whatsapp Senate GOP introduce bill to end 'warrant-proof' encryption, end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp is targeted Xeni Jardin
Mohammad Bin Salman Forensics team accuses Prince Bone Saw of hacking Jeff Bezos's phone to obtain kompromat and force Washington Post silence on Khashoggi Cory Doctorow
david kaye Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials Cory Doctorow
electron Whatsapp, Slack, Skype and apps based on popular Electron framework vulnerable to backdoor attacks Cory Doctorow
lockdown Discovering whether your Iphone has been hacked is nearly impossible thanks to Apple's walled garden Cory Doctorow
Novalpina Lawyer involved in suits against Israel's most notorious cyber-arms dealer targeted by its weapons, delivered through a terrifying Whatsapp vulnerability Cory Doctorow
downtime Facebook + Instagram + WhatsApp outage 'resolved,' blamed on 'server configuration change' Xeni Jardin
nate cardozo New privacy hires at WhatsApp: Nate Cardozo (EFF), Robyn Greene (Open Technology Institute) Xeni Jardin
zuckerbergian authoritarianism Fans of Brazil's new fascist president chant "Facebook! Facebook! Whatsapp! Whatsapp!" at inauguration Cory Doctorow
brian acton Whatsapp founder: I sold out, but I walked away from $850,000,000 when I quit Facebook Cory Doctorow
mob violence As hoax-fueled lynchings continue in India, Whatsapp puts limits on video-forwarding Cory Doctorow
the monsters are due on maple street A viral hoax video has inspired Indian mobs to multiple, brutal murders Cory Doctorow
telegram Russia blocks Google & Amazon IP addresses, saying they're used by Telegram app Putin just banned Xeni Jardin
mobile forensics Cops use backdoored WhatsApp photo to extract fingerprints and convict user Andrea James
good code vs bad companies Reverse-engineering Whatsapp, to let us talk to our friends without Facebook's oversight Cory Doctorow
