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even with e2e email like pgp or s/mime, a lot of email metadata (even subject lines, commonly) gets leaked onto the wire. improving transport security prevents that.

It's an anti-separatist crackdown that can be compared to China's similar crackdown on Tibet. In fact, the top official (Chen QuanGuo) who ran and experimented with surveillance te…

Reminds me of this research from Princeton, on the exfiltration of personal data via equivalent session-replay services for web: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundar…

From one party's perspective, it may just look like the other party does not support TLS. Without another point of reference, MTAs can't tell the difference between a lack of TLS s…

In the majority of cases, TLS for SMTP (delivery between MTAs) is still trivially downgradeable. So they could presumably downgrade and read SMTP traffic that's going between MTAs …

I saw that you also wrote about how these cars phone home real-time analytics data to the manufacturers and Chinese government: https://qz.com/1490376/chinas-electric-cars-are-gove…

> Yes, the exact guidelines are going to be vague, that’s a good thing. It might just show they understand that it should be okay to allow art and breastfeeding and other forms of …

My father grew up in a neighboring town to Liqian, in Gansu. This is essentially an urban myth of sorts that several locals still believe, though as the article itself points out, …

That would be fine, too, and reflects in part what MTA-STS is trying to do. A point that may be obvious, but I would like to make explicit, is that unlike on web, end-users have no…

This is the model for internet/Facebook access in several sub-saharan African countries and others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Basics#Participants They've partnered up with…

A point that is brought up occasionally, but probably not enough: Deleting Facebook really isn't possible for a nontrivial percentage of the world population, since Facebook is the…

> Care to link a few? From Friday, in which Turkey takes advantage of HTTP downloads to install spyware on YPG computers: https://citizenlab.ca/2018/03/bad-traffic-sandvines-packet…