Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: whatsapp

#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
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
The *best* comment on the NothingOS / Sunbird / iMessage-back-door-for-Android drama comes from @documentingmeta on Threads

2023/11/15
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
UK government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity | …this is the sort of feature-creep (ha!) that I expect the #OnlineSafetyBill’s snooping of End-to-End Encrypted Messengers will enable

2023/10/23
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
How WhatsApp could shut down service to the UK using “Feature Flags”

2023/04/23
How the United States has just made it illegal for #WhatsApp to contain a Remote Code Execution (RCE) bug, via the Executive Order on Spyware

2023/04/03
Andy Burrows has insinuating questions about WhatsApp Security; I don’t work for WhatsApp but I think I can answer most of them: The War On Regular Expressions

2023/03/21
Impractical demands for WhatsApp to provide message content to the Brazilian government, in 3… 2…

2023/01/09
More evidence of how the #DigitalMarketsAct demand for #Interoperability will turn #EndToEndEncryption Messenger Apps into festering pools of Spam

2022/10/19