Communications encrypted in the IoT are not enough to protect the privacy of users

According to a study published by researchers at Princeton University that has been echoed by HelpNetSecurity, although many IoT devices for smart homes encrypt their traffic, any “passive observer of the network” (such as an Internet provider) can detect the behavior of the users and other details analyzing the metadata of their traffic rate.

You can now upload photos from the Instagram web version

That Facebook and the applications that it owns (see Instagram or WhatsApp) want to grow and become a reference is something that we have already commented on in other articles. For this, the social network and its associated apps have adopted the strategy of always trying to stay one step ahead of their rivals (in addition to cloning Snapchat to the beast, but that’s another story).