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Title: Don’t shy from secure end-to-end messaging apps in light of recent news Post by: HCK on March 20, 2017, 04:05:14 pm Don’t shy from secure end-to-end messaging apps in light of recent news
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Talking recently with a colleague in the security research side of things, they noted, “Funny—we’ve come full circle moving from phone numbers to social media handles now back to phone numbers. Wait a little longer and you’ll be mailing me letters.” (Quoted with their permission.)</p><p> That’s not as mordant as it sounds. The seemingly accurate revelations by WikiLeaks recently of a CIA cache (http://www.macworld.com/article/3179091/security/wikileaks-will-share-cia-hacking-tools-with-apple-other-tech-companies.html) containing descriptions and analyses of an enormous number of exploited and potential vectors to insinuate into people’s hardware and data leaves me once again examining what it means to have privacy—whether from those you know, criminals, or governments (with or without legal authority to snoop).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3179787/security/dont-shy-from-secure-end-to-end-messaging-apps-in-light-of-recent-news.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Don’t shy from secure end-to-end messaging apps in light of recent news (http://www.macworld.com/article/3179787/security/dont-shy-from-secure-end-to-end-messaging-apps-in-light-of-recent-news.html#tk.rss_all) |