The Parallax

JULY 3, 2020

Is encryption the biggest impediment to law enforcement’s ability to stop sexual predators of children? For the advocates of the EARN IT Act, which would loosen the rules protecting Internet services’ use of encryption, it most certainly is. READ MORE ON ENCRYPTION AND THE CRYPTO WARS. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)

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The Parallax

JULY 27, 2020

But a recent change to its back-end systems, designed to make the app more accessible and competitive with other encrypted-messaging services, could be putting user data at risk. READ MORE ON SIGNAL AND ENCRYPTED MESSAGING. What EARN IT and LAED mean for encryption. Want end-to-end encryption? Not so fast.

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The Parallax

JULY 27, 2020

But a recent change to its back-end systems, designed to make the app more accessible and competitive with other encrypted-messaging services, could be putting user data at risk. READ MORE ON SIGNAL AND ENCRYPTED MESSAGING What EARN IT and LAED mean for encryption Done with Signal?

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Therefore the level of complicity involved in Mixnets — shuffling and delaying encrypted data packets in order to shield sender-to-recipient metadata from adversaries with a global view of a network — probably seemed like over-engineering all the way back when the web’s scaffolding was being pieced together.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Despite his fervent declarations about expanding “the scope and scale of consciousness” through public discourse, the billionaire got cold feet. A month later in May, he tried to kill the deal , claiming that Twitter had more bots than its public filings let on. By October, the platform was his.

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