During the last year hell seems to have frozen over: our corporate overlords neighbours at Apple, Google and Facebook have all pushed for crypto in one way or another. For Facebook (WhatsApp) and Google (Allo) the messenger crypto has even been implemented by none less than the famous, endorsed-by-Edward-Snowden anarchist and hacker Moxie Marlinspike! So all is well on the privacy front! … but is it really?
Category Archives: Privacy
Secure Texting Part II
Last summer I blogged about secure messaging and why FSFE cares about it (and why you should, too!). Since then a few things have changed, and I want to give you an update on the situation. Continue reading
Secure Texting and why FSFE cares
Heard of WhatsApp? If you haven’t used it before (I e.g. haven’t), you can think of it as a free-of-charge messaging app that knows which of your contacts also have the app and automatically routes messages to them over your dataplan instead of SMS, so it’s (usually) free of charge.
In the face of NSA and WhatsApp’s recent acquisition by Facebook, many of the million WhatsApp users are looking for secure and trustworthy alternatives.
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Hacking encryption into Android
Next weekend we are going to have a small hackathon in Berlin to port/fix/implement disk encryption on various Android devices. Continue reading
Improving E-Mail Privacy
I have recently decided to use PGP / GnuPG to sign and encrypt emails, and I also recently switched from KMail (after using it for ~10 years) to Thunderbird [the why of the latter is a longer story I might tell some other time].
So, after not caring about email privacy for pretty long, I now got it all setup, although the setup on my laptop produces faulty inline PGP once in a while, where it doesn’t even recognize signed content itself…
Anyway, what I want to discuss today is the email header. As you all know, it contains all sorts of information, even your IP-Address — if you have a nasty provider. I kind of had the intuition that Thunderbird and Enigmail would reduce this info, or at least not add to it, but apparently that is not true.
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