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April 24, 2018 02:41 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/O2RYOAnRQy0/chat-vs-spooks.html
It's 2018, and Google just proposed an instant messaging tool with no encryption
It's 2018, five years after Edward Snowden's documents revealed the scope of US and allied mass surveillance; after a string of revelations about creepy private-sector cyber-arms-dealers who sell spying tools to stalkers, criminals, and autocratic governments, Google has proposed "Chat," a new Android standard for instant messaging with no encryption and hence zero protection against snooping. (more…)
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