Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
Every day, billions of chat messages sent through Signal, Meta’s WhatsApp, and Apple’s Messages are protected by end-to-end encryption. The feature, which makes it impossible for tech companies…
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The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs
…months,” a Meta spokesperson told WIRED and other outlets. “Anyone who wants to keep messaging with end-to-end encryption can easily do that on WhatsApp.” The statement struck many as disingenuous…
Elon Musk’s XChat App Is More Like Facebook’s Messenger Than Signal
…If what you want is to be able to talk to pretty much anybody using encrypted messages, use WhatsApp,” Quintin says. “If your whole life is based around X, I guess this…
Garmin’s Latest Training Features Fend Off the Advances of the Apple Watch
…8/10 You can now get WhatsApp on your Garmin. You could do this before, though only through seeing notifications pop up onscreen. Now there’s a dedicated Garmin watch app to…
A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files
…Both Signal and WhatsApp offer end-to-end encryption, but the Dutch officials say that Russian hackers have managed to attack user accounts in two ways. In the first type of attack…
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
…But experts have consistently emphasized to WIRED in recent years that Meta platforms are a key battleground where more detections and defenses could make a difference in the barrier to entry for…
Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
…It's really too easy.” An Apple spokesperson told WIRED in a statement that “every day Apple's security teams around the world work tirelessly to protect users' devices and data,” and…
Your Phone Notifications Reveal More Than You Realize. Here’s How to Lock Them Down
…Other apps are rather hit and miss on this feature—WhatsApp offers something similar, for example, but only on iOS (pick Notifications > Show preview from the You tab). Another step you can…
90,000 Screenshots of One Celebrity's Phone Were Exposed Online
…with divided into Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and WhatsApp,” Jeremiah Fowler, a researcher with Black Hills Information Security who discovered the exposed data, tells WIRED. “There was a lot of nudity, there were…
Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
…In a statement, Meta spokesperson Chris Sgro says, “These allegations misrepresent the reality of our work and we will fight them.” Speaking with WIRED, Ben Winters, CFA’s director of AI and…