Cindy Cohn, the EFF’s Executive Director, called the NSA’s support of strong encryption disingenuous during a cybersecurity conference panel Wednesday.

Researchers from MIT believe a new anonymity scheme they’ve devised dubbed Riffle could contend with Tor, claiming it’s every bit as secure as Tor, and bandwidth-efficient, to boot. According to a paper, “Riffle: An Efficient Communication System With Strong Anonymity,” (.PDF) released this week, the system can guarantee anonymity among a large group of users, as...

The effectiveness of bug bounty programs is difficult to deny, especially after adoption of one at Uber, which announced last month it would begin paying $10,000 for critical bugs, and the Department of Defense, whose Hack the Pentagon illustrates the government’s softening stance on hackers. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced this week that it will...