Because real people don’t just need encrypted messaging apps that offer end-to-end protection, they also need end-point security – the kinds of thoughtful design and expedient updating and transparent code that enables them to defend their devices from attackers who gain access to their messages by compromising their phones and computers.
Computer scientist Megan Square writes in The Conversation that “Inventing new ways to protect our digital endpoints without reducing their usefulness is very challenging, but some new technologies just over the horizon might help.”
