Justin Plock @jplock@plock.social

‪How The Citizen Lab uncovered #security-issues in the #encryption used by #Zoom:‬

‪“Move Fast & Roll Your Own Crypto” (https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/).‬

‪Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22768494‬

‪#Cryptography #ComputerSecurity #China #VideoConferencing #RollYourOwnCrypto #FacePalm ‬

Safari no longer allows third-party cookies!

https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocking-and-more/

An open letter to Senator Bob Casey on end-to-end encryption

https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/07/Open-letter-to-Senator-Casey.html

Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses https://www.wired.com/story/signal-encrypted-messaging-features-mainstream/

“It was the intelligence coup of the century,” the CIA report concludes. “Foreign governments were paying good money to the U.S. and West Germany for the privilege of having their most secret communications read by at least two (and possibly as many as five or six) foreign countries.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/

Apollo 11 vs USB-C Chargers
https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html

Services from Google and Facebook may appear to be "free", but there's a greater cost: your personal data and privacy. Thanks to BBC News for recommending ProtonMail as an Gmail alternative which protects your personal information & respects your privacy. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50460712

From HN discussion - "This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124929)

This is GDPR in action. Wow.

🚀 We're happy to be the first #VPN provider to #opensource apps on all platforms and undergo an independent security audit. Transparency, ethics, and #security are at the core of the Internet we want to build. https://protonvpn.com/blog/open-source/