encryption
Ciphr, Encrypted App That Served Organized Crime, Rebrands as Enterprise Software
Ciphr became a tool of choice for international drug traffickers before deciding to close last year. Now, the company behind Ciphr is back with a new app called "Mode."
Elon Musk Wonders: Does the Company that Fought the FBI in Court to Prevent Giving it the Text Messages of Terrorists Hate Free Speech Because It Stopped Giving Me Money?
Apple's App Store monopoly is a problem. Where it spends its advertising money isn't.
Sellers for Encrypted Phone Firm Ciphr Locked Out of Orders
Ciphr, a company popular among organized criminals, plans to make dramatic changes to how sellers can distribute its encrypted messaging app. The move comes after weeks of uncertainty of the company's next move.
Codebreakers Find ‘Sexts,’ Arctic Dispatches in 200-Year-Old Encrypted Newspaper Ads
A group of cryptography enthusiasts have been able to crack the code of a series of encrypted newspaper ads linked to a rescue expedition in 1850.
This Is the Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World
Motherboard is publishing parts of the code for the Anom encrypted messaging app, which was secretly managed by the FBI in order to monitor organized crime on a global scale.
Cops Investigating ‘WhatsApp for Gangsters’ Arrest Key Suspect in Caribbean
Paul Krusky played a crucial role in the development of encrypted phone firm EncroChat. Now he has been arrested in the Dominican Republic.
A European Country Helped the FBI Intercept Anom Messages, But It Wants to Remain Hidden
A U.S. authored document obtained by Motherboard says that the unnamed country that was vital to the FBI being able to read messages from its honeypot phone company Anom was a “European Union member country.”
Russia’s Digital Iron Curtain Is Starting To Take Shape
Sanctions, censorship, and digital roadblocks have dramatically changed how Russians use the internet since the invasion of Ukraine.
FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom Shipped Over 100 Phones to the United States
Motherboard has obtained files showing that Anom shipped more devices into the United States than previously understood.
WhatsApp Co-Founder Is the New Acting CEO of Signal
Brian Acton is taking over as Moxie Marlinspike steps down as Signal's CEO.
FBI's Backdoored Anom Phones Secretly Harvested GPS Data Around the World
Documents reviewed by Motherboard, including thousands of pages of Anom messages, show that the FBI's backdoored Anom phones collected more data than the content of messages.
A Peek Inside Anom, the Phone Company Secretly Used in an FBI Honeypot
Videos, documents, and other files obtained by Motherboard show how the company functioned as an entity in its own right.