Good on the #signal #president #meredithwhittaker for going against the #uk #government on wanting to #spy on #encrypted #messages https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/signal-pr.. *Really* the correct #decision for #signal to take.
Apparently " #hackers " are #stealing #encrypted #data in #preparation for #quantum #computing https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11.. We'll see how this goes in the future...
Bloody #ubuntu now #incapable of #mounting an #encrypted #drive with #write #access - how hard can it be to just #maintain a #stable #os ? I have a #workaround for now by #manually mounting the #drive https://askubuntu.com/questions/63594/mo.. Every time I #upgrade #ubuntu it becomes slightly more #broken ...
#encryption from one place to another should really not be this tough: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/09/13/vulne.. It should not be possible to *read* #encrypted #matrix #messages - #replay #attacks ? Sure. #information #leaking ? Sure. Message #blocking ? Sure. But *never* should it be possible to read the #plaintext message...
This is a great breakdown of why it is tough to roll your own #encrypted #chat #app https://pwn.recipes/posts/roll-your-own-.. Very interesting, actually quite surprising how easy it is.
Looks like the #eu join #apple in #csam #child #pornography #protections https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/m.. Now companies have permission to search *all* #private #encrypted #messages for any offensive material. *I'm sure this won't be misused in the near future.* They have taken away #chatcontrol and #secrecyofcorrespondence from #europeans - thank goodness for #uk and #brexit ! I suspect #boris will just roll out something worse though...
Don't host your #servers in #australia folks! https://www.zdnet.com/article/canberra-a.. They want to #scan #encrypted #messages - which in turn means #backdoor into your messages. Fun.
Working on an #encryption #article for #coffeespace - it's taking quite a while though. The #math and the #software are not quite matching up, in theory it should be possible to derive #privatekeys with just the #encrypted data using a #securityflaw - just need to prove it!
Ouch, seems quite 'easy' for a #hacker to gain access to a company #network if they are so inclined with the use of a #stolen #laptop https://dolosgroup.io/blog/2021/7/9/from.. Apparently the most effective defence against this is an #encrypted #drive ... More needs to be done in general to defend against such attacks, but #governments seem to be entirely against #encryption for exactly the reason that it makes these devices harder to #hack !
Honestly I'm surprised the #nsa doesn't just give people #lockeddown #smart #phones in the first place: https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jul/28/20.. You *cannot* trust humans to not make mistakes. It would be better to have a text/voice only #encrypted device with limited functionality. #software #updates could be handled in person with #id #verification - but of course they will never do this as politicians would get upset.
This is a very interesting device for #lora #encrypted #chat https://github.com/TrevorAttema/OTGMesse.. This is what I hope from #pine 's #pinecomm - although at this rate I suspect that device may never come into existence. Eventually I will get some time to work on #lorachan !