Robert Freudenreich

tolmo.com/blog/faster-... You should read this if you care about the PHP bug

iOS 27 Hints at 'Apple Reference Image' Photo Authentication

Introducing Automatic Key Verification! Complementing the existing safety number system, automatic key verification provides an additional, streamlined way to confirm the privacy of your chats. signal.org/blog/automat... TY @cloudflare.social and @trailofbits.bsky.social our independent auditors 💙🙏

Proud to finally share what I've been working on. I'm excited for a future where privacy is normal. encryptedspaces.org

I wrote a new post about the privacy risks of on-phone agents like Apple’s new Siri, and how private inference isn’t any sort of silver bullet. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/a...

"Now, we are collaborating with Google and NVIDIA to run new Apple Intelligence workloads on Google Cloud, extending our industry-leading PCC privacy commitments to third-party data centers for the first time." #WWDC26 security.apple.com/blog/expan...

www.faz.net/premium/digi... I wrote a FAZ guest article.

If you were still unsure whether the Mythos announcement was just a marketing stunt: hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi... Prepare.

I've seen a lot of chatter today about Instagram ending support for optional End-to-End Encrypted DMs. I helped to lead on cryptography and privacy for E2EE in Messenger and Instagram for many years, until I left around 10 months ago, so it's disappointing to see it being removed from Instagram.

🏗️What if your whole stack was built with Swift? @telemetrydeck.com made it a reality, building an internet-scale, privacy-first analytics backend from the ground up. Read their story: www.swift.org/blog/buildin...

Is End-to-End Encryption Optional For Large Groups? One of the recent topics in Messaging App Discourse is whether it makes sense to prioritize End-to-End Encryption when searching for an alternative to Discord. Who's Saying "No"? I'm going to quote 0xabad1dea here, because she is awesome and…

Want to move away from Firebase?
 Step one: know your options. We collected practical alternatives for common Android app building blocks.
 No ideology. Just tools. telemetrydeck.com/blog/de-goog...

When a team cares deeply about craft, performance, and user trust, analytics can’t be an afterthought.
 In our latest case study, @panic.com explains why they moved away from App Center and what they needed from a modern, privacy-first analytics stack.
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Docs-article of the day: Privacy FAQ 📱 "Do I need a cookie banner for TelemetryDeck?" Nope! TelemetryDeck doesn't use cookies and doesn't collect personally identifiable data—so no annoying consent dialogs needed. Learn more about our privacy-first approach 👇 🔗 telemetrydeck.com/docs/guides/...

Buffer just turned 15 years old! And we're fortunate to be closing out our best year in the past 7. We have 69,000 customers, a $23M annual run rate, and will achieve over $2M in profit in 2025. To mark 15 years of Buffer, here are 15 of the key lessons I've leaned first hand as a founder CEO:

A former student has been working on privacy-preserving AI: this app is one result. It lets you use LLMs privately, hosting the models in a confidential-compute TEE. So providers can’t read your conversations. apps.apple.com/us/app/silo-...

techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/x... shouldn't surprise anyone but quotes me so it's obviously good

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Complete analytics workflow: Document → Analyze → Publish → Share 📊 Your team gets frozen snapshots that never change, even months later. Perfect for client reports, team docs, or linking in your task management system. Watch full video: youtu.be/WAa2BRIaVGE #TeamCollaboration #DataDriven #iOSDev

This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco sfstandard.com/2025/08/05/a...

🆕⚛️🔐 Starting with iOS 26, CryptoKit gets support for quantum-secure cryptography with algorithms such as ML-KEM, ML-DSA and HPKE with X-Wing: developer.apple.com/documentatio...

To celebrate WWDC, we're announcing a special discount of 50% off your first year of TelemetryDeck! 🎉 Privacy-first analytics set up in minutes. Perfect time to upgrade before your app grows beyond our generous free tier! Learn more: 👇 telemetrydeck.com/blog/wwdc25/... #WWDC25 #iOSDev

Good article about the new AI processing features being added to WhatsApp soon. www.wired.com/story/whatsa...

Be an imperfectionist. Imperfectionists hit publish. Imperfectionists ship product. Imperfectionists iterate publicly. It's not that they don't believe in excellence. They dream big, but iterate small.

Global power consumption for Bitcoin in 2024 was over 1/3 higher than the total national consumption of the Netherlands (110-120 TWh).

Important to call them "security *product* vendors" vs "security vendors" imo.

Die Augsburger Firma RFA hat die erste europäische Lizenz für eine privat entwickelte Orbitalrakete. Sie soll noch dieses Jahr auf einer Shetlandinsel starten. #Raumfahrt

I wrote a post about how AI will interface with end-to-end encryption. TL;DR maybe not so well! blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/01/17/l...