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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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The Guardian and Cambridge University's Department of Computer Science unveil new secure technology to protect sources

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The Guardian and Cambridge University's Department of Computer Science unveil new secure technology to protect sources

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The Guardian launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge
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Secure Messaging is a new innovation for confidential story-sharing and source protection, underpinning the Guardian’s commitment to investigative journalism. The Guardian has published the open source code for this important tech to enable adoption by other media organisations.

Academic paper: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-999.pdf

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    Using an encrypted messaging app could itself be a red flag, using a news app is normal behavior.

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      It isn’t.

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        https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/

        For France, Your a terroriste if you use signal

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        It’s a red flag to those who think you’re going to share internal info.

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          Or it’s just a perfectly normal thing that billions of people do every day?

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            Except that signal is blocked by many companies Mobile Device Management. The one that don’t can typically see who has the app installed. This provides a new clever way to maybe whistleblow

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              Use a different device? Use Molly? Use any number of other apps? What’s to stop the MDM from blocking The Guardian app?

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