Encryption Stories for 2018

India Wants Tech Platforms To Break Encryption And Remove Content The Government Thinks Is 'Unlawful' 108
Tim May, Father of 'Crypto Anarchy,' Is Dead At 67 60
Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem 156
US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds 190
Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered By Yahoo Mail, Gmail 59
Quantum Network Joins Four People Together For Encrypted Messaging 60
Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] 289
Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For 193
Australia Set To Spy on WhatsApp Messages With Encryption Law 151
Hacker Says They Compromised ProtonMail; ProtonMail Calls BS 55
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns 45
Safari Tests 'Not Secure' Warning For Unencrypted Websites 66
Credit Card Chips Have Failed to Halt Fraud (So Far) 229
Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App 122
Flaws in Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Bypass Disk Encryption 105
File-Sharing Software On State Election Servers Could Expose Them To Intruders 125
Quantum Computers Will Break the Encryption that Protects the Internet 166
Slack Doesn't Have End-to-End Encryption Because Your Boss Doesn't Want It 92
Apple Rebukes Australia's 'Dangerously Ambiguous' Anti-Encryption Bill 87
Network Middleware Still Can't Handle TLS Without Breaking Encryption 101
Australian Industry and Tech Groups Unite To Fight Encryption-Busting Bill 66
US Government Loses Bid To Force Facebook To Wiretap Messenger Calls 40
Worries Arise About Security of New WebAuthn Protocol 57
WhatsApp Warns Free Google Drive Backups Are Not End-To-End Encrypted 38
Encrypted Communications Apps Failed To Protect Michael Cohen 475
Australians Who Won't Unlock Their Phones Could Face 10 Years In Jail 223
Encrypt NFSv4 with TLS Encryption Using Stunnel 83
US Government Seeks Facebook Help To Wiretap Messenger, Report Says 51
NSA Cracked Open Encrypted Networks of Russian Airlines, Al Jazeera, and Other 'High Potential' Targets 68
Australia To Pass Bill Providing Backdoors Into Encrypted Devices, Communications 168
Dropbox Is Dropping Support For All Linux File Systems Except Unencrypted Ext4 258
Vint Cerf on Differential Traceability on the Internet 105
WhatsApp Balks at India's Demand To Break Encryption 146
Open Gov't Advocates Fear that Private Messaging Apps Are Being Misused by Public Officials To Conduct Business in Secret 125
FBI Director: Without Compromise on Encryption, Legislation May Be the 'Remedy' 393
Tinder Embraces Encryption 51
Russia Demands Apple Remove Telegram From Russian App Store 113
How WIRED lost $100,000 in Bitcoin 127
Researchers Crack Open AMD's Server VM Encryption 50
FBI Repeatedly Overstated Encryption Threat Figures To Congress, Public 160
IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption 197
Encrypted Email Has a Major, Divisive Flaw 116
Lawmakers Move To Block Government From Ordering Digital 'Back Doors' 87
Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors 129
GitHub Accidentally Exposes Some Plaintext Passwords In Its Internal Logs 151
Amazon Tells Signal's Creators To Stop Using Anti-Censorship Tool 99
Russia Admits To Blocking Millions of IP Addresses 73
France is Building Its Own Encrypted Messaging Service To Ease Fears That Foreign Entities Could Spy on Private Conversations 87
Russia Begins Blocking Telegram Messenger 59
Former FBI Director James Comey Reveals How Apple and Google's Encryption Efforts Drove Him 'Crazy' 351
Lawmakers Call FBI's 'Going Dark' Narrative 'Highly Questionable' After Motherboard Shows Cops Can Easily Hack iPhones 69
Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show 98
Researchers Devise a Way To Generate Provably Random Numbers Using Quantum Mechanics 139
Russia Files Lawsuit To Block Telegram Messaging App 70
Tor Winds Down Its Encrypted Messenger App 3 Years After Launch 21
State Department Seemingly Buys $15,000 iPhone Cracking Tech GrayKey 79
Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones 171
Telegram Loses Supreme Court Appeal In Russia, Must Hand Over Encryption Keys 217
Encrypted Email Service ProtonMail is Being Blocked in Turkey 35
Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones To Sinaloa Drug Cartel 115
FBI Again Calls For Magical Solution To Break Into Encrypted Phones 232
23,000 HTTPS Certs Axed After CEO Emails Private Keys 72
Signal, WhatsApp Co-Founder Launch 'Open Source Privacy Technology' Nonprofit 45
Two Years After FBI vs Apple, Encryption Debate Remains 175
Camera Makers Resist Encryption, Despite Warnings From Photographers 291
How DIY Rebels Are Working To Replace Tech Giants 115
Senator Asks FBI Director To Justify His 'Ill-Informed' Policy Proposal For Encryption 372
Apple's China iCloud Data Migration Sweeps Up International User Accounts 45
Cisco Can Now Sniff Out Malware Inside Encrypted Traffic 97
FBI Calls Apple 'Jerks' and 'Evil Geniuses' For Making iPhone Cracks Difficult 348
FBI Chief Calls Unbreakable Encryption 'Urgent Public Safety Issue' 442