end-to-end encryption

Apple: The First 50 Years

by David Pogue  · 10 Mar 2026  · 686pp  · 216,944 words

a message, then nothing in the middle can read it,” Neuenschwander says. “It’s encrypted between your device and my device.” In time, Apple extended end-to-end encryption to almost everything stored outside the phone: online backups, notes, photos, reminders, web bookmarks, voice memos, and so on. The Whole Widget When Jobs described

There's a War Going on but No One Can See It

by Huib Modderkolk  · 1 Sep 2021  · 295pp  · 84,843 words

computer, launching a separate operating system and then opening a browser to shield our unique IP addresses. From there, we used a chat program with end-to-end encryption. This, we hoped, would let us get closer to the right people. * From the Netherlands we took the autobahn to Hamburg, where Der Spiegel occupies

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt

by Sinan Aral  · 14 Sep 2020  · 475pp  · 134,707 words

percent of people report getting news from WhatsApp, private messaging is a particularly insidious breeding ground for fake news, because people use private groups with end-to-end encryption, making it difficult to monitor or counteract the spread of falsity. In the Philippines, the spread of misinformation propagated to discredit Maria Ressa, the Filipino

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privacy-focused vision for social networking.” Facebook announced it would be unifying its messaging services, from WhatsApp to Messenger to Instagram, and embracing private, secure, end-to-end encryption. “In the history of Facebook, there have been four major versions of the product so far and this is the fifth,” Zuckerberg said. “So we

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the Home Department Priti Patel, and Australian minister of home affairs Peter Dutton sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking him to halt plans for end-to-end encryption and requesting backdoor access for their governments to root out criminals on Facebook. A few days later FBI director Christopher Wray condemned the encryption plan

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: Daniel Victor, “In Christchurch, Signs Point to a Gunman Steeped in Internet Trolling,” New York Times, March 15, 2019. asking him to halt plans for end-to-end encryption: Julia Carrie Wong, “US, UK and Australia Urge Facebook to Create Backdoor Access to Encrypted Messages,” Guardian, October 3, 2019. “a dream come true for

Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions

by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz  · 15 Feb 2001  · 260pp  · 40,943 words

UNIX system and has advanced network-based promiscuous mode detection features. Encryption (SSH, IPSec) The long-term solution to network eavesdropping is encryption. Only if end-to-end encryption is employed can near-complete confidence in the integrity of communication be achieved. Encryption key length should be determined based on the amount of time

Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski and Adam Stubblefield  · 29 Mar 2020  · 1,380pp  · 190,710 words

core functionality despite temporary loss of online storage, the ability to show updates from others, or integration with chat features. In a chat application with end-to-end encryption, users might occasionally change their encryption key used for protecting communications. Such an application would keep all previous communications accessible, because their authenticity is not

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

by Amy B. Zegart  · 6 Nov 2021

and Android devices suddenly had default encryption linked to passwords. Yahoo encrypted messages in Yahoo mail. Instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal began using end-to-end encryption.139 By 2015, when Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife shot and killed fourteen people in San Bernardino, the FBI couldn’t get into his

The Dark Net

by Jamie Bartlett  · 20 Aug 2014  · 267pp  · 82,580 words

Sockets Layer, run by volunteers and physically hosted in a secure data centre. Phil Zimmermann is currently working on a project called Darkmail, an automatically end-to-end encrypted email service. Today there are hundreds of people like Amir and Miguel working on ingenious ways of keeping online secrets or preventing censorship, often in

@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex

by Shane Harris  · 14 Sep 2014  · 340pp  · 96,149 words

company was also using other tactics, such as implementing stronger encryption for its users, and moving toward a “secure sockets layer” service that would set end-to-end encryption by default for everyone logged in to their Google account. Threat signatures alone “don’t work anymore,” Schmidt said. “The threats don’t just come

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier  · 2 Mar 2015  · 598pp  · 134,339 words

.cypherpunks.ca/otr-wpes.pdf. Google is now offering encrypted e-mail: Stephan Somogyi (3 Jun 2014), “Making end-to-end encryption easier to use,” Google Online Security Blog, http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encryption-easier-to.html. TLS—formerly SSL—is a protocol: Tim Dierks and Eric Rescorla (17 Apr 2014), “The

Facebook: The Inside Story

by Steven Levy  · 25 Feb 2020  · 706pp  · 202,591 words

government eavesdroppers could never access the secrets they shared with friends, family, and business associates. In the summer of 2013, Acton began working on an end-to-end encryption model for WhatsApp. Creating a cryptosystem to protect the communications of more than a billion people, and withstand the attacks of everyone from wizardly hackers

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was pursuing end-to-end, and the CEO took it in with his typical inscrutable form of assent. “We were like, Mark, we are building end-to-end encryption,” says Acton. “He’s like, Okay, okay fine, you guys go ahead and do that, I don’t care.” Actually, Zuckerberg had done a considerable

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businesses and customers could connect. Messenger was already well along on that path. According to Acton, “The question Mark kept raising was, If we have end-to-end encryption, are we leaving money on the table?” The problem wasn’t that the actual messages between businesses and customers would be hampered, but that Facebook

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them and use the information to make a better user experience, or even to serve users better ads or add-on services. “People were questioning end-to-end encryption in terms of its business value,” says Acton. WhatsApp kept its encryption. But the conflicts about making money from WhatsApp became increasingly heated. Not long

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

by Thomas Rid

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 13 May 2013  · 317pp  · 98,745 words

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth  · 9 Feb 2021  · 651pp  · 186,130 words

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State

by Barton Gellman  · 20 May 2020  · 562pp  · 153,825 words

Snowden's Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance

by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge  · 29 Mar 2020  · 159pp  · 42,401 words

Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

by Bruce Schneier  · 10 Nov 1993

Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

by Yasha Levine  · 6 Feb 2018  · 474pp  · 130,575 words

Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent

by Philip Hazel  · 7 Jul 2001  · 632pp  · 223,899 words

Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World

by Bruce Schneier  · 3 Sep 2018  · 448pp  · 117,325 words

Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

by Zoë Schiffer  · 13 Feb 2024  · 343pp  · 92,693 words

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

Talk Is Cheap: Switching to Internet Telephones

by James E. Gaskin  · 15 Mar 2005  · 731pp  · 134,263 words

The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks

by The "Guardian", David Leigh and Luke Harding  · 1 Feb 2011  · 322pp  · 99,066 words

The Debian Administrator's Handbook, Debian Wheezy From Discovery to Mastery

by Raphaal Hertzog and Roland Mas  · 24 Dec 2013  · 678pp  · 159,840 words

The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

by Kevin Mitnick, Mikko Hypponen and Robert Vamosi  · 14 Feb 2017  · 305pp  · 93,091 words

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow  · 6 Oct 2025  · 313pp  · 94,415 words

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

by Jamie Susskind  · 3 Sep 2018  · 533pp

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

by Joseph Menn  · 3 Jun 2019  · 302pp  · 85,877 words

Docker in Action

by Jeff Nickoloff and Stephen Kuenzli  · 10 Dec 2019  · 629pp  · 109,663 words

Reset

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 14 Aug 2020

The Great Firewall of China

by James Griffiths;  · 15 Jan 2018  · 453pp  · 114,250 words

The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet

by David Kahn  · 1 Feb 1963  · 1,799pp  · 532,462 words

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann  · 16 Mar 2017  · 1,237pp  · 227,370 words

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang  · 12 Jul 2021  · 372pp  · 100,947 words

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg  · 11 Oct 2021  · 521pp  · 118,183 words

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson  · 28 Apr 2024  · 249pp  · 74,201 words

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford  · 25 Sep 2023  · 898pp  · 236,779 words

The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

by Jonathan Zittrain  · 27 May 2009  · 629pp  · 142,393 words

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann  · 17 Apr 2017

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

by Talia Lavin  · 14 Jul 2020  · 231pp  · 71,299 words

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

by Zeynep Tufekci  · 14 May 2017  · 444pp  · 130,646 words

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

by Thomas L. Friedman  · 22 Nov 2016  · 602pp  · 177,874 words

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman  · 9 Oct 2025  · 312pp  · 103,645 words

News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World

by Alan Rusbridger  · 26 Nov 2020  · 371pp  · 109,320 words

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

by Anna Wiener  · 14 Jan 2020  · 237pp  · 74,109 words

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

by Sarah Frier  · 13 Apr 2020  · 484pp  · 114,613 words

Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet

by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider  · 14 Aug 2017  · 237pp  · 67,154 words

The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy

by Paolo Gerbaudo  · 19 Jul 2018  · 302pp  · 84,881 words

The Art of UNIX Programming

by Eric S. Raymond  · 22 Sep 2003  · 612pp  · 187,431 words

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

by Max Fisher  · 5 Sep 2022  · 439pp  · 131,081 words

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

Money, Real Quick: The Story of M-PESA

by Tonny K. Omwansa, Nicholas P. Sullivan and The Guardian  · 28 Feb 2012  · 140pp  · 91,067 words

Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber

by Susan Fowler  · 18 Feb 2020  · 205pp  · 71,872 words

House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

by Eva Dou  · 14 Jan 2025  · 394pp  · 110,159 words

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

by Naomi Klein  · 12 Jun 2017  · 357pp  · 94,852 words

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac  · 2 Sep 2019  · 444pp  · 127,259 words

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

by Chris Hayes  · 28 Jan 2025  · 359pp  · 100,761 words