In the second installment of a thought piece about end-to-end encryption and its effect on national security, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes and co-author Zoe Bedell hypothesize a situation in which Apple is called upon to provide decrypted communications data as part of a legal law enforcement process. Since Apple does not, and on devices running ...

VeriFyle, the company headed by Hotmail inventor and co-founder Jack Smith, has a new encryption key management technology which it believes will "re-invent how the world thinks about secure sharing and messaging". The major difference is that any object that is shared to the cloud using the system is encrypted for individual users rather than ...

SYDNEY — Citizens who like listening in on police, fire department and ambulance calls are out of luck, now that most emergency services communications in Cape Breton are conducted on fully encrypted radios. The scanners have gone silent, for the most part, with the introduction of the second generation of Trunk Mobile Radio (TMR2) communications. Being ...

Encryption can appear to be priceless when it's absent, as it was in the recent Office of Personnel Management breach. It can appear to be costly when it's present, as FBI director James Comey has argued. But not everything is as it appears. Michael Coates, trust and information security officer at Twitter and global board ...

Yesterday, on Lawfare, FBI Director James Comey laid out his concern that the growing adoption of strong encryption technologies will frustrate law enforcement’s ability to conduct investigations — what he calls the “Going Dark” problem. The gist of Comey’s position is this: He recognizes encryption is important to security and privacy, but believes we are ...

So, as about a million Australians quietly shit themselves as the Ashley Madison data breach starts to bleed data, we have the UK government talking about banning encryption. Although they have backtracked to some some degree UK Prime Minister David Cameron told his parliament the country needed to crack down on encryption in order to ...

Was the Chattanooga shooter inspired by IS propaganda? There's no evidence to back the claim, but some officials are already calling for access to encrypted messages and social media monitoring. Spencer Kimball reports. It's not an unusual story in America: A man in his 20s with an unstable family life, mental health issues and access ...

Passphrase.io – A Social Experiment With Lots of Potential Storing sensitive data in a secure and safe environment is not an easy task to accomplish for most people. Even though there are multiple guides on the internet of how to store data, and even encrypt if needed, doing so is still a hassle for most ...

There's hope that by the time the Washington Post's editorial board takes a third crack at the encryption whip, it might say something worthwhile. Late on Saturday, the The Washington Post's editorial board published what initially read as a scathing anti-encryption and pro-government rhetoric opinion piece that scolded Apple and Google (albeit a somewhat incorrect ...

Ace Secret Disk allows you to create a secret disk on your computer, on which you can store your private files (such as photos, videos and financial information documents) just like you would do on a normal disk. In this way the danger of data leakage can be completely eradicated. In the new version, we have ...