Encryption
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Human Rights and Democracy in the Quantum Age
Now is the time to prepare for the second quantum revolution.

Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order and What Comes Next Under Trump
Regardless of what steps Trump takes next, Biden's cybersecurity EO reflects an important consensus on the evolving cyber threat landscape.

The Just Security Podcast: The Spread of Political Propaganda on Encrypted Messaging Apps
Messaging platforms such as have become highly influential tools for manipulating and misleading voters around the world.

Political Propaganda Runs Wild on Messaging Apps – Platform Owners Can Help Counter It
Messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Viber have become highly influential tools for manipulating and misleading voters.

Telegram’s Security Sham
Its track record and transparency practices, as well as the testimony of researchers, make it plain its claims of security are not to be trusted.

Encryption Helps Ukrainians Resist Russia’s Invasion, but a European Plan Threatens the Underlying Trust Any Tech User Needs
The intended crime-fighting proposals could force encrypted-messaging services to abandon basic confidentiality or pull out of the market.

We Now Know What Information the FBI Can Obtain from Encrypted Messaging Apps
Despite its “going dark” claims, the FBI can obtain a remarkable amount of user data from secure messaging apps that collectively have several billion global users.

What the Afghanistan Withdrawal Teaches Us About Safeguarding Human Rights Evidence
As the Taliban seized control, evidence of human rights abuses had to be destroyed, hidden, or risk capture. It didn't have to be this way.

Client-Side Scanning: A New Front In the War on User Control of Technology
When technology has expanded to nearly every corner of our lives, how much control should users have over the devices they own?

Encryption Originalism
Encryption originalism views strong encryption as the modern reemergence of Founding Era practice of employing—often unbreakable—ciphers.

App Stores as Back-Doors for Government Regulation of End-to-End Encryption
App stores make natural chokepoints for de facto government regulation, without the long and politically expensive process of legislation. But the privacy and security implications…

Don’t Blame Privacy for Big Tech’s Monopoly on Information
As the prospect of antitrust charges against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) looms larger, regulators should challenge the concentration of data within Big Tech…