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Tag: E2EE

Samsung Backups and Cloud Sync can be End-To-End-Encrypted, but you need to Enable it

2024-10-182024-10-18 Danie
Part of a smartphone screen showing the title Enhanced data protection

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 […]

BlogE2EE, privacy, technology

How to send encrypted (at a cost) and ‘confidential’ emails on Gmail

2023-09-292023-09-29 Danie
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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 […]

BlogE2EE, gmail, privacy, technology

SimpleX E2EE messenger for iOS and Android has no user IDs at all – It could be the most secure and private messenger ever

2023-05-252023-07-29 Danie
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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 […]

BlogE2EE, opensource, privacy, SimpleX, technology

End-to-end encryption coming for (most) iCloud services, with Apple dropping CSAM scanning

2022-12-082022-12-08 Danie
Screenshot of iPhone with activation screen for Advanced Data Protection for iCloud

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 […]

Blogapple, E2EE, icloud, privacy, technology

Amazon expands end-to-end video encryption to battery-powered Ring devices, but it breaks a mass of functionality

2022-09-082022-09-08 Danie
Ring E2EE

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 […]

Blogamazon, E2EE, privacy, ringdoorbell, technology

Swiss Army bans all chat apps but locally-developed Threema – No e-mail or phone no to register, and immune from US CLOUD Act

2022-01-062022-01-07 Danie
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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 […]

BlogE2EE, security, switzerland, technology, threema
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