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Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses

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Last month, the cryptographer and coder known as Moxie Marlinspike was getting settled on an airplane when his seatmate, a midwestern-looking man in his 60s, asked for help. He couldn’t figure out how to enable airplane mode on his aging Android phone. But when Marlinspike saw the screen, he wondered for a moment if he was being trolled: Among just a handful of apps installed on the phone was Signal.

Marlinspike launched Signal, widely considered the world’s most secure end-to-end encrypted messaging app, nearly five years ago, and today heads the nonprofit Signal Foundation that maintains it. But the man on the plane didn’t know any of that. He was not, in fact, trolling Marlinspike, who politely showed him how to enable airplane mode and handed the phone back.

“I try to remember moments like that in building Signal,” Marlinspike told Wired in an interview over a Signal-enabled phone call the day after that flight. “The choices we’re making, the app we’re trying to create, it needs to be for people who don’t know how to enable airplane mode on their phone,” Marlinspike says.

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North Korea’s digital divide: Online elites, isolated masses

Older versions featured a Windows XP user interface but it now it has a Mac design, right down to the “spinning beach … According to the FBI, the North’s bigger hacks include the recent WannaCry ransomware attack, which infected hundreds of thousands …
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Mindless Flash masses saved as exploit kit devs go astray with 0day – The Register


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Mindless Flash masses saved as exploit kit devs go astray with 0day
The Register
Malwarebytes hacker Jerome Segura says black hats have made a mess of efforts to unleash an Adobe Flash zero day vulnerability as part of their popular exploit kit, reducing the pool of potential victims. If done right, the remote code execution
Cyberattackers botch integration of Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability in exploit kitsZDNet
Another Emergency Update for FlashTop Tech News
The latest Flash zero-day was used to spread Cerber ransomwareCIO India

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Build-your-own-Dropbox service AeroFS now open to the masses

AeroFS has left its invite-only beta.

If you want access to the best features of Dropbox or one of its many competitors—automated file syncing between computers, a way to automatically keep old versions of your synced files, etc.—but you don’t want to keep your stuff in someone else’s cloud, AeroFS is a promising service. It can provide file syncing for many clients using your own local server (or, for businesses, Amazon S3 storage that you have more direct control over). When we last wrote about the service, it was still in an invite-only beta, but a message that went out to users last night declared that this beta is over and that the service is now open to anyone.

Now that the service is out of beta, though, it will start to cost money for larger groups of users. The “free” tier can support up to three “team members” (members who can be given full access to every synced folder in your AeroFS setup) and one “external collaborator” (an external user who can only view and edit the contents of a single user) per folder. Starting at four team members and going up to 50, the service costs $ 10 per member per month, and this also buys you unlimited access for your external collaborators. Finally, for teams larger than 50 members and teams that need integration with existing Active Directory or LDAP setups, you need to call AeroFS to get pricing, which will likely vary based on the size of your organization.

Existing beta users will be grandfathered in without being asked to pay for anything, but adding additional team members or external collaborators to your folders will be subject to the same pricing options outlined above.

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