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FOSS mobile app Stingle wants to privately, securely back up your photos

Enlarge / Despite the encryption, Stingle Photos is a distinctly minimalist app which comes closer to the simple feel of an analog album than most of its competitors do. (credit: Kohei Hara / Getty Images ) With Google Photos killing off its Unlimited photo backup policy last November, the market for photo backup and sync […]

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Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call

Enlarge / FreeBSD’s core development team, for the most part, does not appear to see the need to update their review and approval procedures. (credit: Aurich Lawson (after KC Green)) At first glance, Matthew Macy seemed like a perfectly reasonable choice to port WireGuard into the FreeBSD kernel. WireGuard is an encrypted point-to-point tunneling protocol, […]