encryption
15 pieces
Field Guide to AI, Security and Cybercrime
Client-Side Scanning Explained: Checking Messages Before Encryption
A scanner on every device is a capability that can be widened, fooled and misused, which is why it breaks end-to-end encryption.
Opinion · 9 min
Email Encryption Explained: What PGP and S/MIME Do and Do Not Hide
The standard email you use is not end-to-end encrypted. Here is what the two main encryption systems protect, and what they leave exposed.
Opinion · 7 min
Encrypted Search: What You Give Up for Privacy
End-to-end encryption protects your queries but fundamentally limits what a search service can do for you.
Opinion · 7 min
Encryption Backdoors Are a Distraction: Metadata Is the Target
Governments and surveillance actors increasingly exploit the data around your encrypted messages, not their content.
Opinion · 8 min
End-to-End Encrypted Backups: What You Gain and What You Give Up
Moving the backup key to you shuts out the provider, its breaches and legal demands. It also makes you the only recovery desk.
Opinion · 5 min
Full-Disk Encryption: Turn It On Before You Need It
The encryption built into your laptop costs nothing. Its real failure points are the recovery key and the sleeping lid.
Opinion · 7 min
What Makes a Messaging App Actually Private
"Encrypted" on the homepage answers the least important question. Defaults, metadata, backups and the two phones decide the rest.
Opinion · 6 min
Content Credentials (C2PA) Explained: What the Label Proves
Provenance can vouch for what honest sources signed; its absence proves nothing about anything else.
Opinion · 10 min
Crossing a Border With Your Phone: How to Prepare Your Devices
At a border the threat is compelled access, which calls for carrying less rather than encrypting more.
Opinion · 7 min
Will Quantum Computers Break Encryption? What Is Actually at Risk
Public-key exchange and signatures are exposed; your AES files and hashed passwords mostly are not.
Opinion · 8 min
Other
Encrypted at Rest Is the Weakest Claim on the Page
It defends against one specific event, it is nearly universal, and it is presented as though it were the headline
Supported · 3 min
Who Holds the Key
One question organises almost everything in practical security, and most products answer it without being asked
Supported · 6 min
You Cannot Verify the Code You Are Running
Open source proves what was published, not what was executed, and the gap between those is where trust actually sits
Supported · 4 min
Browser-Level Encryption: What the Padlock Does Not Cover
The difference between a connection nobody can read and a file nobody can read
Supported · 4 min
Who Holds the Key: How files.vualet Differs From Dropbox by Design
A comparison written while one side of it is still being built, and labelled as such
Forward-looking · 4 min