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More Countries are Demanding Backdoors to Encrypted Apps

Last month, I wrote about the UK forcing Apple to break its Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud. More recently, both Sweden and France are contemplating mandating backdoors. Both initiatives are attempting to scare people into supporting backdoors, which are—of course—are terrible idea.

Also: “A Feminist Argument Against Weakening Encryption.”

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Friday Squid Blogging: A New Explanation of Squid Camouflage

New research:

An associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, Deravi’s recently published paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C sheds new light on how squid use organs that essentially function as organic solar cells to help power their camouflage abilities.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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