Seth Schoen
Senior Staff Technologist
Seth Schoen has worked at EFF over a decade, creating the Staff Technologist position and helping other technologists understand the civil liberties implications of their work, EFF staff better understand technology related to EFF's legal work, and the public understand what products they use really do. He helped create the LNX-BBC live CD and has researched phenomena including laser printer forensic tracking codes, ISP packet spoofing, and key recovery from computer RAM after a computer has been turned off. He has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and in several courts.
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Let's Encrypt Has Issued 100 Million Certificates
This evening, the Let's Encrypt certificate authority issued its hundred millionth digital certificate. This is a remarkable milestone in just a year and a half of public operation; Let's Encrypt is likely now either the largest or second-largest public CA by volume of certificates issued. Let's Encrypt was...Puntos de seguimiento de impresión, de nuevo a las noticias
Varios periodistas y expertos se han enfocado , recientemente, en el hecho de que un documento escaneado publicado por The Intercept contiene pequeños puntos amarillos producidos por una impresora Xerox DocuColor. Esos puntos permiten determinar el origen del documento y la fecha de impresión, lo que podría...Puntos de seguimiento de impresión, de nuevo a las noticias
Varios periodistas y expertos se han enfocado , recientemente, en el hecho de que un documento escaneado publicado por The Intercept contiene pequeños puntos amarillos producidos por una impresora Xerox DocuColor. Esos puntos permiten determinar el origen del documento y la fecha de impresión, lo que podría...Printer Tracking Dots Back in the News
Several journalists and experts have recently focused on the fact that a scanned document published by The Intercept contained tiny yellow dots produced by a Xerox DocuColor printer. Those dots allow the document's origin and date of printing to be ascertained, which could have played...HTTPS Deployment Growing by Leaps and Bounds: 2016 in Review
This was a great year for adoption of HTTPS encryption for secure connections to websites. HTTPS is an essential technology for security and privacy on the Web, and we've long been asking sites to turn it on to protect their users from spying (and from censorship and tampering with site...Is Let’s Encrypt the Largest Certificate Authority on the Web?
By the time you read this, Let’s Encrypt will have issued its 12 millionth certificate, of which 6 million are active and unexpired. With these milestones, Let’s Encrypt now appears to us to be the the Internet’s largest certificate authority—but a recent analysis by W3Techs said...If CPICIBER Passes, WhatsApp Blockade in Brazil Could Be Taste of More Censorship To Come
UPDATE: Brazil's Parliamentary Commission on Cybercrime approved the #CPICIBER report . The fight continues as the report is sent to the full lower house of Congress for committee assignment and debate. The updated site-blocking provision is now applicable to foreign sites which do not...Uma bateria de perigosas propostas contra o cibercrime ainda pendem sobre o Brasil
Ativistas de direitos digitais em todo o Brasil seguraram o fôlego ontem, enquanto a Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito sobre Cibercrimes (CPICIBER) debateria se enviaria seu relatório à Câmara dos Deputados para tramitar e ser debatido pelas comissões temáticas. No final, a votação foi adiada e remarcada para terça-feira,...A Battery of Dangerous Cybercrime Proposals Still Hang Over Brazil
Digital rights activists across Brazil held their breath yesterday, as the country’s Parliamentary Commission on Cybercrime (CPICIBER) debated whether to send its report to the full lower house of Congress for committee assignment and debate. In the end, the vote was postponed , and rescheduled for Tuesday,...Let's Encrypt Reaches 2,000,000 Certificates
The Let's Encrypt certificate authority issued its two millionth certificate on Thursday, less than two months after the millionth certificate . As we noted when the millionth certificate was issued, each certificate can cover several web sites, so the certificates Let's Encrypt has issued are already protecting...