Enlarge / The security of Facebook’s popular messaging app leaves several rather important devils in its details. (credit: WhatsApp) Yesterday, independent newsroom ProPublica published a detailed piece examining the popular WhatsApp messaging platform’s privacy claims. The service famously offers “end-to-end encryption,” which most users interpret as meaning that Facebook, WhatsApp’s owner since 2014, can neither read...
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WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all
Enlarge / The security of Facebook’s popular messaging app leaves several rather important devils in its details. (credit: WhatsApp) Yesterday, independent newsroom ProPublica published a detailed piece examining the popular WhatsApp messaging platform’s privacy claims. The service famously offers “end-to-end encryption,” which most users interpret as meaning that Facebook, WhatsApp’s owner since 2014, can neither read...
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WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all
Enlarge / The security of Facebook’s popular messaging app leaves several rather important devils in its details. (credit: WhatsApp) Yesterday, independent newsroom ProPublica published a detailed piece examining the popular WhatsApp messaging platform’s privacy claims. The service famously offers “end-to-end encryption,” which most users interpret as meaning that Facebook, WhatsApp’s owner since 2014, can neither read...
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In Silicon Valley, Criminal Prosecutors See No Evil
The Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial is set to be a major spectacle, but tech executives generally get a pass when it comes to wrongdoing.
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Biden’s Electric Car Plans Hinge on Having Enough Chargers
The United States has about 100,000 public chargers, far fewer than Europe and China. It needs 10 times as many, auto experts say, to complete the switch from combustion engine vehicles.
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Alibaba Manager Not Charged in China’s Latest #MeToo Moment
Prosecutors declined to charge the man, who a co-worker said had assaulted her, an allegation that highlighted sexism in the Chinese tech scene.
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ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy
Enlarge / ProtonMail offers end-to-end encryption and a stated focus on privacy for its email service—which offers a user interface quite similar to those of more mainstream services such as Gmail. (credit: Jim Salter) This weekend, news broke that security/privacy-focused anonymous email service ProtonMail turned over a French climate activist’s IP address and browser fingerprint to...
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Microsoft Outlook shows real person’s contact info for IDN phishing emails
Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) If you receive an email from someone@arstechnіca.com, is it really from someone at Ars? Most definitely not—the domain in that email address is not the same arstechnica.com that you know. The ‘і’ character in there is from the Cyrillic script and not the Latin alphabet. This isn’t a novel...
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Meet the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives
A 22-year-old Bitcoin millionaire wants Republicans to ditch their iPhones for a low-end handset that he hopes to turn into a political tool.
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California Bill Could Alter Amazon Labor Practices
The bill would rein in production quotas at warehouses that critics say are excessive and force workers to forgo bathroom breaks.