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| | www.eff.org
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| | The Guardian ran a sensational story on Friday claiming a backdoor was discovered in WhatsApp, enabling intelligence agencies to snoop on encrypted messages. Gizmodo followed up saying it's no backdoor at all, but reasonable, intended behavior. So what's really going on here? The lost phone, lost...
| | neil.gg
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| | [AI summary] The post critiques the Beeper legal strategy regarding the iMessage Android client, arguing that forced interoperability undermines end-to-end encryption security and commoditizes chat platforms.
| | telegra.ph
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| | Some users asked me about a Gizmodo article that claims everybody should stop using Telegram because we don't encrypt chats. Unfortunately, this article is based on incorrect and misleading statements. 1. Always encrypted The author confuses encryption and end-to-end encryption and claims that some data on Telegram is sent and stored unencrypted. This is not true. All data is encrypted. Secret Chats use end-to-end encryption, Cloud Chats use server-client encryption in transit and are of course encrypted in...
| | soatok.blog
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| XMPP is a messaging protocol (among other things) that needs no introduction to any technical audience. Its various implementations have proliferated through technical communities for decades. Many large tech companies today used to run XMPP servers. However, the basic protocol transmitted plaintext. If you were lucky, it was plaintext over SSL/TLS, but servers could still...