@Techmeme@techhub.socialMulti-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/beep
@newsie@darktundra.xyzThis Company Wants to Bring End-to-End Encrypted Messages to Bluesky’s AT Protocol https://www.404media.co/this-company-wants-to-bring-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-to-blueskys-at-protocol/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…
@hanno@mastodon.socialAs long as error messages like this can happen, I refuse consider the possibility that matrix could be a secure messaging solution for the masses. I mean... you can't be serious?
If your goal is average users, your No 1 design principle must be that you never bother users with the details of your technical design, which they don't understand anyway. That's a main reason why PGP failed, and people still don't get it. (I mean... I don't understand what that means, and …
@kaiengert@mastodon.socialI would like to see an initiative that evaluates messaging services that promise encryption and document the findings. For example, a service may claim that emails are encrypted and secure. However, if the secret keys are managed on infrastructure controlled by the service without further protection, there are limitations, and I wouldn't call it end-to-end encryption. I think it would be useful to have a neutral web page where users could lookup the security levels of services (or apps).…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…
@gwire@mastodon.social
@x_cli@infosec.exchangeLet's pretend I would develop an immutable Linux distro like Tails (privacy-focused, hardened) exclusively to run an already well-known secure messaging application (extremely reduced attack surface), with automatic analysis of attachments (antivirus and yara rules) before export to USB disks, and leveraging the TPM to enforce the system's integrity, and with a hardened networking configuration.
Would you be willing to use it? That means you would need a separate bootable devic…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz"Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activity linked to their real identities. It drives users toward less secure platforms and services. It destroys small online communities that can’t afford compliance costs. And it teaches an entire generation that bypassing government surveillance is a basic life skill.
"Meanwhile, the actual harms it purports to address? Those remain entirely unaddressed. Predators will simply move to unregulated platforms, encrypted messaging, or services that don’t comply. Or they’ll just use VPNs. The law creates the illusion of safety while actually making everyone less secure.
"This is what happens when politicians decide to regulate technology they don’t understand, targeting problems they can’t define, with solutions that don’t work."
- Mike Masnick
#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #UKLaw
@newsie@darktundra.xyzAlarm raised over 'high-severity' vulnerabilities in Matrix messaging protocol https://therecord.media/matrix-messaging-protocol-high-severity-vulnerabilities
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12042 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageSynopsis: Secure and private trend inference from encrypted semantic embeddings
Madelyne Xiao, Palak Jain, Micha Gorelick, Sarah Scheffler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23880
