secure communications
As UK govt calls for encryption backdoors, EU lawmakers propose a ban on them
As the UK gets hit by terror attacks one after the other, the government’s cry for making sure terrorists and criminals can’t find “safe spaces” online …
What’s really stopping users from adopting secure communication tools?
“Users’ goal to communicate with others overrides everything else, including security,” a group of researchers has concluded after interviewing sixty individuals …
Use of digital privacy tools increased in wake of Trump’s ascent to power
Since Edward Snowden’s revelations about the extent of global online and communications surveillance, the issue of privacy of online browsing habits and digital …
Encrypted messaging app Confide suffers from many security issues
Confide, the encrypted instant messaging application with a self-destructing messaging system that has become popular with White House staffers, is not so secure after all. …
Secure messaging app Wickr opens core crypto protocol to review
Wickr, the San Francisco-based company that’s behind the secure ephemeral messaging app of the same name, has published the core crypto protocol powering both the …
Secure comms app Signal now offers encrypted video calls
Users of secure chat and voice call app Signal will soon be able to enjoy the option of encrypted video calls. For the moment, only calls between Signal users who have both …
Internet freedom around the world keeps decreasing
For the sixth year in a row, Internet freedom is declining. According to the latest Freedom on the Net report, 67 percent of all Internet users now live in countries where …
New users flock to ProtonMail in wake of Trump’s victory
Following Donald Trump’s victory in the latest US presidential election, many people begun to worry about the surveillance capabilities that will now effectively be left …
Signal Protocol’s crypto core has no major flaws, researchers find
A group of computer science and cryptography professors and doctoral students has effected a security analysis of the secure messaging Signal Protocol – specifically, of …
Signal users can now make their messages disappear
Open Whisper Systems’ Signal, the messaging app favoured by Edward Snowden and many other users who want and need to keep their communication safe and private, is now …
Facebook Messenger end-to-end encryption rolled out for all users
Facebook Messenger’s Secret Conversations feature, which allows end-to-end encryption of messages exchanged by two users that have enabled the option, has finally been …
How the EFF was pushed to rethink its Secure Messaging Scorecard
As good as the idea behind Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Secure Messaging Scorecard is, its initial version left much to be desired. The idea was to provide a …