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.
  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    The tech behind the tool conceals the fact that messaging is taking place at all. It makes the communication indistinguishable from data sent to and from the app by our millions of regular users.

    Reminds me of how the Germans in WW1 knew they couldn’t trust their diplomatic codes anymore so they just sent the important messages in the normal, innocuous telegraph system and diplomatic pouches. They knew that foreign intelligence would be focused on the bogus secure messages.

  • MynameisAllen@lemmy.zipEnglish
    47·
    6 months ago

    I saw the headline and was ready to rage about why they should just use signal instead. Then I read the article and honestly this is a fucking genius use of tech

  • fubarx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    262·
    6 months ago

    Similar to other apps, CoverDrop only provides limited protection on smartphones that are fully compromised by malware, e.g., Pegasus, which can record the screen content and user actions.

  • hera@feddit.ukEnglish
    50·
    6 months ago

    Love seeing open source projects from companies that aren’t specifically tech firms

    • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      To sum it up even more : this looks like standard end-to-end encryption, but any app user have the same network traffic, completed with fake data if no communication is needed.