This week's stories• A widespread false alarm about Facebook's planned subversion of end-to-end encryption• Still more municipality Ransomware attacks• Anti-encryption saber rattling among the Five Eyes nations• Microsoft's discovery of Russian-backed IoT compromise• Chrome 76's changes• Black Hat and Def Con preview• The challenge of synchronizing a working set of files between two locations

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