A welcome move by Meta to rollout end-to-end encryption as default on Facebook and Messenger, despite political pressure from governments around the world.
This will protect the privacy and security of millions of people.
Even with Advanced Data Protection activated on #iCloud,
Apple can still access your iCloud Mail, Contacts, and Calendar. The encryption applies in transit and on their servers, but it's not end-to-end. Apple holds the keys.
I've not been able to find much info about how the RCS standard works and whether it's end-to-end encryption; Apple seems to think that its encryption needs to be improved to bring it up to iMessage's encryption standard.
Great not just to see sanity prevail over #ChatControl and #E2EE, but especially to see expert & community feedback being clearly received and used, to see a parliament explicitly reiterate support for privacy and encryption, and to see all that getting a good broad majority behind it.
Imo, the EU might consider dubious ideas at points, but the various layers are mostly quite good at collecting feedback and dropping bad plans.
“If enacted, these reforms [to the Investigatory Powers Act] pose a threat to companies’ ability to keep our data safe and increase the risk of criminal attacks. We urge the government to engage with civil society and tech companies, and to reconsider these potentially dangerous proposals.”
"End-to-end encryption keeps our data and our communications safe and secure. The proposed reforms to the Investigatory Powers Act are the government's latest attack on this technology."
Signal has long been a privacy Champion when it comes to instant messaging, the gold standard some might say except for one glaring problem, it required a phone #.
Well, that's about to change.
Signal is going to test usernames for account handling.
This will NOT be tested in the Beta version of the app, but on a completely separate version of the app that is hosted on completely separate servers.
🚨 Amendments to the Investigatory Powers Act announced in the King’s Speech mean further attacks on end-to-end encryption. 🚨
Tech companies could be forced to get permission from the UK government if they want to make changes to security features of their products and services.
If enacted, these reforms pose a threat to companies’ ability to keep our data safe and increase the risk of criminal attacks.
Rien ne vaut les communications chiffrées de bout en bout : les serveurs hébergeant le service de messagerie (XMPP) jabber.ru ont été victime d'une attaque MITM entre juillet et octobre 2023, attaque rendue possible grâce à la complicité des hébergeurs hetzner & linode. Chiffrez vos communications, tout le temps, partout ! #E2EEhttps://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/ via @vincib
... and in #GoodNews, the European Commission's attempt to gut chat encryption with "Chat Control" has been defeated by a cross-party consensus in the European Parliament;
HopToDesk is a free remote desktop tool allowing users to share their screen and allow remote control access to their computers and devices. Unlike other similar tools such as TeamViewer or AnyDesk, HopToDesk is free for both personal and business use, provides true end-to-end encryption for all peer communications, and open source.
If you do 1 thing today, use @signalapp and get your friends and family on it. Low barriers to entry.
For your second thing, sign up with an encrypted email service (@protonmail@skiff@Tutanota or something else) and forward your #gmail and #hotmail your your new inbox. Take back your inbox.