"Foreign intelligence agencies can exploit...weakness, too. WeChat added some limited encryption features in 2016, according to Mona Wang, a research fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. But the security improvements still fall short of the encryption offered by other messaging apps like Signal or WhatsApp."…

Prateek Mittal and Peter Henderson are featured in a Princeton Engineering article discussing how they “have identified a universal weakness in AI chatbots that allows users to bypass safety guardrails and elicit directions for malicious uses, from creating nerve gas to hacking government databases.”

Ed Felten, founder and former director of CITP, was a panelist at the RSA conference in April 2025. He told the audience that ”things aren't as easy as Nakamoto may have envisioned and a shift to a decentralized currency is massively complicated, but it's very early days and major societal institutions are still working out the ground rules."…