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Also no good for data capped connections

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies is a wonderful book. I wouldn't call the systems they build upon (such as lMetacat [1] and Tabletop [2]) "machine learning"... [1] http://scie…

Keyringer is a software that does exactly what I think you need, in a similar way than the parent's suggestion (gpg over git): Keyringer: encrypted and distributed secret sharing s…

Except gliders floating in infinite space. Maybe.

From the news article: Boelter said: “[Some] might say that this vulnerability could only be abused to snoop on ‘single’ targeted messages, not entire conversations. This is not tr…

“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?” -- Bertolt Brecht

I see here two concepts of "being able to"

People underestimate a lot the power of "useless" features, if well designed, to attract new users. Telegram's Stickers are probably one of the features that most people feel other…

Sure it is not the best tool -- but depending on what means "critical" in your context it provides great security. Not against the NSA targeted attacks, sure, but if you're not so …

Google is supposedly hiding a direct competitor to one of its main product from its search engine, the main entry of the Internet for millions of people that aren't very proficient…

From /r/TOR: "Old news. This was fixed in 6.0.5. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-605-released Interesting note: The author is part of the rotor browser fork that is go…

For a much more gentle (and illustrated) introduction do public-key encryption, GnuPG and how to use it with email (Thunderbird + Enigmail), see FSF's Email Self-Defense: https://e…

SMS is the first factor in the case of Telegram. The 2-step authentication Telegram provides is through email.

I guess there is no point in arguing if you think this way. Paraphrasing Edward Snowden, if you don't work to protect privacy because the threat to YOU is not clear, you shouldn't …