Security Leftovers
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The Digital and Population Data Services Agency's bug bounty program expands to Suomi.fi Messages
As of 13 February 2023, the Digital and Population Data Services Agency's bug bounty program will expand to cover Suomi.fi messages. In the program, the Agency cooperates with white hat hackers to identify potential security deficiencies in the services. The bug bounty program will continue until 30 April 2023.
‘At worst, the vulnerabilities of digital services lead to a successful data breach.
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The CryptMaster 2001 Provides Basic Lessons In Cryptography
Sending secret messages to your friends is fun, but today it’s so simple that you don’t even notice it anymore: practically any serious messaging system features encryption of some sort. To teach his kids about cryptography, [Michal Zalewski] therefore decided to bring the topic to life by building a handheld encryption system, called the CryptMaster 2001.
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There Is No ‘Going Dark:’ Dutch Law Enforcement Spent Months Intercepting, Reading Encrypted Messages
To hear consecutive FBI directors tell it, unless legislators are willing to mandate encryption backdoors, the criminals (including terrorists!) will win. That’s the only option — at least according to Jim Comey and Chris Wray — given that the FBI, with its billions in funding and wealth of brainpower, is apparently unable to decrypt files and devices simply by waving a warrant at them.