All Zoom video call meetings will be protected by end-to-end encryption starting in July, including chats between users on free accounts. The company had previously announced that only paid customers would get end-to-end >>
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Signal messaging app will now blur people’s faces during protests
Signal app downloads have increased significantly in the United States, as protesters have been looking for end-to-end encrypted chat apps to secure their communications. Signal also announced a brand new security feature, a >>
The FBI needed two months to hack Lev Parnas’ iPhone 11
The Pensacola shooting resurfaced an old squabble over encryption between the FBI and Apple, with US Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump taking official stances against Apple, urging the company to >>
Uh oh: Trump’s attorney general asks Facebook for ‘backdoor’ messaging access
US Attorney General Bill Barr is scheduled to make some remarks at a Justice Department event Friday focused on how tech companies promoting encryption has hampered government access to information. That’s according to >>
Shockingly, the FBI exaggerated the number of encrypted phones it can’t unlock
Officials including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray have systematically repeated in speeches that the FBI was unable to unlock some 7,800 encrypted smartphones that were connected to crimes >>
This bipartisan bill finally gets encryption right
Politicians and technology mix about as well as coffee and cilantro: if they’re not busy making terrible comparisons between net neutrality and Obamacare, they’re making terrible comparisons between bridges and coaxial cables, or >>
The NSA and FBI don’t see the irony of boycotting phones with built-in government backdoors
Remember that whole Apple vs. FBI fight from early 2016? The government wanted to force Apple to develop what’s essentially a backdoor into iOS that only Apple and/or government officials would control to >>
Australia the latest country to have no idea how encryption works
Australia is the latest country to seek ways to access information passed between smartphones via encrypted apps, information that might be relevant to criminal investigations and counterterrorism operations. The Australian government wants to >>
