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Hacking group plans system to encrypt social media and other apps (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 2 years ago by motorheadkusanagi to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Non-paywalled link: https://wapo.st/3Yl9nNK

The title sounds a bit misleading. So here's what the article is really about:

"The latest effort, to be detailed at the massive annual Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas next week, seeks to provide a foundation for messaging, file sharing and even social networking apps without harvesting any data, all secured by the kind of end-to-end encryption that makes interception hard even for governments."