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Twitter Rolls Out Encrypted Messaging, Don’t Trust It
Twitter did it. The company met a deadline and released something on the promised date under Elon Musk’s leadership. The social media platform put out its first-ever encrypted messaging option late on Wednesday night, just under the wire. Yet in the mad dash to deliver, the site seems to have made some confusing compromises, as…
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‘Maximum Security’ App That Claimed Stronger Encryption Than Signal Was Actually Full of Bugs, Research Shows
An end-to-end encrypted chat app that collects no metadata and requires no personal information to sign up? Sounds like a dream come true for privacy enthusiasts. The only problem is that Threema, the Swiss privacy company behind the messenger in question, has been using an unreliable cryptographic protocol, whose bugs would have allowed a savvy…
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Better Late Than Never: Ring Adds End-to-End Encryption to Battery Powered Doorbells
Amazon-owned home surveillance camera king Ring is making good on its promise to bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to a wider range of its devices. This week, the company added the encryption secretive for audio and video to its lower-cost battery-powered doorbells and cameras which were left out of the company’s previous E2EE rollout. The addition…
