WhatsApp users updating to the latest version of the messaging app on iOS will find a new setting lurking at the bottom of the ‘Privacy’ menu that adds support for Apple’s biometric authentication technologies. Under the new setting, called ‘Screen Lock’, users of WhatsApp on iOS can tap through to another menu to add an […]
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Facebook’s ex-CSO, Alex Stamos, defends its decision to inject ads in WhatsApp
Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former chief security officer, who left the company this summer to take up a role in academia, has made a contribution to what’s sometimes couched as a debate about how to monetize (and thus sustain) commercial end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms in order that the privacy benefits they otherwise offer can be as widely […]
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The encrypted messaging app Signal is wonderful — assuming it works as intended.
That last bit was thrown into question yesterday when Motherboard reported that a quirk of MacOS meant that, if you happened to be using the Signal MacOS desktop app, messages could remain on your computer even after they had been removed from the app.
Thankfully, that has now been fixed.
The problem was first highlighted by security researcher Alec Muffett, who pointed out on Twitter that Signal messages — even those that should have expired thanks to the app’s Disappearing Messages feature — remained in his MacOS notifications bar. Read more…
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View More Signal just fixed a bug that meant disappearing messages remained on MacOSSignal could get kicked out of Amazon Web Services
Encrypted messaging service Signal received a curious email from Amazon Web Services. The representative at Amazon is saying that Signal is violating the terms of service by using domain fronting to avoid censorship. Signal isn’t necessarily the most popular messaging app. But chances are you’ve been using Signal technologies in the past. The organization behind […]
View More Signal could get kicked out of Amazon Web ServicesMobileCoin, a cryptocurrency from the creator of Signal, just raised $30M for mobile payments
A new privacy-centric cryptocurrency project with some big names on board just raised a round worth noting. On Tuesday, the team at MobileCoin announced that Binance Labs, the major blockchain incubator associated with the Binance exchange, led a $30 million round denominated in bitcoin and ether for the new cryptocurrency. MobileCoin will enjoy “priority consideration” […]
View More MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency from the creator of Signal, just raised $30M for mobile paymentsFrance to move ministers off Telegram, WhatsApp over security fears
The French government has said it intends to move to using its own encrypted messaging service this summer, over concerns of the risks that foreign entities could spy on officials using popular encrypted apps such as Telegram and WhatsApp . Reuters reports that ministers are concerned about the use of foreign-built encrypted apps which do not […]
View More France to move ministers off Telegram, WhatsApp over security fearsFacebook will add ‘Unsend’ feature to Messenger, but here’s who allows disappearing messages now
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Facebook has been trying really, really hard to convince its users that it cares about our privacy and is making the social network a more (buzzword alert) “transparent” platform.
Which makes the recent revelation that Facebook secretly deleted Mark Zuckerberg’s messages in Messenger without notifying the recipients uncomfortable, to say the very least.
On Friday, TechCrunch revealed that Facebook has been scrubbing Zuckerberg’s private messages sent before 2014 from the platform. People who had communicated with Zuckerberg over Messenger found that their messages looked like entirely one-sided conversations — with no trace of Zuckerberg’s correspondence left in their inboxes. Facebook never notified them that it was doing this. Read more…
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View More Facebook will add ‘Unsend’ feature to Messenger, but here’s who allows disappearing messages nowAfter selling his company to Facebook for $19B, Brian Acton joins #deleteFacebook
Brian Acton, the co-founder of messaging service WhatsApp (which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion), is now joining the chorus of the #deletefacebook movement. It is time. #deletefacebook — Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018 A tipster alerted us to the fact that Acton made the same call… on Facebook… as well. Since the […]
View More After selling his company to Facebook for $19B, Brian Acton joins #deleteFacebookSignal expands into the Signal Foundation with $50M from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton
Perhaps the most surprising thing I learned about Signal when I spoke with Moxie Marlinspike, the app’s creator, last year at Disrupt, was that it was essentially running on a shoestring budget. An tool used by millions and feared by governments worldwide, barely getting by! But $50M from WhatsApp founder Brian Acton should help secure the app’s future, through the newly founded… Read More
Signal expands into the Signal Foundation with $50M from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton
Perhaps the most surprising thing I learned about Signal when I spoke with Moxie Marlinspike, the app’s creator, last year at Disrupt, was that it was essentially running on a shoestring budget. An tool used by millions and feared by governments worldwide, barely getting by! But $50M from WhatsApp founder Brian Acton should help secure the app’s future, through the newly founded… Read More
Security researchers flag invite bug in WhatsApp group chats
Security researchers have revealed details of a vulnerability in WhatsApp’s security that could be used to compromise the secrecy of encrypted group chats on the messaging platform. Read More
This blind man is saved from an oncoming train just in the nick of time
Mike Wyatt was about to cross the train tracks at a station in Aurora, Colorado. When he stopped by a young man just in time of an oncoming train. Wyatt returned to the station a couple days later with a sign, looking for the young man who saved his l…
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