Physicists stored data in quantum holograms made of twisted light (www.sciencenews.org)
Light that travels in corkscrew-like paths provides a way to make holograms that store large amounts of data in ultrasecure packages....
The UK is Trying to Outlaw Encryption (www.youtube.com)
In this video I discuss how the United Kingdoms "Online Safety Act" would require tech companies to implement backdoors into their encryption algorithms in o...
Apple Tries to Explain to U.K. Legislators That You Can’t Add Back Doors to Secure Protocols (daringfireball.net)
Link to: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66256081
Apple warning it could shut FaceTime, iMessage in UK over gov't surveillance policy adds to growing tech industry discontent | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The list of mainstream Internet services that could shut down in the UK over security risks attached to government policymaking just got longer...
What Happened to Dolphin on Steam? (dolphin-emu.org)
Well that blew up, huh? If you follow emulation or just gaming on the whole, you've probably heard about the controversy around the Dolphin Steam release and the Wii Common Key. There's been a lot of conclusions made, and while we've wanted to defend ourselves, we thought it would be prudent to contact lawyers first to make sure...
Signal president Meredith Whittaker rejects ‘mass surveillance’ U.K. law (fortune.com)
Whittaker said Signal would not abide by the proposed law, and highlighted concerns about privacy and the need for tech leaders to take a stand against socially accepted surveillance.
Encryption With A Back Door Is NOT Encryption (ktetch.co.uk)
There’s been an increasing call in recent weeks and months for encryption to have government ‘backdoors’ put into them. This is a bad idea. No really, it’s an incredibly bad idea. Even if we took the assumption that it is a push that’s made with only the purest of intentions, and the government universal key is kept...
Apple says UK Online Safety Bill is “serious threat” to end-to-end encryption (arstechnica.com)
Apple has joined the growing number of organizations opposed to the UK's pending Online Safety Bill, saying the proposed law threatens the end-to-end encryption that protects private messages....
Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning. (www.bbc.com)
Signal Messenger, iMessage, and others could be forced to scan for child abuse images under the Online Safety Bill.
EU Member States Still Cannot Agree About End-to-End Encryption (cyberlaw.stanford.edu)
The responses of the 20 member states (or rather, their LEWP representatives) cover a spectrum, from extremely anti-encryption and pro-police powers, to robustly pro-encryption, with quite a few countries occupying a middle ground best described as “encryption is important, but…”.