WhatsApp on Friday announced it will roll out support for end-to-end encrypted chat backups on the cloud for Android and iOS users, paving the way for storing information such as chat messages and photos in Apple iCloud or Google Drive in a cryptographically secure manner. The feature, which will go live to all of its two billion users in the coming weeks, is expected to only … [Read more...] about WhatsApp to Finally Let Users Encrypt Their Chat Backups in the Cloud
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UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked
A 39-year-old login password of Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the UNIX operating system among, has finally been cracked that belongs to a BSD-based system, one of the original versions of UNIX, which was back then used by various computer science pioneers.In 2014, developer Leah Neukirchen spotted an interesting "/etc/passwd" file in a publicly available source tree of … [Read more...] about UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked