Two types of technologies could change the privacy afforded in encrypted messages, and changes to this space could impact all of us. This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review's weekly ...

Ofer A. Lidsky is an entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience and is the founder and CEO of Excellent Brain. In today’s digital age, data encryption is vital for protecting sensitive information.

Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police and MakeUseOf since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as ...

Apple joined the RCS bandwagon last year, giving its users the ability to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. The only problem? Those messages are not encrypted, exposing them ...

Technologists hoped the “Crypto Wars” of the 1990s – which ended with cryptographers gaining the right to legally develop strong encryption that governments could not break – was behind them once and ...

Google Messages encryption will launch this month for beta users. After beta testing is complete, the security protocol will roll out to all Messages users over the next year. End-to-end encryption ...

As promised by Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk, encrypted direct messaging on Twitter has arrived. But is it any good? In a word, no. The good news: at least Twitter is honest about it. Echoing Musk's ...

The recent bombshell lawsuit filed in San Francisco has sent ripples through the tech world, fueled by whistleblower claims that Meta’s “end-to-end encryption” might have a secret backdoor. While Meta ...

What you need to know to protect your messages Beyond Meta’s suite of apps, it can be hard to keep straight the level of encryption provided by popular messaging services. Twitter does not encrypt ...

We all knew stickers, payment options, and games would appear as the first wave of iMessage apps the moment iOS 10 shipped. Less obvious was the availability of encrypted-message apps that work within ...