Popular video conference app, Zoom‘s end-to-end encryption, or E2EE, has finally arrived for their software according to official announcement on June 17. It will be provided to both free and paid users, as long as their account has passed the company’s verification process. End-to-end encryption update from Zoom – we have found a path forward to provide this feature to all users (free and paid) around the globe >> https://t.co/rjwCLYKDuJ⁰ << — Zoom (@zoom_us) June 17, 2020

Video conferencing app Zoom has acquired end-to-end encryption start-up Keybase. The acquisition was announced on May 7, following multiple privacy and security-related scandals. Zoom scandals include the rise of video conference gatecrashing (“zoombombing”), controversial data sharing with Facebook, false claims that video calls were encrypted, and revelations that nefarious actors were peddling half a million Zoom accounts on the darknet. Big news! Keybase acquired by @zoom

A team of researchers has developed the prototype silicon chip that enables encryption that is impossible to break. On Dec. 20 an article was published by scientific paper publication outlet Nature stating that the system uses chaotic wavepackets in conventional Silicon-based semiconductors. The system was developed by:- U.K.-based School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St. Andrews King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia Center for Unc