Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:31:30 +0000
Scandal surrounding the Trump administration’s Signal group chat has led to a landmark week for the encrypted messaging app’s adoption—its “largest US growth moment by a massive margin.”
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman| Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:44:21 +0000
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:54:49 +0000
The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:10:05 +0000
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.
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Credit to Author: Violet Blue| Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here’s what you need to know.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A nominee to lead CISA emerges, Elon Musk visits the NSA, a renowned crypto cracking firm’s secret (and problematic) cofounder is revealed, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than those in recent years, experts say.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:59:08 +0000
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has long held anti-surveillance views. Now she oversees a key surveillance program she once tried to dismantle.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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Credit to Author: Anna Wolfe, Sarah Cammarata| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:26:04 +0000
A WIRED investigation goes inside the Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups on Facebook with doxing, harassment, and sharing of nonconsensual intimate images.
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