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Anonymity in journalism and a conflict of ethics
I wrote the following essay at the invitation of a journal in December 2020. (This was the first draft. There were additional drafts that incorporated feedback from a few editors.) It couldn’t be published because I had to back out … Continue reading
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Tagged ABVP, anonymity, Bharatiya Janata Party, CCS Rules 1964, Hindutva, Jawaharlal Nehru University, pseudonymity, Rolling Stone, science journalism, The Wire Science
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A call for a new human right, the right to encryption
The Wire June 2, 2015 DUAL_EC_DRBG is the name of a program that played an important role in the National Security Agency’s infiltration of communication protocols, which was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The program, at the time, drew the … Continue reading
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Tagged anonymity, backdoors, cryptographic encryption, Edward Snowden, Freedom Act, Patriot Act, Secure Data Act, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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The federation of our digital identities
Facebook, Twitter, email, WordPress, Instagram, online banking, the list goes on… Offline, you’re one person maintaining (presumably) one identity. On the web, you have many of them. All of them might point at you, but they’re still distinct packets of data floating … Continue reading
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Tagged anonymity, bitcoins, blockchain, Crypto-Book, cryptocurrency, cryptography, digital identity, Facebook, federated identity, namecoins, OAuth, online privacy, OpenID
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