Topic: encrypted messaging
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X Unveils Encrypted Chat for Private Messaging
X has launched a new Chat feature with end-to-end encryption for private conversations, enhancing user privacy and adding support for video/voice calls, disappearing messages, and secure file sharing. The rollout is currently available on iOS and web, with Android to follow, and includes migratio...
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Signal Chief: Why We Must Use AWS for Encryption
Signal's reliance on major cloud providers like AWS is due to extreme market concentration, where only a few corporations control the global infrastructure necessary for worldwide communication. Operating a global, real-time platform like Signal requires immense technical resources, including a p...
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Ex-WhatsApp Security Chief Sues Meta, Calls Culture a "Cult"
Meta's advertisements claim WhatsApp ensures complete user privacy, but a lawsuit by its former security head alleges the company concealed significant security vulnerabilities. The suit contends that around 1,500 WhatsApp engineers had unrestricted access to user data, potentially violating an F...
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FBI: China's Salt Typhoon Hacked Over 200 US Companies
A China-linked cyber espionage campaign called Salt Typhoon has compromised over 200 US companies and organizations in 80 countries, targeting critical infrastructure and telecommunications providers. The attackers focused on intercepting call records of high-ranking US officials to reconstruct c...
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Google Now Shares Employee Text Messages With Employers
Google has introduced a feature allowing employers to intercept and archive all RCS and SMS/MMS messages sent from company-managed Android phones, fundamentally changing employee privacy expectations. This archival system works by integrating with the Google Messages app to log every message acti...
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The Year the Government Failed
The failure to enforce the TikTok ban, despite bipartisan national security concerns and a clear legal mandate, exemplifies a breakdown in government accountability and execution. This high-profile inaction is part of a broader pattern of institutional fragility, including a major security lapse ...
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Cloudflare Outage Knocks X Offline After Musk's AWS Taunt
A major Cloudflare outage disrupted access to numerous popular websites and applications, highlighting the internet's vulnerability due to reliance on a few key infrastructure providers. Elon Musk faced irony as his platform X was affected, shortly after he had publicly mocked a competitor's outa...
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OnePlus SMS Vulnerability Puts Your Phone at Risk
A serious security vulnerability in OnePlus smartphones running OxygenOS 12 or newer allows apps to silently access SMS and MMS messages without user permission, posing a major privacy risk. The flaw stems from OnePlus's modifications to an Android core component and has been acknowledged by the ...
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