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After decades of failed attempts to access encrypted communications, governments are shifting from persuasion to coercion—security experts say the risks are too high.
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Austria’s coalition government has agreed on a plan to enable police to monitor suspects’ secure messaging in order to thwart militant attacks, ending what security officials have said is a rare and dangerous blind spot for a European Union country. Fr…
WhatsApp has applied to submit evidence in Apple’s legal battle against the UK Home Office over government demands for access to encrypted user data. The messaging platform’s boss Will Cathcart told the BBC the case “could set a dangerous precedent” by…
alternative_right shares a report: New York state lawmakers voted to stop the NYPD’s attempt to block its radio communications from the public Thursday, with the bill expected to head to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk. The “Keep Police Radio Public Act” pass…
Popular Chrome extensions exposed user data by sending it over unencrypted HTTP, raising privacy concerns. Symantec urges caution for users.
Apple’s end-to-end iCloud encryption product (“Advanced Data Protection”) was famously removed in the U.K. after a government order demanded backdoors for accessing user data.
So now a Google software engineer wants to build an open source version of…
The roadmap provides an overview of four key stages of the migration process, namely preparation, baseline understanding, planning and execution, and monitoring and evaluation.
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Wednesday Google security researchers published a preprint demonstrating that 2048-bit RSA encryption “could theoretically be broken by a quantum computer with 1 million noisy qubits running for one week,” writes Google’s security blog.
“This is a 20…
An OpenPGP.js vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-47934 allows message signature verification to be spoofed.
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In this Help Net Security interview, Full Professor at University of Leuven, unpacks the European Commission’s encryption agenda, urging a balanced, technically informed approach to lawful access that safeguards privacy, security, and fundamental right…