Posts by Josh Boehm

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Former SpaceXer - Co-founder and COO of Cyph

Beware the Bait-and-Switch EARN IT Act: An Attack on Encryption, Privacy, and the Internet in General

access_time March 11, 2020

If you follow privacy and encryption news, you may have already heard of the EARN IT Act, which is being described as a major threat to encryption and the internet. What exactly is in the bill though, what powers are granted, and who could actually be affected? The EARN IT Act (Eliminating Abusive and Rampant…

Spyware Backdoors and Why Privacy International’s Letter to Google Matters

access_time January 9, 2020

person Josh Boehm

Cyph may provide the most powerful end-to-end encryption to consumers, but there are still further steps we all need to take to fully ensure our privacy on our smartphones and online in general. It doesn’t matter how strong end-to-end encryption is, if your device can be compromised while data is decrypted. Privacy International has started…

Can’t Wait for Native Apps? Add Cyph to Your Home Screen with This Quick Tip

access_time October 4, 2016

person Josh Boehm

With the release of Angular 2 we now have a straightforward path toward porting Cyph to native apps, and are hard at work on doing so. If you can’t wait until then, here’s how to add Cyph to your home screen, which…

How to Use Cyph with Tor for the Ultimate Combination of Privacy and Anonymity

access_time September 20, 2016

person Josh Boehm

Cyph + Tor = Privacy & Anonymity Using Cyph secures your data and ensures that prying eyes won’t see the content of your data, but many inferences can still be made from metadata — like the fact that you’re connecting to an encrypted communication service at all, or even (with NSA-level access) potentially identifying that you’ve sent encrypted…

Cyph Becomes First Tor Service to be Issued EV SSL Cert

access_time April 20, 2016

person Josh Boehm

_One way to anonymize yourself even further while using Cyph is to use it through Tor. That way not only will your details of your communication be secured with robust quantum-resistant encryption, but you’ll be masking the true source of the traffic as well. Not only have we built a Tor hidden service, but we…