We finally have an excuse to tear down Telegram! Their CEO got arrested by the French, apparently not because the cryptography in Telegram is bad, but special guest Matt Green joined us to talk about how the cryptography is bad anyway, and you probably shouldn't use Telegram as a secure messenger of any kind! Transcript: https://securitycryptographywhateve ... Show More
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Python Cryptography Breaks Up with OpenSSL with Paul Kehrer and Alex Gaynor
The Python cryptography module, pyca/cryptography, has mostly been a sane wrapper around a pile of C, so that users get performant cryptography on the many, many platforms Python targets. Therefore its maintainers, Alex Gaynor and Paul Kehrer, have become intimately familiar with ... Show More
1h 12m
Sep 2024
How Telegram Became the Underworld’s Favorite App
<p>A Times investigation has found that Telegram, one of the world’s biggest messaging apps, with nearly a billion users, is also a giant black market and gathering place for the likes of terrorists and white supremacists.</p><p>Adam Satariano, a technology reporter for The Times ... Show More
25m 45s
Sep 2024
The Telegram case: Privacy vs security
<p>What are the limits of privacy when it comes to our online lives? If authorities are investigating a crime, should they be able to access private messages sent between two individuals? In this episode of Tech Tonic, John Thornhill interviews Eva Galperin, director of cybersecu ... Show More
27m 50s
Aug 2024
Telegram’s nightmare week
Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov, is under investigation over criminal activity on the messaging app. He spent four days in detention after being arrested when arriving in France and is now barred from leaving the country.Sumi Somaskanda speaks to the BBC's Cyber Correspondent, Joe Tidy ... Show More
26m 35s
Nov 2024
Le Gouvernement français à fond sur l’app Signal ?
<p>L’été a été marqué par l’arrestation de Pavel Durov, le fondateur de Telegram, par les autorités françaises. Bien que le milliardaire franco-russe ait depuis coopéré avec l’État, l’application continue de traîner une mauvaise réputation. En témoigne une nouvelle circulaire adr ... Show More
2m 1s
Sep 2024
Telegram : accès libre aux IP et numéros de téléphone pour les autorités ?
<p>Le patron de Telegram, Pavel Durov, semble avoir opéré un tournant radical depuis qu'il est sous la supervision de la justice française et interdit de quitter le territoire. Connu pour sa résistance aux autorités, il coopère désormais pleinement avec les demandes légales. Ce c ... Show More
1m 49s
Oct 2024
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism, Text Privacy and AI
What do cybersecurity experts, journalists in foreign conflicts, indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Drake have in common? They all use the Signal messaging app. Signal’s protocol has been the gold standard in end-to-end encryption, used by Whatsapp, Google and more, for ... Show More
1h 2m