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Four examples of different threat models
My post on threat models for journalists is quite lengthy, so I thought I’d put the sample threat models from that in their own, separate post. Here they are – note that these are very simple, sketchy...
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So Google scans email for dodgy images – should we be worried about scanning...
You could be forgiven for not having heard of John Henry Skillern. The 41 year old is facing charges of possession and promotion of child pornography after Google detected images of child abuse on his...
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The Government wants to know where you were online, when. Why journalists...
The EFF have an interactive graphic which shows you what information can be grabbed when you’re using Tor or HTTPS Home secretary Theresa May wants to be able to connect IP addresses (which identify...
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“Don’t be afraid: keep them afraid” and other notes from the Logan Symposium...
Seymour’s parting advice to young journalists: maintain a watchdog role and hold power to account On Friday I was at the Logan Symposium on secrecy, surveillance and censorship, an event which, as is...
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FAQ: Investigative journalism now – and its future
The latest in the series of FAQ posts comes from a student in Germany who is interested in how investigative journalism is affected by the financial situation of publishers, and how it might develop in...
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VIDEO: Surveillance and the ‘1984 Generation’
Online video project newsPeeks have put together a documentary on surveillance. I really enjoyed it, so I’m sharing it here. Not only is the content great (newsPeeks were live at the Logan Symposium...
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How publishers could end up helping authorities hack their own readers
The Guardian complied when authorities demanded they destroy the Snowden files So far most of the talk about the Investigatory Powers Bill has been about the lack of protection for journalists’ sources...
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The machine that learns how to stop whistleblowers
An example of whistleblower behaviour taken from Harry McLaren’s slides Workplace surveillance is nothing new, but this slide from Harry McLaren’s talk on Machine Learning for Threat Detection...
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Research on information security in local newspapers – the published version
Previously on OJB I posted about some ongoing research I was conducting into whether security practices in local news organisations had changed in the wake of the Snowden and RIPA (UK surveillance...
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Brave new world? 5 things your newsroom can do now to protect your journalism...
The Investigatory Powers Act has now been law for almost six months. For journalists and publishers this means having to remember that the webpages that you and your sources visit, who you call on...
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