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Just stop using FB's WhatsApp, if you care about privacy Signal announces new face-blurring tool for Android and iOS Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced a new face-blurring tool that will be incorporated into the latest Android and iOS versions of the software. Users sharing pictures through the app will be able to quickly blur faces, adding another layer of privacy to pictures, though not necessarily hiding the subjectās identity completely. In a blog post announcing the update, Signal co-founder Moxie Marlinspike linked the update to the worldwide protests against racism and police violence sparked by the killing of George Floyd by law enforcement. These protests have led to record downloads for Signal, which uses end-to-end encryption to make messages harder to intercept. āWeāve also been working to figure out additional ways we can support everyone in the street right now,ā writes Marlinspike. āOne immediate thing seems clear: 2020 is a pretty good year to cover your face.ā When you take a picture through Signal and select the Blur option in the toolbar, the app will automatically detect any faces it spots in your image. If it misses any, users can simply blur out faces by hand, or blur any other features they want to hide. All processing is done on-device, meaning uncensored images never leave the userās phone. Although blurring faces in photographs certainly makes pictures more private, itās by no means a foolproof way of anonymizing images and hiding someoneās identity. Some blurring and pixellation methods can be reversed with the right tools, for example. And anyone seeking to identify someone in a picture can work from other information, such as clothing and tattoos, which can be compared with other, un-blurred images. Even if attendees at a protest, for example, hide the identity of fellow protestors, that doesnāt mean other groups and individuals will do the same. Surveillance cameras, police body cameras, and press photographers are all capturing images. Ultimately, the best way to obscure your identity is to take matters into your own hands and wear a mask.
iOS jailbreak can never be stopped!! New jailbreak tool works on Appleās just-released iOS 13.5 A new tool by hacking group Unc0ver can jailbreak iOS 13.5, the just-released version of Appleās mobile operating system, Wired reported. The group says the jailbreak, which works on iOS 11 and higher, is built on a zero-day vulnerability, doesnāt drain a deviceās battery life, and doesnāt affect the use of Apple services or undermine the iOS sandbox security, according to Wired. Unc0verās lead developer told Wired the jailbreak adds exceptions to existing rules, and āenables reading new jailbreak files and parts of the filesystem that contain no user data.ā The jailbreak tool is not open source, and the group didnāt say which vulnerability in iOS it exploited to build the tool. Jailbreaking gives a user more control over a deviceās OS, allowing customization and the installation of apps that Apple would otherwise restrict. It also can be used by would-be attackers to compromise a deviceās security. In earlier versions of iOS, jailbreaking was relatively common. The practice has dwindled in recent years with Apple making it more difficult to pull off, resulting in some of the most prominent jailbreak-reliant app sources closing down. unc0ver.dev
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