The reports are being denied by the White House, but The Washington Post broke the story today that in a meeting the president told the Russians highly classified security information about ISIS (something about airline safety and laptops). Among the questions being raised is how this will effect the relationship with the unnamed U.S. partner … Read more
No more end-to-end encryption is one of the consequences of a new law proposed in a draft in the UK. The authors of the draft want to force internet providers to monitor all communications in near realtime, as well as install backdoor equipment to break encryption, so providers can be required to turn over communications … Read more
The chat app aims to hide even metadata, the graph of its users’ connections and activity (as opposed to just hiding the content of messages). Ricochet applies Tor-like tech to cloak the user’s device, not just web destinations. Messages also do not use a central server to send messages, so the data does not exist … Read more