Facebook Messenger’s encryption plans labelled a ‘disaster’ for child safety

  Facebook’s plans to encrypt its messenger service will be a “disaster” for child safety and law enforcement, a senior National Crime Agency (NCA) director has said.  In 2019, Facebook confirmed it was forging ahead with plans to bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to its Messenger platform, despite calls from governments that it will make it easier for … Read more

Encrypted messaging could increase child abuse cases, report warns

Millions of children in England are using messaging platforms that they are not old enough to be accessing and the introduction of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) could increase their risk of exploitation, the Children’s Commissioner for England has warned in a report.  The Commissioner’s report follows announcements by Facebook – and indications by other social platforms, such as Snap – … Read more

Forensic Data Trumps Encryption

Your application might be the most secure application ever written, but unbeknownst to you, the operating system is unintentionally working against your security. I’ve tested many applications that were otherwise securely written, but leaked clear text copies of confidential information into the operating system’s caches.  From web caches that store web page data, to keyboard … Read more

The New Java Security Model

The Need for Java Security From its inception, Java has shown that it was designed for the net. Java brought about, for the first time on a large scale, the concept of dynamic loading of code from a source outside the system. Though this is very powerful, and adds several features to the system using … Read more

SRTP (Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol or Secure RTP)

SRTP (Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol or Secure RTP) An “internet” is a network of networks, possibly consisting of many different link types such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi. These networks support electronic mail, web browsing, and other Internet Protocol (IP) applications. More complex than IP networks alone, Internet telephony networks carry voice, fax, modem, and other … Read more