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Buried in the settings of certain Samsung Galaxy devices, there’s a feature Samsung calls Enhanced Data Protection. This is a fancy, branded name for end-to-end encryption. It means that when you back up or sync […]
Gmail may be very easy to use, and probably also one of the most used e-mail services out there, but Google has still not made any real effort to help e-mails going proper E2EE for […]
Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy. When users have persistent identities, even if this is just a […]
Apple has been notorious for keeping it’s own decryption keys to users’ data in iCloud, so this article required some checking. Many vendors also talk about end-to-end encryption, but mean that their server is one […]
Ring, by default, already encrypted videos as they are uploaded and stored on Ring servers. Adding E2EE, however, should ensure that only the Ring owner can access and view videos because the necessary key to […]
The Swiss army has banned foreign instant-messaging apps such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp and requires army members to use the locally-developed Threema messaging app instead. As Threema is a paid subscription communications service, the […]