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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Amid Apple's FBI Fight, App Developers Are Ramping Up Encryption

While Apple fights the demands of the FBI over encrypted iPhone data, the companies that help users communicate privately between such devices are working hard to dramatically increase their methods of security.

Wire, a messaging app backed by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, is the latest to add end-to-end encryption and secure video communication to its service, the company announced today, as it tries to gain traction against rival communications platforms.

The service, which rolled out in December 2014, has tried to distinguish itself with a sleek, uncluttered design and its ability to operate on any device, desktop to mobile, and across all major operating systems.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They're learning from Apple.
It's about time the general law-abiding populace won one!

Anonymous said...

I have a hard time even beleiving any of this story as being real. Call me a conspiracy theorist if youd like but i have a hard time beleiving they dont already know whats on that phone, or yours for that matter.