Signal’s first paid feature adds encrypted media and message backups

Signal is launching its first paid feature: the ability to make secure, end-to-end encrypted backups of your media history older than 45 days and of your text message history for $1.99 per month.
Crikey

Australian police using encrypted message app Signal at work, internal emails reveal

An AFP spokesperson didn't deny that its staff were using Signal to coordinate its 'antisemitism statement' responding to the Dural caravan incident, but said personnel are expected to comply with ...
Windows Report

Here's Temporary Fix for Outlook Issue Blocking Encrypted Emails

Outlook users hit by bug blocking encrypted emails from external tenants. Microsoft is investigating with temporary ...

X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn’t trust it yet

Cryptography experts, however, are warning that X’s current implementation of encryption in XChat should not be trusted. They’re saying it’s far worse than Signal, a technology widely considered the ...
The Atlantic

Apple Can Read Your Encrypted iMessages (But Probably Won't)

Remember when Apple said it couldn’t read your iMessages? It turns out that isn’t necessarily true. Apple, it appears, could potentially read texts sent via its iMessaging service, according to a ...

Microsoft shares temp fix for Outlook encrypted email errors

Microsoft is investigating a known issue that triggers Outlook errors when opening encrypted emails sent from other ...
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A Cold War-Era Russian Radio Transmitter Just Broadcast a New Encrypted Message, No One’s Been Able to Decipher

A mysterious shortwave radio signal that has puzzled intelligence agencies and amateur radio enthusiasts for decades has once again broadcast a new coded message—one that experts and hobbyists alike ...