Just recently, Google has effectively set an “end date” for the SHA-1 hash function. SHA-1 was once one of the most popular cryptographic algorithms, and even if it’s dated now (TorGuard has been expecting the invalidation of SHA-1 for a while now). While this successful collision (when two files...
China is host to the world’s strictest internet censorship. It achieves an almost country-wide grip on its millions of internet users by restricting access to popular websites like Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube, and countless other sites that are used frequently around the world. Chinese users have restricted access to worldwide...
Censorship in Russia, Turkey, Iran–and of course China, has been getting worse and worse. ISPs in these countries are government controlled which means they can easily block websites for the users that use internet in the countries. Popular websites like Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, and other social networking services as...
2016 in a lot of ways, wasn’t the best year for un-restricted Internet access. We covered numerous cases in which big governments tried to silence free speech through web censorship and regulation. But how did Internet freedom in 2016 rank on a global scale? Perhaps most importantly is the...
Once again, Turkey has blocked major social media websites in an effort to quell public speech after a major public issue. This time it’s the assassination of the Russian Ambassador for Turkey, Andrei Karlov. People in Turkey were unable to access Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp the day after the...
Signal, one of the world’s leading encrypted messaging apps created by Open Whisper Systems, and a favorite of Edward Snowden, has now been blocked in Egypt. The company’s twitter account reported that “everything is functioning normally on our end, so something might be up on the local networks...
