Enlarge (credit: Signal) Plenty of messaging apps use strong encryption to make it next to impossible for law enforcement officers or other potential adversaries to read communications sent between parties. Often, however, unencrypted metadata—such as the sender, receiver, and time a message is sent—is all the sensitive data an adversary needs. Now, the Signal app […]
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Hawaii EMA fires missile alert sender; confusion over test wasn’t new
Enlarge / A view of the skyline of the Waikiki neighborhood of Honolulu on December 31, 2014. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images (credit: Getty Images) The employee who sent out the false “incoming ballistic missile” alert to the state of Hawaii in mid-January has been fired, and Vern Miyagi, the administrator for the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency […]
