In the News (#1639)

The deliberate engineering of vulnerabilities into critical infrastructure…[is] a grave threat to privacy everywhere. – Udbhav Tiwari I Spy (#1319) Politicians are unable to fathom concepts like “principles” and “keeping promises”: Secure messaging service Signal, which uses end-to-end encryption, is warning it would withdraw from Canada if asked to compromise its users’ privacy under…Ottawa’s proposed [surveillance] legislation…the bill…would…[not only] threaten encryption…[but] also…make private messaging services a…target for cyberattacks…The bill would require telecoms, internet companies and other electronic service providers to [give cop shops and spook houses the same kind of ill-considered back doors which enabled the 2024 “Salt Typhoon” attack]…and…require…[them] to retain metadata for up to a year…includ[ing] information about which telephone numbers have been in touch with each other, and data allowing someone’s location to be pinpointed… Virtual Imperialism (#1505) It’s…