www.wired.com > Lily Hay Newman
A New App Helps Iranians Hide Messages in Plain Sight
17 sep. 2021 - Nahoft uses encryption to turn chats into a random jumble of words, and it works even when the internet doesn’t.
 · censorship · encryption · iran · messaging · nahoft · steganography

www.propublica.org > Craig Silverman, Jack Gillum and Peter Elkind
How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users
7 sep. 2021 - WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors.
 · accenture · apple · content-moderation · crypto-wars · encryption · end-to-end-encryption · facebook · false-positives · law-enforcement · metadata · privacy · signal · surveillance-capitalism · whatsapp

www.wired.com > Andy Greenberg
Apple Walks a Privacy Tightrope to Spot Child Abuse in iCloud
5 aug. 2021 - With a new capability to search for illegal material not just in the cloud but on user devices, the company may have opened up a new front in the encryption wars.
 · apple · child-abuse · china · crypto-wars · cybersecurity · encryption · machine-learning · neuralhash · on-device-scanning · privacy · security

www.bitsoffreedom.nl > Rejo Zenger
Vijf dingen die belangrijk zijn in onderzoek naar “effect encryptie op opsporing”
9 apr. 2021 - De minister van Justitie en Veiligheid laat onderzoeken wat "het effect van encryptie op de opsporing" is. Dat onderzoek heeft alleen zin als de onderzoeksvraag met een brede blik wordt beantwoord.
 · crypto-wars · encryption · netherlands

www.schneier.com > Bruce Schneier
WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
7 apr. 2021 - According to Wired, Signal is adding support for the cryptocurrency MobileCoin, “a form of digital cash designed to work efficiently on mobile devices while protecting users’ privacy and even their anonymity.”
 · blockchain · cryptocurrencies · encryption · privacy · signal

www.wired.co.uk > Gian Volpicelli
The Home Office is preparing another attack on encryption
1 apr. 2021 - Priti Patel is linking arms with child protection charities to stop Facebook’s end-to-end encryption roll-out
 · child-abuse · crypto-wars · encryption · facebook · united-kingdom

thehmm.nl > Jan Hein Hoogstad and Lilian Stolk
10 thoughts on the future of the internet
17 mar. 2021 - Lilian Stolk interviews philosopher and developer Jan Hein Hoogstad.
 · alternative-internet · encryption · facebook · gdpr · google · open-source · openness · privacy · public-spaces · self-organization · tensorflow · transparency

www.nrc.nl > Jurriën Hamer and Linda Kool
Encryptie is noodzakelijk om alle burgers te beschermen tegen hacks
15 mar. 2021 - De maatschappelijke kosten van verzwakken van versleuteling zijn hoog. Encryptie is hard nodig, vinden Jurriën Hamer en Linda Kool.
 · crypto-wars · cybersecurity · encryption · netherlands

www.bitsoffreedom.nl > Rejo Zenger
Ook wij roepen het kabinet op encryptie te stimuleren
10 mar. 2021 - Wij roepen het volgende kabinet op de ontwikkeling, de beschikbaarheid en de toepassing van alle vormen van encryptie te stimuleren. En niet alleen wij van Bits of Freedom, maar een bijna ongekend brede groep aan organisaties uit alle hoeken van de samenleving.
 · crypto-wars · encryption · netherlands

www.stimuleer-encryptie.nl
Oproep aan kabinet: stimuleer encryptie
10 mar. 2021 - Oproep aan het volgende kabinet om de ontwikkeling, de beschikbaarheid en de toepassing van alle vormen van encryptie te stimuleren.
 · crypto-wars · encryption · netherlands

qz.com > Nicolás Rivero
Can WhatsApp stop spreading misinformation without compromising encryption?
6 mar. 2021 - The Facebook-owned messaging platform faces competing calls to fact-check more content or protect privacy at all costs.
 · encryption · fact-checking · misinformation · whatsapp

www.wired.com
Clubhouse's Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Explosive Growth
26 feb. 2021 - The platform has promised to do better after a string of incidents. But the hardest part might be managing user expectations.
 · clubhouse · contact-privacy · encryption · platforms · privacy · scraping · security · social-media

www.newyorker.com > Anna Wiener
Taking Back Our Privacy
19 oct. 2020 - Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, is “trying to bring normality to the Internet.”
 · activism · anarchism · donald-trump · edward-snowden · encryption · liberalism · obfuscation · privacy · sailing · signal · silicon-valley · snowden-disclosures · surveillance · technology · time · twitter

www.platformer.news > Casey Newton
The battle inside Signal
26 jan. 2021 - The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is developing features that would make it more vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are sounding the alarm.
 · content-moderation · cryptocurrencies · encryption · end-to-end-encryption · growth · messaging · mobilecoin · signal · whatsapp

www.eff.org > Bill Budington, Erica Portnoy and Matthew Guariglia
Amazon Ring’s End-to-End Encryption: What it Means
2 feb. 2021 - Almost one year after EFF called on Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring to encrypt footage end-to-end, it appears they are starting to make this necessary change. This call was a response to a number of problematic and potentially harmful incidents, including larger concerns about Ring’s security and reports that employees were fired for watching customers’ videos. Now, Ring is finally taking a necessary step—making sure that the transmission of footage from your Ring camera to your phone cannot be viewed by others, including while that footage is stored on Amazon’s cloud.
 · amazon · encryption · not-read · ring-doorbell

copypaste.me
Frictionless sharing between devices
Easily and quickly share passwords, texts and files between devices.
 · encryption

www.wired.com > Dan Goodin
The Zodiac Killer's Cipher Is Finally Cracked After 51 Years
15 dec. 2020 - Amateur and professional cryptographers, including those at the FBI, had been trying to decode the infamous serial killer's message to the media for decades.
 · code-breaking · cryptography · encryption · security

www.wired.com > Andy Greenberg
What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
29 nov. 2020 - As the Signal protocol becomes the industry standard, it's worth understanding what sets it apart from other forms of end-to-end encrypted messaging.
 · encryption · messaging · perfect-forward-secrecy · privacy · security · signal · whatsapp

www.wired.com > Lily Hay Newman
How Cryptography Lets Down Marginalized Communities
31 aug. 2020 - Speaking at a prestigious crypto conference this month, Seny Kamara called on the field to recognize its blind spots—and fix them.
 · black-struggle · cryptography · encryption · ethics · privacy · security · surveillance · threat-modeling

www.wired.com > Andy Greenberg
‘DiceKeys’ Creates a Master Password for Life With One Roll
21 aug. 2020 - A new kit leaves your cryptographic destiny up to 25 cubes in a plastic box.
 · encryption · passwords · security

www.wired.com > Lily Hay Newman
The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old Zip File
6 aug. 2020 - The story of a guy who wouldn't let a few quintillion possible decryption keys stand between him and his cryptocurrency.
 · bitcoin · encryption

www.newyorker.com > Ed Caesar
The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire
27 jul. 2020 - An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.
 · bullet-proof-hosting · cybercrime · dark-web · encryption · germany · libertarianism · porn · tor · wikileaks

www.wired.com > Lily Hay Newman
Google Moves to Secures the Cloud From Itself
14 jul. 2020 - Confidential Virtual Machines allows Google Cloud Services Customers to keep data secret—even when it's being actively processed.
 · cloud-computing · confidential-computing · cybersecurity · encryption · google · security