Tag: encryption

• Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the “edge lords” at OpenAI 

  May 25, 2024

  Meredith Whittaker has had it with the “frat house” contingent of the tech industry. I sat down with the CEO of Signal at VivaTech in Paris to go over the… more ›

• The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth

  July 16, 2022

  It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it. t is one… more ›

• Telegram app rides high on thirst for trustworthy news

  March 13, 2022

  In the days after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his country, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, used his Telegram channel to send a defiant video message from the centre of the capital,… more ›

• Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app’s perspective

  April 27, 2021

  Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called… more ›

• Inside Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity moonshot

  November 30, 2018

  Inside Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity moonshot Fifteen years ago, cybersecurity could be boiled down to a simple strategy: Secure the perimeter. Experts fought against malware and other nefarious code by implementing… more ›

• Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched…

  April 5, 2016

  Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People » For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was… more ›

• The Water Cycle: transformation and invisibility…

  November 27, 2015

  The Water Cycle: transformation and invisibility in digital communications The Water Cycle is a research and experimentation project about the properties and behaviors of the digital medium. It interrogates the… more ›