Encryption Stories for 2020

Signal Says Cellebrite Cannot Break Its Encryption 14
Authorities Don't Need To Break Phone Encryption in Most Cases, Because Modern Phone Encryption Sort of Sucks. 61
Israeli Spy Tech Firm Says It Can Break Into Signal App 87
Report Claims America's CIA Also Controlled a Second Swiss Encryption Firm 100
Google is Rolling Out End-To-End Encryption for RCS in Android Messages Beta 77
NSA Ducks Questions About Backdoors In Tech Products 84
Hackers Can Now Reverse Engineer Intel Updates Or Write Their Own Custom Firmware 21
The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone 96
Zoom To Roll Out End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) Calls 31
Backdoor In Kids' Smartwatch Makes It Possible For Someone To Covertly Take Pictures, Record Audio 16
Five Eyes Governments, India, and Japan Make New Call For Encryption Backdoors 129
Encrochat Investigation Finds Corrupt Cops Leaking Information To Criminals 41
Bridgefy, the Messenger Promoted For Mass Protests, Is a Privacy Disaster 80
Did A Chinese State-Sponsored Group Breach Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry? 15
Zoom Sued By Consumer Group For Misrepresenting Its Encryption Protections 11
Bill Gates Weighs In on US Pandemic Response, Encryption, and Grilling Tech Executives 86
Garmin Reportedly Paid Millions To Obtain Decryption Key, Resolve Recent Ransomware Attack 61
Could Randomness Theory Hold Key To Internet Security? 50
State-of-the-Art Crypto Goes Post-Quantum (with Containerized TinySSH) 40
Rare and Hardest To Crack Enigma Code Machine Sells For $437,000 46
'Mozilla VPN' Launches in Six Countries 69
Enigma Code-Breaking Machine Rebuilt At Cambridge 34
Signal's New PIN Feature Worries Cybersecurity Experts 45
Inside the Plot To Kill the Open Technology Fund 80
Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Other Major Tech Companies Decry Republican Bill Seeking To Break Encryption 66
Comcast Becomes the First ISP To Join Mozilla's TRR Program 85
Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies To Help Access Encrypted Data 182
Encrypted Phone Network Says It's Shutting Down After Police Hack 31
Discord Removes Servers Dedicated To Pirating Porn 46
Zoom To Launch End-to-End Encryption For All Users -- Not Just Paid Accounts 39
Mozilla, EFF, 19,000 Citizens Urge Zoom To Reverse End-to-End Encryption Decision 44
Some States Have Embraced Online Voting. It's a Huge Risk. 338
IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit For iOS and MacOS 46
Matthew Green on Zoom Not Offering End-To-End Encryption To Free Users 39
Signal Launches Face-Blurring Tool as US Protesters Embrace Encrypted Messaging 117
Zoom's New, Stronger Encryption May Only Protect Paying Clients 21
AG Barr Seeks 'Legislative Solution' To Make Companies Unlock Phones 92
The FBI Successfully Broke Into a Gunman's iPhone, But It's Still Very Angry at Apple 211
Quantum Security Goes Live With Samsung Galaxy 51
Windows 10 Previews DNS Over HTTPS 90
Documents Reveal FBI Head Defended Encryption for WhatsApp Before Becoming Fierce Critic 34
Apple and Google Pledge To Shut Down Coronavirus Tracker When Pandemic Ends 63
NordVPN Unveils First Mainstream WireGuard Virtual Private Network 51
Signal Threatens To Dump US Market If EARN IT Act Passes 82
Zoom Meetings Aren't End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing 74
Unpatched iOS Bug Blocks VPNs From Encrypting All Traffic 19
ProtonMail Could Reroute Connections Through Google To Circumvent Censorship 9
Motherboard Built a Database of Over 500 iPhones Cops Have Tried To Unlock 16
The EARN IT Act is an Attack on Encryption 176
Let's Encrypt Discovers CAA Bug, Must Revoke Customer Certificates 66
EU Commission To Staff: Switch To Signal Messaging App 46
Safari Will Stop Trusting Certs Older Than 13 Months 115
Iran Has Been Targeting VPN Servers to Plant Backdoors 49
Google Chrome Will Soon Start Blocking Insecure Downloads 139
Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging To the Masses 79
The CIA Secretly Bought a Company That Sold Encryption Devices Across the World. Then, Its Spies Read Everything. 277
Researchers Find Some LoRaWAN Networks Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks 6
Linus Torvalds Pulls WireGuard VPN into Linux 5.6 Kernel Source Tree 51
A New Bill Could Punish Web Platforms For Using End-To-End Encryption 93
This Sculpture Holds a Decades-Old C.I.A. Mystery. And Now, Another Clue. 20
Apple Dropped Plan for Encrypting Backups After FBI Complained 134
Exploit Fully Breaks SHA-1, Lowers the Attack Bar 47
The FBI Can Unlock Florida Terrorist's iPhones Without Apple 121
iPhones Can Now Be Used To Generate 2FA Security Keys For Google Accounts 4
Apple Responds To AG Barr Over Unlocking Pensacola Shooter's Phone: 'No.' 234
Barr Asks Apple To Unlock iPhones of Pensacola Gunman 195
A Quick Look At the Fight Against Encryption 87
Over Two Dozen Encryption Experts Call on India To Rethink Changes To Its Intermediary Liability Rules 36
FBI Asks Apple To Help Unlock Two iPhones 134