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CyanogenMod to encrypt text messages by default with latest update

10
Dec
2013

Android users worried that the government is spying on their smartphone now have a new privacy option: CyanogenMod. Starting with todays nightly 10.2 build, the custom firmware will encrypt SMS and MMS messages sent to any device using the TextSecure protocol, including fellow Cyanogen users. Users wont have to do a thing; the cryptography runs […]

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Research Finds that Privacy Tools Don’t Work

07
Nov
2011

Steve, a medical illustrator, was looking to spend a little money on an electronic drawing device as a tax write-off before year’s end. After looking at one such device online, he noticed that related marketing was following him around like a homeless puppy. Everywhere Steve browsed, ads for Wacoms followed. It was a little creepy, […]

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