Signal threatens to leave France if encryption backdoor required
Just as it did with Sweden, Signal is refusing to stay in a territory that undermines its encryption strategy, arguing that a ...
Encryption backdoors: privacy can be misused, "but the cost of a world without is so much higher"
Proton CEO Andy Yen and other privacy advocates continue to oppose proposed backdoors, but a middle ground could be found ...
U.S. Officials Called Signal a Tool for Terrorists and Criminals. Now They’re Using It.
Despite years of official criticism of encrypted messaging, CIA Director John Ratcliffe revealed that Signal comes installed ...
A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up
The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than ...
How secure is Signal? Group chat snafu raises questions over app security
Cybersecurity experts are split over how secure Signal is, but all agree it is less secure than government-operated ...
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Apple devices are at ‘most risk’ in UK following government ‘backdoor’ order
Home Office refuses to answer questions from Lords over technical capability notice issued against Apple’s iCloud Advanced ...
Signalgate explained: what is Signal, and how secure is the messaging app?
Signal is the most secure messaging app for your smartphone, but a recent leak from a US government chat group has raised ...
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Apple’s appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK’s encryption ‘back door’ explained
Apple began a legal challenge to an order from the Home Secretary before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in London. According to information leaked to the Washington Post in February, a ...
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What is the Signal messaging app and how secure is it?
Signal has estimated 40-70 million monthly users - making it pretty tiny compared to the biggest messaging services, WhatsApp ...
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Apple’s British Encryption Issues Spell Trouble for Global User Privacy
Namely, after the San Bernardino terrorist attack, the FBI asked Apple to build a “backdoor” into the two ... It is also comforting that Meta and Google’s encrypted services remain online, and ...