E-Evidence and the Limits of Jurisdiction: What Really Protects Your Email

E-Evidence and the Limits of Jurisdiction: What Really Protects Your Email

E-Evidence and the Limits of Jurisdiction: What Really Protects Your Email On 12 March 2026, Germany enacted the law implementing the EU “E-Evidence package” — a pair of European instruments (Regulation (EU) 2023/1543 and Directive (EU) 2023/1544) that quietly redraws the map of how law enforcement agencies across the European Union can obtain digital evidence … Read more

BitLocker Bypass Shows Encryption Without Architecture Fails

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On May 12, 2026, a researcher published YellowKey, a Windows Recovery Environment bypass allowing physical-access attackers to unlock BitLocker-protected drives on Windows 11 systems. The vulnerability exposes the difference between cryptographic strength and systemic trust architecture.

The End of Optional Encryption: What Meta and TikTok Just Told Us

The End of Optional Encryption: What Meta and TikTok Just Told Us

Meta ended optional end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs on May 8, 2026. TikTok confirmed in March it will never offer it. The Take It Down Act takes effect May 19. These three facts are connected, and the connection matters more than any single one of them. What just happened On May 8, 2026, Meta removed … Read more

Post-Quantum Cryptography: We’ve Already Put It in Your Hands

Post-Quantum Cryptography: We've Already Put It in Your Hands

Why we’re talking about ML-KEM and ML-DSA only now, when our PQCServer platform has been live and open source for two months. The context On May 5, 2026, Proton Mail announced support for post-quantum cryptography for emails between Proton users. It’s an important move and deserves recognition: the email industry needed to see a mainstream … Read more