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Privacy-focused encrypted messaging app
Yes — technically someone can create a Session account and use it to observe or entrap others, because Session allows fully anonymous Account IDs with no phone or email required and routes messages ov...
Reporting from multiple outlets says encrypted messages and screenshots — largely published by and amplified by right-leaning outlets — show “rapid responder” groups tracking and movements and coordin...
EU governments reached a political compromise on the so-called “Chat Control” (Child Sexual Abuse — CSA — regulation) on 26 November 2025, replacing a mandatory scanning requirement with language that...
Session aims to reduce metadata exposure by routing messages through a decentralized onion-routing network and supporting anonymous accounts (no phone number), while Signal minimizes metadata by desig...
to monitor or share sightings of agents sits in a legal gray zone: public observation and sharing of lawfully obtained information can be protected speech, but coordinated efforts that facilitate evas...
Session is a privacy-focused, open‑source messenger that began as a fork of Signal and now uses its own Session Protocol plus a decentralized onion‑routing network to remove phone numbers and reduce m...
Session, Signal and WhatsApp all use end-to-end encryption but differ on metadata handling, decentralization and features: Signal is praised for hiding metadata with “Sealed Sender” and minimal collec...
The federal government does not have a blanket technical backdoor into modern end‑to‑end encrypted apps; telecommunications carriers remain required to provide readable content when they already have ...
Pete Hegseth served in the Army National Guard and deployed three times after 9/11: to Guantánamo Bay (Cuba), to Iraq (including Baghdad and Samarra with the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne), and to Afgha...
Session Messenger stands out among secure messaging apps for combining default end-to-end encryption with a routing layer and a recent migration to its own blockchain to support node operations. Compa...
EU governments have negotiated a contentious package known as the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (nicknamed “Chat Control”) that aims to curb online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) but has been repe...
A vulnerability in Session Messenger could range from limited metadata exposure or TLS-related man-in-the-middle attacks to full message disclosure if a user’s device or keys are compromised; Session’...
Romance scammers routinely start on public platforms—dating sites and social media—then persuade targets to move conversations into private messaging apps where detection is harder and evidence is sil...
groups and apps that coordinate real‑time tips about movements sit at the intersection of free speech and several criminal and civil laws: courts have broadly protected recording and public reporting ...
Signal’s architecture combines strong end-to-end encryption and recent post-quantum upgrades with a service model that still relies on centralized infrastructure for account management and message rou...
conversations are not end-to-end encrypted by default; currently encrypts data in transit and at rest, but the company can access (and has been required to retain) chat contents and is exploring optio...
Signal was reported to have been affected during a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20–21, 2025, provoking questions about how a messaging service that markets itself as privacy-focus...
DuckDuckGo’s mobile app focuses on “Smarter Encryption” that upgrades HTTP to HTTPS for many sites and keeps DuckDuckGo searches themselves encrypted; DuckDuckGo reports 81% of clicks from its search ...
Measured, transparent energy and , and do not exist in any consistent public dataset; available journalism and NGO estimates show wide, sometimes contradictory figures for WhatsApp and lump messaging ...
publishes a public status page and issues public advisories during incidents, and its availability has been tracked and diagnosed by a web of third‑party monitors and crowdsourced outage sites; report...