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The company whose message-scrambling software is being adopted across Silicon Valley has had a first legal test of its commitment to privacy.
Open Whisper Systems—whose Signal app pioneered the end-to-end encryption technique now used by a swathe of messaging services—was subpoenaed for information about one of its users earlier this year, according to legal correspondence released Tuesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Open Whisper Systems, says the company didn't produce the user's name, address, call logs or other details requested by the government.
"That's not because Signal chose not to provide logs of information," ACLU lawyer Brett Kaufman said in a telephone interview. "It's just that it couldn't." Created by anarchist yachtsman Moxie Marlinspike and a crew of surf-happy developers, Signal has evolved from a niche app used by dissidents and protest leaders into the foundation stone for the encryption of huge tranches of the world's communications data.
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-subpoena-privacy-encrypted-messaging-app.html
[More Details At]: New Documents Reveal Government Effort to Impose Secrecy on Encryption Company
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[Legal Correspondence]: Legal correspondence released by the ACLU:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2016, @06:39PM
another fine example of the whining people do when you bring up inconvenient truths. they attack the messenger and defend their masters. as aldous huxley said in the interview at berkely before he croaked, "people can be made to quite enjoy their servitude" or some such shit. the OP was simply pointing out that it is dishonest of OWS to fail to mention the full/actual security situation when advertising their products. It's irresponsible and callous to not tell people that may need secure comm for their safety and that may not be security aware/IT people that "oh, btw if you run our shit on any of the available platforms you may still be screwed b/c they are not secure". That should be obvious to anyone who pays attention to security/privacy matters, as it was to me when i first looked at this stuff a few years ago but i guess if you're one of these dipshits who installs closed source "security" software on your closed source OS and thinks you're secure you're too ignorant to even talk to.