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CIA used second Swiss encryption firm to spy on governments – report

December 10, 2020 -

"How can such a thing happen in a country that claims to be neutral like Switzerland?" exclaimed Cedric Wemuth, co-head of Switzerland’s Socialist Party, Cedric Wermuth, in an interview with Swiss public broadcaster  SRF on Thursday, Dec. 3.

Wermuth has called for a parliamentary inquiry after an SRF investigation, broadcast on Dec. 2, found that a second Swiss firm had been part of an espionage scheme orchestrated by U.S. and German intelligence agencies.Second ...

End-to-end encryption debate draws attention to child sex abuse

October 16, 2020 -

Facebook was responsible for a remarkable 94 percent of the 69 million images of child sex abuse that were reported by American tech firms last year. With the company planning to fully encrypt communications within its Messenger and Instagram Direct services, concerns are growing that it will become easier for people who abuse children to avoid detection. Facebooks’ WhatsApp service is already fully encrypted.

The social media platform has said that these changes are ...

NSA pays tech companies millions to engineer backdoors into encryption protocols

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Signal messaging app threatens exit from Europe amid Brussels’ war on encryption

October 07, 2025 -

In a dramatic standoff over digital privacy, encrypted messaging app Signal has warned it will pull out of Europe entirely rather than comply with an European Union proposal that would force companies to break their own encryption.

The controversial legislation would require platforms like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram to scan every message in real time before encryption via a backdoor system. While the proposal has been framed as a child protection ...

Florida lawmakers reject encryption backdoor bill that can be exploited by criminals

May 18, 2025 -

Florida lawmakers have rejected a controversial bill that would have required social media companies to create encryption backdoors for law enforcement.

The defeated bill, Senate Bill 868/House Bill 743 (Social Media Use By Minors), sought to compel platforms to provide decryption mechanisms for law enforcement with a warrant, grant parents access to private messages of minors and ban minors from using disappearing messages. (Related: Florida's social ...

The Crypto AG Scandal: How American and German spy agencies turned encryption into espionage

April 08, 2025 -

For decades, governments around the world trusted the encryption devices sold by Crypto AG, a Swiss company renowned for its precision engineering and cutting-edge technology. What they didn't know was that many of those machines were rigged.

Revelations in February 2020 confirmed long-running suspicions: Crypto AG was secretly owned and controlled by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND). Given ...

Privacy under siege: Europol and the UK Crime Agency target encryption, call for backdoors

April 30, 2024 -

(Article by Didi Rankovic republished from ReclaimTheNet.org)

Here we have Europol (EU’s law enforcement agency) and the supposedly “divested” from the EU shenanigans via Brexit UK – but is it really? – and that country’s National Crime Agency (NCA), teaming up to attack Meta for dozens and dozens of reasonable reasons, but for the one thing the company is apparently trying to do right.

And that’s implementing in its products end-to-end encryption (E2EE), the very, ...

Leaked documents: Socialist Spain wants the EU to ban all end-to-end encryption

May 26, 2023 -

The document is a survey commissioned by the European Council, a body within the European Union's executive branch. The survey polled member countries' views on the regulation of encrypted communications systems. (Related: European Commissioner that wants to snoop on private messages has no idea how the technology works.)

The leaked document provided media outlets with the behind-the-scenes opinions of European officials on how to craft a controversial law meant to stop ...

NaturalNews exclusive: US government developing ultimate cyber weapon; Prime-factoring quantum computing makes encryption obsolete

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New hardware vulnerability discovered in Apple’s M chips that allows attackers to steal encryption keys from Macs

March 31, 2024 -

The latest is a new bug that researchers have found in the Apple M1, M2 and M3 chipset. Known as the GoFetch vulnerability, it is part of the computer’s CPU. This means that unless you change the computer’s CPU itself, it is essentially unpatchable. It allows for side-channel cache-based memory attacks wherein a process can read the data from another process and leak information. The vulnerability is highly sophisticated and is related to the Data Memory-dependent Prefetcher ...

EXCLUSIVE: Why Google’s “quantum supremacy” means the end of encryption security for cryptocurrency, military, finance and personal communications

September 22, 2019 -

It seems apparent that many people simply don't want to believe those implications, so they choose to ignore what just happened. On the indy media side, one of the implications that seems to bother many publishers is the fact that quantum computing makes cryptocurrency obsolete. So quantum computing stories get ignored because the implications are too scary for the crypto crowd, which doesn't feel comfortable considering the implications of what happens when the "crypto" ...

IT’S HERE: D-Wave announces 2048-qubit quantum computing system, theoretically capable of breaking all classical encryption, including military-grade

September 24, 2019 -

As the number of qubits (quantum bits) in quantum computers exceeds the number of bits used in classical encryption, it renders that encryption practically pointless. A 256-qubit quantum computer, in other words, can easily break 256-bit encryption. A 512-bit qubit computer can break 512-bit encryption, and so on.

Those of us who are the leading publishers in independent media have long known that government-funded tech advancements are typically allowed to leak to ...

China leaps ahead of USA on quantum computing research; could spell end to encryption, demolishing crypto currencies and national security

October 31, 2017 -

In just the past several months, China has unveiled a quantum satellite that it says is capable of transmitting data using ultra-secure methods never before utilized for such a task. The satellite establishes a 1,243-mile quantum link between Shanghai and Beijing, a groundbreaking feat that can only be compared to other major milestones like the "space race" that resulted in the Soviet Union launching the Sputnik satellite back on October 4, 1957.

Further, China has ...

LexisNexis DATA BREACH showcases security risks of corporate data warehouses

May 30, 2025 -

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The breach that no one noticed—until it was too late

On December 25, 2024, hackers infiltrated LexisNexis’ GitHub account, gaining access to a trove of highly sensitive consumer data. Yet, the company didn’t discover the breach until April 1, 2025—a staggering four-month blind spot. By then, names, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license details had already been siphoned off, ripe for exploitation.

“This wasn’t just a hack—it ...

Italian data privacy watchdog accuses ChatGPT of scraping people’s data

April 23, 2023 -

This is according to the Italian data protection agency Garante, which said  ChatGPT collects data in a way that is incompatible with Italian and European data protection laws. This comes about a month after Italy banned ChatGPT, becoming the first country in the Western world to block the advanced chatbot over privacy issues.  (Related: Italy bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns.)

Garante said ChatGPT has been scraping people's names and email addresses and using this data ...

PayPal data breach exposes sensitive customer data: A pattern of negligence and surveillance

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In a shocking revelation, PayPal has admitted to yet another massive security failure, exposing the personal and financial data of nearly 35,000 customers. The breach, which occurred between Dec. 6 and Dec. 8, 2022, allowed unauthorized actors to access highly sensitive information—including full names, birth dates, social security numbers, physical addresses and tax identification numbers. This incident, confirmed by PayPal in a Jan. 19, 2023, letter to affected ...

Faked data? Met Office’s data gaps raise questions over climate crisis claims

May 19, 2025 -

The U.K. Met Office, a cornerstone of global climate science, faces mounting scrutiny after failing to identify the sources of temperature data linked to 103 non-existent weather stations. Investigations by independent researchers and frustrated Freedom of Information requests have exposed gaps in the agency’s methodologies, casting doubt on its climate data reliability. The findings, emerging against a backdrop of urgent global climate policies, raise critical ...