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How close are we to breaking encryption with quantum computing?
Not as close as you might fear, but quantum encryption cracking is on its way. So, it's time to start getting ready for it.
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Signal Threatens to Leave the US If EARN IT Act Passes
ON FRIDAY, APPLE and Google announced a joint collaboration to make a Covid-19 "contact tracing" framework available for legions of Android and iOS smartphones. Slated for release next month, the platform will give public health organizations the ability to track infections and use Bluetooth proximity analysis to warn people if they've come into contact with someone who has reported that they're infected. The service will be opt-in only and is designed to preserve privacy, the companies say.
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Zoom’s Encryption Is “Not Suited for Secrets” and Has Surprising Links To China, Researchers Discover
Meetings on ZOOM, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious, well-known weaknesses, and sometimes using keys issued by servers in China, even when meeting participants are all in North America, according to researchers at the University of Toronto.
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'Unfixable' boot ROM security flaw in millions of Intel chips could spell 'utter chaos' for DRM, file encryption, etc
A slit in Intel's security – a tiny window of opportunity – has been discovered, and it's claimed the momentary weakness could be one day exploited to wreak "utter chaos." It is a fascinating vulnerability, though non-trivial to abuse in a practical sense. It cannot be fixed without replacing the silicon, only mitigated, it is claimed: the design flaw is baked into millions of Intel processor chipsets manufactured over the past five years. The problem revolves around cryptographic keys that, if obtained, can be used to break the root of trust in a system.
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MI5 chief asks tech firms for 'exceptional access' to encrypted messages
MI5’s director general has called on technology companies to find a way to allow spy agencies “exceptional access” to encrypted messages, amid fears they cannot otherwise access such communications. Sir Andrew Parker is understood to be particularly concerned about Facebook, which announced plans to introduce powerful end-to-end encryption last March across all the social media firm’s services.
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Facebook's push for end-to-end encryption is good news for user privacy, as well as terrorists and paedophiles
Facebook is planning to put end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services soon. But governments aren't happy about it, as it could make it harder to catch criminals.
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Michael Hayden Ran The NSA And CIA: Now Warns That Encryption Backdoors Will Harm American Security & Tech Leadership
But, there is one thing that Hayden and I agree on: putting backdoors into encryption is a horrible, dreadful, terrible idea. He makes two great points. First, backdooring encryption will make Americans much less safe. Second: backdooring encryption won't even help law enforcement do what it thinks it wants to do with backdoors.
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New crypto-cracking record reached, with less help than usual from Moore’s Law
795-bit factoring and discrete logarithms achieved using more efficient algorithms.
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Comcast Is Lobbying Against Encryption That Could Prevent it From Learning Your Browsing History
Motherboard has obtained a leaked presentation internet service providers are using to try and lobby lawmakers against a form of encrypted browsing data.
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Without encryption we will lose all privacy. This is our new battleground | Edward Snowden
In every country of the world, the security of computers keeps the lights on, the shelves stocked, the dams closed, and transportation running. For more than half a decade, the vulnerability of our computers and computer networks has been ranked the number one risk in the US Intelligence Community’s Worldwide Threat Assessment – that’s higher than terrorism, higher than war. Your bank balance, the local hospital’s equipment, and the 2020 US presidential election, among many, many other things, all depend on computer safety.
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Here we go again: US govt tells Facebook to kill end-to-end encryption for the sake of the children
The US government is renewing its efforts to talk tech firms out of using end-to-end encryption methods that would keep police from snooping on conversations. The Department of Justice on Friday held what it dubbed the "Lawful Access Summit," a morning-long presentation aimed at convincing people that police must be able to see all conversations on messaging platforms in order to protect the public, specifically children, from predators.
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FBI director warns Facebook could become platform of 'child pornographers'
FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Friday that Facebook Inc’s proposal to encrypt its popular messaging programme would turn the platform into a “dream come true for predators and child pornographers.”
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Moving the Encryption Policy Conversation Forward
Strong data encryption thwarts criminals and preserves privacy. At the same time, it complicates law enforcement investigations. A Carnegie working group looks to move the debate forward.
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Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before election
French researcher nets $15,000 prize for finding bugs in Moscow's Ethereum-based voting system.
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Barr says the US needs encryption backdoors to prevent “going dark.” Um, what?
"The FBI says they're 'going dark.' Well yeah, because they've been staring at the sun."
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How a quantum computer could break 2048-bit RSA encryption in 8 hours
A new study shows that quantum technology will catch up with today’s encryption standards much sooner than expected. That should worry anybody who needs to store data securely for 25 years or so.
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This is bad: the UAE's favorite sleazeball cybermercenaries have applied for permission to break Mozilla's web encryption
Darkmatter is also one of the least-discriminating cybermercenary bands in the world, available to help torturers, murderers and thugs hang onto power by attacking opposition movements and letting the secret police know who to arrest, torture and kill
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Marriott Concedes 5 Million Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted
Marriott International said on Friday that the biggest hacking of personal information in history was not quite as big as first feared, but for the first time conceded that its Starwood hotel unit did not encrypt the passport numbers for roughly five million guests. Those passport numbers were lost in an attack that many outside experts believe was carried out by Chinese intelligence agencies.
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This incredibly simple privacy app helps protect your phone from snoops with one click
A new app from Cloudflare hides the location of sites and services you access from web browsers and any other apps on your Android or Apple device.
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Apple Just Killed The 'GrayKey' iPhone Passcode Hack
Apple makes a major stride in iPhone security, locking out the GrayKey device that promised governments a way into modern iOS devices.
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