Back in May last year, the European Commission proposed what security maven Matthew Green described as “the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen”—a law that would force everyone from Facebook to Signal to scan everyone’s messages not only for known child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but also for previously-unknown CSAM images, and also signs of someone apparently “grooming” a child for abuse. Other potentially privacy-threatening things were in there, like widespread mandatory age verification." https://fortune.com/2023/10/26/eu-chat-control-csam-encryption-privacy-european-commission-parliament-johansson-breyer-zarzalejos-ernst/
Nach viel Widerstand: Telegram blockiert Kanäle der Hamas nun doch international
Nachdem sich der Messenger dem lange verweigert hat, wurde der Druck nun offenbar zu groß: Kanäle der Hamas werden jetzt unter iOS und Android blockiert.
WordPress.com owner buys all-in-one messaging app Texts.com for $50M
The app brings all your messaging apps together in a single dashboard, including iMessage, Slack, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Messenger, LinkedIn, Signal, Discord and X, with plans for more in the future, a company blog post announced.
Announcement: One Inbox to Rule Them All - Texts.com. All your messages in a single place—truly the one inbox to rule them all. And today, we’re thrilled to announce that Texts.com is joining the @Automattic family.
The best #messaging app on the market
Texts.com brings all your chats into a single dashboard: iMessage, Slack, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, #Messenger, LinkedIn, Signal, Discord, and X
Where is the Money? #Texts https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/24/texts-joins-automattic/
I mean, it’s simple: We can’t provide the information. So you can put a gun to my head — you’ll have to shoot. We don’t have it because it’s end-to-end encrypted. There’s no balancing that’s in our hands because of the guarantees we make. In part, [governments] are threatened because we can’t provide that information. There’s no way to sort of sit on us hard enough so that we start to undermine what we’re doing. Our code is open, it’s verified; our protocol implementation is open, and it’s been tried and tested. Everyone’s thrown everything against it, trying to find a vulnerability. They haven’t [found it]. This is a robust system. You’re not just trusting me to not play nice with governments. We literally don’t have the data, which is the only way to actually preserve privacy."
The Signal messaging app has been facing battles in India, Russia, Iran and other countries for its unyielding stance on privacy. The platform's president @Mer__edith talks about how the company deals with restrictive legislation from countries like India, she talks about concerns over competitor Telegram and her threat to pull Signal out of the UK.
#EU#Cybersecurity#Encryption#Messaging#CSAR: "By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messages and photos for suspicious content and report it to the EU. To find a majority for this unprecedented mass surveillance, the EU Council Presidency proposed Tuesday that the scanners would initially search for previously classified CSAM only, and even less reliable technology to classify unknown imagery or conversations would be reserved to a later stage. The proposed „deal“ will be discussed by ambassadors tomorrow and could be adopted by ministers next week.
This is NOT good at all, and I can guess they saw the UK adopted a law of their own in the #OnlineSafetyBill along with the US in #KOSA and the #EARNITAct and they seriously want to be the ones that would kill privacy, security, and online freedom of expression globally.
“Deep down, these swing voters still can’t fit Trump into their moral framework.
“He violates every tenet of what it means to be a good, moral person — yet their conservative beliefs make it hard for them to embrace the Democratic candidate.
“These are the people with conservative beliefs who are potentially reachable — with messages framed from a moral perspective. and whose votes may prove crucial in 2024.” - @georgelakoff
Die von Ashton Kutcher gegründete Stiftung Thorn gilt als Triebkraft hinter dem EU-Plan zur Chatkontrolle. Dabei geht es auch um millionenschwere Geschäfte.
#India#Signal#Cybersecurity#Messaging#Encryption: "When it comes to traceability and finding the originator of a viral message on an end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker is clear — it is not possible. And for Signal, since it does not have “viral forwarding functions”, the context is different from WhatsApp.
And even if the new Telecommunications Bill goes ahead with a mandatory KYC requirement for users on OTT platforms such as Signal and WhatsApp, Signal will not conduct a KYC of its users. “It is not possible for us to do that. And part of our commitment to privacy is that we treat ourselves like a third party and as Signal, try to have as little data as possible [of our users] because we recognise that is the only way to [have a privacy preserving platform],” she said.
Comparing KYC to age verification and other kind of authentication technologies, Whittaker said that such technologies build “surveillance regimes” that make it “very easy to track what everyone does online and offline” and “eliminate anonymity and privacy from it”." https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/we-will-not-conduct-a-kyc-for-our-users-signal-president-meredith-whittaker-101696448237663.html
WhatsApp will likely set the global standard for messaging interoperability: This is Why and possibly What
The world already has quite a few good open-source, E2EE and secure messaging protocols like XMPP, Signal, MTProto, Wickr, Wire, and more. But none have ended up dominating across messaging apps. Also, there is no defined W3C open standard for messaging, like ...continues
After iOS, Element X beta is now available on Android. Go rush it, break the app, report bugs, let's all get fun together! Oh, and it's extremely fast, don't be surprised.
The YOLO Message-Driven architecture became a standard way of doing Messaging and is pretty straight forward to follow. Yet it does not follow the basics rules of Messaging