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24 May 23

Could These Bills Endanger Encrypted Messaging?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Billions of people around the world use a messaging app equipped with end-to-end encryption, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. In theory, end-to-end encryption means that only the sender and receiver hold the keys they need to decrypt their message. Not even an app’s owners can peek in.In the eyes…

10 May 23

The Internet of Things: Fire Sleuth, Fire-Starter

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Fires are difficult to investigate since they often destroy the evidence of their cause. Now scientists demonstrate how Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets can reveal key clues—but also potentially help arsonists start fires in the first place.Criminal investigations are already increasingly exploring how IoT devices might record useful forensic data.…

07 Mar 23

‘Perfectly secure’ digital messaging hides sensitive data from prying eyes

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

The method can be incorporated into social media and private messaging and could “empower” vulnerable groups, such as dissidents, investigative journalists and humanitarian aid workers, the researchers added. The algorithm applies to a setting called steganography which is the practice of hiding sensitive information inside innocuous content. Steganography differs from…

20 Sep 22

California’s Proposed Law Could Change the Internet

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Today, for better or worse, the Internet is a rather free range for children. Websites ask their users’ ages, sure. But virtually anyone who came of age around the rise of the Internet can probably relate a time or 20 when they gave a false birthdate.A California law now in…

Could These Bills Endanger Encrypted Messaging?

The Internet of Things: Fire Sleuth, Fire-Starter

‘Perfectly secure’ digital messaging hides sensitive data from prying eyes

California’s Proposed Law Could Change the Internet

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