#encryption

Delta aircraft parked at jet bridges on the apron at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport under a pink sunset sky

The DOJ charged a US citizen over a GrapheneOS duress password that wiped his phone at the border

Samuel Tunick's Pixel erased itself during a CBP inspection at Atlanta's airport. Prosecutors call that destroying property to prevent its seizure.

An AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop processor, the consumer chip generation affected by the memory-encryption change.

Security·last month

AMD stripped memory encryption from your Ryzen, then put it back after the backlash

AMD quietly dropped RAM encryption from consumer Ryzen 9000 chips in a firmware update. A Linux hobbyist caught it, the community revolted, and AMD is reinstating it in July.

Abstract illustration representing VPN connections and digital privacy

Policy·3 months ago

The EU called VPNs 'a loophole that needs closing.' Proton's UK signups rose 1,800%.

An EU Parliament briefing and Executive VP Henna Virkkunen both flagged VPN circumvention of age verification. The UK's attempt to solve it backfired into record VPN adoption.

Policy·3 months ago

Meta pulled encryption from Instagram DMs today. WhatsApp and Messenger keep theirs.

End-to-end encryption is gone from Instagram DMs as of May 8. Meta cited low adoption for a feature it never turned on by default.

GnuPG and OpenPGP key icon over an abstract lattice background.

Security·3 months ago

GnuPG 2.5.19 lands ML-KEM in mainline. Post-quantum OpenPGP is no longer a side branch.

Werner Koch shipped GnuPG 2.5.19 on April 24 with FIPS-203 ML-KEM, the first stable post-quantum encryption algorithm in OpenPGP. Here's what changed and what didn't.