privacy
Signal is losing
Signal is losing the network effect battle in Hong Kong.
privacy
china
Tantan Responds - Promises Encryption
Wow! I am shocked and humbled by the positive reaction to my post last Friday about how Tantan doesn't use encryption. The overwhelming interest on reddit and across Facebook and Twitter along with the interest from the mainstream media showed that many people understand the value of encryption
china
How Chinese Tinder clone screws you
Update: Tantan CEO and Co-founder Yu Wang reached out to me via email to acknowledge these issues. Read his email and my response. TL;DR: Chinese Tinder clone Tantan is endangering young women and men by failing to use encryption and exposing private data like that made public in the
privacy
Project calling privacy a human right tracks you without consent
Update: They have removed the tracking. Impressive responsiveness! Friend +liongrass pointed me to an organization called the "Global Commission on Internet Governance" that released a statement calling privacy "fundamental human right" on their open source website. Lofty goals and admirable words. If only their actions and
infosec
FCC Infosec 101: Protect Your Data, Protect Your Sources
I joined Leonhard Weese and Fabian Lischka in leading a 60 minute workshop on information security and encryption for journalists at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Central, Hong Kong. Our goal was to give journalists some basic steps they could take to improve the security of the information the collect