Most software we use today is black-box and cannot be easily modified by its users. This article follows the history of information hiding from OS/360 to Free Software and the history of the Web and documents how software becomes opaque through well-intended engineering decisions.
Potential uses for the Privacy Sandbox
Today on The Keyword, we outlined our vision for an initiative aimed at evolving the web with architecture that advances privacy, while co...
Introducing WEBCAT: Web-based Code Assurance and Transparency
In this post, we introduce Web-based Code Assurance and Transparency, a project that supports verifiable in-browser code for single-page browser applications. Along with this post, we are publishing the WEBCAT project repository; follow-up posts will provide more detailed information.
This ‘Privacy Browser’ Has Dangerous Hidden Features
The Universe Browser is believed to have been downloaded millions of times. But researchers say it behaves like malware and has links to Asia’s booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks.
Which browsers are best for privacy?
An open-source privacy audit of popular web browsers.
The web should remain anonymous by default | The Mozilla Blog
The unique architecture of the web enables a much higher degree of user privacy than exists on other platforms. Many factors contribute to this, but an ess
Keeping Data Private | Web Browser Engineering
Our browser has grown up and now runs (small) web applications. With one final step—user identity via cookies—it will be able to run all sorts of personalized online services. But capability demands responsibility: our browser must now secure cookies against adversaries interested in stealing them. Luckily, browsers have sophisticated systems for controlling access to cookies and preventing their misuse.
Web Crypto’s SubtleCrypto: A Masterclass in Developer Hostility and How It Strangles the Modern Web
Not Subtle, Just Sabotage — An API Against the Web
tholian-network/stealth
:rocket: Stealth - Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser/Scraper/Proxy
I Turned Off JavaScript in My Web Browser for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious
There's another web out there, a better web hiding just below the surface of the one we surf every day. To find it, you just have to uncheck one little box.
Research | Tiles Book
Progressive experiments exploring decentralized software technologies for privacy adoption at scale.
Tools from EFF's Tech Team
EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Where users face threats to their privacy and security
Tyranny of Permissionlessness
open source’s narrow focus further empowers those with other ways to exclude
Tyranny of Permissionlessness
open source’s narrow focus further empowers those with other ways to exclude
Using Ads to Sustain Open Source
Why someone who loves Privacy Badger, uses a non-tracking browser, and never cared for ads, is advocating their ethical use for open…
