A Maryland defence attorney has decided to challenge the conviction of one of his clients after it was recently discovered that the phone cracking product used in the case, produced by digital forensics firm Cellebrite, has severe cybersecurity flaws that could make it vulnerable to hacking. Ramon R...
An exciting feature just landed in the main branch of the Clangcompiler. Using the [[clang::musttail]] or__attribute__((musttail)) statement attributes, you ...
The latest Signal betas are rolling out today. Inside, you’ll find performance enhancements, a slew of bug fixes, improvements to the mute settings, and if you’re in the United Kingdom, you’ll see support for Signal Payments – a new feature that enables you to send and receive privacy focused pay...
Variadic templates to the rescue.
While some gardeners might now throw in a gnome statue among their flowers and shrubberies, back in the 18th century wealthy estate owners were hiring real...
One of the graduate students lent me Edward Tufte’s book titled Envisioning Information after she heard about my interest in data visualization. And although I have not yet finished reading t…
Just over a week ago, we announced that Iranian censors had started blocking all Signal traffic in the country. As an interim solution to help people in Iran get connected again, we’ve added support in Signal for a simple TLS proxy that is easy to set up, can be used to bypass the network block, ...
It’s not outside Google’s purview to delete these posts.
Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some conversation followed, which led me to consider some of the problems with P2P protocols. P2P and Privacy B…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has changed his Twitter bio to mention only Bitcoin. The move is similar to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who has since long been a bitcoin supporter.
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers - GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and ...
ownCloud Infinite Scale Welcome to oCIS, the modern file-sync and share platform, which is based on our knowledge and experience with the PHP based ownCloud server. The idea of federated storage To create a truly federated storage architecture oCIS breaks down the old ownCloud 10 user specific names...
The fast-growing encrypted messaging app is developing features that would make it more vulnerable to abuse. Current and former employees are sounding the alarm