How to Limit Who Can Contact You on Instagram
Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
It’s your account—you decide who’s allowed to see your vacation photos or slide into your DMs.
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WhatsApp Doubles Down With End-to-End Encrypted ‘Communities’
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:05:22 +0000
More than just group DMs, WhatsApp’s new feature is a major expansion of its comprehensive encrypted messaging.
Read moreRussia Is Leaking Data Like a Sieve
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.
Read moreDuckDuckGo’s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000
DuckDuckGo started out as a private search engine. Now its web browser is debuting on Macs to rival Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Brave.
Read moreThe Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000
They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity.
Read moreInside the Takedown that Shredded the Myth of Crypto’s Anonymity
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000
The users of the largest known child sex abuse site in history thought their bitcoins were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
Read moreEurope Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces.
Read moreMeta Tries to Break the End-to-End Encryption Deadlock
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
A new report Meta commissioned aims to redefine comprehensive encryption as essential to protecting human rights.
Read moreNFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare
Credit to Author: Eric Ravenscraft| Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
The blockchain isn’t as “anonymous” as you might think.
Read moreRussia Inches Toward Its Splinternet Dream
Credit to Author: Chris Stokel-Walker| Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
For years, the country has been trying to create its own sovereign internet—a goal given new impetus by the backlash to its invasion of Ukraine.
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