France's prime minister recommends government staff uninstall foreign apps like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram by December 8, in favor of French chat app Olvid
Wouldn't ever use Olvid: — ● promoted by French minister who considers signal.org insecure — ● uses biometric data — ● not fully open-source — ● not fully free — ● owned by a for profit (nee...
A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption
but it doesn't have to be creepy Vass Bednar / regs to riches : #6 — This is a newsletter about regulatory hacking featuring (mostly) Canadian startups. Xinmei Shen / Abacus : From QR codes to socia...
Apple says COVID-19 contact tracing apps can include duration of proximity when deciding what is a proximity event, potentially limiting false positive pings
Surveillance and the pandemic: it doesn't have to be a nightmare Sergio De Simone / InfoQ : Google and Apple Jointly Working on Contact Tracing for iOS and Android Samantha Wiley / iLounge : Apple and...
Cambridge university refuses to censor student's thesis on chip-and-PIN vulnerabilities
After the UK banking trade association wrote to Cambridge university to have a student's master's thesis censored because it documented a well-known flaw in the chip-and-PIN system, Cambridge's Ross A...
Chip-and-PIN is broken
Noted security researcher Ross Anderson and colleagues have published a paper showing how “Chip-and-PIN” (the European system for verifying credit- and debit-card transactions) has been thoroughly bro...
UK holds Microsoft security talks
UK officials are talking to Microsoft over fears the new version of Windows could make it harder for police to read suspects' computer files. — Microsoft Vista is due to be rolled out later this yea...