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Hacking group plans system to encrypt social media and other apps
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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The title sounds a bit misleading. So here's what the article is really about:
"The latest effort, to be detailed at the massive annual Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas next week, seeks to provide a foundation for messaging, file sharing and even social networking apps without harvesting any data, all secured by the kind of end-to-end encryption that makes interception hard even for governments."