one still must know the original password in order to generate the hash of the password," the entry further explains.

An interesting key aspect to note here is, ASCII representationsof every SHA-1 hash need not be alphanumeric.

In other words,let's assume we had chosen the following password for ourZIP file during this experiment.The password is longerthan 64 bytes:

Bl33pingC0mputer-Sh0w-M3-H0W-t0-pR0Duc3-an-eNcRyPT3D-ZIP-File-in-the-simplest-way

Its SHA-1 checksum comes out to be:bd0b8c7ab2bf5934574474fb403e3c0a7e789b61

And the ASCII representation of this checksum looks like a gibberish set of bytesnot nearly elegant as the alternative password generated by the researcher for his experiment:

BleepingComputer askedSharoglazov how was he able to pick a password whose SHA-1 checksum would be such that its ASCII representation yields a clean, alphanumeric string.

"That's why hashcat was used," the researcher tells BleepingComputer.

By using a slightly modified version of the open source password recovery tool, hashcat, the researcher generated variations of the "Never Gonna Give You Up..." string using alphanumeric characters until he arrived at a perfect password.

"I tested Nev0r, Nev1r, Nev2r and so on... And I found the password I need."

And, that'showSharoglazov arrived at a password that roughly reads like "Never Gonna Give You Up...," but the ASCII representation of itsSHA-1 checksum is oneneatalphanumeric string.

For most users, creating a password-protected ZIP file with a choice of their password should be sufficient and that is all they would need to know.

But should you decide to get adventurous, this experiment providesa peek into one of the many mysteries surroundingencrypted ZIPs, like having two passwords to your guarded secret.

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How to enable end-to-end encrypted chat backup on WhatsApp, here’s how – Gearrice

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Tech News Desk WhatsApp has a feature that prevents people from accessing users chats through their chat backups. Let us tell you that a feature called Encrypted Chat Backup was announced last year, which has become stronger with end-to-end encryption of WhatsApp chat backup. This is the same encryption technology that the Meta messaging app uses to secure conversations on its platform. Chats are backed up to either Google Drive or Apple iCloud. These chat backups are not protected by any encryption technology and hence are prone to hack or access by hackers. Whereas end-to-end encryption can mitigate this risk by encoding the content in the backup. That is, no one can access it. However, this feature is not enabled by default. WhatsApp users need to enable this functionality to keep their chat backups secure with end-to-end encryption. Users can use a password or a 64-digit encryption code to decrypt the encryption while restoring the last saved WhatsApp chat backup on their Android smartphone or iPhone.

First of all open Settings in WhatsApp. After that go to the Chats sub-section and then go to Chat Backup. Now tap on End-to-End Encrypted Backup option. Now tap on Turn on option and then follow on-screen prompts to generate password. Finally, tap on Create option and then wait for WhatsApp to create your end-to-end encrypted backup. That WhatsApp users will not be able to restore the backup if they forget the password. Also, if you forget the WhatsApp password, it cannot be reset.

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Apples CSAM approach is the right one, says British government, as it attacks Facebook – 9to5Mac

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The British government has backed a call by the countrys security services for client-side scanning for child sexual abuse material aka Apples CSAM approach.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has written an op-ed in which she indicates government support for the stance, while also attacking Facebooks plans to make all Messenger chats end-to-end encrypted by default

Apples CSAM scanning plans were first announced a year ago. Instead of scanning photos stored on iCloud, which is the approach taken by other companies with cloud storage services, the iPhone maker wanted a more privacy-respecting approach. This is based on what are known as hashes unique digital signatures of CSAM files, using client-side scanning (on the device, rather than in the cloud):

While the approach was indeed better than that of other companies, Apples plans quickly came under fire fromcybersecurity experts,human rights organizations,governments, andApples own employees. Four main concerns have been raised,explained here. Apple subsequently addressed the first two.

We argued that such a backlash was inevitable, given the years Apple has spent touting its privacy credentials. The company hasput up huge billboards. It hasrun amusing ads. It hasan entire privacy microsite. Its CEOtalks about privacyinevery interviewandpublic appearance. The companyattacks other tech giantsover privacy. Itfought the entire ad industryover a new privacy feature.

Last month, the UKs NSA equivalent, GCHQ, wrote a white paper in partnership with the National CyberSecurity Centre. The paper argued that Apple-style client-side scanning offered the right balance of security and privacy.

Ian Levy, the NCSCs technical director, and Crispin Robinson, the technical director of cryptanalysis codebreaking at GCHQ, said the technology could protect children and privacy at the same time.

Weve found no reason why client-side scanning techniques cannot be implemented safely in many of the situations one will encounter, they wrote in a discussion paper published on Thursday, which the pair said was not government policy.

It appears that this is now government policy, as Patel has written an op-ed piece for The Telegraph in which she endorses this.

Some of our foremost cyber security experts have published a paper setting out a range of safeguarding options that could be implemented by companies to reduce the prevalence of child sexual abuse online while maintaining the privacy benefits of end-to-end encryption.

The piece represents a softening of previous statements by the British government, which have attacked end-to-end encryption as enabling child abusers and terrorists. Patel now argues that it would be irresponsible to launch a new E2E encryption service without such a system in place.

The specific target of her ire is Facebook.

Meta has recently announced that it is beginning to test end-to-end encryption on its platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram. The company plans to make end-to-end encryption the default system for all personal calls and messages next year.

But parents need to know that their kids will be safe online. The consequences of inadequate protections especially for end-to-end encrypted social media platforms would be catastrophic. A great many child predators use social media platforms such as Facebook to discover, target and sexually abuse children. These protections need to be in place before end-to-end encryption is rolled out around the world. Child safety must never be an afterthought.

Currently, users have the ability to start a Secret Message, which is E2E encrypted, but the default is for encryption to which Facebook holds the key.

Patel refers to the Online Safety Bill, which would enforce client-side scanning, as if it were certain to pass. The reality is that this legislation has now been put on hold, and there is no certainty that it will proceed.

If client-side scanning does become a legal requirement, it will put Apple right back in the spotlight. The Cupertino company has gone silent on the issue, seemingly hoping that it can quietly drop its plans to avoid the controversy.

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What is Telegram? What you need to know about the messaging app – TrustedReviews

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If youve been thinking about downloading a new messaging app, youve more than likely come across Telegram.

Heres everything you need to know about Telegram, including what it is, what features it offers, how encrypted it is, how much it costs and who owns the app.

Telegram is a free, cloud-based instant messaging app available across a range of mobile and desktop platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux.

The app saw a sudden surge in popularity in 2021 after WhatsApp announced changes to its privacy policy that would allow it to share data with parent company Meta.

Telegram offers its users a number of features, including no limits on media sizes, end-to-end encryption in secret chats and a huge 200,000-person capacity for group chats.

Theres also a Bot API to encourage developers to create their own bots for Telegram.

Alongside Signal, the app has a reputation as one of the most privacy-forward messaging apps. Telegrams code is also open source and the app supports reproducible builds.

All Telegram chats are encrypted, but the amount of encryption you get depends on what type of chat you make. This can lead users to believe their chats are more protected than they actually are.

Private chat and group chats are protected by server-client encryption, allowing them to live on the cloud, while secret chats benefit from more robust client-client encryption or end-to-end encryption. This means that only the sender and the receiver can read your messages and not even Telegram can decipher them. If you want the best level of privacy, you should communicate via secret chats.

Unfortunately, this also means that end-to-end encryption is limited to one-on-one chats and is not available in group chats.

If youre interested in reading more about Telegrams encryption and how the app deals with your data, we spoke to a number of security experts in our guide to Is Telegram Safe?

Yes, Telegram is free to download and use.

Telegram was founded by Nikolai and Pavel Durov, who are also the creators of Russian social network VK.

While Telegram was originally founded in St. Petersburg, the brothers have relocated the company a number of times and are currently based in Dubai.

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The 4 Best Open Source PKI Software Solutions (And Choosing the Right One) – Security Boulevard

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There are many reasons why you may be looking for open-source public key infrastructure (PKI) software. Maybe you need to enable authentication and encryption for IoT products you deliver to the market. Or maybe youre issuing certificates into a microservices environment to secure machine-to-machine connections. In any case, youve got options.

This blog will discuss the best open-source PKI software tools available today and provide tips on choosing the right tool for your needs.

First off, lets begin with a few definitions. PKI is used to issue certificates that enable authentication, encryption, and digital signatures for multiple use cases.

Authentication: proving your identity to a website or other entity

Encryption: protecting data from unauthorized access

Digital signatures: verifying the authenticity of a message or document

Open-source PKI solutions are a type of CA software that is available for anyone to use, modify and distribute. Open source software could be used for publicly trusted SSL/TLS certificates or, more commonly, as a private certificate authority (CA) for internal trust within an enterprise.

The code for these tools is typically published under an open-source license, allowing anyone to view, edit and redistribute the software.

Developers and engineers increasingly leverage PKI to embed security into their products or application development and delivery pipelines. Open source certificate authority (CA) software is a great way to get started with PKI.

There are many different open-source PKI software tools available today. Here weve broken down the four most common open source PKI solutions, including key considerations and recommendations when choosing the right fit for your use case.

EJBCA is a Java-based PKI solution that offers both enterprise and community editions. EJBCA Community Edition (CE) is free to download and has all the core features needed for certificate issuance and management. It includes multiple certificate enrollment methods, as well as a REST API. EJBCA was developed by PrimeKey, now a part of Keyfactor, and it is the most widely trusted and adopted solution for open-source PKI CA today.

Core capabilities include:

EJBCA Enterprise Edition (EE) includes features for production-ready environments, including high availability, clustering, authentication, advanced protocol and HSM support, professional support and services, and deployment flexibility. EJBCA Enterprise can be deployed as a turnkey hardware appliance, software appliance, cloud-based, or SaaS-delivered PKI.

Dogtag Certificate System (also known as Dogtag PKI) is an open-source certificate authority (CA) that supports many common PKI use cases. It offers a web-based management interface that allows you control over your certificates while also supporting multiple formats so that they can easily fit different use cases.

Core capabilities include:

The OpenXPKI is a toolkit based on OpenSSL and Perl that can create, manage, and deploy digital certificates. It includes support for multiple certificate formats and an online interface to help you oversee your PKI workloads.

Core capabilities include:

Step-ca is a simple yet flexible CLI-based open-source PKI tool that can create and manage digital certificates. It similarly includes support for multiple certificate formats and integrates with tools like Kubernetes, Nebula, and Envoy.

Core capabilities include:

When choosing an open source PKI management tool, there are several factors you will want to consider based on your specific use case and requirements.

Setting up and running a PKI isnt for the faint of heart. Even the best tools can create vulnerabilities if they are not properly configured and deployed. Open-source PKI solutions should be easy to deploy, with published containers offering the simplest method. They should also provide an easy-to-use interface for configuration, reporting, and management.

Once you have your PKI up and running, youll need to integrate certificate issuance and management workflows with your tools and applications. Industry-standard protocols such as ACME, SCEP, EST, and CMP provide certificate lifecycle management and enrollment capabilities. A REST API is also important to offer additional extensibility and functionality specific to the tool you choose.

Good documentation is essential for any PKI solution. Be sure to check that the documentation is up-to-date and easy to understand. Support typically isnt available with open-source projects, so youll need to ensure that you can set up and deploy the solution independently.

You should also ensure that theres a solid community to provide support and guidance when you need it. A good indicator of an active community is to check the number of downloads, discussions, and online forums where end users can discuss features and assist one another.

Security isnt static, and your PKI shouldnt be either. Ensure that your open source PKI solution is actively developed and maintained by the community and project owner. This ensures that vulnerabilities are addressed swiftly, and new features and functionality are continuously available as the PKI landscape evolves.

If something goes wrong with your PKI implementation, youll need access to troubleshooting documentation. Make sure the supplier you choose offers thorough documentation and a commercial/premium support agreement available from the vendor with an enterprise version, should the need arise to upgrade.

If you need enterprise-grade features, be sure to choose a tool that offers a simple path to upgrade. A full-featured enterprise PKI should be able to handle the increased load of large-scale production environments without compromising performance or security. To support these requirements, youll need capabilities like high availability, multi-node clustering, compliance certifications, advanced protocols, and hardware security module (HSM).integrations.

EJBCA CE is a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use PKI solution used by everyone from developers and engineers to IAM and security teams to issue trusted identities for all of their devices and workloads. Here are just a few of the key reasons why teams choose EJBCA CE over open source PKI alternatives:

EJBCA provides a complete PKI solution that includes everything you need to get started. It supports CA, RA, and OCSP functionality out of the box and can easily scale to meet even the most demanding transaction workloads for certificate issuance and validation.

EJBCA is extremely flexible and can be easily extended to meet your specific needs. It supports pre-built plugins with other open-source tools such as HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes, and it also supports SCEP, CMP, and REST API protocols. Advanced protocols such as ACME and EST are available with EJBCA Enterprise.

EJBCA is readily available for download from GitHub and Sourceforge. Its also available as a published container via Docker Hub, making it easy to deploy quickly and securely. It also offers a web-based GUI for centralized administration of CAs, audit logs, templates and policies, and more.

EJBCA is one of the longest-running CA software projects, with millions of downloads and time-proven robustness and reliability. Its built on open standards and a Common-Criteria certificate open-source platform.

EJBCA is supported by comprehensive documentation, including how-to guides, tutorial videos, troubleshooting guides, and use cases. This makes it incredibly easy for end-users to get up and running quickly and to get the most out of their PKI.

If you need an enterprise-grade PKI solution, EJBCA offers an easy path to upgrade from the community edition to the enterprise edition. EJBCA Enterprise is available in many different forms and flavors to meet your specific requirements for simplicity, availability, and compliance.

There are many reasons why you may be looking for open-source public key infrastructure (PKI) software. Maybe you need to enable authentication and encryption for IoT products you deliver to the market. Or maybe youre issuing certificates into a microservices environment to secure machine-to-machine connections. In any case, youve got options.

This blog will discuss the best open-source PKI software tools available today and provide tips on choosing the right tool for your needs.

First off, lets begin with a few definitions. PKI is used to issue certificates that enable authentication, encryption, and digital signatures for multiple use cases.

Authentication: proving your identity to a website or other entity

Encryption: protecting data from unauthorized access

Digital signatures: verifying the authenticity of a message or document

Open-source PKI solutions are a type of CA software that is available for anyone to use, modify and distribute. Open source software could be used for publicly trusted SSL/TLS certificates or, more commonly, as a private certificate authority (CA) for internal trust within an enterprise.

The code for these tools is typically published under an open-source license, allowing anyone to view, edit and redistribute the software.

Developers and engineers increasingly leverage PKI to embed security into their products or application development and delivery pipelines. Open source certificate authority (CA) software is a great way to get started with PKI.

There are many different open-source PKI software tools available today. Here weve broken down the four most common open source PKI solutions, including key considerations and recommendations when choosing the right fit for your use case.

EJBCA is a Java-based PKI solution that offers both enterprise and community editions. EJBCA Community Edition (CE) is free to download and has all the core features needed for certificate issuance and management. It includes multiple certificate enrollment methods, as well as a REST API. EJBCA was developed by PrimeKey, now a part of Keyfactor, and it is the most widely trusted and adopted solution for open-source PKI CA today.

Core capabilities include:

EJBCA Enterprise Edition (EE) includes features for production-ready environments, including high availability, clustering, authentication, advanced protocol and HSM support, professional support and services, and deployment flexibility. EJBCA Enterprise can be deployed as a turnkey hardware appliance, software appliance, cloud-based, or SaaS-delivered PKI.

Dogtag Certificate System (also known as Dogtag PKI) is an open-source certificate authority (CA) that supports many common PKI use cases. It offers a web-based management interface that allows you control over your certificates while also supporting multiple formats so that they can easily fit different use cases.

Core capabilities include:

The OpenXPKI is a toolkit based on OpenSSL and Perl that can create, manage, and deploy digital certificates. It includes support for multiple certificate formats and an online interface to help you oversee your PKI workloads.

Core capabilities include:

Step-ca is a simple yet flexible CLI-based open-source PKI tool that can create and manage digital certificates. It similarly includes support for multiple certificate formats and integrates with tools like Kubernetes, Nebula, and Envoy.

Core capabilities include:

When choosing an open source PKI management tool, there are several factors you will want to consider based on your specific use case and requirements.

Setting up and running a PKI isnt for the faint of heart. Even the best tools can create vulnerabilities if they are not properly configured and deployed. Open-source PKI solutions should be easy to deploy, with published containers offering the simplest method. They should also provide an easy-to-use interface for configuration, reporting, and management.

Once you have your PKI up and running, youll need to integrate certificate issuance and management workflows with your tools and applications. Industry-standard protocols such as ACME, SCEP, EST, and CMP provide certificate lifecycle management and enrollment capabilities. A REST API is also important to offer additional extensibility and functionality specific to the tool you choose.

Good documentation is essential for any PKI solution. Be sure to check that the documentation is up-to-date and easy to understand. Support typically isnt available with open-source projects, so youll need to ensure that you can set up and deploy the solution independently.

You should also ensure that theres a solid community to provide support and guidance when you need it. A good indicator of an active community is to check the number of downloads, discussions, and online forums where end users can discuss features and assist one another.

Security isnt static, and your PKI shouldnt be either. Ensure that your open source PKI solution is actively developed and maintained by the community and project owner. This ensures that vulnerabilities are addressed swiftly, and new features and functionality are continuously available as the PKI landscape evolves.

If something goes wrong with your PKI implementation, youll need access to troubleshooting documentation. Make sure the supplier you choose offers thorough documentation and a commercial/premium support agreement available from the vendor with an enterprise version, should the need arise to upgrade.

If you need enterprise-grade features, be sure to choose a tool that offers a simple path to upgrade. A full-featured enterprise PKI should be able to handle the increased load of large-scale production environments without compromising performance or security. To support these requirements, youll need capabilities like high availability, multi-node clustering, compliance certifications, advanced protocols, and hardware security module (HSM).integrations.

EJBCA CE is a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use PKI solution used by everyone from developers and engineers to IAM and security teams to issue trusted identities for all of their devices and workloads. Here are just a few of the key reasons why teams choose EJBCA CE over open source PKI alternatives:

EJBCA provides a complete PKI solution that includes everything you need to get started. It supports CA, RA, and OCSP functionality out of the box and can easily scale to meet even the most demanding transaction workloads for certificate issuance and validation.

EJBCA is extremely flexible and can be easily extended to meet your specific needs. It supports pre-built plugins with other open-source tools such as HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes, and it also supports SCEP, CMP, and REST API protocols. Advanced protocols such as ACME and EST are available with EJBCA Enterprise.

EJBCA is readily available for download from GitHub and Sourceforge. Its also available as a published container via Docker Hub, making it easy to deploy quickly and securely. It also offers a web-based GUI for centralized administration of CAs, audit logs, templates and policies, and more.

EJBCA is one of the longest-running CA software projects, with millions of downloads and time-proven robustness and reliability. Its built on open standards and a Common-Criteria certificate open-source platform.

EJBCA is supported by comprehensive documentation, including how-to guides, tutorial videos, troubleshooting guides, and use cases. This makes it incredibly easy for end-users to get up and running quickly and to get the most out of their PKI.

If you need an enterprise-grade PKI solution, EJBCA offers an easy path to upgrade from the community edition to the enterprise edition. EJBCA Enterprise is available in many different forms and flavors to meet your specific requirements for simplicity, availability, and compliance.

There are many reasons why you may be looking for open-source public key infrastructure (PKI) software. Maybe you need to enable authentication and encryption for IoT products you deliver to the market. Or maybe youre issuing certificates into a microservices environment to secure machine-to-machine connections. In any case, youve got options.

This blog will discuss the best open-source PKI software tools available today and provide tips on choosing the right tool for your needs.

First off, lets begin with a few definitions. PKI is used to issue certificates that enable authentication, encryption, and digital signatures for multiple use cases.

Authentication: proving your identity to a website or other entity

Encryption: protecting data from unauthorized access

Digital signatures: verifying the authenticity of a message or document

Open-source PKI solutions are a type of CA software that is available for anyone to use, modify and distribute. Open source software could be used for publicly trusted SSL/TLS certificates or, more commonly, as a private certificate authority (CA) for internal trust within an enterprise.

The code for these tools is typically published under an open-source license, allowing anyone to view, edit and redistribute the software.

Developers and engineers increasingly leverage PKI to embed security into their products or application development and delivery pipelines. Open source certificate authority (CA) software is a great way to get started with PKI.

There are many different open-source PKI software tools available today. Here weve broken down the four most common open source PKI solutions, including key considerations and recommendations when choosing the right fit for your use case.

EJBCA is a Java-based PKI solution that offers both enterprise and community editions. EJBCA Community Edition (CE) is free to download and has all the core features needed for certificate issuance and management. It includes multiple certificate enrollment methods, as well as a REST API. EJBCA was developed by PrimeKey, now a part of Keyfactor, and it is the most widely trusted and adopted solution for open-source PKI CA today.

Core capabilities include:

EJBCA Enterprise Edition (EE) includes features for production-ready environments, including high availability, clustering, authentication, advanced protocol and HSM support, professional support and services, and deployment flexibility. EJBCA Enterprise can be deployed as a turnkey hardware appliance, software appliance, cloud-based, or SaaS-delivered PKI.

Dogtag Certificate System (also known as Dogtag PKI) is an open-source certificate authority (CA) that supports many common PKI use cases. It offers a web-based management interface that allows you control over your certificates while also supporting multiple formats so that they can easily fit different use cases.

Core capabilities include:

The OpenXPKI is a toolkit based on OpenSSL and Perl that can create, manage, and deploy digital certificates. It includes support for multiple certificate formats and an online interface to help you oversee your PKI workloads.

Core capabilities include:

Step-ca is a simple yet flexible CLI-based open-source PKI tool that can create and manage digital certificates. It similarly includes support for multiple certificate formats and integrates with tools like Kubernetes, Nebula, and Envoy.

Core capabilities include:

When choosing an open source PKI management tool, there are several factors you will want to consider based on your specific use case and requirements.

Setting up and running a PKI isnt for the faint of heart. Even the best tools can create vulnerabilities if they are not properly configured and deployed. Open-source PKI solutions should be easy to deploy, with published containers offering the simplest method. They should also provide an easy-to-use interface for configuration, reporting, and management.

Once you have your PKI up and running, youll need to integrate certificate issuance and management workflows with your tools and applications. Industry-standard protocols such as ACME, SCEP, EST, and CMP provide certificate lifecycle management and enrollment capabilities. A REST API is also important to offer additional extensibility and functionality specific to the tool you choose.

Good documentation is essential for any PKI solution. Be sure to check that the documentation is up-to-date and easy to understand. Support typically isnt available with open-source projects, so youll need to ensure that you can set up and deploy the solution independently.

You should also ensure that theres a solid community to provide support and guidance when you need it. A good indicator of an active community is to check the number of downloads, discussions, and online forums where end users can discuss features and assist one another.

Security isnt static, and your PKI shouldnt be either. Ensure that your open source PKI solution is actively developed and maintained by the community and project owner. This ensures that vulnerabilities are addressed swiftly, and new features and functionality are continuously available as the PKI landscape evolves.

If something goes wrong with your PKI implementation, youll need access to troubleshooting documentation. Make sure the supplier you choose offers thorough documentation and a commercial/premium support agreement available from the vendor with an enterprise version, should the need arise to upgrade.

If you need enterprise-grade features, be sure to choose a tool that offers a simple path to upgrade. A full-featured enterprise PKI should be able to handle the increased load of large-scale production environments without compromising performance or security. To support these requirements, youll need capabilities like high availability, multi-node clustering, compliance certifications, advanced protocols, and hardware security module (HSM).integrations.

EJBCA CE is a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use PKI solution used by everyone from developers and engineers to IAM and security teams to issue trusted identities for all of their devices and workloads. Here are just a few of the key reasons why teams choose EJBCA CE over open source PKI alternatives:

EJBCA provides a complete PKI solution that includes everything you need to get started. It supports CA, RA, and OCSP functionality out of the box and can easily scale to meet even the most demanding transaction workloads for certificate issuance and validation.

EJBCA is extremely flexible and can be easily extended to meet your specific needs. It supports pre-built plugins with other open-source tools such as HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes, and it also supports SCEP, CMP, and REST API protocols. Advanced protocols such as ACME and EST are available with EJBCA Enterprise.

EJBCA is readily available for download from GitHub and Sourceforge. Its also available as a published container via Docker Hub, making it easy to deploy quickly and securely. It also offers a web-based GUI for centralized administration of CAs, audit logs, templates and policies, and more.

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