America, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Australia are in a surveillance alliance called The Five Eyes, through which they share much of their illegally harvested surveillance data.
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Britain’s Great Firewall blocks access to official Disney sites, internet safety guides, VPNs, and coding sites for kids
In the decade since the UK rolled out its Great Firewall, the project of somehow dividing the entire internet into “good” and “bad” (or even “all-ages” and “adult”) has run into a series of embarrassing gaffes, blocking rape crisis sites while letting through all sorts of ghastly porn — and at every turn, the Conservative government’s response has been to double down on internet censorship, expanding it from a parental filter to an opt-out porn filter, whose biggest backers have repeatedly demonstrated their technical incompetence.
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NERD HARDER! FBI Director reiterates faith-based belief in working crypto that he can break
Working cryptography’s pretty amazing: because of its fundamental theoretical soundness, we can trust it to secure the firmware updates to our pacemakers; the conversations we have with our loved ones, lawyers and business colleagues; the financial transactions the world depends on; and the integrity of all sorts of data, communications and transactions.
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