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Password "123456": Massive Data Breaches and the Urgency of Digital Self-Defense
Álvaro Paredes
Every time we create an account online, we enter into an implicit pact of trust. We hand over personal data—names, email addresses, passwords—assuming that large companies will protect it. However, reality shows that this pact is broken. The constant leaks of databases make it clear that information is concentrated in the hands of a few actors and that corporate negligence...
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CAD participated in FLISoL Bogotá 2022
- June 13, 2022
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- On April 23rd of 2022, CAD participated remotely in the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival in Bogotá with its talk “Privacy and Free Software in times of persecution”.
CoyIM v0.4 released!
- February 17, 2022
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Ola Bini
- Over the last few years, we at CAD have worked really hard on a new release of the CoyIM messenger. Today we are finally releasing version 0.4, and it contains...
Fundamental security recommendations for critical infrastructure
- February 11, 2022
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Ola Bini
- The last years have seen a number of high profile attacks on computer systems either operated directly by the Ecuador government, or by third party corporations that host critical infrastructure....
The importance of metadata
- January 22, 2022
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Fausto Lagos
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Ivan Jijon
- When we talk about privacy, the main focus is usually on encryption of regular data, but to what extent does metadata expose us? What risks are involved in being unaware...
CAD partitipation in Privacy Week 2022
- January 22, 2022
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Centro de Autonomía Digital
- During the Privacy Week 2022 that took place between January 24th and 28th of 2022, the Digital Autonomy Center (CAD) participated in the panel “The importance of encryption in data...
What is security research and security engineering?
- October 05, 2021
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Ola Bini
- Every single time a computer attack of some kind happens, the media and commentators throw a lot of terms around. However, the fundamental understanding of these terms is often lacking....