Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes 27 seconds “Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.” – Ronald Coase Have you seen WhatsApps updated privacy terms when you open the app on your phone? Maybe you have, perhaps you have not. However, WhatsApp will start forcing its users to share Read more…
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes, 26 seconds Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and we’re going to write it.” ~ Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, 1993 As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and Web 3.0 advances, governments are ramping up their efforts to Read more…
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes 37 seconds This is an important article which highlights how far the US Government is willing to go to try to control private digital transactions. But first, here are some useful definitions for acronyms used in this article. CEX – Centralized Exchange DeFi – Decentralized Finance Read more…
Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes, 46 seconds In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a ‘whisper’ is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife’s ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then Read more…
Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes What are they — and why should you care? End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) private messaging apps are secure, but in today’s world, end-to-end isn’t enough. Many secure messaging apps have a fatal flaw: centralisation. Centralisation and centralised networks in private messaging It’s all about trust, baby Read more…
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes 27 seconds “Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.” – Ronald Coase Have you seen WhatsApps updated privacy terms when you open the app on your phone? Maybe you have, perhaps you have not. However, WhatsApp will start forcing its users to share Read more…