thinkloop

There was a story recently about Rosenpass: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34969760

It seems to make VPNs using Wireguard, but I thought Wireguard was already made for VPNs? Clearly I am missing something. But I am about to setup a VPN, so I was hoping someone could shed some light on whether I should consider using Rosenpass instead of straight Wireguard. Any insight appreciated.

Whenever Apple upgrades it's privacy scheme it seems the government becomes quite concerned requesting backdoors and such. However we have had apps like Signal and WhatsApp and a plethora of others with e2e for years.

Is it because our phones are compromised enough that they can access data before any user-space encryption ever takes place?

Am I simply experiencing media bias because Apple is so interesting to write about?

Are the apps themselves compromised somehow rendering the problem moot?

Perhaps some other reason?

We have signal, Whatsapp, matrix, telegram, ssh, file sync, file backup, and a whole host of other services that have all been end-to-end encrypted for the laymen for years. But authorities seem especially "deeply concerned" with Apple's attempt [1].

Is there something different or special about Apple's strategy that makes it harder to hack, or is this a case of Apple news selling?

[1] https://futurism.com/the-byte/fbi-apple-new-encryption-deeply-concerning