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+title: "'Surveillance apathy' is the problem"
+date: 2017-11-09T04:41:49+06:00
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+Knowing it and getting used to it: surveillance apathy turns out to be more worrisome than the proper lack of understanding online surveillanc.
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+> You may be sick of worrying about online privacy, but surveillance apathy is also a problem. We all seem worried about privacy. Though it’s not only privacy itself we should be concerned about: it’s also our attitudes towards privacy that are important.
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+> When we stop caring about our digital privacy, we witness surveillance apathy. And it’s something that may be particularly significant for marginalised communities, who feel they hold no power to navigate or negotiate fair use of digital technologies. 
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+> In the wake of the [NSA leaks in 2013](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files) led by Edward Snowden, we are more aware of the machinations of online companies such as Facebook and Google. Yet research shows[^1] some of us are apathetic when it comes to online surveillance. 
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+> So while we’re aware of the issues with surveillance, we aren’t necessarily doing anything about it, or we’re prepared to make compromises when we perceive our safety is at stake.
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+> -- [Siobhan Lyons](https://theconversation.com/profiles/siobhan-lyons-133454) in [The Conversation](https://theconversation.com/you-may-be-sick-of-worrying-about-online-privacy-but-surveillance-apathy-is-also-a-problem-86474), 08 Nov. 2017
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+[^1]: [Americans’ Privacy Strategies Post-Snowden](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2015/03/16/americans-privacy-strategies-post-snowden/) by Lee Rainie and Mary Madden - Pew Research Center
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+title: "The CIA didn't break Signal App"
+date: 2017-03-08T10:06:00+06:00
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+tags: ["encryption","infosec","signal app","whatsapp","data privacy","cia"]
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+**The CIA didn't break Signal or WhatsApp... despite what you've heard.**
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+The agency might be able to break into your phone, but files released today show no ability to intercept encrypted chats before they arrive there.
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+> There's been one particularly misleading claim repeated throughout coverage of CIA documents released by WikiLeaks today: that the agency’s in-house hackers “bypassed” the encryption used by popular secure-chat software like Signal and WhatsApp.
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+> It doesn’t. Instead, it has the ability, in some cases, to take control of entire phones; accessing encrypted chats is simply one of many security implications of this.
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+> It’s also true that the CIA can bypass PGP email encryption on your computer. And the CIA can bypass your VPN. And the CIA can see everything you’re doing in Tor Browser. All of these things can be inferred by the documents, but that doesn’t mean using PGP, VPNs, or Tor Browser isn’t safe.
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+> Basically, if the CIA can hack a device and gain full control of it — whether it’s a smartphone, a laptop, or a TV with a microphone — it can spy on everything that happens on that device.
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+> It of course remains possible (as it always has and always will) that the CIA has cracked the encryption of Signal, WhatsApp, or any other piece of software. But WikiLeaks hasn’t provided any evidence of that here today.
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+> -- Sam Biddle & Micah Lee in [The Intercept](https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/the-cia-didnt-break-signal-or-whatsapp-despite-what-youve-heard/)