Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, May 14th, 2018. Today, email

encryption might be broken.

Facebook suspends some suspicious apps.

Why some Google employees are resigning in protest.

Silicon Valley could soon benefit from a gambling gold rush and how Masayoshi Son is disrupting

the entire world of technology.

Here's what you missed today in that

happy Monday everybody your email might not be secure

late Sunday night, Sebastian Schindel,

a professor of computer security

at Munster University of Applied Sciences,

published warnings that there are critical flaws in P. G.P. and S. Mime, two of the internet's most popular protocols for encrypting email.

The vulnerabilities Shinsle found would make it possible for bad actors to reveal the plain text of

encrypted emails including emails that you might have sent in the past.

Unfortunately Shinsil says there are currently no reliable fixes for the vulnerability.

So if you use PGB or S-Mheim for sensitive communications, you should disable that in your email client immediately.

Now chances are you probably send your email unencrypted as most of us do,

but if you do rely on encryption in your email, you can no longer assume that you can do so securely.

If you're concerned about your vulnerability to this, aside from ceasing sending sensitive information over email,

and disabling

encryption plugins in your email client. Security experts are

recommending disabling the loading of remote content in emails. Also the

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