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Erica Portnoy

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 18, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Electronic Frontier Foundation
Top 500K sites
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Sep 11, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Erica Portnoy and Thorin Klosowski

    Secure Messaging and AI Remain In Conflict Despite the Promise of TEEs (opens the original)

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    Secure messaging platforms, like Signal, WhatsApp, and recently, encrypted RCS , operate on a straightforward assumption: the content at each end of a conversation is private to the participants in the conversation. End-to-end encryption helps provide the mathematical guarantees that the companies who operate these messaging platforms cannot access the contents of messages. But there’s no way to guarantee what happens once the message arrives on a phone. As more devices and services introduce mo

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Erica Portnoy and Thorin Klosowski

    Cold TAKE: Amazon's New Encryption Method Still Doesn't Deliver Real Privacy (opens the original)

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    Amazon recently debuted a new feature for its Ring cameras that the company is calling Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE). The idea is to cut back on the amount of video content available to the company, and thus potentially available to law enforcement. But while it might technically add a speed bump to accessing full video content, it doesn’t deliver nearly the level of privacy we should be demanding from video doorbells and other security cameras. TAKE introduces a new way for Ring to manag

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