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VOICE ARCHIVE

Nadim Kobeissi

@kaepora
76 posts
2024-09-02
“France is pursuing encrypted messaging providers, and apps such as Signal should be concerned about whether or not they comply with French regulations. If they are not, legal action will take place. Signal did not respond to a request for comment.” https://www.reuters.com/...
2024-09-02 View on X
Reuters

A look at France's J3 cybercrime unit, which took charge of the Sky ECC probe and Encrochat prosecutions and now leads the case against Telegram CEO Pavel Durov

Gabriel Stargardter / Reuters : X: @gabstargardter and @kaepora X: Gabriel Stargardter / @gabstargardter : I wrote about the small Paris cybercrime unit, led by 38-year-old prosec...

2024-08-27
Weird how Signal's president @mer__edith, who's been spending the entire summer in Paris, France, ostensibly championing private and open communication and taking up every single available media interview, hasn't said a word on Durov's arrest
2024-08-27 View on X
Politico

French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision”

Roblox has more daily active users than TikTok, but is rarely covered for example Alex Howard / @digiphile : This is not the “end of global social media,” as @semaforben suggested,...

Weird how Signal's president @mer__edith, who's been spending the entire summer in Paris, France, ostensibly championing private and open communication and taking up every single available media interview, hasn't said a word on Durov's arrest
2024-08-27 View on X
New York Times

French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe “against person unnamed” into CSAM, drug sales, and more on the app and not working with authorities

A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform.

2024-08-26
Weird how Signal's president @mer__edith, who's been spending the entire summer in Paris, France, ostensibly championing private and open communication and taking up every single available media interview, hasn't said a word on Durov's arrest
2024-08-26 View on X
Politico

French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision”

French president condemns “false information” as Pavel Durov's detention in Paris triggers global outcry.

2024-07-12
1a) Attacker doesn't need full access, any app running under the same user is fine. 1b) That's not even the issue. The issue is that Signal won't detect silently duplicated Signal Desktop states masquerading as one another and will treat them as one device. 2) It would be nice
2024-07-12 View on X
BleepingComputer

Signal plans to roll out a beta version of its desktop apps that tightens the security of how it stores plain text encryption keys, after downplaying the issue

Signal is finally tightening its desktop client's security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018.

2024-06-11
“Private Cloud Compute” definitely sounds suspicious at first glance. What is the “verifiable privacy promise”, multi-party computation? Zero-knowledge attestations? If it's just TLS, obviously not a privacy win. Isn't Apple Intelligence supposed to be entirely on-device? [image]
2024-06-11 View on X
Apple Machine Learning Research

Apple details two Apple Intelligence language models: ~3B parameter on-device and a larger model on Apple silicon servers available with Private Cloud Compute

At the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, we introduced Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system integrated deeply into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia.

2024-05-21
Apple confirms the issue, publishes fix, does not clarify how deleted photos were coming back. This is nuts! https://www.macrumors.com/...
2024-05-21 View on X
MacRumors

Apple releases iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1, saying the bug that let some deleted photos reappear has now been fixed

even on devices you no longer own Richard Priday / Tom's Guide : Update your iPhone now — Apple just fixed this potentially embarrassing Photos bug Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : iOS ...

2024-03-13
To be fair, this is likely because Apple featured Brave on the newly-added browser choice screen that pops up when you first open Safari, which they didn't do for all browsers (eg. Vivaldi)
2024-03-13 View on X
BleepingComputer

Brave says that daily Brave iOS app installs jumped from ~8K to over 11K after Apple added a default browser choice screen in the EU to comply with the DMA

Brave has seen a sharp increase in users installing its privacy-focused Brave Browser on iPhones after Apple introduced changes …

2023-03-06
If you work in security auditing in the EU, this is an extremely important read. Make sure you read this and pass it on: https://berthub.eu/...
2023-03-06 View on X
Bert Hubert's writings

An analysis of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which covers every connected device and almost all software, causing open-source developers to worry about its scope

2022-11-08
Signal is weird lately. First we had this 2000s era janky Iran proxy stuff, and now Snapchat-style Stories? That feel like they're from 2012? Why? Who asked for this? What happened to keeping codebase and attack surface small, and Doing One Thing Well? 😕 https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Signal launches its Stories feature out of beta on Android and iOS, letting users share Stories that expire after 24 hours

If your favorite way to update your friends about life disappears in 24 hours, we've got some happy news for you. Livemint : WhatsApp rolls out rich text preview on iOS: All you ne...

2021-09-22
Facebook's Oversight Board is wondering, hard, whether the usage of curt, authoritative language and line breaks will project an aura that distracts from what an utter, embarrassing sham it is. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-22 View on X
Engadget

Facebook's Oversight Board wants the company to explain its “cross-check” system, which reportedly lets celebrities, politicians, and others break its rules

Karissa Bell / Engadget :

2021-09-14
Citizen Lab has seems to have quietly dropped its practice of making nation-state attribution based on inadequate evidence. This is really good news. I hope this will continue and, optimally, that such previous claims will be revisited/played down. https://citizenlab.ca/...
2021-09-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Citizen Lab says it found evidence of ForcedEntry on an activist's iPhone and the exploit worked on iPads, Macs, and Watches as well, prior to recent updates

Citizen Lab says the ForcedEntry flaw affects all iPhones, iPads, Macs and Watches  —  Apple has released security updates … Source: The Citizen Lab .

2021-08-31
Apple forces employees to link personal Apple IDs with their work accounts, so employees' personal documents end up on their work computers. One employee was prohibited from deleting personal messages, tax docs, etc. on his work laptop when he resigned. https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-08-31 View on X
The Verge

Some Apple employees say their privacy is not well protected by Apple, as they decry norms and rules that encourage personal iCloud accounts be used at work

Jacob Preston was sitting down with his manager during his first week at Apple when he was told, with little fanfare …

2021-08-15
I'm sorry, but what the hell is Craig Federighi talking about here?! Since when are security researchers “constantly able to introspect what's happening in iOS”?!?! iOS is the blackest of black boxes, that's the point researchers have been making since last week! It's opaque! https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features at the same time, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, caused confusion

no need to call it the privacy feature. We are not that gullible. All cloud service providers scan images but come on Apple Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : In writing this op-ed...

The sheer volume of the doublespeak Apple has done on this is nuts. Over and over again this past week, Apple issues “clarifications” where they deny something they've said and then *immediately rephrase the same claim in a new way.* Interview is here: https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-08-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features at the same time, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, caused confusion

no need to call it the privacy feature. We are not that gullible. All cloud service providers scan images but come on Apple Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : In writing this op-ed...

I'm sorry, but what the hell is Craig Federighi talking about here?! Since when are security researchers “constantly able to introspect what's happening in iOS”?!?! iOS is the blackest of black boxes, that's the point researchers have been making since last week! It's opaque! https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-15 View on X
MacRumors

Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review

Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …

The sheer volume of the doublespeak Apple has done on this is nuts. Over and over again this past week, Apple issues “clarifications” where they deny something they've said and then *immediately rephrase the same claim in a new way.* Interview is here: https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-08-15 View on X
MacRumors

Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review

Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …

Craig Federighi today to the @WSJ: “We're not looking for CSAM on iPhones. [...] The sound-bite that got out early was “Apple is scanning my phone for images.” This is not what's happening” Dude, this is just blatant lying. This is directly contradicted by Apple's own statement. https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Craig Federighi says introducing two similar features at the same time, iMessage protections for children and CSAM scanning of iCloud photos, caused confusion

no need to call it the privacy feature. We are not that gullible. All cloud service providers scan images but come on Apple Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : In writing this op-ed...

Craig Federighi today to the @WSJ: “We're not looking for CSAM on iPhones. [...] The sound-bite that got out early was “Apple is scanning my phone for images.” This is not what's happening” Dude, this is just blatant lying. This is directly contradicted by Apple's own statement. https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-15 View on X
MacRumors

Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review

Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …

2021-08-14
I'm sorry, but what the hell is Craig Federighi talking about here?! Since when are security researchers “constantly able to introspect what's happening in iOS”?!?! iOS is the blackest of black boxes, that's the point researchers have been making since last week! It's opaque! https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-14 View on X
MacRumors

Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30 known CSAM images before an iCloud account is flagged for manual review

Apple today shared a document that provides a more detailed overview of the child safety features that it first announced last week …