Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: end to end encryption

#Sikh activist accuses #India of ‘transnational terrorism’ after US foils plot to kill him | you must wonder: if the Indian government obtains the backdoor it demands in WhatsApp, how many more people it would kill?

2023/11/30
So it turns out that signing up for an app which explicitly breaks the promise of end-to-end security for an end-to-end-secure messenger, in order to “have your messages all in one place”, is insecure. Who’da thunk?

2023/11/23
Apple will apparently adopt #RCS end-to-end #encryption in 2024 to solve various monopoly and user issues with respect to Android; we can’t tell if RCS is truly worthy of the description #EndToEndEncrypted

2023/11/16
POLITICO Europe: Top Boris Johnson aide turned on disappearing WhatsApps weeks before COVID inquiry unveiled | Politicians & Civil Servants surrender many rights to commence work; perhaps privacy should be one of them

2023/10/30
Perhaps the #VAWG / Violence Against Women & Girls charities which supported the #OnlineSafetyBill’s attack on end-to-end encryption, might consider reappraising their strategic positions re: the importance of private messaging

2023/10/30
Blog – Advancing iMessage security: iMessage Contact Key Verification – Apple Security Research

2023/10/29
Automattic (“the WordPress people”) believe that the problem with Instant Messaging is that there’s not a single app to bring them all together. Clearly he’s never read XKCD 927

2023/10/26
Stuff To Read: Curbing Government Internet Surveillance by Riana Pfefferkorn & Callum Voge – Project Syndicate

2023/10/26
Signal app President Meredith Whittaker on messaging privacy

2023/10/19
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: how the experiences of #Twitter and #ThreadsApp show us how the #OnlineSafetyBill could be a windfall for fully-end-to-end-encrypted Facebook @Messenger

2023/07/19
End-to-End Encryption and Client-Side Scanning: Notes for @CameronWilson of Crikey magazine; relevant also to #OnlineSafetyBill

2023/07/04
End to End Encryption: Political Timing is Everything / HT: @radioproducer

2023/05/24