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The Whisper Secret-Sharing App Exposed Locations

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This is a big deal: Whisper, the secret-sharing app that called itself the "safest place on the Internet," left years of users’ most intimate confessions exposed on the Web tied to their age, location and other details, raising alarm among cybersecurity researchers that users could have been unmasked or blackmailed. […] The records were viewable on a non-password-protected database open… Continue reading The Whisper Secret-Sharing App Exposed Locations→

DNI Wants Research into Secure Multiparty Computation

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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is soliciting proposals for research projects in secure multiparty computation: Specifically of interest is computing on data belonging to different — potentially mutually distrusting — parties, which are unwilling or unable (e.g., due to laws and regulations) to share this data with each other or with the underlying compute platform. Such computations may… Continue reading DNI Wants Research into Secure Multiparty Computation→